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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Amazon Web Services: static IP’s and geographic HA

Got a newsletter from AWS this morning, two great improvements that were holding me back from using it for production servers:

“elastic IP’s” = static IP’s linked to your account, so you can move them amongst instances
Availability zones = geographic high availability

Nice - we can use this for more than just development/staging now. On the […]

Gmail bouncing?

Gmail keeps bouncing mail that I’m trying to send via the web interface, immediately:

Received: by 10.141.74.5 with SMTP id b5cs448688rvl;
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:32:14 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.140.226.14 with SMTP id y14mr4038995rvg.24.1206498734646;
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:32:14 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
Received: […]

Macbook Air a month in

At the beginning of February we needed some extra laptops at the office so I called up a local Mac store to pick up the last macbook air they had in stock, sacrificing my higher powered macbook pro to developers. Yup, taking one for the team. The transition wasn’t 100% smooth and I […]