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Run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Cluster Compute Instances(aws.typepad.com)
2 points by jeffbarr 16y ago|0 comments
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
James (author of the paper) now works at Amazon!
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EC2 VM Import Connector(aws.typepad.com)
2 points by jeffbarr 16y ago|0 comments
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
> "That's all we know." Not true. They know the sub-domain and the path. Either or both could be used to do something more intelligent.
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
I can't say anything other than that we listen to our customers and that we study usage patterns to drive decisions of this type. Feel free to PM or email me if you have any special needs.
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
That was me!
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Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo(aws.typepad.com)
53 points by jeffbarr 16y ago|16 comments
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AWS CloudFormation - Create Your AWS Stack From a Recipe(aws.typepad.com)
6 points by jeffbarr 16y ago|0 comments
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
Hi Luigi, this is what we call the "zone apex" issue. We're working on it See my Route 53 post at http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/12/amazon-route-53-the-aws-d... from last December when I first mentioned this.
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
You can create multiple AWS accounts and then link them together for billing purposes with the AWS Consolidated Billing feature.
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
Did someone say programming quotes? Here's my collection, many dating back to the 80's and 90's: http://www.jeff-barr.com/~jeff/quotes.txt A few of those are from my kids and from colleagues; most are from Usenet and random mailing lists.
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
> Was he really running the contents of two websites on the EC2 instance? Apparently so, despite the fact that all of the EC2 documentation labels the local disk as "ephemeral."
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
No. The hourly cost (which is still TBD) gives you access to a licensed copy of Oracle. You will be able to acquire an hour of database use if that's all you need.
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
> I must be missing something here. Perhaps -- you will be able to run Oracle on RDS and pay for it by the hour. I think that's a pretty big deal.
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Coming Soon - Oracle Database 11g on Amazon Relational Database Service(aws.typepad.com)
28 points by jeffbarr 16y ago|19 comments
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
Yes, that's me, but with two r's. When I started writing the AWS blog in late 2004 I wasn't sure how personal I should or could be, and didn't know if it was ok to brand it with my full name. I had adopted "-- Jeff;" as my signature a long
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Amazon S3 - Bigger and Busier Than Ever(aws.typepad.com)
44 points by jeffbarr 16y ago|15 comments
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Building Sage (Open Source Math) on Amazon EC2(jeff-barr.com)
1 points by jeffbarr 16y ago|0 comments
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
Indeed it is!
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
Will do!
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
Here's my blog post: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/01/introducing-the-amazon-si... If you like to solve puzzles, be sure to read the PS!
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
I've been starting my day at 5 AM for decades. There's something invigorating about getting a jump on the rest of the people in my time zone (and the time zones to the east as well). This does, unfortunately, mean that "sleeping in" on the
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
I've done my best to not obfuscate my email address. If the situation dictates, I will even post it on Twitter without obfuscating it in any way. I probably do this at least once per week. We have plenty of defined support vehicles, but e
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
Every time I see the original picture my heart skips a beat. I worked with Bob Wallace before he worked at Microsoft. In his too-short life, Bob did a lot of amazing things. In addition to his graduate work at the University of Washington,
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
> the whole "You have a VM but no permanent disk" thing can take some time. Not to sidetrack the discussion, but EC2 has had persistent disk storage since the fall of 2008 ( http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/08/amazon-elastic.html ).
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
I spent about an hour trying to get Imagemagick to produce scaled images that looked as smooth as those produced by Snagit. I tried most of the options described on http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/ . No go. I remember twm, and I o
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
I can definitely afford to buy a better scanner, but I probably scan no more than 5 or 6 pages of stuff per year. I was actually amused that the scanner worked at all.
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Finally, Linux on My Desktop(jeff-barr.com)
83 points by jeffbarr 16y ago|48 comments
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
You are welcome. Will you be applying?
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by jeffbarr 16y ago
I don't have an official turnover figure, but I've been there 8.5 years and counting. As far as working conditions, people show up and they work. We don't have a whole lot of toys or frills at the office. We don't get free food or drinks, b

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