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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 meet our engineering goals of making Windows 7 the best-performing and most stable Windows operating system to date. New innovations in the product are designed to augment your ability as an IT professional to better provision and manage increasingly mobile PCs, protect data, and improve both end-user and personal productivity.

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 more durability is desired, can be backed with a snapshot to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Prior to Amazon EBS, block storage within an Amazon EC2 instance was tied to the instance itself so that when the instance was terminated, the data within the instance was lost. Now with Amazon EBS, users can chose to allocate storage volumes that persist reliably and independently from Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes can be created in any size between 1 GB and 1 TB, and multiple volumes can be attached to a single instance. Additionally, for even more durable backups and an easy way to create new volumes, Amazon EBS provides the ability to create point-in-time, consistent snapshots of volumes that are then stored to Amazon S3.

Amazon EBS is well suited for databases, as well as many other applications that require running a file system or access to raw block-level storage. As Amazon EC2 instances are started and stopped, the information saved in your database or application is preserved in much the same way it is with traditional physical servers. Amazon EBS can be accessed through the latest Amazon EC2 APIs, and is now available in public beta.

For more information on Amazon EBS and detail on how to start using this feature, please see the resources listed below:

• Amazon EC2 Detail Page and Pricing
• Amazon EC2 Developers Guide
• Release Notes

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 a few ways to work around this issue.

The first way is to use POST requests instead of GET requests to pass data to your program. This method is the simplest approach if your application can work with this limitation.

Since version 2.0.51 Apache also provides a workaround in the AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack environment variable. If AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack is set for the request, Apache will take steps to work around the MSIE bug and remove the query string from the digest comparison. Using this method would look similar to the following.

This workaround is not necessary for MSIE 7, though enabling it does not cause any compatibility issues or significant overhead.

See the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_setenvif.html#browsermatch">BrowserMatch</a> directive for more details on conditionally setting environment variables

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 and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. Features – Backup mutiple databases – Single backup file or to a seperate file for each DB – Compress backup files – Backup remote servers

“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 devices, which may then be formatted and configured based on the needs of your application. The volumes will be significantly more durable than the local disks within an Amazon EC2 instance. Additionally, our persistent storage feature will enable you to automatically create snapshots of your volumes and back them up to Amazon S3 for even greater reliability.”

Here’s the thread

Heck, create a drupal site on EC2 with a single line: ec2-run-instances ami-4c7b9e25 -k gsg-keypair

and for us Mac OSX users, here’s a getting started on ec2

Amazon’s Getting Started Guide