ccomputinggeek

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by ccomputinggeek 16y ago
I didn't realise fixed instance sizes were a false construct of cloud vendors. Nice little blog post.
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by ccomputinggeek 16y ago
That's quite interesting regarding dynamic pricing for on-demand computing. I haven't tried it myself yet but I think I'll give it ago. Might be worth uploading a standard API/Price RSS feed to GitHub?
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by ccomputinggeek 16y ago
I meant an pioneering an open source solution. You are right, there are proprietary (very expensive and complicated) solutions out there that you can use. My point is, when the open source community puts its head together on a problem they
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by ccomputinggeek 16y ago
For most courses the exams don't stray far from what's already been asked before. Competition between universities has made this problem a lot worse. Students choose courses with high pass rates and favorable grade ratios.
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by ccomputinggeek 16y ago
Yes agreed, distributed block storage is definitely the future. Nice to see Linux pioneering this too.
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by ccomputinggeek 16y ago
Yes the 14 day trial is a nice touch for Fedora 14! Probably not worth holding out for the next release to get the extra free day :-) I like having root access, its one of my main gripes with some of the larger cloud vendors I've tried in t
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by ccomputinggeek 16y ago
PDFs are a pain but they they exist and dare I say it, I'd rather receive a PDF from my Windows brethren than a MS Word document :-( Having this will make my world just a little bit more convenient!