Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
Amazon has finally launched two features that have prevented its EC2 service from really taking on conventional web hosts: Static IPs (aka Elastic IPs) and “Availability Zones.”
The “Elastic IPs” come with a little “Amazon special sauce” and can be re-assigned to your EC2 instances programatically on the fly. There are some initial limits, currently you [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
I started following the “Can Google Hear Me” when everyone did (it hit digg.com). They’ve finally launched their project BookLamp — and I’m a little bit disappointed — it is essentially “Pandora for books”.
The interesting thing is that they are running their startup in a “choose your own adventure way” soliciting advice from their users [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
I was seriously considering going to PyCon this year — i’ve got a buddy in Chicago that I’ve been meaning to catch up with — I’m really glad I decided to pass this year.
This post from Bruce Eckle is floating around: PyCon disappointment
If the following seems unnecessarily harsh, it was even more harsh [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
Ubuntu Wall of Shame
Apache on Ubuntu leaves a legacy (init.d broken)
trac on 64bit Gusty Broken
Flash on 64bit Ubuntu broken
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Posted on March 9th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
Dana Gardner wrote “JVM adds to Iphones’ seduction of enterprise IT buyers” — My gut feeling is that he is totally wrong. Every JVM port sucks at integrating with its host, and it would be safe to say this port will be no different. Which means that Java APPS on the iPhone will suck, and [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
Think Ubuntu is ready for the enterprise?
FAIL
If Hardy Heron isn’t any better I’m going to go back to Debian w/custom compiled debs for my server needs — though I’ll probably stick with Ubuntu on the Desktop –
Ubuntu Wall of Shame
Apache on Ubuntu leaves a legacy (init.d broken)
trac on 64bit Gusty Broken
Flash [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
Not a good legacy. The default init script (/etc/init.d/apache2) that is put in place when you install apache2 via the usual apt-get doesn’t actually work if your apache instance is listening on more than one port. For example if you’ve enable ssl with a2enmod ssl and are listening on both port 80 for http and [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
Yay, the review I wrote of FreeBSD a few months ago is currently getting some OSNews Love.
For those wondering on the tense, the article was written based off the RC releases and when FreeBSD still had a chance of hitting its December release — which it missed by a wide mark.
Check out the OS News [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
The rumor mill is murmuring that Microsoft will expand into the “Cloud” model currently dominated by Amazon — initially by hosted versions of its office products (Sharepoint…etc) and eventually true cloud infrastructure…?
Rough Type
VentureBeat
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Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
Users accustomed to 32bit Ubuntu systems are used to the seamless “apt-get install trac python-clearsilver” for installing their favorite wiki/defect tracker / source code browser — however the clearsilver component is broken on 64bit systems — and has been for several months. Thus when you browse to your trac setup you get a python stack-trace [...]
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