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Eclipse in the cloud
It amazes me the number of initiatives that have been taken to develop collaborative environments. Recently I discovered an interesting list from Wikipedia articles in which is quite easy to get lost and on the other hand it is an appropriate place to add information about any project related. Some of them, such as Etherpad, clearly show which means a practical implementation of a similar environment, in addition to providing free code that can be useful.
So far, the project that has caught my attention comes from the German university level and has been published under the name of Saros. As shown in the video included on its website, you can install it as a plugin within the Eclipse development environment, although it is not necessary to prove for be aware of its drawbacks. It is obvious that none of users using Saros will have control over their computing, because when one interacts with other members of a possible working team is accessing their development environment. It is true that are established various collaboration scenarios, but this brings us to the controversy that was discussed with Stallman. On the other hand, the code can be very useful both for deploy the part that refers to the passage of the witness and the talk through chat, voice or video as to synchronize personal projects with those that are public.
Advised by Wayne Beaton from the Eclipse Foundation, I met the Orion project. It is an environment for the development of web applications and the fundamental reason for move away from the well-known environment at the time of moving to a web service is simply due to the fact that network behavior differs from the behavior of a personal computer, so for a different problem is more appropriate a new solution. It is a good way of thinking ever keeping in mind what is really happening on the network, since it seems as if it were an abstract entity to which can be allowed everything simply because of being new. But actually dealing with programming from this perspective involves confronting the challenge to provide the control of our computing to others which deprives us of freedom. This does not mean not to be licit to go down this path, but should be aware of what actually happens. In fact, sites for hosting projects that also allow access using version control systems do not perform at all any kind of control, because their aim is to publicize code and in any case, converging to a collaborative environment from this approach seems an interesting option.
I would like to invite everybody to test eyeOS, since it is free software and I think it is a very interesting option, because if it is possible to manage their control by the passage of a witness, only is necessary to install eclipse to have a collaborative environment, in addition to any other application focused to any other field, such as LibreOffice. It is nevertheless important to analyze what happens when eyeos is used and which is the technology used for its implementation, so it is advisable to read the document that IBM has published to understand what virtualization means. You may get lost in the published documentation, but leaving aside the technical terms can intuit what actually occurs in a model of this type. When a user accesses any service of this kind what he does is to share a certain hardware with other users, like when someone uses public transport. Regardless of whether the owner of the means of transport is a state or a private company still has the qualification of public, for the simple reason that it can be used by multiple users simultaneously. There is talk about infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to refer to server hardware, platform as a service (PaaS) to refer to its operating system, and software as a service (SaaS) to refer to the applications installed on it. Virtually the operating system is able to provide the user a machine that he perceives as own, over which he can install, manage and control his computing. In this way, the efficiency in terms of hardware resources utilization, is much higher than in the case that users have to buy hardware individually, but on the other hand it is possible to implant shared virtual machines on which can be installed any work environment and whose control can be managed by the passage of a witness. Moreover, this form of sharing a server is licit and allows to leave behind the controversy.
There are several initiatives that aim to establish open standards in respect to computing in the cloud, such as open cloud manifesto or Reservoir, the latter focused on standardize the methods of virtualization. Actually the platform responsible for virtualizing services is just software, so most of the projects involved in this initiative have been released under free licenses. Since never ceases to amaze me the number of projects that have been launched, all focused toward the same goal, consider of great importance unifying all efforts on one project with enough weight to achieve a collaborative environment completely free.
Eclipse in the cloud by Mark Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Social Tool
Sometimes I read some pages of the work of Karl Marx and I find great thoughts. It is curious how previously I was not aware of what the word socialism meant. I used to associate the idea of socialism to solidarity one, because to some extent they are related and this is the concept that is perceived through the media. It is also true that a social link involves a bond of solidarity, but they are two different concepts.
And the fact is that as a result of the reflections of Marx, communist regimes were established in many countries, practical approaches that ended up failing and allowing the extension of capitalism throughout the world. However, this failure has also shown the inconsistency of the capitalist system, now more than ever.
It is true that an employment relationship entails social bonds and that the money used to commercial exchanges proves to be a very imprecise tool, but it is more true that systemic solutions proposed in past centuries are doomed to failure. Although this should not surprise anyone because, has anyone ever wondered what is a social link?
I would have liked knowing the ideas of Marx influenced by Freudian perception of the human unconscious, as well as new research on the so called Dunbar’s number or the potential that ICTs are demonstrating today. Although we can think ourselves.
One should think first in a form of exchange much more advanced than money. Actually money is just information so in the era of information society we can not stay in the methods of the past, much less when everyone uses the mobile phone regularly. Can be posed equivalence equations all complex you can think that allow the exchange of goods and services automatically, just only having the mobile phone operational. The error is in thinking that the solution can be simple, but nobody has said it was.
So I can think of a perhaps highly ambitious project but worthy of being taken into account by all who read this post and perceives it as viable. It must start from a society of a number of inhabitants lower than in Dunbar where the spontaneous and instinctive behavior of all its members makes things work socially. As in “big brother” and without any of its members were aware, as this may disrupt their behavior, they would be observed carefully. This behavior should serve as a model to correct the deviations that social conduct of human being undergoes when the number of inhabitants is increased, such as the misappropriation of surplus caused by greed, the consideration of exploited as “other” etc. Like a buddhist reaches the emotional harmony through meditation, a database managed properly can serve as a prosthesis to relieve our natural deficiencies.
Sure, in order to get enough practical information it takes several generations and since is intended an efficient change of the economic model is not viable a method that requires analyzing the evolution of a society in real time. So a practical solution is to have several parallel societies and analyze their evolution in a segmented way. Can even be make an estimation of the cost necessary and does not have to be very high.
Social Tool by Mark Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 Unported License.
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There is no room for controversy
If you are using a free browser on a free operating system to read this post you will be aware of the importance of freedom against proprietary solutions, which nowadays extend to the term cloud computing to which is mistakenly assigned in his own concept the idea of privacy. I invite everyone to freely edit the publication which appeared on Wikipedia.
Yes, there are lots of collaborative environments already in place, such as LotusLive from IBM, Windows Azure from Microsoft, Google Docs or Google Code Playground, all of them extremely interesting. However the innovative approach does not lies in the form but in substance. Just one of the engineers who created the IBM PC, Mark Dean, predicts the end of an era in his last blog entry. If proprietary software has caused controversy in front of the free software when all consistent reasoning looks for the free options, as progress is made towards a megacomputer distributed by the universal network, it is necessary that the path made by the free software community can be useful for free choice is the only one among all possible.
Is time for think of the OSI reference model, becouse it was designed to break the usual barriers in proprietary solutions. It is essential the existence of a physical layer upon which mount the entire network infrastructure, for those who find it more difficult abstracting, the physical level is equivalent in the case of the simile of the roads to earth surface. This level necessarily have to be implemented by means of what in this blog has been calling as telecommunication infrastructure and for this reason must be public and universal access, as well as water or air.
The remaining levels can be implemented either by hardware or by software. Intuitively it is expected that the levels closest to the user be more flexible, while the levels closest to the physical layer be more rigid and therefore closer to their public condition. In fact, it is abstract levels, so that the boundaries are fuzzy, but in any case it is important to associate a parallel abstraction model to the OSI model, not related to technology but to privacy.
There is no room for controversy by Mark Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Compiling …
Always keeping in mind the advice of Stallman, about which has been spoken in a previous post, the project codepad
should provide an interesting insight into how to deal with the part corresponding to compiler.
Free Programming 