Category Archives: Cloud

BotQueue, cloud support for 3D printing

HAHAHA Oh wait the article is serious.  The goal is to send a “print job” to the cloud that would distribute it to the right printers.  Gee this sounds familiar… http://hackaday.com/2013/03/13/cloud-support-for-fleets-of-3d-printers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

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Netflix doing another developer award contest(s)

This time it for many (20 I think) small things and the awards are around 10G’s each.  Most of the work it oriented towards Amazon cloud.  This could be a good summer project for a budding developer.  Or one that … Continue reading

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Secure the Cloud with an Arduino

This is cool.  The author uses an arduino to basically keep the private keys for his AWS servers and do the signing to log in.  If I read this correctly that is.  In other words, it working like a smartcard … Continue reading

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How to add in a VPN in Windows 7

Yes yes I know Windows 8 is out.  I had to help our a friend recently with connecting to a VPN with Windows 7, and found this nice tutorial on doing it (Windows 7 has VPN software built in, so … Continue reading

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Amazon AWS anounces OpsWorks

This is interesting since it sounds like OpsWorks would eliminate some of the need for tools like chef and puppet to configure new instances (vm machines) in your cloud.  It sounds like it can take chef recipes and just use … Continue reading

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Why you have to be careful of the cloud

Interesting article in which a cloud provider did a slight pricing change, and one company racked up allot of bills from it.  This reminds me of some of the stunts phone companies used to (and sometimes still do) with customers … Continue reading

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Xerox adds in Document Cloud Services, ConnectKey

What I find very amusing is most of the building blocks for this already exist from Google.  Just not in a pretty bow that Xerox put around it.  It will be interesting to see how well adopted (and how much … Continue reading

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Netflix going to opensource it cloud tools?

Netflix announces its going to opensource some of its cloud management tools.  Netflix uses Amazon’s AWS cloud services and apparently has built up allot of tools around it.  It will be interesting to see what becomes of this in the … Continue reading

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Command Line Interface to AWS

Don’t like going thru AWS’s web interface, well there is a command line interface you can download from github, called CLI, that will do the job. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/24/aws_command_line/  

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Microsoft reduces GPS chip power consumption with the cloud

I love to watch the batter on my phone go down when I turn on GPS.  MS apparently has figured out a way to reduce this power consumption by off-loading some of the work into the “cloud”.  This confuses me, … Continue reading

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