Now everyone can try an Amazon AWS EC2 JumpBox for an hour !

You dont need an Amazon AWS Account, a credit card or even need ElasticFox !

JumpBox will automatically start up an Amazon AMI for you on the cloud and shut it down one hour later !

Try an Amazon EC2 JumpBox with Zenoss for yourself for an hour @ http://www.jumpbox.com/app/zenoss

Just give them your email address your get three URLs:

• Amazon EC2 JumpBox Admin https://ec2-<random-ip-addr&gt;.compute-1.amazonaws.com:3000
• Amazon EC2 JumpBox Zenoss Admin http://ec2-<random-ip-addr&gt;.compute-1.amazonaws.com/jblogin.html
• Amazon EC2 JumpBox Zenoss User http://ec2-<random-ip-addr&gt;.compute-1.amazonaws.com/

Surely this is the future of all software demos for distros, software appliances, virtual machines, etc etc ?

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Amazon DevPay

http://aws.amazon.com/devpay/

Amazon DevPay is a simple-to-use online billing and account management service that makes it easy for businesses to sell applications that are built in, or run on top of, Amazon Web Services. It is designed to make running applications in the cloud and on demand easier for developers.

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Amazon EC2 customers in EU have to pay VAT

http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/estimated-taxes-text.html

Value Added Tax for European Union Customers

Amazon Web Services LLC is currently required to charge value added taxes (VAT) on sales of Amazon Web Services to European Union customers. All VAT collected from customers in the European Union will be paid to the tax authority of the appropriate EU member state.

Test Page for the Apache HTTP Server_1225288755113

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rPath rBuilder Catalogue for Amazon EC2 Cloud

You can now use rPath rBuilder Catalogue to manage your Amazon EC2 Cloud account !

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Sun OpenSolaris (OSAMP) Drupal AMI VM

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1693&categoryID=204

Sun have created a 32-bit AMI based on OpenSolaris 2008.05 (with packages updated to build 91).

Components included within this AMI are Drupal 6.4 (in pre-configured state), Apache 2.2 , PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0.x, Memcached 1.2.5, phpMyAdmin, Dtrace probes and Sample Dtrace scripts.

This AMI is provided by Sun Microsystems and requires registration.

http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/

http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/entry/opensolaris_based_ami_catalog_on

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Amazon EC2 Application Directory

Just discovered the Amazon EC2 Application Directory which includes such gems as:

• g.ho.st (g.ho.st)
• soasta
• everystockphoto
• newrelic
• virtuoso

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More news from rPath that I missed last month

rPath

• SOASTA Leverages rPath’s Technology to Ship Virtual and Hardware Appliances
• rPath Supports Virtual Appliances for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
• rPath Launches New Technology to Accelerate Adoption of Cloud Computing via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

rPath and Amazon EC2 Cloud

• rPath and Amazon news
• rPath and Amazon Wiki
  

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WebMin VirtualMin is a “non-core module” !

So if you wish to update WebMin VirtualMin you must tick the "Update non-core modules as well" checkbox on the WebMin Module Update screen !

PS VirtualMin is now available as a Amazon EC2 AMI.

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Statistically Indistinguishable from Perfect !

Amazon EC2 S3 broke on 20 July 2008

Amazon are proud of our operational performance in operating Amazon S3 for almost 2.5 years, we know that any downtime is unacceptable and we won't be satisfied until performance is statistically indistinguishable from perfect.

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A day in the life of a semantic blogger (aka VOXaholic)

Definitions :

• BLOG = documentation of your life
• SEMANTIC BLOGGER = a blogger who likes to leave a semantically consistent blog footprint

This weekend I set out to rebuild Xen server as an Edubuntu & VMware Server and install rPath SugarCRM, Joomla, AsteriskNOW, Tomcat  & W2K virtual machines. I also needed to install Xubuntu on a couple of IBM ThinkPads.

Installed Edubuntu and discovered that 119M is being used by SchoolTools so put remove instructions on Ubuntu wiki (BLOG#1), discover SchoolTools is missing from Ubuntu wiki (BLOG#2A) and Swik (BLOG#2B).

Fiddle with VMware services then get strange error when trying to start a virtual machine ! Remember I forgot to turn them back on so update VMware forum (BLOG#3).

Download rPath AsteriskNOW and Joomla software appliances. Joomla startup screen up has some great MySql security and MySql benchmarking tips so update fsse.info (BLOG#4) and cross ref back to VOX (BLOG#5). Take some AsteriskNOW screenshots and post to VOX (BLOG#5) and cross ref to voippix.org (BLOG#6)

OpenSolaris fails to boot after moving 2.5" HD from a PIII 256M IBM Thinkpad to one with only 128M. Error message says something about check "$ svcs -xv" ! Maybe that's the Solaris equivalent of Red Hat "$ services" better remember that (BLOG#7)

Decide to replace OpenSolaris with Xubuntu Alternative 6.06.01 which does work on 128M, so download ISO. Forgetton how to burn CDs on Ubuntu so "$ aptitude search burn". What's this "cpuburn" thing ? It sounds like it could be useful in the future ! (BLOG#8)

Read my del.icio.us network RSS feed ! What's this teachers.yahoo.com thing ? (BLOG#9), is there a VOX Teachers group ? Yes ! Join it ! Cross ref Yahoo Teachers to VOX Teachers (BLOG#10)

[The never ending chain of semantic links seems to be infinite]

Education hmmm ! Teachers would like Kalcium wouldn't they ? Kalcium isn't on Swik ! (BLOG#11A), cross ref to VOX (BLOG#11B). Actually Kalcium is also great edutainment ! Is there a VOX Edutainment group ? There is now (BLOG#11C).

[I still maintain that groups == tags]

Xubuntu Alt is now burn't so it's time to attack those two IBM ThinkPads. The IBM BIOS seems to be out of date ! But oh no the BIOS updater is an EXE (at least it's an EXE that creates floppies) ! Can I use WINE (which I've never tried) or do I need to build a W2K virtual machine from scratch (last done over four years ago)

Decide to go the known route and build W2K and then flash the BIOS (BLOG#12) but I'll blog the process so I'll remember in another four years (BLOG#13). There must be some other valid excuses to use W2K ? I can only think of four ! (BLOG#14)

See a del.icio.us link about another user saving £1000's by using Amazon EC2 thats worth a blog (BLOG#15) and maybe a VOX group (BLOG#16)

FINALLY blog this (BLOG#17)

Not bad for a weekends work ! I need a break now !

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