Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables "compute" in the cloud. Amazon EC2's simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon's proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.

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Happy Birthday Linux

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.

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Telco 2.0 Manifesto: How to make money in an IP-based world: STL Partners Ltd

The hardest, but most important, part of reaching Telco 2.0 is a change in the culture and mindset of operators:

• An assumption of abundance, rather than rationed scarcity.
  Example: Share a hundred images in a picture-sharing service rather than sell one MMS.
  
• A preference for openness, rather than hoarding of assets and information.
  Example: How much brand value is lost locking down Bluetooth from reaching its full potential to users?
  
• A change for most from a network-centric view in favour of focusing on customer data, billing, relationship, distribution and partnership assets.
  Example: What is the real value of the call detail records in creating intelligent call routing services?
  
• A desire to connect people above the promotion and consumption of media content or information services.
  Example: Why invest so heavily in streaming video from media conglomerates when user preference and revenue consistently comes from the sharing of user content and experiences?
  
• A willingness to learn from, and interact with, the broader world of Internet players.
  Example: What are the lessons of Skype for telcos wishing to broaden the reach of their voice and messaging products to new platforms?
  
• Agility and innovation in core messaging and voice products, in contrast to today’s stasis.
  Example: Vonage’s troubles partly stem from having merely replicated POTS, rather than having innovated.
  Getting away from the fear of “dumb pipes”. Utility businesses can be very profitable given the right cost base, and funding/pricing approach.
  

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Patent Law Ruling Threatens Free and Open Source Software

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn a dangerous patent law ruling that could pose a serious threat to Free and Open Source Software projects.

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Mozilla officially accepts Microsoft's Offer

"Mozilla has accepted Microsoft's offer of help towards ensuring interoperability between Firefox and the upcoming Vista operating system." If you can't beat em, join em

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Open Source: Designing a book with LyX

If you've ever considered writing a book, you may have looked at the layout capabilities of OpenOffice.org Writer, AbiWord, KWrite, or other word processing programs. While these tools can produce adequate results for many types of documents, it's also worth considering LyX, an open source (GPL) desktop publishing application.

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