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. After Googling for few hour and with trial and error method I got the correct [...]
Download & Process Amazon Cloudfront Logs with Awstats
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) your next task will be monitoring the usage. For this Amazon Cloudfront has a provision [...]
UAE lug meetup group featured on homepage
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 Alexander picture very much LOL !!!
Ubuntu 9.04 remote desktop using vncserver without monitor
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 server remotely. The installation was completely smooth and there was no issues. The installation completely [...]
Compile and install PHP 5.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard)
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 available. After Googling for a long time and breaking my head with errors for 7 [...]
Fedora 9 Sulphur on VMware Fusion
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 it how well it is working with VMware. So the hunt began. Downloaded the i686 [...]




