Tag Archives: amazon

dialup ghost towns and amazon ec2

August 31, 2006 – 11:37 pm

Most BBS enthusiasts know that the last outpost for BBSes has been, for some time now, through telnet on the Internet. There was a time, however, when when dial-up BBSes over analog phone lines were the rule, not the exception.Source: VintageComputing.com | Vintage Computing and Gaming » Blog Archive » The Dial-Up BBS Revisited Reading this [...]

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Amazon EC2 emerges

August 24, 2006 – 8:58 am

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables “compute” in the cloud.Source: Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / [...]

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no amazon iframes for me

August 18, 2006 – 1:22 am

So here’s a problem that’s cropped up for me lately. I think it came with the upgrade to WP 2.0. I’m trying to include some Amazon-provided iframes in the sidebar for continue book pimping, which worked fine with my WP 1.5 installation. But now, for some reason, the iframes are always forced [...]

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