February 1, 2010 – 1:12 pm
I set up an amazon ec2 instance this weekend and as I knew I’d bedoing it again I noted the steps performed. Hopefully they’ll be of use to someone.
Firstly you need to set up an EC2 account. I’d also recommend downloading ElasticFox(XPIinstaller) which makes it easier to manages instances, volumes andelastic IPs. Also install the [...]
January 12, 2010 – 2:30 pm
I’m not our server admin here at Ticket-Text but the whole issue of project dependency management and deployment does interest me. As such I’ve been looking at ways to help and have compiled the following list of what I have found most useful. I admit I have not read all of these yet but Fabric [...]
January 6, 2010 – 10:40 am
I use VirtualBox OSE for my virtual machines and really love it. I tried to change to the non-free VirtualBox (so I could use USB) but moving from one to the other in Ubuntu was not a simple process and eventually I rolled back (thank Christ for CloneZilla).
I’ve got a Win XP virtual machine with [...]
October 14, 2008 – 9:54 pm
I’ve signed up for a masters in UCD (Advanced Software Engineering in University College Dublin) starting in December. I’m really looking forward to it and as a treat I bought a new (used) laptop that’ll be just for Uni work. It’s an IBM Thinkpad T43 (Centrino 1.7Ghz and 1GB ram with 40GB HD, Wifi, Bluetooth, [...]
January 24, 2008 – 11:29 am
Overall – I’m really impressed.
Pros
It’s tiny – meaning very portable
It’s light – under one kilo
It’s fast – Celeron 900MHz with 512MB Ram
It runs Linux – Xandros with a very fast window manager by default
Battery life is good considering the size (3-4 hours)
It’s cheap as hell – I paid about 300Euro
It’s got Wifi and webcam – [...]
January 4, 2007 – 12:04 pm
As it’s new year and my motivation is at an all time low, I think a list of TODOs (or new years resultions) is needed. Some of those listed are techy and some are not but all of them are aimed at improving my life.
I will
Finish the new design of this site – [...]
November 4, 2006 – 8:47 pm
I was very interested in going to Linux World this year. There were quite a few speakers and presentations I thought would be very interesting. I had hinted to my boss that I wanted to go but as we are currently a microsoft house, it was not really going to happen.
I figured I could do [...]
November 4, 2006 – 8:46 pm
instLux, installing linux on a machine with no cd or floppy drive
I was very bored of my toshiba libretto L5 as WinXP was getting crazy slow on it so I never bothered to use it. I wanted to put Ubuntu on it but the live cd or the install would not recognise the PCMCIA cd [...]
September 27, 2006 – 10:13 pm
Well, I received my server today. Quite surprisingly the packaging was a bit poor, with only bubble wrap wrapped around it. The RAID controller and PCI adaptor were loose inside. After some fretting I eventually got it running and booting into the installed Mandriva. I then started to install Ubuntu which would but install due [...]
