Here are some simple commands to get you started with using Amazon EC2: ec2dim Displays your account’s AMIs that are on Amazon ec2run ami-XXXXXXXX This launches your Amazon EC2 instance. Use your own or one of Amazon’s AMI IDs ec2din Describes your running instances with AMI and instance IDs ec2dvol Lists your account’s volumes and [...]

Webdav is a very handy protocol for writing files back and forth across the internet. I’ve never really had much call for it – but I’m all for it lately as I’m trying out Alfresco and would really love to see a better way to upload files than the basic web-bsaed uploader that is provided. [...]

I’ve set up a WordPress site for a client and have had no end of troubles trying to get the site to behave – however there seems to be a constant problem of WordPress hanging. Looking further into it – I discovered that the feeds in the Dashboard were making the browser and site hang. [...]

Anyone using Facebook will know that it’s quite annoying losing a good chunk of screen real estate to the adverts on the right hand side. Of course, many others think so and there is a nice extension that will block various adverts around the internet including Facebook’s own. Now, I’m not going to get into [...]

Test your ADSL line using the BT test user account Broadband test If you are unable to connect to ADSL using the login details provided by your ISP, then try the alternatives below to test your connection. Here are the login settings to use for your router or modem to connect to the BT test [...]

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