10.24.06

GOP candidates list

Posted in General at 9:30 am by Craig

Here’s some of the GOP candidates this election cycle: –AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl –AZ-01: Rick Renzi –AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth –CA-04: John Doolittle –CA-11: Richard Pombo –CA-50: Brian Bilbray –CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave –CO-05: Doug Lamborn –CO-07: Rick O’Donnell –CT-04: Christopher Shays –FL-13: Vernon Buchanan –FL-16: Joe Negron –FL-22: Clay Shaw –ID-01: Bill Sali –IL-06: Peter Roskam –IL-10: Mark Kirk –IL-14: Dennis Hastert –IN-02: Chris Chocola –IN-08: John Hostettler –IA-01: Mike Whalen –KS-02: Jim Ryun –KY-03: Anne Northup –KY-04: Geoff Davis –MD-Sen: Michael Steele –MN-01: Gil Gutknecht –MN-06: Michele Bachmann –MO-Sen: Jim Talent –MT-Sen: Conrad Burns –NV-03: Jon Porter –NH-02: Charlie Bass –NJ-07: Mike Ferguson –NM-01: Heather Wilson –NY-03: Peter King –NY-20: John Sweeney –NY-26: Tom Reynolds –NY-29: Randy Kuhl –NC-08: Robin Hayes –NC-11: Charles Taylor –OH-01: Steve Chabot –OH-02: Jean Schmidt –OH-15: Deborah Pryce –OH-18: Joy Padgett –PA-04: Melissa Hart –PA-07: Curt Weldon –PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick –PA-10: Don Sherwood –RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee –TN-Sen: Bob Corker –VA-Sen: George Allen –VA-10: Frank Wolf –WA-Sen: Mike McGavick –WA-08: Dave Reichert

10.06.06

S3 backups

Posted in Coding, Sysadmin, Tech/Geek at 3:20 pm by Craig

I’ve been thinking of using S3 to store backups of various machines (basically all linux/OSX ones), but what’s been holding me back is the inability of S3 to do rsync on the server side. rsync really needs an instance of rsync running “near” where the data is stored in order to do its cleverest compression/do-not-transmit smarts. Rsync is basically a win if you have a high-bandwidth link between the rsync server and the backing store, and a lower bandwidth link beterrn the rsync server and client. With S3, you’d have to run the rsync server side yourself, remote from S3, which kind of defeats the purpose of rsync… But then I had a brainstorm. Amazon’s ECC service, which parallels S3, allows you to create a virtual machine and turn it on/off as needed in the amazon compute cloud. The ECC instances have high-bandwidth connectivity to S3 storage, and so would be ideal for running an rsync server! You can set up an ECC instance which serves rsync, and then your backup script can turn the instance on, do the rsync, then shut the instance down when it’s done. Now all I have to do is actually create the ECC instance, then create some kind of wrapper around the whole thing which does the startup-backup-shutdown wrapping around the ECC API, and voila!