I will try and go through how I set up Ruby on Rails on a new ec2 instance. I will include in my explanation the errors I faced along the way and how I solved them in the hope that showing the wrong way and then the right way is more helpful than just the … Continue reading rails from scratch on ubuntu 11.04
Based on an article from: http://blog.taggesell.de/index.php?/archives/73-Managing-Amazon-EC2-SSH-login-and-protecting-your-instances.html After you have created your instance: Save the Public DNS, it looks something like ec2-########-compute.amazonaws.com After you have your keypair, run this command $ ssh -i mykeypair.pem ubuntu@ec2-##########.compute-1.amazonaws.com You should be in now. Cool. Now set yourself up your own user account. adduser jkeesh Adduser is the one you … Continue reading Setting up User Accounts, Password Authentication, and SSH Keys on a New EC2 Instance
So I saw a post on my wall from a friend, but something just didn’t sound right. Again, it was a case of the Facebook spam that somehow tricked you into posting something you didn’t want to post to all of your friends. And many people made the mistake, and it spread fast. Mainly, it … Continue reading Wow, Facebook Hackers
I was trying to get mod_rewrite working on my WordPress blog which is on a server I set up. Except it just didn’t work. Solution (which you can find on the internet, but not that easily if you don’t know what to look for) is that in your httpd.conf file, you need to make sure … Continue reading mod_rewrite reminder
Ok, here is the problem. You are at a restaurant with a number of your friends, and the bill comes. But you have a 5, and two 10s. But your bill is 17. And your friend has 2 ones, and a 20. And another friend has three 10s. You need to split the bill–you want … Continue reading Split the Bill
So here is the riddle: There is a list of numbers, where each number appears in the list twice. Except there is one number that appears once. I give you the list one number at a time. The question is: can you find out what the number is that appears only once? You can’t save … Continue reading Riddle: List of Numbers, Each Appears Twice …
If you’ve been on the internet in the last couple years, you may have stumbled up FMyLife, or My Life is Average, or Damn You Autocorrect, or any number of sites in this genre. The genre is sites that let you post little bits of content around a certain theme, and they are usually similarly … Continue reading Popular Site Template, a site that lets you make silly websites!
A little while back I made a site with Google App Engine that is a very simple voting website. I tried to mimic the style of StackOverflow in terms of voting, but the goal was to make it much simpler. The site is made to be used to sift through lots of ideas or items. … Continue reading Best To Top, an App for Brainstorming
I forgot to post this when I made it a few weeks ago, but here is a parody of Feross‘ viral YouTube Instant site. Meet YouTube Sloth, which lets you experience YouTube like you are on a dialup connection Continue reading YouTube Sloth
I always thought it would be interesting to find out who I had the most mutual friends with on Facebook, but it would have been a lot of clicking to find that out. So here is a little tool that lists your friends according to most mutual friends. The results are actually quite surprising. Most … Continue reading Most Mutual Friends