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bellwould writes:
Our CTO has asked us to move our entire dev/test platform off of shared, off-site, hardware onto Amazon, Savvis or the like. Because we don't know enough about this, we're nervous about the costs like CPU: Jenkins tasks checks-out 1M lines of source, then builds, tests and test-deploys 23 product modules 24/7; as well, several Glassfish and Tomcat instances run integration and UI tests 24/7. Disk: large databases instances packed with test and simulation data. Of course, it's all backed up too. So before we start an in-depth review of what's available, what experiences are dev shops having doing stuff like this in the cloud?
40528353
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bellwould writes:
In teaching information tech to a 13-yr old with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), I've found she's wildly interested in the details of data transmission but not programming. We've had limited success with command-line tools like traceroute and tcpdump, but now I'm seeking tips/advice on software that may help her explore and visualize things like transmission protocols.
17458222
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Bell Would? writes:
Don't try this at home — we're professionals! "It's just like a tingling sensation in your skull.", according to one subject in an experiment using electric current to stimulate learning mathematics as reported today in News Daily.
13712390
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7759244
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Bell Would? writes:
Does anyone know what has happened (is happening) with http://www.cygwin.com? It's returning a 403 error. Interestingly, whois shows that the domain registration was updated on 13-Dec-09 — but the ip address is still one of RedHat's.
