[dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Arthur:

My hardware is hardly fancy. Most of it has been built from parts and pieces acquired everywhere. I have traded for jobs...client's old servers...just upgrade the systems boot drive to SSDs, get some older RAM SIMMs (everyone wants DDR4 and 5) and the OS to Linux. If you want to go this route just hang around a "gamer" computer store as the serious gamers are always trading up. Governments and businesses are always flipping their desktops as soon as the lease expires and can be good buys. One small local company buys a lot or two of surplus equipment and then flogs them off for cheap...I just try to get there first and get the pick of the litter. One fellow just brought around his older (two year old) motherboard, fully loaded (power supply, memory, video card and a couple of small 500GB HDs)  

My one big advantage is space. I have a full size basement. If I did not, I would trade to some friend who did have the appropriate space...maybe run the family up a Mine-Craft server or add someone to the ownCloud server? ;-) I only have one super server and the rest are in progress rebuilds. 

Aside: If you go this route it might be worth considering an investment in an UPS or two. Note that power usage can get expensive but the newer computer motherboards will virtually go to sleep when not under load.

Jim
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Development in Visual Studio" <dba-vs at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 3:40:19 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control

Yeah well you've got all your fany hardware, but some of us are
impoverished have only three computers, including the tablet. It all adds
up to a couple of gigs. Poor me ☺

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> As for the Cloud there are some things that just can not be done any other
> way.
>
> Huge files and incredible high processing speed come to mind.
>
> One article, that discussed this comes to mind. In the old days a movie
> would easily fit on one of two rolls of "Nitrocellulose"...yes, it is as
> explosive as it sounds. Today that technology is all but gone. Movies are
> now digitized, are super high resolution, up to 64 frames a second but they
> take up a lot of drive space...and the media must be absolutely
> perfect...no data drops, not even a single pixel. Where else would anyone
> store the complete movie like "Gravity", that is 26 Pentabytes?
>
> Then the new super computers. They use to be something like a single Cray
> but today a Cloud farm of thousands of interconnected CPUs running as a
> single computer, running at over 33.86 petaFLOPS (per second).
>
> There is nothing that the Cloud couldn't do when it comes to bigger,
> faster and more reliable.
>
> This technology is not just limited to big players at extraordinary costs.
> The prices are continuing coming down, if someone wants to go commercial
> and any enthusiast (Geek) can set up a small Cloud system in their
> basement, using off the shelf computers and software.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> To: "Development in Visual Studio" <dba-vs at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 1:31:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control
>
> I suppose I just don't see the allure of doing my business development
> on the cloud.  I have had my private source control since I began using
> C# many years ago.  It has run like clockwork. It is completely inside
> of my servers.  Why would I go do it out on a public server all of a
> sudden?  This is not a public development effort.  All I am really doing
> is looking at moving from SVN to GitHub, and that only because VS now
> has a GitHub connector.  I have two largish servers that "belong" to the
> client that this code is for.  Everything else of the client's is on
> those servers.  There is simply no point in not keeping his stuff on his
> servers.
>
> At this point all of my development is on my own VMs running on these
> servers (that I hand built ages ago) and the source control is on them
> as well.
>
> You have spent a great deal of effort questioning why I do this but no
> effort explaining why I should not.
>
> On 11/14/2015 4:08 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
> >   John --
> >
> > Even if your private bitbucket.org account will be hacked and locked
> down you'll still have a copy of your sources on your local system disks
> and in your local system backups, - if that is not safe enough IYO then you
> could also have backups on a few "cloud"  sites.
> >
> > -- Shamil
> >
>
> --
> John W. Colby
>
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