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Installing Riak on ec2

Riak is something like memcached, a data store, key value db. I’m not a programmer so don’t realy know the differance between these two and never used it for anything but I was asked to installl it on ec2 and as getting it running on local interface was simple the public interface caused some troubles. And this time google didn’t help. Read more »

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ImageMagick & RMagick

ImageMagick lenny package sucks. Espacially if You want RMagick gem on the box. Here is how to get it working: Read more »

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Puppet installation on Debian Lenny

Here is the easiest way of getting latest puppet installed on Lenny when you start from scratch: Read more »

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Ruby and RubyGems on Debian Lenny – Script

As far as I love Debian, Ruby and RubyGems packages are not the best thing in it, so here is a script that will install Ruby and RubyGems for you: Read more »

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Auto association of ec2 elastic IPs on instance launch

What a pain is to have to associate elastic IPs when launching Amazon AWS ec2 instances. Think about 15-20 machines which need static (elastic) ip. I solved this problem with a bit of Perl code: Read more »

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