Monthly Archives: July 2009

Managing multiple AWS identities

I’m running multiple different project on AWS which was so much of a pain to use, as I often find myself having to use the identity of project-a together with the official amazon ec2 tools. To help myself manage the … Continue reading

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Detaching a running process on *nix (or how to make a process continue to run after logging out)

Today, I had to copy 70 GiB of data from a ext3 filesystem to a XFS filesystem. This involved a lot of small files. After a couple of hours of waiting, I thought it’d be best to just leave it … Continue reading

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