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[BrowneIssue]

Not good. Pain in abundance this afternoon.
I picked up a box full of books using one arm (obviously) and it slipped. I automatically put my bad hand underneath to stop it falling.


Bad Bad move

Presumably, you get enough grief at home when that sort of thing happens.

It is good you are the sort of person who is forever busy. Unlike me - a bone idle ratbag.

It is a shame that you cannot rest and get better. It's the way you're made, I suppose.

But, please, do try and look after yourself.

[BrowneIssue]

My Firefox crashed in mid-drivel.

Most odd.

Still, in the grand scheme of things - very trivial and quite, quite painless.

[Diver]

Presumably, you get enough grief at home when that sort of thing happens.

It is good you are the sort of person who is forever busy. Unlike me - a bone idle ratbag.

It is a shame that you cannot rest and get better. It's the way you're made, I suppose.

But, please, do try and look after yourself.

My wife is convinced that I do these things to get out of doing work

[Diver]

My Firefox crashed in mid-drivel.

Most odd.

Still, in the grand scheme of things - very trivial and quite, quite painless.

What is even stranger, is that when I posted just now, I noticed the spellcheck wasn't working. Then I realised that I was in IE and not Firefox
I didn't even realise I still had IE on the system

[zeitghost]

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud: it allows you to create servers (which are actually virtual machines) running on Amazon's network. You can create your machine image, or customise an existing one, and then fire up as many instances of it as you want.

So if, for example, you have a complex task which would benefit from having a cluster of sixty specially-configured servers thrown at it, you just create your customised image, and fire up sixty copies of it. When they're done, you shut them down, and you only pay for the actual machine time you used.

It also means you can automatically scale against unusual loading: if you're running a web server and it starts getting hammered, just fire up a few more instances and load-balance across them. As and when the demand (slashdotting or whatever) dies down, shut down the extra ones. Thus you can scale to any level of demand, without having to do something silly like build your own datacenter

Example charges:

$0.10/hour - Small Instance (Default)

1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform

$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in

$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB

Data transfer "in" and "out" refers to transfer into and out of Amazon EC2.

I've now come to the conclusion that I can't understand any of this crap any more... and what's more, I no longer care.

[zeitghost]

Hey boys

That 2UK gimp seriously makes my blood boil.....

You are not that girl, are you?

He should be so lucky...

[zeitghost]

H! Bye!

How's the cat, BTW?

Still with us...

Thanks for asking...

[zeitghost]

That has been the way of things here for some time.

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Merely for completeness

[zeitghost]

Muggins does the drivelling, OtherBod gets the palinilap.

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Merely for completeness

[Diver]

Ratty