Month: December 2011
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The Power of Making at the V&A
Yesterday I went to the Power of Making exhibition at the V&A. It is an exhibition of crafted objects that range from Swarovski crystal bicycles to replacement human noses. My older (12, 16) children enjoyed it and my youngest (8) tolerated it. Favourite objects: Me: 3D printer for making small objects from plastic Elaine (my…
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Creating data-driven graphs
I have a need to programmatically create flowcharts and organisational charts for use with an WordPress or Wiki site. This sort of diagram is called a “graph” (not be confused with “charts” in this context). Graph software falls into the scientific or commercial category. Good scientific packages include JUNG, Prefuse, Piccolo2D. These are optimised for…
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EC2 reserved instances for baseload
Amazon recently announced new options for their EC2 reserved instances. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/?ref_=pe_8050_22086710 With this product you pay a small amount up-front for a reserved instance and in exchange Amazon will lower your hourly rate. The more you pay the lower the hourly rate. Keyapt SMS have a server that runs continuously. Therefore we should look a…
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EC2 does maintenance reboots
I got an interesting mail from AWS today. One or more of your Amazon EC2 instances have been scheduled for a reboot in order to receive some patch updates. Most reboots complete within minutes, depending on your instance configuration. The instance(s) that will be rebooted and your scheduled reboot time(s) are listed below… If you…
Dr James Bayley 