Recently Amazon rolled out S3 Bucket Policies (see Access Policy Language) to more finely control access to S3 buckets or resources in buckets, than with just ACL’s alone. This was very timely as I had a need arise to use a bucket policy just after it came out. Basically I needed to block access of […]
Month: July 2010
Get Yesterday’s date in MS DOS Batch file
A while back while I was trying to figure out the best way to gather some log files from Amazon S3 buckets and some web servers I run. These resources are currently generating around 10-15GB of uncompressed log files daily. Besides being fairly large in size the S3 (and CloudFront) log files are numerous. Any […]
Legal Guide for Bloggers
Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post. Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don’t want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, […]
Recover From 120 Day Terminal Services Eval Time Bomb in Windows Servers on EC2
I’ve always been frustrated by Windows messages like, “please see your administrator. . .” I AM the administrator, I don’t need to see myself, I need useful information to lead me in the right direction to troubleshoot and correct a problem. Here’s a new one that really frustrated me this week. I have several Amazon […]
WALK NAKED IN AMERICA DAY
As you may already know, it is a sin for a Muslim male to see any woman other than his wife naked, and if he does, he must commit suicide. So next Saturday at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern Time, all American women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help […]