john_oshea

The "600+, AWS" detail is great to read, as confirmation that this kind of thind does work. We're urrently setting up remote AWS systems and finding a lot of moving parts for getting smooth playback while editing in AE/PPro.

If you have time to expand on the "bandwith and latency thing", I'd love to hear more. Even a "you need to be geographically within X miles of the instance" ballpark figure would be wonderful to know.

Any recommendations for sensible forum software? (self-hosted would be ideal)

"Trainspotting" would be an interesting challenge: <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/31/irvinewelsh>

    git config --add hooks.confirm.match "AKIA"

would probably be a good default for AWS users.

If you have time to link to somewhere listing those hidden settings, that would be really helpful.

The "that appears to be what they want" sentiment will, I suspect, be quite amusing to anyone who's ever bought tickets for a Wu-Tang gig only to find that (random number significantly less than the number of known Wu-Tang members) actually turns up on the night.

Blogspam - original link: http://blog.optimizely.com/introducing-guidersjs-an-open-sou...

I suspect (OK, I'd like if) someone will release a spamassassin/dspam variant targeted at ads as a proxy, optionally with some distributed Pyzor goodness thrown in.

In an ideal world, it would be open-source and locally-installable, a la Privoxy.

In a slightly-less-than-ideal world, it'll be hosted somewhere "out there". It will probably be wonderful for 6-12 months, then bog down as everyone starts using it, then the site owners will use it to start serving ads themselves. At which point their only hope for any kind of redemption will be if they've called the service some variant on 'samsara': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saṃsāra

I wonder what the break-even mileage savings (to "cover" the cost of building one in the first place) for one of these would be?

Do you like Bob Dylan, or is that a form of aversion therapy?

Have you tried "Bob plays harmonica" for the instrumentals?

I was about to point out that House isn't a real person, but then realized that I have no idea about Zed either. Ahem.