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

Tue Feb 8 08:18:48 MST 2011

Oops! Not exactly free to me. I picked the wrong AMI, and I've been charged 8.5 cents per hour since I started it. I can't find an AMI matching the description of the free one... I'll go back through the docs and try it anyway, for the learning experience, but by the specs, it probably won't do much Minecraft serving.

My total charges since Saturday are $5.34. That's still a great deal, for all the fun I've had, and all I've learned.

I suppose the "not beer free" obviates the need for detailed instructions, but I could be wrong. If anyone's still interested in instructions, let me know, and I'll post 'em.

David L. Willson
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
RHCE MCT MCSE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 NovellCLA UbuntuCP
tel://720.333.LANS
Freedom is better when you earn it. Learn Linux.

----- Original Message -----
From: "jeffrey haemer" <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Monday, February 7, 2011 5:43:14 PM
Subject: Re: [lug] BLUG's First AWS Installfest-in-the-Cloud

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. 

Three words: free Minecraft server 

Thank you, Jeff Haemer and Amazon. 

David L. Willson 
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast 
RHCE MCT MCSE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 NovellCLA UbuntuCP 
tel://720.333.LANS 
Freedom is better when you earn it. Learn Linux. 

----- Original Message ----- 
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 

Ladies and Gentlemen, 

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, .... 

We ended up with about forty attendees. A community is just the people who're in it. I'm quite thankful for ours. 

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. 

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. :-) 

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:43 AM, jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com < jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com > wrote: 

10am-2pm, tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 5), Aztek Networks, 2477 55th street, boulder, co 80301-2835. 

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:28 AM, jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com < jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com > wrote: 

Folks, 

If you were at BLUG, on Thursday and heard this, here it is again. If not, read on. 

Saturday, February 5, the Boulder Linux Users Group is putting together an Installfest-in-the-Cloud . 

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?" 

As it says, in the link above, this ain't a talk. It's hands-on. 

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 appears, a bunch, below. 

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? 

Clint Rubottom and Patrick Homans, from TekSystems, will supply pizza. There really is such a thing as a free lunch. 

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. 

Unfortunately, none of the code in it works. 

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. 

AWS has reached escape velocity. 

I went through all his code and tweaked it to work again. I didn't want you to start out excited but end up frustrated. 

You can pull the ported code from right here, on GitHub. 

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. 

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. 

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 my part. 

The code and notes will improve as you hit omissions and find fixes. I've marked spots where I know need help in red. 

Want to see what I changed, when, and why? GitHub holds every detail. 

If this is your cup of tea, click on the links, above. Or just start here . 

-- 

Jeffrey Haemer < jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com > 
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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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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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