This was taken from their EC2 page. Very interesting!
Completely Controlled
You have complete control of your instances. You have root access to each one, and you can interact with them as you would any machine. Each instance predictably provides the equivalent of a system with a 1.7Ghz Xeon CPU, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, [...]

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Just receieved an email from Amazon’s webservices. It seems they are beta testing their “Amazon EC2″ (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud). A EC2 is basically a computation cloud that allows you access for $0.10 per hour. “Amazon S3″ (Amazon Simple Storage Service) is part of this.
It will be interesting to find out exactly what this is [...]

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Neat trick that you may have seen before. Stare at this for about a minute then look away. The world appears to morph and melt as you look at it.

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A short while back I mentioned how Azoogle Ads updated their first login page. I also surmised that this was a prelude to a whole new interface for Azoogle. It seems that guess was correct.
For those of you that have Azoogle Ads, when you logged in you should have seen this banner. [...]

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Here are some cool UFO videos. A part of us wants to think they are real, but the sceptic in us might prevent it. Judge for your self.
There is sound so you may want to have your sound turned on for these.
Pre 9-11 UFO by the World Trade Center (Quite Honestly the Best)
Possible [...]

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If/When you restore a SQL Server database your user may no longer able to connect.
This is because the mappying between the SYSLOGINS and SYSUSERS table is out of sync. Change the script below to suit your needs (Enter your database name and username) and this will resolve the problem.
USE
EXC SP_CHANGE_USERS_LOGIN ‘AutoFix’, ”

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I am constantly playing around with online marketing and often use Google’s AdWords program. I have come to realize that Google does not like new sites. Google costs less for sites that have been tagged as pertaining to certain topics. In my experience this may be half as much as it normally [...]

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There may be reason for you to concatenate a column from one SQL table to one field. In other words, you want to append or add a column’s contents into one merged string.
In SQL Server you can do this with a function pretty easily. Here’s an example.
CREATE FUNCTION FUNC_CONCAT (@ID BIGINT)RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)AS
BEGIN
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Have you ever heard of Hot or Not? HotOrNot.com is a website where people post their photos. They then get ranked by visitors on a scale of 1 to 10.
I just expanded on this a bit and openned up FavoritePart.com. At Favorite Part you can click on any photo’s “Favorite Part”. [...]

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