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Web Content Producers Can Automate, Delegate, or Empower

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There are a number of ways that a web content producer might attempt to gain detailed control over what they’re creating so that they can produce advanced content that is properly formatted. A content producer can use a tool to write the code for them, hire somebody to write their code, or they can learn to write the code to format the document themselves. Continue reading Web Content Producers Can Automate, Delegate, or Empower →

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Nook Color Netflix Hack

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Unfortunately, the playback is slightly choppy on my Phiremod 5.1 CM7 Gingerbread OC’d to 975MHz. So maybe this is why it’s not a supported device. I’ll try again after updating to Phiremod Nook 6.2. UPDATE: Playback is smooth after update to Phiremod 6.2.

Start with a rooted Nook Color… If you don’t have one of those buy it here then root it here and optionally get ROMSs here.
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Apple Fanboys Who Only Care About Talking To Other Apple Fanboys

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The Skype acquisition by Microsoft has provoked a backlash from some Apple zealots who apparently hate everything Microsoft:

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Me, I like things that are cross-platform, that don’t restrict you to interacting with a limited demographic. (more after break) Continue reading Apple Fanboys Who Only Care About Talking To Other Apple Fanboys →

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S#!t hitting the fan @Amazon EC2

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With so many sites offline, and at the mercy of Amazon, at this moment the cloud is looking like a much less attractive solution.
Behold a sysadmin’s nightmare logged from  http://status.aws.amazon.com/:

1:41 AM PDT We are currently investigating latency and error rates with EBS volumes and connectivity issues reaching EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1 region.

2:18 AM PDT We can confirm connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances and increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. Increased error rates are affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We continue to work towards resolution.

2:49 AM PDT We are continuing to see connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances, increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region, and increased error rates affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We are also experiencing delayed launches for EBS backed EC2 instances in affected availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. We continue to work towards resolution.

3:20 AM PDT Delayed EC2 instance launches and EBS API error rates are recovering. We’re continuing to work towards full resolution. Continue reading S#!t hitting the fan @Amazon EC2 →