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- Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:13 pm
- Forum: Other Member Technologies
- Topic: Missionary Smart Phone/PDA Ideas
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12691
OpenMoko
This is a good list. From what I can tell, everything you mentioned should be possible with an OpenMoko phone. http://openmoko.org/ OpenMoko is the first completely open cell phone. You can reprogram it any way you like, from the kernel upward. It has a GPS module, a high resolution screen, and Inte...
- Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:40 am
- Forum: Other Member Technologies
- Topic: Bit Mountain
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8816
Are you saying that it will only fail once in 1000 years or the risk of failure is very low even over the course of 1000 years? :D The latter. :D Another question - are you keeping stats of the equipment that fails? I assume that you're expecting that failed components are changed out within a cert...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:21 pm
- Forum: Other Member Technologies
- Topic: Bit Mountain
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8816
I have no idea what you should do. However, within the past six months I have read several articles about Google and Microsoft buidling huge data centers. They must have the same issues. I wonder how they are solving the problem? Google is solving this with simple replication across ordinary server...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:17 pm
- Forum: Other Member Technologies
- Topic: Bit Mountain
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8816
How much storage is lost to redundancy using your method? You get to choose! There's a simple pair of numbers you need to set up: the number of data and error correction segments per chain. Then the system will maintain the files at the level you specified. I have a spreadsheet that helps you choos...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:05 pm
- Forum: Other Member Technologies
- Topic: Bit Mountain
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8816
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:41 pm
- Forum: Other Member Technologies
- Topic: Bit Mountain
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8816
This is cool indeed. I think I'm gonna show a few of my friends that have been in the business quite a bit longer and see what they think about the technology. They stradle business and open source pretty well. That would be helpful, especially if some of your friends work at large companies. While...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:36 pm
- Forum: Other Member Technologies
- Topic: Bit Mountain
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8816
Shane, get authorization from your managers on what technical information you can or cannot share and let's get a dialog around this. We may be able to come up with some interesting ways that the community can contribute and this may help you argue the case of open source. The project sounds very i...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:31 pm
- Forum: Enterprise Change Management
- Topic: Governance
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9135
I would say that the architecture we implement should and ought to allow for change. Most of what we hear is that the architecture we have poses many issues making improvements and changes difficult. Yes, I agree with that. We're doing so much planning that we're not making room for flexibility. Al...
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:58 pm
- Forum: Other Member Technologies
- Topic: Bit Mountain
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8816
Bit Mountain
I have been working on a project in the family and church history department called Bit Mountain. Bit Mountain is a distributed system designed to reliably store petabytes of archival information. I believe I have discovered and solved the primary issues. Some of the issues I have encountered: - Sta...
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:48 pm
- Forum: Enterprise Change Management
- Topic: Governance
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9135
No waterfall
Before anybody writes a single line of code, everybody in all departments (especially end users) need to know what the game plan is, including all of the future changes picked up along the way. No. This idea actually bothers me a lot. I'm working as a software engineer for the church, and I find th...