Yesterday while I was doing some performance testing on Amazon EBS (elastic block storage) volumes attached to a Windows AMI (Amazon machine instance) I ran into an unanticipated issue – the maximum number of drives associated with an EC2 Windows server was lower than I expected. The max connected drives is 12 – this includes […]
Month: March 2010
Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2
I’ve been using ElasticFox for a while now and thought I’d jot down a few notes about it. I don’t use it exclusively to manage my Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances, EBS volumes, etc., but usually I do go there first. It’s worth mentioning that I also use the AWS Management Console and EC2 […]
Ping Amazon EC2 Server Instances – How To
By default Amazon EC2 instances don’t respond to ICMP requests, i.e. ping. Of course there are several reasons why one may want to ping an Amazon EC2 instance, including verifying if it is online and to test latency. As with most things there is more than one approach to this issue. First, you could enable […]
Amazon S3 Command Line Utilities for Windows
I’ve searched high and low for a good all around command line utility to interact with Amazon S3 buckets from Windows. While I’m still searching for just the right utility for me here are a few which I use from time-to-time. Why use more than one, you ask? Well, since I haven’t found just […]
5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Apple
Robert Evans over at cracked.com wrote this great article about the force known as Apple, led of course by Steve Jobs. Evans reminds us of their over-the-top quest to keep everything Apple top secret until Mr. Jobs is ready to sit in a comfy chair in his jeans and turtle neck to reveal the next […]
OpenSSH for Windows
OpenSSH for Windows is a free package that installs a minimal OpenSSH server and client utilities in the Cygwin package without needing the full Cygwin installation. The OpenSSH for Windows package provides full SSH/SCP/SFTP support. SSH terminal support provides a familiar Windows Command prompt, while retaining Unix/Cygwin-style paths for SCP and SFTP. Find more information […]
Windows Update error 80072efd on Windows 7
For a couple months now I haven’t been able to update my precious Windows 7. I would get a message that the updates failed with, “Windows Update error 80072efd.” I tried all the steps from the Windows Help and Support window (running the Windows Update troubleshooter and adding the Windows Update websites to the Windows […]
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