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AWS – Adding extra EBS volume to your EC2 instance

Imthiaz — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:03:15 +0000

When you boot an Amazon Linux EC2 instance it boots with a 8GB EBS volume. If you need more space you need to add additional drives. This article can help with that...

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Apache Log Format for Amazon EC2 with Elastic Load Balancer

Imthiaz — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:04:31 +0000

The journey through the Amazon Cloud (AWS) is quite amazing. Recently I had to use two EC2 instance with Elastic Load balancer. Once the website was served with load balancer only the load balancer IP was logged as remote IP. … Continue reading →

Download & Process Amazon Cloudfront Logs with Awstats

Imthiaz — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:01:40 +0000

These days we use Amazon Cloudfront for content delivery. Amazon has made it very easy to deliver files in a Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket using Amazon Cloudfront distribution. If you are using Cloudfront as Content Delivery Network (CDN) … Continue reading →

UAE lug meetup group featured on homepage

Imthiaz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:24:57 +0000

Looks good to see our Linux user group being featured on meetup website homepage. Way to go guys and thanks to all the member who took so much effort to make this group an active one. They must have liked … Continue reading →

Ubuntu 9.04 remote desktop using vncserver without monitor

Imthiaz — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:38:17 +0000

Only few more days for Ubuntu team to release 9.04 but I couldn’t wait so I downloaded RC version and installed on torrent download server . The task is to install the ubuntu 9.04 RC and to completely manage the … Continue reading →

Compile and install PHP 5.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard)

Imthiaz — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:51:03 +0000

Due to some limitation I faced with Xampp I finally decided to compile PHP5 native on my mac. Entropy was a best option for mac till Leopard was released. Since Leopard came with php built in entropy was no more … Continue reading →

Fedora 9 Sulphur on VMware Fusion

Imthiaz — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:26:51 +0000

I have been always a very big fan on Fedora Linux distribution. In recent times I have moved very much into Ubuntu. Three days back Fedora team had released the new version 9 named sulphur. I really wanted to test … Continue reading →

BSD, SSH and PHP on my iPhone

Imthiaz — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:08:11 +0000

Tonight I installed BSD system on my iPhone. Once that is complete I installed openSSH, Term-vt100. I opened terminal and changed my root password using the command passwd. I found the ip of the iPhone using the command ifconfig. Latter … Continue reading →

Fedora Core 8 on Lenovo 3000

Imthiaz — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:05:07 +0000

We got a brand new IBM Lenovo laptop without any operating system installed. These days most of the new laptops comes with Windows Vista installed and which sucks majorly. Then we decided we will install Linux on the laptop for … Continue reading →

Linux based router solution

Imthiaz — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:39:00 +0000

The task for the day was to make a router based on Linux. All I wanted to do is to replace the stupid home based router and do a fully Linux based one. Round one we need to buy hardware … Continue reading →