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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 […]
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Tags: amazon, AMI, ec2, howto, OpenSSH, proxy, Putty, SOCKS, SSH, web
When I registered thestateofme.com some years back it was for a project to allow synchronisation of RSS aggregator/reader state across a number of systems. I never wrote any code because things got overtaken by events. Firstly I discovered RSS Bandit, which had a mechanism to sync state via a WebDAV server (and a number of […]
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Tags: audiobook, bookmark, cloud, ebook, media, player, reader, state, sync, synchronisation, video
SaaS tax trouble
In the last few weeks I’ve had snags with both Skype and Google over billing. I could take this personally – thinking that my bad teclo karma (which must run in the family) is now turning into bad SaaS karma? I suspect though that the problems are much more widespread. Skype I’ve had a Skype […]
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Tags: billing, cloud, gapps, google, saas, skype, tax, VAT
Mowing the Cloud
I had a good chat with JP yesterday, and one aspect of that chat related to cloud computing. This got us talking about the disconnect between goods and services. Goods have become very cheap (relative to services), and I have a couple of favourite examples. The first is bicycles. A decent kids bike has been […]
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Tags: cloud, economics, goods, services
Not Only SQL
No, or Not Only One of the most sensible things to emerge for the recent no:sql(eu) event (which sadly I didn’t attend) was a statement that NOSQL should be expanded to Not Only SQL rather than No SQL. This is an interesting development, as there’s been lots of good stuff going on in the NOSQL […]
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Tags: cloud, database, dba, iaas, nosql, paas, rdbms, sql, storage
Dear Mr Soames, As the Digital Economy Bill leaves the Lords and heads to the Commons I’m writing to you in the hope that you can help stop (or fix) this damaging piece of legislation. Much ink has already been spilled on the issues around ‘piracy’ of media content such as music, videos, games and […]
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Tags: debill, digital economy bill, saas
Digital Economy Bill vs SaaS
This evening I was supposed to be doing a lightening talk on PaaS at London CloudCamp, which would cover the stuff that I did over Christmas and New Year. Hopefully I’ll get to do that another day, as right now I feel obliged to speak out about an amendment that’s been introduced to the Digital […]
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Tags: acta, cloud, cloudcamp, debill, digital economy bill, iaas, saas
GDrive
I’ve been a keen user of Gmail since its earliest days, and I also use Google Apps at work, so I’m not surprised by the excitement around the launch of what people are calling ‘GDrive’, which is actually just a new feature of Google Docs that allows arbitrary files to be shared. What is a […]
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Tags: aws, bittorrent, cloud, gapps, gmail, google, s3, SMEstorage, storage
Getting out of the weeds
After some reflection on my recent series of posts about Paremus ServiceFabric on EC2 I realise that I never provided a high level commentary on what each of the moving parts does, and why they’re important. Paremus ServiceFabric – this is a distributed OSGi runtime framework. The point is that you can package an application […]
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Tags: aws, cohesiveft, ec2, elastic server, nimble, osgi, paas, paremus, sca, servicefabric, vpn, vpn cubed
I spent a couple of hours tinkering with this over the holidays, but mostly put it down and got on with eating, drinking and being merry. The first breakthrough was that ContextCubed just worked once I had the right Ruby Gems installed (and in fact day 5 had got me to within one line of […]
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Tags: aws, cohesiveft, ec2, elastic server, nimble, osgi, paas, paremus, sca, servicefabric, vpn, vpn cubed
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