Monthly Archives: April 2011

04.30.11
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Data from AWS/S3 after 2 years

2 years back : Tried out S3 with various options 

3 months back : Re-enabled S3 on account and got billed unnecessarily

today : Realized that there were 40k+ log files each of size close a KB lingering in the S3 Bucket

now : running the command on the bitgeek.in assuming it would help me with the lantencies ( compared to requests from/to India to US ) 

s3cmd rb —recursive s3://BUCKET (via StackOverflow)

now + few hours : Free from the frustration of saving log (access) files.

What can be done better here ? : S3 Should introduce ‘Batch Calls’ and ‘Log Clean up’ mechanisms . The least I could add here is , latencies suck . There should be a way to get this done at the server side. May be its way faster for users of EC2 which might share the same geographical location. 

04.28.11
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Email Aliases save the day!

Till date, I have been trying to get mail to all of my users ( for some, users I have not authorized ) and talk about the bloddy spam mails in Russian from Pakistani servers. Accidentally, found out that there was an option/feature to ‘add email aliases to existing users’ after using Google Apps for good 3.5 years . For one thing, I feel stupid, for the other, I feel happy. Now its just aliases and filters baby !

Email Aliases save the day!

04.27.11
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iPad2 launching in India on 29 Apr 2011

iPad 2 with Wi-Fi will be available in Japan on April 28 and Hong Kong, India, Israel, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey and UAE on April 29 for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model and $699 (US) for the 64GB model. iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G will be available for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model. iPad 2 with Wi-Fi will be available in China on May 6, and further international availability will be announced at a later date.

iPad2 launching in India on 29 Apr 2011