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Amazon Web Services Experiencing Outages

Shane — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:55:16 +0000

My development on a photo sharing site has ground to a halt in the wake of an outage that’s lasted since this morning. Amazon S3 and Simple Queue Service are affected according to the AWS Service Health Dashboard. Sites such as SmugMug are also experiencing an outage as a direct result. The high availability shortcomings of [...]

The Slip Does Not Disappoint

Shane — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:14:15 +0000

The newest album from Nine Inch Nails, “The Slip”, is a fresh downward spiral into the musical mind of Trent Reznor. This album continues a great new trend since Trent has freed himself from the clutches of corporate record companies. Oh and did I mention that the album is offered free from the NIN website?

How to Determine if a Linux machine has a 32 bit or 64 bit kernel

Shane — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:39:38 +0000

Based on the output from the following command you can easily determine if a Linux machine has 32 bit or 64 bit kernel: uname -a If you see something like x86_64, then your running with a 64 bit kernel. If you use see i386/i486/i586/i686 it’s a 32 bit kernel.

Silent Install of JDK and JRE

Shane — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:31:41 +0000

This week I had a requirement for scripting the installation of the Java 5 JDK and JRE. These instructions require separate install files for the JDK and JRE but will get the job done. For the JDK, you can place the following in a *.bat file and simply run it from command line: @echo off echo Installing [...]

Stupid Windows Tricks from the command line

Shane — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:20:35 +0000

Change the Log on credentials for a windows service: sc.exe config "YourServiceName" obj= "yourusername" password= "yourpassword" Bring up services: services.msc Copy a directory structure: xcopy G:\foo\*.* D:\bin\bar /E /D /Y Copy a directory structure and exclude one or more files/directories: xcopy \\nyceqasp8081\apps\polyent\*.* D:\apps\bar\ /E /D /Y /EXCLUDE:excludefile.txt where excludefile.txt is a file containing one or more path exclusions for example D:\apps\bar\logs Set environment variables: setx [...]

How to migrate a Subversion repository in 4 steps

Shane — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:13:31 +0000

sudo svnadmin dump /path/to/svn-repository > svn-repository.dmp gzip svn-repository.dmp move svn-repository.dmp.gz to your new server log in to your new server, then sudo svnadmin load svn-repository

Take the Red Pill: Share As Much Information As You Can

Shane — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:51:55 +0000

Marissa Mayer gives some insight into how Google flourishes with innovation in a Forbes article. Number five caught my eye: 5. SHARE AS MUCH INFORMATION AS YOU CAN “People are blown away by the information you can get on MOMA, our intranet. Because there is so much information shared across the company, employees have insight into what’s [...]

Ghosts I-IV: New 36 Track Nine Inch Nails Album!

Shane — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:46:26 +0000

I’m totally stoked that NIN has another album out called Ghosts I-IV. Don’t worry. Even though it has 36 (count ‘em!), it’s only five bucks available from nin.com or amazon. I haven’t actually listened to it yet but apparently Trent is branching out since he is free from evil record companies. From what I’ve read [...]

Remove .svn Or Any Other Hidden Folders in OS X

Shane — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:55:25 +0000

Finder in OS X seems to be retarded at finding hidden files and folders. In my case, I wanted to recursively remove all .svn folders from a directory. To do this, it's command line to the rescue: PLAIN TEXT rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Paul Graham’s Design Philosophy

Shane — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:28:55 +0000

I read Paul Graham off and on and find most of what he writes about interesting even if I don't agree with all of what he has to say. His latest essay, "Six Principles for Making New Things", is one that seems to echo a lot of what's been said before about solving problems with [...]

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