Monthly Archives: February 2008

Amazon EC2 ruby gem and large user_data

February 26, 2008 – 11:05 am

When you create an instance in EC2 you can send Amazon some user data that is accessible by your instance. At Vquence we use this to send a script that gets executes at boot up. This script contains some openvpn and puppet RSA keys so its approaching about 10k in size. This works without any [...]

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EC2UI extension for Firefox 3

February 25, 2008 – 11:47 am

I’ve been doing some work with Amazon EC2 the last few days. An invaluable tool is the EC2UI firefox extension that Amazon have written. This provides you with a simple GUI inside the firefox chrome which makes it really easy to manipulate your EC2 instances. A few weeks ago Hardy moved to using firefox 3. [...]

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Vim and spell checking

February 8, 2008 – 11:48 am

I just discovered Vim has spell checking. No more having to manually spell check in mutt with ispell when writing emails, Hurray!! In your .vimrc file simply add setlocal spell spelllang=en_au Note: By default vim only installs en_us spell files. If you are running debian then there is a vim-spellfiles package. There is an ubuntu [...]

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