When Brains Fly

I now have an instance running using a 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid build with EBS boot from the folks at Alestic.
Note to self: just stop, don’t terminate the instance. You cannot restart a terminated instance.
I installed lots of useful stuff, including the ubuntu-desktop, which I only wanted to have so that I can test VNC, [...]

Signing up for Amazon EC2 now for an inexpensive VPS-like solution, where I can tinker with a live web server for which I have root access and can install and configure whatever I want. I also considered Rackspace Cloud Servers, but though they may be a bit faster, they’re a bit more pricey for my [...]

I finally have an HTML5 WebSockets example up and running! Yes! Only took me an hour of trying various tutorials before stumbling upon one that works for my Windows/Cygwin setup and is easy to configure. Thank you, Pedro @ http://diffract.me/2009/12/websockets-tutorialexample-with-pywebsocket/.
In other news, I am spending my summer in the always either too chilly or too [...]