07-25-2008
Computing in the Clouds with AWS
Tim Bass
07-25-2008 02:34 AM
The admin*team at
The UNIX Forums*have been considering moving the UNIX and*Linux*Forums to the clouds - the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.*
Amazon EC2 is one option to scale the forums, which is a*
LAMP application.*
Amazon EC2 allows*us to rent dedicated servers (instances) on-demand to run applications, such as the forums.* Then we can run and host on EC2 any Linux application; but unlike classic hosting where*folks install your application and set up your server for you, Amazon Web Services provide*only*the infrastructure.
Here are some links about AWS:
Maybe you will elevate your event processing application to the clouds?
Source...
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NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple
SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL]
DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple.
OPTIONS
Usage: purple-url-handler URL
Example:
purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message"
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-im-client |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5)
purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/
NOTES
Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007.
SunOS 5.11 02 Apr 2008 purple-url-handler(1)