Rich Braun wrote:
> My goal is basically to be able to walk into anyone's data center with a set
> of well-tested tools that provide compelling HA and monitoring capability
> without all the equipment/software expense of the VMware solution...
My interest is in being able to set up "mini clouds" f
Hey Guys,
A couple of quick questions:
1. Does Ubuntu 9.04 support TRIM support for SSD drives?
2. If one were transferring data from one USB drive to another USB drive
through a computer with two USB ports, is the hosting computer used as a
buffer? Does data get read and written to/from the ho
I have been reading about about people discussing encryption with data
when using cloud-based storage. I am also aware cloud providers may
have servers around the world, and you may not know where in the world
your data resides.
I believe the US still has export laws related to the type and use
Expanding clouds isn't HA. Failover clusters isn't HA. The AWS outage a
couple of weeks ago is demonstrable proof of that. HA is a process. HA is a
design philosophy. This blog post is a few months old now, but it is worth
reading specifically because of the AWS outage a few weeks ago.
htt
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> where does responsibility lie if someone in the
> US encrypts data in a manner that prohibits export
I think the problem isn't in exporting encrypted data, I think it is
encryption *software* that was considered munitions.
Not to say the there aren't other legal issues: S
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:08:20PM -0400, Chris O'Connell wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> A couple of quick questions:
> 1. Does Ubuntu 9.04 support TRIM support for SSD drives?
Google: ubuntu, trim, ssd.
Answer: no, not until 10.04.
> 2. If one were transferring data from one USB drive to another USB
On May 2, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>
> In light of all this, where does responsibility lie if someone in the
> US encrypts data in a manner that prohibits export, places said data
> into the cloud, and any of the bits land on a server in a country on
> the prohibited list? How does
Original Message
Subject: [DBD] Wednesday May 4th: Day Against DRM just two days away
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 18:08:50 -0400
From: Defective by Design
2011 has been a bad year for DRM. Sony is using legal actions to
harass and intimidate individuals who are modifying their own PS
