I’ve been reading the buzz about Amazon’s EC2 technology for a while, and have finally gotten an opportunity to work with it. Basically, I am using virtual machines as test boxes/clusters for a new product release.
So far I am impressed by rich ecosystem that has evolved around EC2, including many machine images and [...]
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Playing with EC2
Installing Ruby on Ubuntu Hardy
The great thing about Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives is the apt package system. Most of the time apt makes installing, deleting, or updating software trivially easy. In rare cases, appropriate apt packages are not available, or the packages are not quite correct. I ran into one of those cases trying to install Ruby [...]
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