When working on a medium size EC2 instance, running Debian 6, I ran out of free space. The root partition had fully grown into its 1GB EBS volume. 1GB was a default setting and I should have changed this before I started working. You can use “df -h” to check how much free disk space [...]
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Remove terrible newspapers from news.google.com
I use news.google.com to quickly check the headlines. Some news corps get in the way with their lies and pseudo-facts. Follow these steps for minimal waft: Click the pencil at the top right (Personalize your news) Scroll down to ‘Adjust Sources’ and move the slider(s)
Amazon makes Infrastructure as a Service easy
The term “Cloud Computing” was invented by a marketing executive. I think its the most over-hyped trend in computing ever. Vineet Nayar called it BS. First where is “the cloud”? Thats not like asking “where is the internet?”. The cloud is the network of data centers owned by companies like Google, Amazon and IBM. Like [...]
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