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How to host WordPress for Free
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Linux on February 14, 2011
If you’re looking to start a blog to promote your business, or boost your presence on the internet, you’ve probably heard of WordPress. You may also have heard about the benefits of hosting your own instance of WordPress, but you’re intimidated by the idea of setting up and maintaining your own server, or trusting your [...]
How to resize billions of images in the cloud
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Linux, php on November 1, 2010
As I was clearing out my RSS reader a few days back, I stopped to read a post on the Flickr dev blog about the “new” 640px image size. In the article they lament that they wished they had made “Large” copies of all uploaded images because it would make generating the new 640px size [...]
RightScriptDiff – Maintain your RightScripts Locally
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Linux on August 2, 2010
If you’re running servers in the cloud, particularly on Amazon’s AWS and haven’t heard about RightScale you owe it to yourself to check them out. I’ve been using their tools for launching and managing linux servers on AWS. They allow you to automate all of the tasks to launch a new box, and even run [...]
Android OS CarPC?
Generally speaking, I don’t actively participate in the weekly #carchat on Twitter, but I do occasionally glean a few points as I watch it stream across my Twitter timeline. Take for instance this week’s #carchat where I saw @banovsky say the following. Now, I’ve built a CarPC and have some familiarity with the topic, and [...]
Crashing at a new pad
If you’re reading this, it means that the DNS records have replicated and Random Musings is now fully hosted on my shiny Linode VPS! I’ve been steadily growing out of my previous hosting solution over on Host My Site. All things being equal they’ve served me very well, but running WordPress started to demand more [...]
My Twitter Client Search – Ended
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Linux, twitter on June 10, 2009
Okay, so as you may already know I’m a big fan of any software solution that does what I need in a portable and platform agnostic way, particularly if it does it “in the cloud“. What you may not know, is that I’m addicted to Twitter and I’ve been going through desktop based Twitter clients [...]
Me and my iPhone
Well, I’m not exactly what you’d call an early adopter, and I’ve only recently rediscovered a place in my heart for Apple based computing devices. That said, there was a lot of internal debate an struggle when it came time for me to upgrade from my Cingular 8525 HTC/Phone/PDA device. Initially, I was convinced that [...]
Uploading to Flickr from Picasa on Linux
Posted by RyanG in Linux, Photography on December 14, 2008
When I performed my search for the perfect photo sharing solution, I fell in love with the Picasa desktop application. I even discovered that there is a linux version. However, as you’d likely expect, it didn’t really play nice as far as uploading photos to any photo sharing site other than Google’s Picasa Web Albums. [...]
Fedora Bash History Meme
I just learned about a Bash History Meme originated at Planet Fedora from a blog I read regularly. In short, you run the following command in bash, and show your results. history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head My results from my home box are as follows; 103 ls [...]
Tools for updating an online image gallery
Not long ago I shared my bash script for creating thumbnails and manageable sized “big” images for an image gallery, or other image store. Well, today I had to update an existing gallery with a pretty significant number of new images. It occurred to me that I’d like to only convert new images rather than [...]
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