Update: the complementary article to this one, on Rotating EBS snapshots has now been posted. After the recent failure of EBS volumes on Amazon’s cloud, backup is quite likely something to be considering. If, during the aforementioned incident, recent snapshots of the affected EBS volumes were available, it might have been possible to relaunch instances… Continue reading ec2-consistent-snapshot on Amazon’s Linux AMI
Day: May 24, 2011
Rebuild Icon Cache
Recently, after upgrading a program (FileZilla in this case), the program’s icon would not display on the desktop (Windows 7). Even deleting and recreating the shortcut resulted in a broken icon (although, the shortcut itself worked fine). No amount of refreshing the desktop made a difference. The quick fix was to rebuild the icon cache,… Continue reading Rebuild Icon Cache