[OT] Bonded web site developer?

2009-12-18 Thread Dan Jenkins
I was talking to a client the other day, who needs a web site developer for a non-profit of his. He was told to make sure he only used bonded web site developers. I have never heard, nor been able to find, any reference to bonded web site developers. Does anyone know about this? I do know

Re: [OT] Bonded web site developer?

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: I do know about EO insurance, bonding, and such, but not the relevance specifically to web site development. Bonded Web developers have studied an extensive 20 minute training cartoon where they learn such all-too-uncommon

The Quest for the Perfect Cloud Storage

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Johnson
So, I'm trying to build clouds these days, and I'm sold on Citrix XenServer for all the VM management, but it doesn't provide much in the way of storage. It will let you use many kinds of nice third party options out there for your storage, but it can only provide local storage to VMs itself, and

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes: On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 23:31 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Okay. Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age. She's currently getting into games on her laptop, a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a mouse. Anyway, suggestions on games that

Re: The Quest for the Perfect Cloud Storage

2009-12-18 Thread Tom Buskey
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: So, I'm trying to build clouds these days, and I'm sold on Citrix XenServer for all the VM management, but it doesn't provide much in the way of storage. It will let you use many kinds of nice third party options out there

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: World of Goo, from 2dboy.  It's commercial, but reasonably priced ($20) and no DRM http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html

Re: The Quest for the Perfect Cloud Storage

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I had run the VMs on an ESXi server with the same NFS server. From what I've read, for gigabit ethernet, NFS vs iSCSI speed is a wash. VMware ESXi will hapily use either. I was thinking about paying for VMWare ESXi until

Re: The Quest for the Perfect Cloud Storage

2009-12-18 Thread Dana Nowell
I'm currently using XENServer and iSCSI. The iSCSI is setup on a Debian Linux box running iscsitarget (box is called SAN1) and several NICs. All drives on SAN1 are configured via RAID and added to an LVM2 pool. The pool is carved up and exported via iSCSI to form various SRs for XEN as necessary.

on good software (was: Gaming... for three-year-olds...)

2009-12-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen http://www.softpanorama.org/Bulletin/Humor/hired_interviews_gsg_founder.shtml Not to be confused with: http://codeoffsets.com/ -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr.

Re: The Quest for the Perfect Cloud Storage

2009-12-18 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Dana Nowell dananow...@cornerstonesoftware.com wrote: Another choice is to do the same thing but use NFS instead of iSCSI (allowing ZFS underneath). I did some tests and iSCSI out performed current NFS solutions (on Debian at least). The NFS network