World: r3wp

I've even ported part of GNU Portable DotNet

Is Java on Syllable yet?

Is there a Syllable AMI ?

We used to have the Kaffe VM, but nobody did anything with it, so 
beyond shouting that we must have it, there's no interest

As I said, I haven't started with EC2 yet. I'd have to port Syllable 
Server to EC2. Syllable Desktop is impossible to run on EC2, unless 
you'd run it in a full emulator

Are people running desktops on Ec2 ?

And I pre-paid for a 3 year Windows instance a month or so ago :(

You could run remote desktops on a server, so I guess some people 
are also doing that on EC2

Admins like single points of failure ;-)

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=65649&tstart=0

some guy was monitoring hundreds of ECGs on Ec2 :(

All this happening a few days after that Chinese hacker group boasting 
that they could bring down any country's infrastructure :(

This fiasco has seriously dented the reputation of running cloud 
based systems.  If the largest provider can't get it right, who can?

Probably the smallest. They carry a way lighter load

The uptime of our attic cloud compares quite favourably with many 
providers

Although now that I've said that, I'm sure the hot weather will soon 
blow out a hard disk...

You run your server in the attic?  the hotest part of the house??

Some days of the year, yes

Then again, we don't have hundreds of heart patients hanging off 
it

I think I should setup a secondary fall back server in the Singapore 
availability zone.  Hopefully what happens in the USA does not impact 
other regions.

Amazon's talk of region isolation was clearly not true.

Houses here don't have cellars anymore, because, as anyone knows, 
electricity is always there...

Don't most Dutch houses have wind mills on them for power?

Just a few farms

And besides, they run the machines that cut out the wooden shoes

and the wooden shoes are burnt to make steam?

When a hunger winter comes, yes

That's when we eat the tulips

http://www.wind-works.org/articles/noiseswt.html


search for Chiu to find out about the wind turbine I had on my house 
:)

And here's a picture of my turbine http://www.compkarori.com/images/air403.gif

I have an inverter so that I could use the power from the 12V batteries 
to power my server

It says you still have it but it will cost you tonnes to turn it 
on...

I don't have it anymore .. the company took it away :(

The threat of a $200,000 fine was a little too oppressive for me

How big was it?

not very big .. just over 1m span I think.  Made lots of noise energy 
only!

I think they use these on small boats where if the neighbours complain, 
you just sail somewhere else!

:-) Yeah, I've seen those in recent years

So they make too much noise because they're too small?

yes

well, because they spin so fast

That's the case with CPU fans, as well

Size matters. The bigger the better

to shed energy ( so that they blades don't fall apart ), they undergo 
fibroelastic shudder

which creates vortices and lots of noise

flutter

here's a picture from the roof .... http://www.compkarori.com/images/karori403.jpg

I've been riding my bicycle under those really big ones in a big 
storm. Pretty impressive

I thought I would be far away from the neighbours .. but clearly 
I was not

It looks quite close. The noise of small fans is very high pitched. 
It annoys the hell out of me, too

I was going to short it during the night which basically puts a break 
on the whole thing.  And leave it going during the day