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The following recipe should work for any OS. Download and install VirtualBox Download OpenSolaris image Start VM If you want to try an other image than OpenSolaris, you can find many others images (CentOS, FreeBSD, etc) here:
Found this nice post on good commands to know appart from the obvious top Basically they are top and vm_stat 5
Assuming that the EC2 tools have been installed like described in a previous post, opening and closing ports is done with the ec2-authorize and ec2-revoke commands respectively. These commands work on security groups rather than on instances. Recall that a…
I’m using Mac OS X and running instances in the EU West Region. My instances are of the Amazon Linux AMI. Installing the EC2 command line tools Having command-line tools installed is a supplement to the AWS management console found…
It’s a simple question Can you search for images by sketching a similar image? I went looking online for a search engine that had implemented this feature, which I’ll call image-search-by-sketching. Update: Since I wrote this piece, GaZoPa no longer…
This is a post in my technology archaeology series. What is search by sketching? The idea is to search for images by drawing a sketch that roughly resembles what you are looking for. The sketch is your query. This idea…
See below for commands using the Fusion Tables API. Example table is the oldschool message wall public table. Note that examples are shown first without the required url-encoding. Authenticating: Getting the auth token To authenticate you may use the following…
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