Wireless networking in Win7
I just read the release notes for the beta release of Win 7.
My problem is that I can not connect to my wireless network when the computer resumes after is has been in sleep mode.
Some googling later I found that it is a known problem as stated in the release notes.
Does any one read release notes before installing stuff?
Will Bush be sent to Hague now?
Since no country has the power to chase down an ex ruler of the USA but USA it self, now is probably the time to stand up for justice.
Wouldn’t it be a huge statement if Bush was sent to trial in Hague for his crimes against international law by the new administration.
It’s probably a pipe dream ant I wonder if that would lead to civil war in the USA.
An ex leader from almost any other country that had behaved like Bush would have been hunted for life.
I don’t mind bringing terrorists to to court, but keeping suspects in weak foreign countries to circumvent the domestic law and calling them illegal warriors to circumvent international law is straight up bullying to me.
Maybe all the countries that USA owe money could gather and put some collective preassure on them. That seems to be a weak point of the super power that is open to exploit right now.
Time Sharing
Cloud computing as it is presented by the big vendors right now looks a lot like time sharing of main frames. In the previous post I wanted Microsoft to offer Windows Azure for in house hosting. That would really shorten the time span to repeat the time sharing history of companies buying parts of the capacity of something expensive and then affording to have all the capacity for them selfs.
I think cloud computing is more beneficial to the organizations that has grown, or plans to grow, out of standard web hosting. They don’t already have the physical infrastructure needed to support their activities and probably not the competence and time needed to keep an operating system running online.
It would be nice if standard web hosting was more scalable. If you’re among 2000 other sites on a box there will be problems if your site gets popular and the hosting is not automatically scalable.
I don’t want to learn enough Linux and Apache to host my own server, be it virtual or not. What I need is some advice or even rules to follow that will make my web applications automatically scalable when needed. Of course I can still write crappy code but at least my success is not hindered from the beginning.
Hopefully both Google and Microsoft will put their offerings in production mode soon so that we can start building the next Facebook without concern of our web host.
Windows Azure
Windows Azure is Microsofts take on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Google App Engine.
All these services offer companies to host their web based applications in ‘the cloud’. For Amazon you upload a virtual machine that you can start as many instances you need of. Google chooses to only allow Python code that is then distributed over as many cores as is needed for the moment. Microsofts solution is in between. You can use any .Net language and it is up to you to configure how many cores to use. I use ‘core’ in the vaguest sense here, I don’t have a clue how virtualized the environments are.
In the usual Microsoft spirit, the tools for developers are outstanding. You can even emulate a cloud of your own in your development environment.
Sadly, Microsoft hasn’t published any pricing information yet. I think a lot of developers would have started on ‘real’ projects already if there was some indication of the pricing level. Both Amazon and Google charges for storage, traffic and CPU-usage in different way, but Google App Engine if free until it gets a lot of page views. To me, building simple services for the small Swedish speaking market Googles model is quite nice. It’s free until the site gets popular enough to support it self.
I hope that Microsoft will offer companies to host Windows Azure in their own data centers. That way one could scale out to Microsofts cloud when there is not enough capacity in house, but still keep the data that often has legal issues local.
