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hiro:
There are these clouds which can help risky start-ups scale well without much people to look after the servers. Visualization was last decade's buzzword, but it was describing practically the same.
I also used to figure getting a VPS every now and then, but it's always been cheaper to leave my clouds at home.
Small, power saving ARM devices which don't get hot are cool. And nobody trips over the cables now that everything's been nailed to the wall.
Admittedly I used to run an x86 server 24/7 before, but now I feel nice, snug and warm about it as my house stays cool :)
What is it that you're computing so intense you can't do it at home? What is your cloud?
vinceASPECT:
hello
hiro i am not sure what you mean.
You original comment....(a) "for me, Arm devices were a definite NO to the cloud"
and then asked "do you mean it was not possible to dial into a cloud machine from your local Arm device" in response to that sentence (a) above. I don't understand your reply.
Maybe i don't understand the meaning of "cloud computing" the same way you do.
I just use a local Arm device or laptop to dial into a single distant "cloud" computer. The distant machine is a Ubuntu Linux desktop machine and i use applications *live* within that Linux box. In other words, i just use that distant machine in the same manner as if it is my real local computer.
Maybe my method is just called "using a remote machine" and not a cloud computer ............but it is advertized as a "cloud computer".
I don't use cloud computers or remote machines as servers. I use them as normal desktop computers.
V.
vinceASPECT:
hello
hiro i am not sure what you mean.
You original comment....(a) "for me, Arm devices were a definite NO to the cloud"
and then i asked in response to (a), "do you mean it was not possible to dial into a cloud machine from your local Arm device" .
I don't understand your latest reply.
Maybe i don't understand the meaning of the term "cloud computing" in the same way you understand it.
I just use a local Arm device or laptop to dial into a single distant "cloud" computer.
The distant machine is an Ubuntu Linux gui desktop machine and i use applications *live* within that Linux box. In other words, i just use that distant machine in the same manner as if it is my real local computer.
Maybe my method is just called "using a remote machine" and not called "using a cloud computer" ............but it is advertised as a "cloud computer".
I don't use cloud computers or remote machines as servers. I use them as normal desktop computers.
V.
hiro:
Heh, yeah that's why I don't like the term "cloud" at all. I now understand what you're doing, but I would personally be quite concerned about latencies this way.
I mean before ARM I would have thought about getting a VPS or so, now I use an ARM at home and can't see the need for the "cloud" any more. I don't use this for X/graphics, but mainly file , http, print, torrent services.
Also some people think working with stuff like google mail is cloud computing. It's a buzzword really.
vinceASPECT:
ahh right,
yes, in my case, the distant computer is much faster than my local machine.
The local machine just processes the video in protocol stuff to "talk" to the distant
machine. This requires very little cpu power locally. ALl the other work is done
on the distant cpu (inside the distant virtual computer which has it's own ram, HDD and
cpu chip.)
The distant machine is infact much faster than the local machine. Over 10 times faster
so even internet surfing on the distant machine shows up quiker on my local screen
than if the local machine is doing it's own internet surfing. There is no latency here but
infact acceleration in all areas of computing. The video is even smooth over 5 mega bit
DSL. The only issue is that the distant machine does not support sound but they are
suppossed to be adding that support some time.
For servers and stuff, i just use a web hosting company. To host ftp files and web pages
and stuff.
it seems to work great "cloud computing" if you can call it that.
The thing is....it's free, which makes perfect sense to me
^_^
V.
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