Notes on Life, ‘Puters and Hawaii

Huracan Wannabe Comes to Kaua’i

We had high winds that actually shook the house last night. Trees in our neighborhood fell over and I found a half dozen roof shingles in my lawn this morning. I guess the winds were about 60 mph at times (hurricanes start at 74 mph) and Kauai had a 24-hour total of 3.23 [...]

Happy 60th Birthday, Dad!

Just wanted to acknowledge my father as he turns 60 today. I really admire you and all of your accomplishments. You have always taken the time to talk with me and be a mad-scientist-mentor to me. My first gunpowder-bombs, tool-boxes, fishing-poles, camping-gear, snow-sleds, mini-bikes, tree-forts, computers and other fun stuffs came from [...]

Give Your AMI Images a Boot Hook with EC2 userdata

I need a way to configure servers at boot - to bootstrap them. Even if I have puppet to configure my AMIs on the fly, there are still some basic settings that need to happen to get puppet bootstrapped and working - like setting the hostname, notifying dyndns, setting the puppet server hostname, restarting [...]