Having installed ec2-api-tools under my lucid dev environment I was trying to shut ec2 instances down with ec2stop [instance_id] and I was getting the following exception: $ ec2stop i-XXXXXXXX Unexpected error: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument or cannot assign requested address at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.…
Ah the BBC Micro [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro]. I have very fond memories of our first computer, idling away countless hours attempting to load games from tape for them only to crash shortly after you started playing them. I also remember one hot summer spending epic amounts…
There comes a time where you set-up a VM and don't set the hard-disk size to be big enough for what you are going to do. I hit that problem just the other day and I needed to increase the size of my home dir on a Ubuntu…
If you're a Google chrome user on Ubuntu you may have noticed apt-get update seems to wait around for two minutes sitting at 99%. The culprit is the google apt repo having issues with http/1.1 pipelining. Fortunately there's a bug for it on Launchpad…
Had a weird issue when setting up an Ubuntu Karmic JEOS VM under VirtualBox. When it was installed it rebooted and then the VM window dissappeared. I tried to boot it a second time and it got to grub and then as soon as I selected the kernel I wanted…
In a previous post I wrote about using a TAP interface to be able to SSH into linux guests from the host [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2009/04/08/virtualbox-access-guests-via-a-virtual-interface/] . Since then changes in the newer versions of VirtualBox have seen the addition of a virtual interface on the…
If you're someone who uses a computer for a living then having a decent keyboard is a very worthwhile investment. Earlier on this year I bought myself a couple of US layout "customizer" keyboards from Unicomp (one for work and one for home). Unicomp was founded…
Since upgrading to Karmic I've had a weird issue with Charles Proxy [http://www.charlesproxy.com/] in that the windows for settings like rewrites seemed to get completely screwed up making it very difficult to see the boxes for entering information. Here's a screenshot of what…