[lug] BLUG's First AWS Installfest-in-the-Cloud

Mon Feb 7 17:43:14 MST 2011

David,

I want to know how to do this.  It's an absolutely awesome demo.  Can you
give me detailed instructions?

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:10 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>wrote:

> I had fun, too.
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> Three words: free Minecraft server
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> Thank you, Jeff Haemer and Amazon.
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> David L. Willson
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> From: "jeffrey haemer" <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List" <
> lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Cc: "Clint Rubottom" <crubotto at teksystems.com>, "Tom Preston-Werner" <
> tom at github.com>, "Jeff Barr" <jbarr at amazon.com>, "Mark Sallee" <
> msallee at ucar.edu>, "Patrick Homans" <phomans at teksystems.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 5, 2011 5:06:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [lug] BLUG's First AWS Installfest-in-the-Cloud
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> Ladies and Gentlemen,
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> What enormous fun I had. Thanks to all who came, and an extra measure to
> those of you who provided all the logistical support: a room, handouts,
> connectivity, books, pizza, bagels, doughnuts, coffee, expertise, ....
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> We ended up with about forty attendees. A community is just the people
> who're in it. I'm quite thankful for ours.
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> If you're hungry for more, do check out Jeff Barr's book, which is a good
> door into the world of AWS, to which you now have access. If you wanted a
> book but forgot to get one, come on Thursday -- there are four left. Well,
> okay, three after I take one.
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> And if you start a cool AWS project, and want to talk about it, let me
> know. BLUG still has two open months left, this year. :-)
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> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:43 AM, jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com <
> jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com > wrote:
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> 10am-2pm, tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 5), Aztek Networks, 2477 55th street,
> boulder, co 80301-2835.
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> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:28 AM, jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com <
> jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com > wrote:
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> If you were at BLUG, on Thursday and heard this, here it is again. If not,
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> Saturday, February 5, the Boulder Linux Users Group is putting together an
> Installfest-in-the-Cloud .
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> You're encouraged to wander in, get whatever help you need to set up a
> free, Amazon Web Services account, and ask questions, like "Now that I can
> get on to AWS and use it, why would I want to?"
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> As it says, in the link above, this ain't a talk. It's hands-on.
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> This month's talk was Mark Salee on Xen, which AWS uses for virtualization.
> Next month's talk, February 10, will be Tom Preston-Werner on GitHub, which
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> Coincidence? I think so. An amazing, astrological, alignment of the stars.
> Me, I'm an Orion, with my moon in Cassiopeia and Ursa Minor rising. You?
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> Clint Rubottom and Patrick Homans, from TekSystems, will supply pizza.
> There really is such a thing as a free lunch.
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> Some of you will walk out of the event wanting a solid, self-contained,
> treatment on how to use AWS. Jeff Barr's Host Your Web Site in the Cloud
> fills the bill perfectly, and will get you where you want to go.
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> Unfortunately, none of the code in it works.
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> Oh, it used to. But the book was published waaay back in September, and the
> world has changed since then. Jeff Barr is Amazon's chief AWS Evangelist, so
> it's not as though he's some know-nothing, slipshod, slacker, either.
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> AWS has reached escape velocity.
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> I went through all his code and tweaked it to work again. I didn't want you
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> You can pull the ported code from right here, on GitHub.
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> You'll get a bundle of working code that's minimally different from Jeff
> Barr's. I've eschewed gratuitous tinkering. You'll have no trouble
> correlating the book with the code in GitHub.
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> I've put step-by-step instructions and tips on Google docs. They're help
> for things Jeff Barr assumes but weren't obvious to me.
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> There are minor bugs I couldn't figure out how to fix in Chapters 7 and 11
> (described in those notes), which probably just shows lack of imagination on
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> The code and notes will improve as you hit omissions and find fixes. I've
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> Want to see what I changed, when, and why? GitHub holds every detail.
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> If this is your cup of tea, click on the links, above. Or just start here .
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> --
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> Jeffrey Haemer < jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com >
> 720-837-8908 [cell], http://seejeffrun.blogspot.com [blog],
> http://www.youtube.com/user/goyishekop [vlog]
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> Jeffrey Haemer < jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com >
> 720-837-8908 [cell], http://seejeffrun.blogspot.com [blog],
> http://www.youtube.com/user/goyishekop [vlog]
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> Jeffrey Haemer < jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com >
> 720-837-8908 [cell], http://seejeffrun.blogspot.com [blog],
> http://www.youtube.com/user/goyishekop [vlog]
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> פרייהייט? דאס איז יאַנג דינען וואָרט.
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Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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http://www.youtube.com/user/goyishekop [vlog]
פרייהייט? דאס איז יאַנג דינען וואָרט.
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