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No Software Repositories in SuSE Enterprise on EC2

For anyone who knows SuSE Enterprise, you can file this one under “what a n00b!” (my SuSE experience in the past has been with openSUSE), but I recently inherited a project that required RHEL or SuSE Enterprise so they chose to deploy SuSE Enterprise on EC2 to reduce acquisition time. …

Using API Tools on Amazon AMIs

I did a fairly deep dive into some new cool things in EC2 this weekend and ran into something that caught me off guard. The default Amazon AMIs come with the EC2 tools pre-loaded and ready to go. Or so I read. But, when trying to run, I was greeted …

Hands on with Opendedup

After reading about Opendedup on Slashdot this weekend, I decided to try it out to see how well it all really worked. My test server was an install of Ubuntu 9.10 x64. If you happen to be using that stack, the installation isn’t too difficult: Download required files (adding links …

Enabling Flash in Chrome on Ubuntu 10.04

Update: The same steps seem to work on Ubuntu 11.04 as well. Another update (10/24/2011): The same seems to work as well for 11.10. “Virtue” hints that the path may have changed to /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so, but that doesn’t seem to be the case for me. Hello again there, world. I’ve been …

Insecurity by Non-Obscurity

I was a bit shocked and disheartened tonight to discover that my WordPress version was being broadcast to the world without me knowing it. It’s something that I hadn’t ever really given much thought to, mostly because I always assumed that a piece of information like that wasn’t being given …