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31 Jan
Scripting News Annex 
Posted by Wes Felter on January 31, 2007 at 8:34 am
Here’s a cut-and-paste from the Apple Store:
How to install the AirPort Extreme 802.11n Enabler:
1. Add the AirPort Extreme 802.11n Enabler to your shopping cart and complete your order.
2. On the Order Confirmation page and email, you’ll receive instructions and a URL for downloading the Enabler software.
3. Click the download link, then locate the disk image (.dmg) file on your computer and double-click it.
4. Double-click the AirPort Extreme 802.11n Enabler file and follow the onscreen steps to update your Mac.
BTW, Macintouch says to install any available AirPoirt updates through Software Update before installing this enabler.
Now that you mention it, iTunes would be a good way to sell this software. What’s the difference between an M4P and a DMG? They’re just files.
Posted by vanni on January 31, 2007 at 9:23 am
“Now that you mention it, iTunes would be a good way to sell this software. What’s the difference between an M4P and a DMG? They’re just files.”
BRILLIANT! Pass that idea onto Apple…..
Posted by kosso on January 31, 2007 at 11:15 am
Dave, You need to do your downloads page at the Apple Store site.
On a different note, I am flabbergasted at the lack of response on the blogosphere to flickrs announcement that all flickr users have to migrate to a Yahoo! account, or leave and lose your photos.
http://flickr.com/forums/help/32687
800 resposes on the forum and rising.
I have also just released a free PHP5 script to aid downloading all your photos and data (comments, tags, geo, etc.. )
Posted by Tom Morris on January 31, 2007 at 11:58 am
I was pissed off with the Yahoo thing. I fixed it a while back by e-mailing them and telling them which Flickr account I want linked up with which Yahoo account. They were very helpful, and Yahoo seemed to have learnt from this bad decision by not forcing upcoming.org users in to the Yahoo system.
Posted by kosso on January 31, 2007 at 11:59 am
I’m glad you mentioned S3 – I was thinking about them as possible place for me to hook my flickr export script to – in order to backup all my photos and data
Posted by Jeremy on January 31, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Can someone explain the outcry about the Flickr/Yahoo login merger? This was announced in August 2005. What is lost by associating your Flickr account with a Yahoo account? It’s a minor hassle, sure, but it’s been in the offing for a long time.
Dave, I’m sure if you email Flickr support they can sort out your problem.
Posted by Tom Morris on January 31, 2007 at 12:16 pm
I don’t get why Apple is charging to download a patch to use hardware you already own. Then again, Apple’s piss-poor hardware is just about to cost my insurance company about £800 in repairs…
Posted by kosso on January 31, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Personally, i’m peeved about the Yahoo/flickr ting due to the fact that I am a paying customer of flickr. And I *just* renewed it too. Yahoo! is free, right?
I also don’t like the way Yahoo! slap sooo many ads over everything – everywhere. I used to like Y!groups, until that had features removed and even more ads displayed.
Sure flickr was acquired in 2005, but I still felt like a flickr CUSTOMER. As of March, I won’t.
flickr USERS and CUSTOMERS created a great community feel to the system – Yahoo! do not have that ‘mojo’ – sure they do some great things – great APIs etc. They also do some crappy things – 360 blogs etc. – and I dont remeber te last time I used their search engine, when once upon a timw I used it all the time.
They have been doing a good job at turning people off, not on.
People LOVE flickr – a place full of extremely passionate users/CUSTOMERS – I dont think such a proportion of Yahoo users feel that way.
I expect all upcoming users will have to merge soon too.
Posted by Mike on January 31, 2007 at 12:36 pm
from http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/gsg/
you can see that they way they prevent too many buckets (since they cant have the same name) is to allow you to only have 100…
Also from the key description you probably need to specify your bucket in your url? aws.scripting.com/yourbucketname/lincoln.jpg? but I’m only guessing.
Posted by Dave Winer on January 31, 2007 at 12:43 pm
I see. Now I see other problems. A limit of 100 buckets is a pretty limiting limit. I have no idea how many top level domains I have, but it’s got to be more than 100.
Posted by Dave Winer on January 31, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I still haven’t been able to get lincoln.jpg to show up in a browser. I don’t know what “yourbucketname” would be here.
Posted by Matt Terenzio on January 31, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Dave,
It does indeed seem anyone could have created a bucket called ‘aws.scriptinng.com’, but they didn’t so you are set. Of course no one else could have CNAMED it so they could only have accessed it through the amazon url/bucketname.
Anyway, the bucket name is unique to the service. No one else can now create a bucket with that name. Second paragraph here:
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/gsg/
Also, from the docs,
To make an object publicly readable, simply include the HTTP header “x-amz-acl: public-read” with your PUT request to store the object.
An object is private by default.
Hope that helps.
Posted by Matt Terenzio on January 31, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I was writing while those other posts went up.
should work fine. Just overwrite it with thesame command and the “public red” header mentioned above.
Posted by Alex Harford on January 31, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Have a look at S3 Organizer if you want to nicely browse your buckets.
Re limiting bucket names: you might have to do something like a single bucket for all of your domains, then have a ‘directory’ off that bucket that is unique to your domains.
Then point the CNAME for all the domains to the same bucket, but with the unique directory prefix for each domain.
PS. Try to get an EC2 account… so much fun.
Posted by Dave Winer on January 31, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Thanks Matt. It appears I’ve got a bug in the S3 glue. Until now I had never created a publicly readable bucket. I’ll keep posting as I make progress.
Posted by Dave Winer on January 31, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Alex, that works if you’re creating new sites, but I want to move some existing sites onto S3. Unless I can exactly replicate the structure over there, I’m going to have an app somewhere doing the redirection.
About EC2, that’s somewhere in my future, not sure when… Probably pretty soon. Sooner if we had a Linux version of the OPML Editor serverside.
Posted by Dave Winer on January 31, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Alex, S3 Organizer is awesome!
I was able to edit the ACL for the aws.scripting.com bucket and now lincoln.jpg is clickable.
Posted by Dave Winer on January 31, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Now, the next thing to figure out is how to make it display index.html by default.
Without that it’s a non-starter for quite a few websites.
Posted by gobansaor on January 31, 2007 at 1:33 pm
To get around the 100 bucket limit, use a 2nd credit card/Email address to create another S3 account. Or, get an EC2 account and use it as the front end to S3 for some or all of your domains (traffic between S3 and EC2 is free), an EC2 instance would cost you approx $80 per month + traffic costs (same cost structure as S3).
Tom
Posted by gobansaor on January 31, 2007 at 1:44 pm
On the index.html issue, you’re out of luck, see thread on S3 forum…
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=10849&start=0&tstart=0
..it goes on and on, no satisfactory solution (lots of DNS tricks but that’s it). The bottom line is S3 is a good back-end store but not really suitable to front-end a website, even combined with EC2 there are problems e.g. if an EC2 instance fails, when it’s brought back up it will have a new IP address.
Tom
Posted by Matt Terenzio on January 31, 2007 at 1:47 pm
re: index.html
I can’t see how it can happen with just S3.
I might not be creative enough, but I can’t see a way, at the moment.
Posted by Ramin on January 31, 2007 at 2:08 pm
For me the 802.11n download link was on the Apple Store’s order confirmation page.
The thing is… server performance tests don’t show any difference between 802.11g and n. This is on a new Core2Duo MacBookPro connecting to a garden-variety Linksys WRT300-N router. According to KisMac there’s slightly better signal strength, but no 10x bandwidth boost.
It’s possible that to get the boost, you need the Apple Airport Extreme. So far, it doesn’t look like it’s made much of a difference.
Posted by David Knight on January 31, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I suggest keeping your website on a dedicated server and moving your images and other large items into s3. That way the majority of your disk space and traffic bits will be on s3. Your dedicated server will then be serving only html which tends to be small. BTW, every item in s3 has a unique url even without the virtual hosting. You could just link your img tags to the default url – you won’t need to make new buckets for each site.
Posted by bobby on January 31, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Boston Hoax: It appears that five “hoax devices” found at several Boston locations today, were part of a marketing campaign by a Turner Broadcasting company, which says there are similar devices in New York.
Posted by Steve on January 31, 2007 at 5:42 pm
“500 million of marketing can’t hide the fact that these days it’s hard to find anyone who cares about Windows.” Dave
I agree Dave, and even less care about OSX, but there are those of us who still are intrested regardless.
Posted by Marcelo Calbucci on January 31, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Dave, you’ve talked about some of the flaws in TechMeme. Here is another way to fix them, but I’m not sure is aligned with your goals…
http://marcelo.sampasite.com/brave-tech-world/e/How-to-make-TechMeme-more-intere.htm
Posted by tom schuring on January 31, 2007 at 8:57 pm
hi dave,
could i take the old DSC’s on your
static2.podcatch.com
site off your hands, so you’ll have more space ?
i have an archive website at clogwog.net/cenvi
for that purpose
i tried to go directly to
static2.podcatch.com/blogs/gems/dscedit/DSC20041111.mp3
but that doesn’t allow direct access.
best regards,
tom schuring
Posted by Dave Winer on January 31, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Not sure why you can’t access the MP3s, I’ll look at it in the morning. I’d rather you didn’t archive them, they will be publicly accessible (as they were earlier today). Dave
Posted by jack on January 31, 2007 at 10:27 pm
“$500 million of marketing can’t hide the fact that these days it’s hard to find anyone who cares about Windows.”
Sorry Dave, love ya, but gotta call you on this one. Who cares about any OS really? We are kind stuck with what we get right? It sucks, but it seams that is the way it goes, to say that it’s hard to find anyone who cares about Windows is (imho) unfair. No doubt, in a few years, the vast majority of the world will be using Vista and doing just fine on a day to day basis. Will it be a perfect OS? Of course not, but OSX is hardly flawless right? Windows based computers allow users more flexibility when it comes to hardware, period. I’m no MS fanboy, but they frankly play pretty well with others when it comes to 3rd party hardware.
Nobody cares about Windows? Who has to care, we all know the world will be running Vista soon enough, and that’s just the way it is. Why? Many reasons, but the 90%+ of us users aren’t stupid for using their products. Maybe you’re miffed, I think you have reasons to be miffed, but seriously, nobody cares about Windows? I guess you could say nobody cares about Global Warming either, maybe because we know its unstoppable and will, in many ways, define our future by how we react and deal with its’ challenges.
A few last things;
1: Please don’t quit blogging, you are still my fav read.
2: Please consider setting up your river or news sites again, dearly miss them.
3: Stop teasing us with blog headlines that say “Morning Coffee Notes”! I get so excited to hear a podcast and then…..
Have fun man~
Jack
Posted by Ian Douglas on February 1, 2007 at 2:29 am
Fame brings you to people’s lips even when you don’t react, Dave. The story was the fact that you weren’t expressing an opinion, along with almost everyone else.
I gather Robert Scoble released a long video about it, but that was well after we’d written and published the piece.
Posted by amyloo on February 1, 2007 at 6:38 am
Heard in e-mail from an OPML Editor user who couldn’t get to the distribution file. I pointed him to the latest file. Short exchange: not sure if he just couldn’t find it or couldn’t grab it. But when I was pasting in the address, I realized the .zip is/was on static2.
Posted by Dave Winer on February 1, 2007 at 7:46 am
Amy, sorry for that, I found the problem (I think) and am re-uploading. It takes a couple of hours.
I’m also thinking of moving hosting.opml.org into S3 space, maybe even letting you guys host your own content. 🙂
Posted by Dave Winer on February 1, 2007 at 7:58 am
Okay, it seems I’ve figured out how to change the permissions.
[audio src="http://static2.podcatch.com/test/everybod.wav" /]
Hi everybody!
Hi Dr Nick!
Posted by Mike on February 1, 2007 at 7:37 pm
This looks like one way to address the default document situation.
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=43972