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Skypipe : a cloud based named pipe

45 points by gbin 14y ago

anovikov 14y ago
great! btw a friend of mine did a thing like that for Windows clipboard - http://ybex.com/ http://ybex.com/
shocks 14y ago
This is really cool. Thanks!
- ukc 14y ago
  Hacker news anyone want to test this out with me? Drop your public email address.
tmcb 14y ago
The idea looks pretty good, and it's OK if someone hacks it for themselves, but the implementation is lame, in my opinion. I understand that I can be a bit off-topic or ranting worthlessly on a simple hack that was intended to be just that, a simple hack. It looks like people forgot how to develop simple protocols for this sort of thing. A simple protocol for remote named pipes, a client and a server, and a wrapper/gateway for dotCloud/HTTP wouldn't take a (very) long time to develop, wouldn't be completely dependent on an external service, and would probably develop into something bigger --- even for anonymous file sharing! I really would like to know why programmers, in general, seem not to be doing this sort of thing anymore. Sorry if it looks like some sort of misplaced criticism, I'm posing all of it genuinely as a question to the community.
- gbin 14y ago
  Ok first I tend to agree on the general remark : I have been in software development for a long time and a lot of recent solutions look totally overkill / overengineered for me. But here, it makes the thing really easy, it autodeploys, the underpinning technology (0mq) makes the socket rendez-vous easy. For a first proof of concept I just love the usability ! Now yeah you can do it by installing a proxy on one of your servers ... ha but first you need a public server on the internet, tweak the services, expose it a little bit more to hacks etc etc ...
- jeremyjh 14y ago
  Resume Oriented Arcitecture
  - gbin 14y ago
    Lol, love it :)
jbd 14y ago
self hostable alternative, F*EX and the sex command : http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/ http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/
- gbin 14y ago
  Is it ? Is it doing pipes ? because I see only file transfers there which is not exactly the same as you loose the realtime / streaming factor.
  - jbd 14y ago
    Search for "stream" on the homepage : http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/SEX.html http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/SEX.html
    - gbin 14y ago
      ha ok, cool
- daemon13 14y ago
  Checked - really cool set of features implemented with simple, usable and elegant workflow in mind [though not a Perl fan]!
  - jbd 14y ago
    I'm not a Perl addict neither, but I'm using FEX in production and it worked flawlessly for more than a year now and hundreds of users. Easy to install (inetd/xinetd), easy to upgrade, self cleaning, nice behaviour when you reach the limit, the command line tool are autonomous (just put them in your PATH), the developper is (very) reactive. It just works. It is as efficient as the website is old-school =) I'm an enthousiastic FEX administrator and user !
stevencorona 14y ago
Can't you do the same thing with netcat?
typicalrunt 14y ago
This look very cool. I wonder if they'll have any legal issues with a name that sounds like "Skype". After all, Microsoft went after a guy whose business was Mike Rowe Software.
sigil 14y ago
If it's useful in shell pipelines, show examples of actual shell pipelines, instead of a useless use of cat(1). cat /etc/issue.logo | skypipe gentoologo # no skypipe gentoologo < /etc/issue.logo # yes http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#cat http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#cat
- gbin 14y ago
  Thx for the note, I edit my post accordingly.
barlog 14y ago
nice thout!
primo44 14y ago
Grammar edits: - "Skypipe : a cloud based named pipe" should be "Skypipe : a cloud-based named pipe" - "... no IP to know, no tunnel to setup, nothing." should be "... no IP to know, no tunnel to set up, nothing." - "then asks you and remember your credential for access" should be "then asks you and remember your credentials for access"
scott_karana 14y ago
Lovely idea, and I think it's damn useful: I just wish it didn't have an external dependency on dotcloud!
- framstag 14y ago
  SEX is free! :-) http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/SEX.html http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/SEX.html

45 points by gbin 14y ago

anovikov 14y ago

great! btw a friend of mine did a thing like that for Windows clipboard - http://ybex.com/ http://ybex.com/

shocks 14y ago

This is really cool. Thanks!

ukc 14y ago
Hacker news anyone want to test this out with me? Drop your public email address.

tmcb 14y ago

The idea looks pretty good, and it's OK if someone hacks it for themselves, but the implementation is lame, in my opinion. I understand that I can be a bit off-topic or ranting worthlessly on a simple hack that was intended to be just that, a simple hack. It looks like people forgot how to develop simple protocols for this sort of thing. A simple protocol for remote named pipes, a client and a server, and a wrapper/gateway for dotCloud/HTTP wouldn't take a (very) long time to develop, wouldn't be completely dependent on an external service, and would probably develop into something bigger --- even for anonymous file sharing! I really would like to know why programmers, in general, seem not to be doing this sort of thing anymore. Sorry if it looks like some sort of misplaced criticism, I'm posing all of it genuinely as a question to the community.

gbin 14y ago
Ok first I tend to agree on the general remark : I have been in software development for a long time and a lot of recent solutions look totally overkill / overengineered for me. But here, it makes the thing really easy, it autodeploys, the underpinning technology (0mq) makes the socket rendez-vous easy. For a first proof of concept I just love the usability ! Now yeah you can do it by installing a proxy on one of your servers ... ha but first you need a public server on the internet, tweak the services, expose it a little bit more to hacks etc etc ...
jeremyjh 14y ago
Resume Oriented Arcitecture
- gbin 14y ago
  Lol, love it :)

jbd 14y ago

self hostable alternative, F*EX and the sex command : http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/ http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/

gbin 14y ago
Is it ? Is it doing pipes ? because I see only file transfers there which is not exactly the same as you loose the realtime / streaming factor.
- jbd 14y ago
  Search for "stream" on the homepage : http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/SEX.html http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/SEX.html
  - gbin 14y ago
    ha ok, cool
daemon13 14y ago
Checked - really cool set of features implemented with simple, usable and elegant workflow in mind [though not a Perl fan]!
- jbd 14y ago
  I'm not a Perl addict neither, but I'm using FEX in production and it worked flawlessly for more than a year now and hundreds of users. Easy to install (inetd/xinetd), easy to upgrade, self cleaning, nice behaviour when you reach the limit, the command line tool are autonomous (just put them in your PATH), the developper is (very) reactive. It just works. It is as efficient as the website is old-school =) I'm an enthousiastic FEX administrator and user !

stevencorona 14y ago

Can't you do the same thing with netcat?

typicalrunt 14y ago

This look very cool. I wonder if they'll have any legal issues with a name that sounds like "Skype". After all, Microsoft went after a guy whose business was Mike Rowe Software.

sigil 14y ago

If it's useful in shell pipelines, show examples of actual shell pipelines, instead of a useless use of cat(1). cat /etc/issue.logo | skypipe gentoologo # no skypipe gentoologo < /etc/issue.logo # yes http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#cat http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#cat

gbin 14y ago
Thx for the note, I edit my post accordingly.

barlog 14y ago

nice thout!

primo44 14y ago

Grammar edits: - "Skypipe : a cloud based named pipe" should be "Skypipe : a cloud-based named pipe" - "... no IP to know, no tunnel to setup, nothing." should be "... no IP to know, no tunnel to set up, nothing." - "then asks you and remember your credential for access" should be "then asks you and remember your credentials for access"

scott_karana 14y ago

Lovely idea, and I think it's damn useful: I just wish it didn't have an external dependency on dotcloud!

framstag 14y ago
SEX is free! :-) http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/SEX.html http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/SEX.html