Can anyone of you leet hax0rs hack up a Perl program that can parse an Amazon book page and notify me when a used book is less than a certain amount? I could run it through the Windows scheduler to check every 5 minutes and it would help a lot.I get paid to do [...]
Apple has come under fire for failing to patch the critical Domain Name System (DNS) flaw which prompted a (rest of) industry wide response earlier this month.
For anyone just back from a trip up the Amazon, the discovery of a domain spoofing by security researcher Dan Kaminsky sparked a massive patching effort [...]
I am really, really impressed with Amazon EC2/S3/Queue/SimpleDB. There have been a few issues of downtime lately, but basically I’ve written a web application using Perl/Catalyst/MySQL/Ubuntu (and sometimes Solaris) that needs to sale to 100K hits an hour or so, but will remain idle most of the time. In other words it needs [...]
I wanted to pull up a new Ubuntu server. Normally that takes a few hours. I have to download a new CD image, install manually on a machine.
Not today. Today I typed:
ec2-run-instances ami-179e7a7e -k gsg-keypair
BAM. Ubuntu 8.04 image is up, and mine, and $0.10 an hour.
I feel like I just hit the crack pipe this [...]
