Category Archives: server
OS X Tip: Show Full Paths in Finder Windows
Type this in a terminal then restart the Finder. defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Windows 7 Beta
Can they really fix Vista? Just installed the Windows 7 Beta from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx Windows 7 is… the next release of the Windows client operating system, built on the secure foundation of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Performance, reliability, security, and compatibility are core tenets of this release as we collect your feedback to [...]
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Finally! A quick, easy persistent storage for our EC2 instances… We are pleased to announce the release of a significant new Amazon EC2 feature, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), which provides persistent storage for your Amazon EC2 instances. With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can be programmatically created, attached to Amazon EC2 instances, and if even [...]
Another Reason I hate ie6
I recently had a ie6 that only broke when using digest authentication, all other browsers worked fine. Hence, yet another ie6 specific hack… From Apache: The Digest authentication implementation in previous Internet Explorer for Windows versions (5 and 6) had issues, namely that GET requests with a query string were not RFC compliant. There are [...]
s3 backup + mySql dump
These two open source scripts are very useful when combined with cron: s3 Tools : http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/ OpenSource tools to access Amazon S3 file storage. s3cmd – unix-like tools to manipulate stored files from the command line, s3fuse – driver to mount the S3 storage locally. and automysqlbackup : http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ A script to take daily, weekly [...]
EC2 Persistent Storage
This is the main issue I currently have with Amazon’s EC2: the lack of persistent storage. However, according to this press release, “This new feature provides reliable, persistent storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These volumes exist independently from any Amazon EC2 instances, and will behave like raw, unformatted hard drives or block [...]
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
I’m currently evaluating this service, after using some of the other amazon services such as s3, this looks super sexy in a techy way. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2′s simple [...]