At the time of my first post on Moving to the Cloud, Amazon announced new Windows Server 2008 EC2 instances, based on EBS instead of S3. I've been playing with these for some time now and must say they resolve most of the issues I have with Windows Server 2003 instances:
Launching an ins...
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During this summer my development computer decided to develop hardware failures and sure signs of its age and demise. As a developer, my first thought was to buy a new state of the art computer... but after a second thought I've decided to make an experiment. Instead of buying a desktop comput...
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In September, my wife and I spent a week long vacation on the island of Skiathos, with a day trip to Skopelos and Alonissos. Islands are these days mostly known as Mamma Mia movie islands, but also have plenty of nice beaches and walking tours. The southern part of the island is covered by go...
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Today, I released FTPSync 2.8d.
New and improved in this version:
added ListParams parameter
added IncludeSubDirs parameter
fixed IncludeRoot=No bug
fixed AllowModeZ=No bug
optimized FTP re-connection
I've also...
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Microsoft recently published Windows Azure pricing, which resulted in a number of comparisons made.
John Foley claimed that Microsoft Beats Amazon regarding the price of Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon cloud services: "Amazon charges 12.5 cents per hour for a bare bones Windows Server instanc...
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A bug was introduced in FTPSync 2.8c, which may cause FTPSync to transfer no files at all, when IncludeRoot=No is set.
This issue has been resolved in FTPSync 2.8d.
There is a bug in FTPSync 2.8c, which in some cases may cause FTPSync to ignore AllowModeZ=No and continue to use MODE Z (compressed transfers) for some FTP server operations. If your FTP server is having issues with MODE Z, this may result in frequent timeouts, dropped transfers or complete inabi...
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In April 2009 my wife and me went on a trip to visit three European capitals: Stockholm in Sweden, Helsinki in Finland and Tallinn in Estonia. This is a short summary of our trip.
April 22nd, 2009: In the evening we arrived by an airplane to Stockholm Arlanda Airport, took a trai...
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An often requested feature for FTPSync is support for secure transfers. This is now available as an experimental version (for testing and evaluation purposes, not recommended for production use). To use it, you must:
download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable (required by...
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Today, I released CyberKiko DeleteMe 1.2d. New or updated in this version:
changed: DeleteMe 1.2c or earlier removed a folder from a temporary folder list if it was unavailable at cleaning. This behavior has been changed to only skipping those folders, to avoid removal of folders on re...
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