Hi everyone,
Thanks to everyone who said nice things about my hurried rant at UKNOF31 on
Monday. Couple of things to add,
(1) In the launch for Pi2 I told you the problem with Wordpress but not
the solution, we forced the front page to be static and generated it
periodically putting a 60s delay on comments appearing but moving the
logic of when to do this from Wordpress to cron.
(2)
<tgreer-48204> question: why's it not hosted on rPis?
Those of you who can use Google would know that the answer is a v1 Pi can
only sink 2500 syn packets per second,
https://www.raspberrypi.org/mythic-beasts-ddos-attacks/
so you'd need 400 versus four real machines (don't have your network
stack on the end of USB).
(3)
<dotwaffle> who would play you in a TV mini series about UK computer
manufacturers? ;)
I reckon Dawn French could pull it off perfectly.
(4) If you want to hear me rant off the record and in more detail I'll
be at the Cambridge Beer Festival, demonstrating that in extreme
circumstances we can still run the company from a laptop in a field with
only mobile connectivity. A very large and remarkably well stocked field
admittedly.
http://www.cambridgebeerfestival.com/
(5)
The link for the 1U server castle and rack rail trebuchet is
http://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2014/11/17/server-castle/
The rest of our blog is full of boring stuff like service announcements
and other dull stuff like that.
Regards,
Pete
--
Pete Stevens
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http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/
The last time humans crossed space to a destination was the Apollo 17 mission
in 1972. In the 32 years since, no man has seen, with his own eyes, Earth as
that beautiful, solitary blue sphere, and - reality check - no woman has ever
seen it at all.
-- James Cameron
