Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Cloud-Computing”
Profiting from Inefficiencies?
I went with Backblaze first because they were highly recommended by LifeHacker. Then I chose Crashplan for my main Linux computer because Backblaze doesn’t do Linux. Crashplan offers a family plan that covers 2-10 computers, but I only need to cover 2 computers (my laptops don’t have anything that needs backing up). Covering two computers on Crashplan is more expensive than doing one computer on Crashplan and one on Backblaze. So the less efficient and more complicated setup is the cheaper one; oh well.
More Trouble with Clouds
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I previously blogged about cloud computing and, as you may remember, I am no fan. Recently, while listening to The Command Line Podcast, I came across yet another reason to stay away from the cloud. Cmdline mentions Bruce Schneier’s recent post on file deletion in the cloud. Bruce’s main point is that you can be reasonably sure on your own computer that a file is gone when you’ve deleted it. This is not the case with cloud computing.
Blog: Why Cloud Computing isn't for Everyone
If you read a lot of technology news on the interwebs, it appears as though we will soon all be using cloud computing. No longer will people have hard drives or buy programs. They will lease it all from the cloud. (There are many, many things listed under “cloud computer” from Gmail to Twitter. I am talking about the ultimate goal of those who advocate “cloud computing” where your “computer” is on the net and you just connect from home) There are many reasons why cloud computing is not for everyone. Let me start with the reason closest to my life - high end photography. I went to a baseball game on 10 April and shot over 4 GB of photos. I then loaded these photos onto my computer for editing and sharing with others. It seems to take longer that I can stand to get the photos off my camera and onto my hard drive. I can’t imagine how annoying it would be to have to wait to upload them onto a cloud computing environment. I shoot only in RAW files so I can do some serious editing on the photos and retain the best quality. Sometimes I delete up to half of the photos from a shoot because it’s hard to tell from the back of the camera if it’s subtly out of focus. So imagine waiting forever to upload photos only to ultimately end up deleting them! Photoshop and Lightroom require pretty beefy computers to work correctly, I can’t imagine how slow it would be to have my screen refresh after each edit. It already takes longer than instantaneous on my home computer. This use case - high end photography - also lead me to another reason cloud computing will not be for everyone: bandwidth limits.