Ben, Jason, Dave talk about the new Ubuntu Feisty and Fawn, Rails Performance, 5 Billion Files on Amazon S3, Statsaholic and Amazon.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
This week’s music: Jon Brion (from a Chicago Public Radio appearance on Sound Opinions, Show #32).
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Feisty Fawn. There is no “and”.
Jared: It was a joke. Punchline within.
I wonder if you could provide transcripts for these podcasts?
@Sebastian: we’ll post them if someone makes them.
For anyone wondering, the numbers in the Ubuntu releases are dates. So Feisty is 7 (2007) 4 (April). You can look for the next release to be 7.10, as it will be released in October.
Wow, youall weren’t kidding…now that it’s been pointed out, all I can hear is Ben starting an answer, and he manages to get out “Well, it could be…” or “If you consider…” and, um, that’s about all.
You might be interested in this Economist article on the growth of non-smut traffic. Good to see that myspace and facebook stop people from going blind.
Thanks for the effort, guys. Join others with similar goals here.
I’ve always thought S3 was an internal gambit. Amazon can lose money on it, because it puts pressure on their provisioning/IT guys to get costs down.
If they can’t sell if for $X and make money, then some other aspect of their business plan may be having trouble. Think of it like a hard target, or a really good reason to fire someone who’s not performing.
Amazon must spend a lot more on their own hosting, than they lose on S3. If they sink 6 months of loss into S3, but figure out how to pull back into the black, it’s probably worth it for them in the big picture.