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M-Script project has been moved to its new home: http://m-script.org

It’s been under heavy development lately: old scripts have been renewed and enhanced, folders reorganized, files moved to proper locations, default monitors made more informative.

It’s also been published on Github

Amazon announced that S3 buckets now can be used for hosting static websites, not just files and images. It’s achieved by adding two properties to S3 buckets: document root and custom error pages.

Looks pretty useful. It was possible before, either by mounting S3 bucket as a folder via S3FS or using complex rewrite rules, but it’s become so much easier now.

For example, this article, if you are reading it from the website, is a static HTML page saved to disk by RoR cache controller. Using RoR routing I can easily remap such pages to e.g. static.reticularium.com and place this whole sub-domain to S3. This would decrease the load on my server and make access to such pages faster (via CDN). Not sure I want it though, I have to double-check whether it affects SEO things, but at least it’s possible now. For one project or another, it can be used to make access to your content faster and probably save you some money.

Files stored on Amazon S3 can be 5TB in size now.

If you are using my backup scripts to backup your data to S3, you can now empty the split_size parameter.

Despite the title, I am not going to provide any definition. You can find many definitions made by much smarter guys on the Internet. I saw many, but after reading most of them I had a stronge urge to say “Wow, it’s fantastic! So what you say cloud computing is?”

In fact, there is no definition. Because cloud computing is a paradigm shift. If you still need a definition, take this as one. I mean “A paradigm shift”. Shift towards what? Well, nobody knows exactly.

That’s why I am going to just explain what is usually meant by this, and I’ll try to do it in a sorted way.

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There’s been much buzz lately about cloud computing. As happened with many other good technological things, it is turning now from something that only geeks were playing with to something where corporations see their future revenue.

Probably the best illustration of this: Steve Ballmer said that by next year, 90% of Microsoft employees will be working on cloud matters.

Ballmer also said that eventually all software will be in the cloud.

Do you remember the Windows 95 startup image with Microsoft logo in the clouds? Back in 90s, they knew!

M-Script moved to m-script.org

Released version is available from this site:

m_script.latest.tar.gz

There are two repositories now:

  • git clone git://reticularium.com/m_script
  • git clone git://github.com/moskit/m-script.git

For now, Github repo is usually a bit behind. If this situation changes, I’ll update here.