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Why Cloud Computing Is Here To Stay

Occasionally, you hear the argument that cloud computing is the latest incarnation of a trend that comes and goes throughout the history of computing. It used to be called time-sharing in the early days, and client-server during the 80ies and … Continue reading

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RDTN Simulations in the Cloud

To perform simulations with RDTN more efficiently, I added support for running them on Amazon’s Clould Computing services (called Amazon Web Services or AWS). As the main point of the experiments I do with RDTN is to run a lot … Continue reading

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WordPress: Backup and Upgrade to 2.7

Yesterday, I updated the WordPress software that runs this blog to version 2.7. I had meant to do this for some time now and I skipped some of the 2.6.* releases before, because I wanted to get a backup mechanism … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex: Using the Private Directory

Over the weekend, I installed the Beta of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). So far, it works really well and I wanted to take this opportunity to share two tricks that I found useful, although they are no deep technological insights. … Continue reading

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OpenMoko: First Impressions

I bought an OpenMoko Neo Freerunner and here are my first impressions of the device. I did not try to do much so far, so this is merely a superficial glance. Good The power supply is a standard USB plug … Continue reading

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RDTN on GitHub

I created a repository for RDTN on GitHub. This is currently only a fun experiment and not a replacement for the subversion repository; the SVN at TZI is still the “official” repository for RDTN. I push the main line of … Continue reading

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