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mortaron 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

Good times indeed

mortaron A simple Links, Notes and Task tool – Everything you need and nothing you don't

Mmm doesn’t appear to be a link

mortaron Offline Windows OSS tool to update device drivers: Snappy Driver Installer

Apparently there’s a difference between Snappy Driver Installer and Snappy Driver Installer Origin - It’s probably worth updating the title to match.

mortaron Testing Huge PostgreSQL Backups for 37 Cents a Day

Critically, no matter what your bid is, you never pay more than the spot price which is “The current market price of a Spot instance per hour.” With this in mind you don’t have to guess what to bid and since your bid matches the on-demand price, your instance will never be terminated early due to the price exceeding your bid.

This isn't accurate, the spot price can absolutely be higher than on demand pricing and isn't a reliable method to prevent your instance from being terminated.

mortaron Anbox – Android in a Box

I'm curious to know what they have running in Google Cloud, I assumed they were 100% AWS - Is it just their Android builds?

mortaron Is AWS Having Internal DNS Issues?

Yep, we're seeing intermittent issues resolving Slack/RDS host records across random instances affecting only one of our two AZs.

mortaron Postmortem of database outage of January 31

> I don't think that any new instances can be created with ephemeral storage anymore. Pure EBS now.

Still around, can be launched with an instance-store backed AMI:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceS...

mortaron Circuit simulator and schematic capture tool

EC is EveryCircuit - The name of the app

mortaron Ask HN: What are the higest paying technologies which have remote opportunities?

Or ears! I'd be interested to know if anyone has been served advertising in Braille.

mortaron Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

Is there a way up prevent the design mock-ups on the preview tab from capitalising the first letter?

mortaron Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers

I love this feature about CircleCI - Pretty sure your builds are limited to 4GB per container however.

mortaron How the Friday DDoS Attack Affected Pingdom

We're currently investigating two solutions:

1) https://github.com/arachnys/cabot 2) Prometheus with https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter

Keen to hear what others are using

mortaron How the Friday DDoS Attack Affected Pingdom

We've been with Pingdom for a while and it's an outstandingly affordable service but their new features seem riddled with bugs (tagging checks as an example), and their API is slow and unusable from Australia (ignores query limit params) - It seems like they're no longer innovating and when I tried to share my concerns there was a bit of a 'who cares' attitude. It's great to see transparencey about this issue, but it could've come the other day when they 'paused' checks for unaffected clients.

mortaron Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import System

This is certainly good practice as long as anyone contemplating this considers the cost implications versus serving from S3 directly.

mortaron The Best Code I’ve Ever Written

I'm someone that spends a chunk of time swapping between repos (I'm actively looking for projects to contribute to), and until now my golang checkouts have been in a separate directory, so this will save me some time.

mortaron Things to Do as Soon as You Sign Up for AWS

Keeping track of your billing would also be advantageous:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/...

mortaron If This Wasp Stings You, 'Just Lie Down and Start Screaming'

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9835922

mortaron Show HN: Twenty

Great work, I'm addicted. Definitely would pay for an android version of this

mortaron Show HN: Twenty

At least you can get to 20, I'm playing on Android and my blocks disappear before I get there ;)

http://oi60.tinypic.com/awyf0w.jpg

mortaron Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?

These were intended to cover my line of work to newcomers in the industry: devopsme.com sysadminme.com

mortaron I Followed My Stolen iPhone and Became a Celebrity in China

I would honestly never have imagined this scenario as my gut reaction would have been to immediately block a stolen phone. With such a positive twist on phone theft, I wonder how many people will purposely leave their stolen phones unblocked hoping to experience a similar journey.

mortaron Show HN: Gifolio

Appears to be a typo - https://github.com/jxnblk/gifolio looks like it

mortaron Parrot Bebop

Sure did. At least for me it's about identifying the error to the editor especially in the case of a business selling a product and trying to cast a sense of professionalism. Spelling like that just taints their image IMHO.