Hey, It's Getting a Little Warmer in Here!

Thanks to Stephen Meier, who drove the fundraising thermometer over in the sidebar up from $0 to $25 earlier today. The Garrison Center is rolling. Will you put a little gas in the tank?

Interesting ...

I'm definitely a fan of having most of my stuff in the cloud -- going on three years as a Chromebook/Chromebox user now and I'm very satisfied.

Paperspace proposes to take that whole idea even further. A whole, fast, constantly upgrade/updated computer (not just a web browser), running entirely in the cloud (presumably as a virtual machine on some ginormous mainframe), that you can access either via the web from your own old, slow machine (all the actual computing is at the other end -- your machine would just handle input/output and receive video) or using a little hockey-puck-looking thing called the Paperweight.



The Paperweight will cost $50. The service will start at $10 a month. I'm given to understand that the OS options are Windows and Linux.
I may have to check it out.

Thanks for Asking! Thursday

Yeah, I forgot to put it up on Wednesday, but better late than never. This AMA thread, like the weekly KN@PP Stir Podcast, is brought to you by Darryl W. Perry:


If you're new around KN@PPSTER, here's how it works:

• Ask me anything, in the comment thread below this post.
• I'll answer it in the comment thread, on this weekend's podcast, or both.

Pretty simple, isn't it? Ask away! It doesn't have to be about politics. It could be about pretty much anything. Like ...