http://www.zjs.name/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:53:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday Amazon added a High-Memory section of EC2 instances, which included a "Quadruple Extra Large" size. According to the EC2 website, a Quadruple Extra Large instance has "68.4 GB of memory, 26 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit ... http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/10/28/amazon-quadruple-extra-large-high-memory-instances/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amazon-quadruple-extra-large-high-memory-instances For some reason, I decided that I wanted a simple, easy url shortener for personal use. I spent 5 minutes installing lilurl and another 5 minutes hacking in a simple password field (so that only I and people I know can use it). The hack: 17a18,20 > // Password > define('MD5_PASS', '5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99'); > diff -r ... http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/09/11/lilurl/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lilurl I'm not sure where I originally got the idea, but at one point I decided it would be a good idea to compile a list of my profiles, accounts, and other web pages related to me. Since then, I've been slowly compiling a list of accounts. This is both for my ... http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/08/04/me/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=me This summer, I returned to the vCloud team at VMware in Cambridge. I've been living in Central Square above Toscanini's and commuting to Kendall Square on foot, by bike, or, in bad weather, by taking the T. I've had a few recurring events for fun; Pandemonium Books and Games organizes Saturday ... http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/08/04/my-summer/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-summer There are a few things from this summer I'd like to post about, so I'll probably be making a few posts over the next few days. I'm not sure how long the enthusiasm will last, but I'll try to use it productively. http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/08/04/back-from-another-blogging-hiatus/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-from-another-blogging-hiatus After seeing a program that had colored and styled (bold) output, I decided to look into it. There isn't a lot of information available, so I'm not sure how widely supported it is. It seems to be compatible with gnome-terminal in a few versions of Ubuntu, but I'm not sure ... http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/04/21/styled-output-unix/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=styled-output-unix I worked on a few projects this semester. Regrettably, most of my time was spent discussing rather than doing. Information about each can be found elsewhere (and in other posts, of course). Subversion Benchvm Docs Production Server Setup (link n/a) http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/04/15/semester-wrap-up-projects-3/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=semester-wrap-up-projects-3 There weren't many presentations given this semester, but I did give on version control using subversion (based on the subversion book) the materials are on docs (pdf). http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/04/15/semester-wrap-up-presentations-2/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=semester-wrap-up-presentations-2 At this evenings lab admin meeting there was a presentations inline with what we were currently working on. Jim Owens presented some ideas in the form of a set of proposals for the ways we manage the lab. The summary of the discussion was that we're already consolidating in a ... http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/04/15/production-server-setup-again/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=production-server-setup-again Docs is still running smoothly; it only had a brief bit of downtime (early morning one day) other than general downtime for power outages and such. The downtime was linked to an error with the sendmail package that was installed causing many, many processes to be spawned (and woken up every ... http://www.zjs.name/blog/2009/04/15/docs-status-update-2/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=docs-status-update-2