SFD5 Prep Work: Scale Computing

Scale sell a converged platform: compute and storage in pizza boxes that glom together to make a cluster of 3 to 8 nodes, like Voltron. It’s based on KVM, with proprietary bits added into the mix. Scale make a big deal about “no licensing” or, as they call it, a… Read More

The Economics of the Cloud Wars

It looks like the Cloud Wars are well and truly on, with Google announcing major price drops, AWS following suit, and Microsoft joining in with drops in Azure pricing to match those of AWS. It got me to wondering about how this might end up. Google has been in the… Read More

MythTV

I’ve recently embarked on a major rebuild of my desktop system from a Debian sid based testing/unstable distro for amd64 to an Ubuntu Breezy Badger install for amd64. The Ubuntu bit was relatively painless, and happily VMWare Workstation 5.5 now supports amd64, so it works nicely. Unfortunately, MythTV isn’t packaged… Read More