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Hi,

In compiling binaries for deployment on EC2, what is a safe, but optimal architecture target (i686, p4, opteron)?  Is optimizing for Opteron now, going to cause problems later?  Is there a safe ancestor in the x86/amd(64?) compatibility tree to use?

thanks,
-jeremy

I'm obviously new to AWS. I want to use S3 simply for web hosting, but I'm confused. There is no control panel, no where to upload my files. Did I miss something or is this service not what I thing it is?

Help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I built a Ubuntu image on a local machine, and it started fine. However, I then made some changes to it and rebundled it from EC2. When I attempted to start this image however, it failed to start, it didn't even get to the point of picking up it's IP address. Can anyone with access to the startup messages give me a hint about what's going on? The image details when it was running were:

RESERVATION     r-c3ca2faa      781522502023    default
INSTANCE        i-74a84c1d      ami-3ea84d57    domU-12-31-33-00-01-68.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com      running

cheers, Robin.

http://www.maluke.com/blog/s3-backup-beta4

S3 Backup is a Windows application (Mac and Linux ports are planned) that gives a user an intuitive interface to manage contents of his S3 buckets and has incremental backup functionality. With beta 4 it now can also encrypt and compress uploaded files. Read more at the URL above or here: http://www.maluke.com/s3man/

Noob-sounding thing to ask, but beats a 8-fold surprise.

S3 pricing is stated as "$0.20 per GB of data transferred." 
Copying a 1-Gbyte file is $0.20?
Or $1.60 ?

The closing statement in this thread indicates that it's a Gigabyte measure, and there's no post contradicting:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=36441&#36441


Clarification would be loovely.

Web site Mac OS X Hints has posted an interesting shell script designed to let you set wake up calls and reminders from Skype to your cell phone; Lifehacker reader Debashis also suggests using a batch script with the following command for Windows users:

"c:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\skype.exe /callto:001xxxxxxxxxx"

I'm a big fan of the phone call/page as reminder, but I've been using Google Calendar for that functionality because, frankly, I love Google Calendar. However, if you don't, and limited alarms on your phone mean that you can't set up as many reminders as you'd like, these little Skype reminder scripts could offer a simple way to schedule quick wake up calls and reminders. Thanks Debashis! — Adam Pash

A shell script to use Skype for reminder calls [Mac OS X Hints]

It would be nice to be able to delete any objects matching a prefix instead of getting a list of objects matching a prefix and sending a lots of individual request.

Is it possible to offer this new feature in the APIs?

Thanks, Message was edited by: rpan2006

Hi. I'm looking for Amazon Web Services example code --- and especially for use with S3 --- that can be called from C or C++. gSOAP looks like the right way to do it, but I don't know where to get started. Does anybody have some sample code they could post?

Mac OS X only: Perian is a freeware plug-in designed to enable the playback of almost every popular video codec in Quicktime.

In fact, pretty much the only major codec not supported by Perian is Windows Media Video files (WMV), but previously-mentioned Flip4Mac should take care of your WMV needs. Although excellent Quicktime alternatives like VLC will handle almost any codec out-of-the-box, it's nice to get other codecs playing in Quicktime if, for example, you want to get the most out of Front Row. — Adam Pash

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