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What part of the US are you living in where ensure is not used? As an American living in the US, this would wind me up too! But for all "intensive purposes" some just don't know any better and don't have the "gaul" to "care less."

This is quite an eye-opener too...

"How secure is MySocialCloud.com? From day one, it has been our goal to provide the best security on the web. While we don't expose how we keep MySocialCloud secure (if we told you, it would be unsecured!), we do ensure that not even our employees are able to see any of your sensitive data."

One of their videos shows a bookmarket so I'm going to presume they're using that for somekind of encryption clientside with AES???

I submitted the same subject some hours earlier and not sure that title(taken directly from WSJ) is any better.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4224661

As a business owner, I can't think of anything worse than trying to maintain an archival system for a bloated platform that would combine all of that together.

I do however think that interoperability needs to be improved.

Sounds like this would be a great time for a rewrite of the UNIX Finger tool to solve a problem like this. Real-time client/address lookup and can be protected with some kind of pub/private key.

Excellent. I've been a long time user of Vim and never saw this until the blog post.

Clawsmail or it's ancestor, Sylpheed. If you're one for a beautiful and flashy UI then these options are not for you.

I can't but I can think of another reason not to buy one. Windows Phone 7 is not upgradeable to Windows Phone 8. There will be a Windows 7.8 update but it's end of the road for that particular ecosystem as well. So with that announced to be available "sometime towards the end of the year" they've probably hurt the few potential Windows Phone 7 candidates interested in a device. What was Nokia thinking?

Thank you Ghostery and friends.

Will the Rust Language be a fundamental part of this project?

Ideally, most of this would be on a provider's website. Unfortunately, the NAPs of the world rely on multi-level sales staffing that present what they think is important(or differentiates them). The smaller colos who envision themselves the equivalent of the NAPs refrain from sharing much info as well and then the consumer ends up in a dim corner of "kinda/sorta generally acceptable commodity(service and quality) level colocation." It is then your burden to translate that to a customer why their LOLcats website is loading slowly for Uncle Bob. SLAs are hard and most providers treat them like a joke. If you're a startup and want to pass the buck, then just go with AWS. There is a solution for everyone.

Indeed and yet for someone who has been doing it for years, all of this can be identified in a matter of minutes. In the same vein, most programmers today don't need to know Assembly. It just depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

As mentioned in the blog, "So many factors to consider!" Do your homework early and upfront even if planning to colo just an Atom or Soekris box. I can tell you that moving many multiples of racked equipment via semi-truck from one datacenter to another is not an enjoyable experience.

Ping - Power - Pipe : Ask everything you need. If a datacenter is unwilling to share or discuss who they are, what they do and what they offer then walk away. Colocation is a buyer beware environment.

Here's a VERY ROUGH list/braindump of questions that AT THE VERY LEAST you need to know before placing equipment with the colocation provider/datacenter.

Tier I,II,III, IV datacenter? Who owns the datacenter? Investors? What's your ASN number(s)? Carrier neutral facility? How many connectivity providers are present in the data center? Does data center run BGP over these providers? IP Transit providers - Bandwidth Pricing? Overage pricing? Straight $mbps/month? Who manages your network? Ip allotment? Assignment procedure? High density for micro vms(Heroku style)? 200 VMs per host meaning 200IPs per vm. Swip/rwhois updates on assignments? Cross-connects? Cross connect pricing? Charges? Local loop(last mile connectivity) charges? BGP support? Is our traffic on a private/separate v-lan from your other customers?

Infrastructure? -Redundancy in detail -Brands -Networking -Connection -Power. Maintenance programs?

A/B feeds from two separator breakers or breaker panels or better yet two Utility Power Service Provider if they are truly A/B feeds. A/B Diesel-Generators? Additional fuel storage on site? Is a PDU included? If so, how many outlets and is it accessible from the web or telnet? What type of hand off/drops to your rack will you be provided (Ethernet)? Are there raised floors? Are there any fire suppression systems in place? Physical/Video Security? Biometrics? Screening of employees?

Insurance requirements to colocate equipment with you?

On-site visit requirements? 24x7 staffing? Remote Hands - Cost and Abilities? What's included? Shipping/Receiving of hardware?

Sas II 70 or SSAE 16 certification? Audit available for review? -Common practices -Staffing -Security -Emergencies - Escalations -Contacts Outage alerts? Notifications through Twitter or similar offsite status page? RFOs for past outages? What's been your corrective action?

Power density per rack? 80% rule or true metered? Can you rack the equipment for us? Who provides cabling? Types of rails for servers? Billing-95th or other? Rack size? Partitioning available? 4u/10u/Quarter/Half? Cages? Lockable or baker's racks? Shared with others?

Finally, ask for a listing of ALL fees.

Can you please put all of this on your site? This discussion is only temporary and many of us are interested in the particulars.

Vim? Komodo?

Thanks for your comment. I'm going to presume that this will be key to their SDN/OpenFlow developments? Is there any more publicly available information yet?

Oh lordy...so this is B2B EDI reincarnated as B2C EDI?

Now we just need a smartphone-based AS/400 and we're back in the 90's again.

Site-provided description for those curious:

--- At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. We'll begin with these Expert to Expert episodes with a "standing" conversation (participants stand comfortably close to the whiteboard) with computer scientists Carl Hewitt, Visiting Professor at Stanford University, creator of the Planner programming language, inventor of the Actor Model (the topic of this conversation), Clemens Szyperski, an MSR scientist working in the Connected Systems Group and Erik. ---

Why this instead of all of the existing alternatives to Dyndns?

no-ip.com - changeip.com - freedns.afraid.org

Yes it does. As does the original proposal and I mentioned some issues in my post.

Microsoft has submitted a proposal that is interesting for a few reasons. The requirement for encryption is optional and also the API/framing is closer to Websockets.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-montenegro-httpbis-speed-mo...

If encryption is required, I can see many complaining about the burden of certificates. Will this finally drive an alternate solution such as Moxie Marlinspike's Convergence project to help us do away with the certificate authorities? Also, I can see a huge increase in the number of IP addresses unless some serious progress is made with SNI. On the otherhand, that might finally open the floodgates for widespread IPv6 adoption.

When large entities are involved, it's not unheard of these days for a DDOS attack to be in the size of 50+ Gb/s . There are not many providers that can withstand this and maintain a responsive platform for other customers.

If DDOS attacks are now being organized by nation states, how would you keep your business running? I don't think Name.com did anything wrong here.

I was thinking along the same lines. What happened to Guile ( http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ )? Maybe the developer(s) were not aware of it's purpose?

Substitute Lua with Tcl and it would still be underwhelming.

FreeBSD will have it's own native type 2 hypervisor soon, BHyVe.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe

Interesting idea. How would you go about simple authentication to prevent spoofing since PGP/GPG is too difficult to explain?

I hate to be the one asking for a citation but can you share some examples of "more people" who have moved from Linux back to Solaris? I agree about excellence of Dtrace and ZFS but I'm just curious about your kernel comment.

My understanding of hardware support from SmartOS and Illumos was that it only worked on Intel hardware and not AMD. Is this still the case?

Relevant to this discussion : Joyent releasing SmartOS http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887170

AMD support from SmartOS wiki: http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Technical+FAQs#S...

This is indeed a nice TOS but I've always been impressed by Tarsnap's legal section.

http://www.tarsnap.com/legal.html

Status codes:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/smtp-enhanced-status-codes/s...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3463

I'm guessing most e-mail client providers just haven't found a reason to prettify the responses. If anyone is up to the task, then can you explain PGP/GPG so the entire world can also understand and use that?

Pando and TechCrunch, can you guys report on the ground in Syria or Libya or Myanmar (or any place where life is actually happening) regarding the tech/start-up scene? I'd love to actually hear something of interest from you(and not about you) folks for a change.

Maybe a better comparison is from some of the microframeworks for PHP. As you can see, Sinatra influenced a lot of frameworks in many languages.

From Slim: (http://www.slimframework.com/)

require 'Slim/Slim.php';

$app = new Slim();

$app->get('/hello/:name', function ($name) { echo "Hello, $name!"; });

$app->run();

From Silex: (http://silex.sensiolabs.org/)

require_once __DIR__.'/silex.phar';

$app = new Silex\Application();

$app->get('/hello/{name}', function($name) use($app) { return 'Hello '.$app->escape($name); });

$app->run();