Having Vi burned into my muscle memory since the 80's I could never use (literally) emacs for more than 30seconds without inevitably random "i"'s, some "/regx", etc embedded in my text - (that and the RMI inducing ctl-meta-esc-alt-x'ing thing ;))

I love Jekyll/Octopress - but my tool chain of choice for post writing is...

IA -> Marked -> jekyll/s3cmd with a tripwire script -> s3 -> cloudfront

Write - save - blam.

RB

I am a BSD fan - a big one in fact as I have been using BSD since the late 80's. I use AWS for some things where the pricing/instance sizes are a good match for the app needs.

I don't keep up with the latest greatest Xen infrastructure in use by Amazon but...

Wouldn't it be easier/cheaper to get NetBSD running as it has PV support for Xen3? vs using a windows HVM?

RB

I've talked to NetBSD people about EC2 a bit, but I don't know their current status. IIRC at one point they were limited by a lack of SMP support in their Xen-PV code, but I don't know if that's still the case.

I have a couple of boxes at home right now running NetBSD as dom0 w/xen3 and linux/freebsd/netbsd running as PV guests if I get a chance I will move them to some more modern HW and see what happens with NetBSD and multiple cores... Think one of them is a dual core right now but gotta check...

In any case NetBSD PV Kern on a small AWS might be a great combo for cheap BSD thrills....

RB

I wish the resources were thrown at something a little more USEFUL in NetBSD as there are so few to go around. Maybe like ZFS or BTRFS support...

I LOVE the BSD's especially NetBSD - what else can make some of my old sentimentally attached hardware work so well.

I think I might be the only one running NetBSD as a DOM-0.

It's a volunteer organisation and folk are going to volunteer for what interests them, regardless of the stipend.

Yea - I know - just wishful thinking by a user/very occasional contributor to the bad minorities.

> old sentimentally attached hardware work so well

I know what you mean. I was running NetBSD on an iMac G4 (the sunflower one) for years and it was great (then the macppc NVidia broke for several months so I switched to OpenBSD).

I use it as a photo server sitting on my bookcase.

Without wishing to get into a flame war, once you try a BSD, the Linux stuff feels a little...raw.

I could have sworn that way way way back when MS-SQLServer just started out it was a "fork" of Sybase Unix code??? I kinda remember that happening in like the 90's and then like usual Microsloth screwed it's partner (Then Sybase that did a lot of the work on the initial windows port)

Of course I maybe having some sort of strange drug induced flashback but kinda remember this?

RB

TFA states as much: When someone says Microsoft SQL Server you could think of two things. One is the relational server(sqlservr.exe) that has its origins at Sybase and was re-written by Microsoft to produce Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and later versions.