I used to do all my computing at a data center, 40 years ago. I remember
being liberated. I don't want to go back to those days.
The only thing worse than being at a data center was having a single
terminal quite some distance away from a data center and discovering
that your phone line was
ob·fus·cate
* Synonyms: baffle, becloud, befuddle, bewilder, *cloud*, complicate,
conceal, confound, darken, fog
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_Not every cloud has a silver lining_
There's something you won't see mentioned by too many advocates of cloud
computing – the main attraction is making money from you
The main attraction for companies is always to make money from you. If they
offer you a service worth that charge...
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:42 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
ob·fus·cate
* Synonyms: baffle, becloud, befuddle, bewilder, *cloud*, complicate,
conceal, confound, darken,
On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:42 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
The tech press is full of people who want to tell you how completely
awesome life is going to be when everything moves to the cloud –
that is, when all your important storage, processing and other needs
are handled by vast, professionally managed
In general, I agree. But I also fondly remember being alone with a
System 360 Mod 40 on third shift. Now THAT was a personal computer!
t.piwowar wrote:
On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:42 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
The tech press is full of people who want to tell you how completely
awesome life is going to be
