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The Best Links that were later deleted, 8/11/2008

11-Aug-08

So I returned from a little five-day weekend to sunny Lake Chelan and the Columbia River to an RSS reader bursting at the seams with new posts. By far the best post was one later deleted:

Amazon Elastic Block Store goes live! (Yeah, that link’s dead - like I said, it was later deleted.) [...]

No Luck with a Quick-n-Dirty BFU of SXCE 79 on EC2

25-Jun-08

For grins, I tried a quick-and-dirty BFU of a SXCE 79 instance running on EC2 to the latest nightly build this morning. I roughly followed Ben Rockwood’s BFU instructions and didn’t do anything to resolve conflicts beyond running acr. On reboot, it looks like the system panicked - I presume the reason is [...]

Capacity limit on OpenSolaris 2008.05 AMI

04-Jun-08

I missed this: Apparently the OpenSolaris 2008.05 AMI on EC2 has reached a capacity limit. So, while I got Sun’s approval this morning for their OpenSolaris/SXCE.79 on EC2 beta, I don’t get to use OpenSolaris until they add more capacity; SXCE.79 is a nice consolation prize, though.

OpenSolaris and EC2: Control Issues, Anyone?

01-Jun-08

Generally, I’m a fan of Sun Microsystems. For the most part, I like their hardware and their software - and their best products show real innovation and willingness to take risks. I’m also a fan of Amazon’s EC2 product, so the announcement that Sun would be officially bundling OpenSolaris for EC2 was great [...]