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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Using Ruby and HTTParty to consume web services the easy way

By carson | Published: January 26, 2009
Web services seem to be multiplying like rabbits these days. For a good sampling of just how many there are check out the Programmable Web API list. In general it is pretty easy to consume basic REST web services but after you have done it enough it starts getting old. Thankfully for those of us [...]
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Using scrub to destroy a hard drive

By carson | Published: January 20, 2009
Recently I had a hard drive failure that pushed me into getting a little NAS device that I could back up to S3 easily. After consolidating a lot of data to the NAS I was left with a few old hard drives that I needed to do something with as well as some existing hard [...]
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Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

By carson | Published: January 12, 2009
I have been seeing people talk about the Windows 7 Beta being available to download so I went to see how hard it was to sign up. It turns out that it actually pretty easy so I decided I would give it a try under VirtualBox just to see if it would work. The following [...]
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How to transfer a Linux image from VirtualBox to Xen

By carson | Published: January 4, 2009
There have been times recently when I wanted to pull a VirtualBox Linux instance I had into Xen. I kept thinking it had to be fairly easy but I kept putting off trying it until recently when I ran into something I wanted to install from a CD image into an Amazon EC2 AMI. It [...]
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