Archive for October, 2010
Using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy
I’ve been meaning to try this out for some time, and my recent trials with Amazon’s US Kindle Store prodded me into action. The theory Popular SSH clients (like OpenSSH and Putty) have features that allow tunneling. Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) normally have some way of being administered over SSH. So… start up an EC2 […]
Filed under: cloud, howto | 18 Comments
Tags: amazon, AMI, ec2, howto, OpenSSH, proxy, Putty, SOCKS, SSH, web
Is zero weight a feature?
As I’ve spent more time with my Kindle I’ve been paying more attention to eBook prices. My conclusion is that zero weight (or perhaps just the novelty of eBooks) is a feature, and one that the supply chain thinks is worth a premium. Pricing Typical pricing for eBooks seems to be the same (or just […]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology | 4 Comments
Tags: amazon, DRM, ebook, grey market, international, kindle, pricing, second hand, used
Identity Providers – the rest
This is my fourth and final post in a series looking at how federated identity has broken into the mainstream (I previously looked at Twitter, Google and Facebook). MyOpenID (JanRain) When I first needed an OpenID identity provider (IDP) this was the service that I was pointed to (thanks @psd). From a security perspective there’s […]
Filed under: blogging, could_do_better, identity | Leave a Comment
Tags: about.me, cardspace, federation, Flickr, google, Gravatar, identity, identity management, idm, information card, JanRain, Live, login, Microsoft, MyOpenID, OpenID, WordPress, WordPress.com, Yahoo!
Social Documents
Document management sucks! There – I said it. I challenge you to prove me wrong. I haven’t yet found a document management system (DMS) that’s fit for purpose, and I think I know why. It’s not about the technology. Documentum might hark from the client server era, and Alfresco trumps that with its SOA, but […]
Filed under: e2.0, security | 4 Comments
Tags: annotation, attribute, bookmark, dms, document, document management system, DRM, e2.0, enterprise 2.0, file, folder, role, search, security, social, social object, tag, tagging, tags
I often find myself having to rename a bunch of media files. This would be easy if it was just a matter of finding ‘foo’ and replacing ‘bar’. Sadly though I regularly have a list of numbered ‘foo’s that I want to be a different numbered ‘bar’s (e.g. foo_04 -> bar_01, foo_05 -> bar_02). Normally […]
Filed under: code, media, software | 7 Comments
Tags: code, decrement, files, increment, media, python, rename, renumber, script, source
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