Post 291 -- Will the Apple NetBook Please Sign In?

Will the Apple NetBook
Please Sign In?

I'm as guilty as anyone else. MacWorld Expo came and went and we were left pondering,

"Where is the World is the Mac's NetBooK?".

We were looking for something between the iPhone and the Air, and it never showed...

Then today I read a story on The Register about Sun Microsystems entrenchment and acquisition of Tools to enpower Cloud Computing. And their move to join the ranks of Net Storage Poviders. The reduced need for a full-Bore OS, and Mega-Storage.

It was when I sent an email to myself about this gathering of tools by Sun: Open Solaris, Java, MySQL, and New Cloud Software like Q-Layer and PyMonkey, (which reminded me a lot like Rocks Roll configuration program for their Simple Linux Cluster Creator), that something Edgar Allen Poe once said rang a bell.

The best way to hide something was to put it in plain sight.

I blinked and I saw Apple's NetBook. I was holding it in my hands and I had been using it for several months now.

It was the iPod Touch.

PymonkeyDev Link: http://www.openvapps.org/confluence/display/PMDEV/How+to+Write+a+Class+in+PyMonkey

Wingman, really out!

Rocks Clusters: Next Step, No Hardware!!!

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Listened to a TWIT podcast this weekend.
It was on the FLOSS Weekly program.
FLOSS stands for Free Libre Open Source Software,
and it was episode 30 and well worth a listen.
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http://www.twit.tv/FLOSS
Running time...: 1:00:44
Download MP3 file
June 28th, 2008

FLOSS Weekly 30: Rocks

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte

Guests: Philip Papadopoulos and Greg Bruno of Rocks
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http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/
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ROCKS, in simple terms, is the scripts for the Anaconda Setup program (Red Hat Linux Installer),
that tells it what pieces of hardware you have and what computational needs will be required for your project. You fill in the blanks and then feed it to Anaconda

and it creates the Cluster for you.

What could be easier?

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As mindboggling as all this stuff was, the Kicker was the direction Rocks was working on:

Virtualization.

Very soon, Rocks will be able to send it's script to a "CLOUD Storage Space", like Amazon's S3,

and create a cluster virtually...

That's right! No Local Expensive Hardware required!

Think about that.

This is made possible because of Open Source Software.

Until next time,
Wingman way out.