World: r3wp

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/s3.html

The R2 stuff was never an option for me

And now the latest version of R3 doesn't run on Syllable, either

I did the AWS stuff for S3 using SOAP

R3

Ai, I'm not interested in the SOAP interface, either

the limitation with the R2 and R3 interface is that you can't upload 
large files

That's a showstopper, too. I need to upload CD images

As I understand it .. it is far better to upload large files to S3 
from EC2

I would reckon so. But I haven't started with EC2 yet

As this week's events show, EC2 is not a good thing to become dependent 
on, either

I don't believe either Singapore or Japan were affected :)

Traditionally Rebol file transfers were done by reading the file 
into memory first which is a pain for large files.

Having said that, I think for my R3 ftp implementation, I stream 
the file off the file system instead of reading into a variable first

Sorry, but all this spells immature, and that's no way to build products

Kaj, he's talking about DVD images when he says "large files". CD 
images are small enough.

It's a 32-bit addressing issue.

Is Kaj talking about AWS ??

Actually Brian, if you try to load a 650Mb file into R2 .. you'll 
crash as far as I recall

Weird. I remember the 32bit addressing issue, but not that. That's 
annoying.

I've uploaded thousands of files to S3 over the last year

but they're only a few Mbs or less in size

For larger files I use S3copy ( http://download.cnet.com/S3copy-Amazon-S3-Command-Line-Copy/3000-2242_4-10915715.html
) as it does not block my application if I get something else to 
do the uploads

Requires .Net though

If you port that to Syllable Desktop and downsize it one or two orders 
of magnitudes, I'm willing to have a look :-)

After you port .net :)

I looked into that when it came out, but rejected the idea in later 
years

I've even ported part of GNU Portable DotNet

Is Java on Syllable yet?

Is there a Syllable AMI ?

We used to have the Kaffe VM, but nobody did anything with it, so 
beyond shouting that we must have it, there's no interest

As I said, I haven't started with EC2 yet. I'd have to port Syllable 
Server to EC2. Syllable Desktop is impossible to run on EC2, unless 
you'd run it in a full emulator

Are people running desktops on Ec2 ?

And I pre-paid for a 3 year Windows instance a month or so ago :(

You could run remote desktops on a server, so I guess some people 
are also doing that on EC2

Admins like single points of failure ;-)

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=65649&tstart=0

some guy was monitoring hundreds of ECGs on Ec2 :(

All this happening a few days after that Chinese hacker group boasting 
that they could bring down any country's infrastructure :(

This fiasco has seriously dented the reputation of running cloud 
based systems.  If the largest provider can't get it right, who can?

Probably the smallest. They carry a way lighter load

The uptime of our attic cloud compares quite favourably with many 
providers

Although now that I've said that, I'm sure the hot weather will soon 
blow out a hard disk...

You run your server in the attic?  the hotest part of the house??

Some days of the year, yes

Then again, we don't have hundreds of heart patients hanging off 
it

I think I should setup a secondary fall back server in the Singapore 
availability zone.  Hopefully what happens in the USA does not impact 
other regions.

Amazon's talk of region isolation was clearly not true.

Houses here don't have cellars anymore, because, as anyone knows, 
electricity is always there...

Don't most Dutch houses have wind mills on them for power?

Just a few farms