Questions tagged [cloud]
Cloud refers to cloud computing. Use this tag for questions involving interfacing cloud applications and your local computer. Questions about usage of web services are off topic here.
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What is OpenStack? And how can it be used?
What is OpenStack?
I have tried to understand what OpenStack is but I can't penetrate the shield of marketing buzz words that surrounds everything that is called "the cloud".
I would be happy if ...
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How to unlink my Documents folder from my OneDrive account?
I have recently changed the location of my Documents folder (originally located in C:\Users\TermoZour\Documents) to C:\Users\TermoZour\OneDrive\Documents so I could sync the documents folder between 2 ...
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Is there any way to distribute x264 encoding jobs across multiple computers (to increase the encoding speed)?
Does anyone know of a current, active solution to encoding x264 videos across many computers (via the network) to increase encoding FPS?
Brownie points for cross-platform and open source, but just so ...
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What is cloud computing?
I hear about "cloud computing" all the time, but don't know what it is.
What is it's purpose?
Why do I need it?
What problems does it solve?
What problems does it create?
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What is "Fog computing"? [closed]
I'm reading a work on Cloud services and it touches briefly upon "Fog computing" as an example of possible future development branch of software-hardware infrastructure, without specifying what it is ...
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"No route to host" when trying to connect to a TCP service on an Oracle Cloud Intance
I created an Ubuntu instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). I am able to connect to this instance with SSH (TCP 22). I created some services on this instance, like daytime (TCP 13), mail (TCP ...
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Is there a way to install Mac OS on an Azure Virtual machine - or any cloud VM for that matter? [closed]
I want to create a virtual development machine on the could for iOS development. I understand it is against Mac OS License agreement to install it on non-Apple hardware. But is there a LEGAL solution ...
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How do I change the license key for an installed copy of Visual Studio 2010?
We have a number of Amazon EC2 instances with Visual Studio 2010 installed on them. The license we are using has a fixed number of seats, all of which are being utilized at the moment.
I've created ...
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Cloud Storage/Sync solution for families [closed]
I am hoping someone knows of an online storage/sync service like Dropbox that can meet the following needs:
I envision that each member of the family has a separate account to keep personal files. ...
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How to have multiple servers on one IP address
I am having trouble figuring out how to have multiple servers (that do different things) on one IP address. I would like the subdomains to point to different applications. Let me give an example of ...
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Is there a personal cloud solution that keep versions for documents? [closed]
Today I have lost a file which I've worked on for the last day & half by a mistake.
As result, I'm looking to buy a personal cloud solution which will automatically backup my files while I save ...
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Encrypt files before sending them to Cloud
Recently I switched to GIT along and picked bitbucket to host my code.
Now with all the snowden scandal, I decided to review my choices.
I really don't want to host my data on my own server, I'd ...
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What are default user account and password of Fedora 31 Cloud Base Image for OpenStack?
I download Fedora Cloud Base image for Openstack image from here:
https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/31/Cloud/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-31-1.9.x86_64.qcow2
Then create ...
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How to Maintain a small differential Virtualbox hard drive
I am trying to use a virtualbox hard drive over several computers using dropbox (a popular cloud tool) synchronization. I assume no two machines will open the same drive at the same time.
To reduce ...
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Is it possible to use a NAS to host videos? [closed]
Is it possible to use a NAS, in which I put videos, to watch what I would like to be able to watch at any time, for me and my friends?
However I'm not good at programming at all, so I wanted to know ...
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Dropbox modification of file in 2 different places at once
Suppose I have a source code file in my dropbox which I have worked on from my desktop machine, and the version in my laptop is out-of-date because I haven't had internet access or the company proxy ...
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How to increase size of an ubuntu cloud image
I have been trying to start a VM using ubuntu cloud images. Now, the image size is very less, I am getting around only 2GB of space. Is there any way to increase the size? I tried qemu-img resize, but ...
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How can I disable "ConnectedPDF"? (When Foxit PDF Cloud is unwanted)
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Since Version 8 the Foxit Reader every user gets this Starupscreen and is urged to connect to the PDF Cloud.
This feature is unwanted on our customers terminal servers (and, as I suspect, ...
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Using the same local folder for Dropbox and Skydrive
Ever since I switched to windows phone I've sorely missed having an official dropbox app. Recently I've toyed with the idea of moving all my crucial files to OneDrive instead. I have more storage on ...
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Can I put Applications into Dropbox? If not, is there anywhere else I can?
I am wondering if I can use Dropbox to put applications in, or if there is another 'cloud' that I can use. This would make transferring applications from computer to computer much easier.
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How can I encrypt a file on Windows 8 before storing it on Dropbox?
I would like to store some sensitive information in the cloud (my preferred cloud service is Dropbox). I would like to encrypt it before putting it in the Dropbox folder for synchronization.
What's ...
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What is "Ubuntu Server for Cloud"?
What is "Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS for Cloud"?
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/cloud
Is this the right server edition to download if I wish to configure a web-based file server? What is the ...
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Network label printer available to print to over web?
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I'm currently looking at DYMO and BROTHER label printers for this purpose. In the ideal world, they could click a "print" button next to an address on the Web App that will print out the ...
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How to let Cloud server to access a Licensing dongle?
In our company, we use licensing USB dongle to control the license management. This dongle typically is plugged in to a server computer on the network.
Now some user asked if we have a solution to use ...
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I can't connect to ms sql instance - internal
The Platform and Software versions I am using are as follows :
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RTM-CU3-GDR) (KB4052987) - 14.0.3015.40 (X64)
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Can RackSpace cloud images be downloaded and used on a private cloud inside your local network?
I've read that for example Ubuntu Enterprise Could images can be loaded from a private cloud residing on your local network to Amazon EC2. Or you can create a image on Amazon EC2 and then download it ...
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Is there a clipboard manager on the cloud?
I'm looking for a service like Google Cloud Clipboard which can be used not only from Google Docs but directly from my PC (Windows 7 SP1). Is it possible?
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How do we view and resolve the difference between my version and the server version of a file?
In our MS Office Upload Center, I have a file:
Name MyFile.docx
Location d.docs.live.net/2234hksjdfhk2j34/Documents/Work/ (this is OneDrive)
Last in Sync 10/26/2014 2:50 PM
Status Please Refresh
In ...
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How to run your own cloud network at home?
I have 7 PC's around the house that total more than 10Ghz in CPU power. I was wondering if I could put them to use building my own "cloud computing" network to help with rendering videos, blender ...
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How can computer clouds charge me for CPU usage?
I’m considering moving my blog to either MS Azure or Google App Engine, using either an ASP.NET or Python blogging engine, but I can’t understand how they will charge me for CPU usage. The bandwidth ...
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Cloud computing vs file sharing websites?
When it comes to Cloud Computing, I always get in trouble to understand the difference between
Cloud computing file sharing vs.
File sharing services offered by 4shared, Rapidshare, etc.
Can ...
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How can I save automatically my files to OneDrive or Google Drive without store in my computer?
I'm a web developer and I have Windows 10 installed on a very small SSD (128GB).
The problem is, when I want to save my file to a cloud service, I need to store the files on my computer, so that the ...
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Mounting an Amazon EC2 instance on Mac OS X
I've got public key authentication working between my Mac OS X and an Amazon EC2 instance so that from the command-line I can just type the following and it works:
ssh root@[IPAddressOfEC2Instance]
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My uncle is the family historian. We need to host about 5-15 TB of images and video. Any inexpensive ideas?
Basically we have hq scans of thousands of old family photos. Plus tons of family video. We want to host them where we can still have total control over the content and restrict access. I'm a php ...
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How can I split and reconnect large files?
I'm trying to upload 10 GB files to S3, but the files are too large.
So I'm looking for a program that will zip then split the file into multiple, smaller files.
Of course, I need the same program ...
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What free online alternatives are there to FrontPage? [closed]
What's the best free online alternative to Microsoft FrontPage?
I'm going to make a website for a friend, who will need to be able to edit it himself. All that's needed is something to create/edit ...
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How do I set up non local network folder sharing?
I am not a tech savvy person so this may be very easy to solve or not solvable at all, or perhaps there is a better way that I am not thinking of...
The Situation:
Three (3) Desktop Computers ...
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What are the differences between ChromeOS and Jolicloud?
Jolicloud seems to be the first Cloud OS.
How does it compare to Chrome OS? What's the difference between them? Just mixed local/cloud vs absolutely cloud?
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Send files between two online servers?
Is there a tool which I can user to send files between two remote servers? For example, I have hosting at hostgator and I create a directory there. Then I use that tool to send files from some other ...
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How to bootstrap Windows hosts with remote PowerShell for use with Ansible?
I haven't found a decent way to get a Windows instance in Azure started up using the azure_rm_virtualmachine module with remote PowerShell enabled from first boot.
What is the typical approach to ...
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Setting up scripts in Amazon EC2 Cloud
I am currently running a few perl and python scripts on a windows pc and would like to port over to the Amazon EC2 servers running 64-bit LINUX. The scripts are basic web scrapers that go to a ...
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httpd on CentOS resolving only the first VirtualHost
I just got a new cloud server and while setting it up, I can access the web root by pointing my browser to the IP address of my server, but the domain names are still propagating so when I go to them, ...
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Saving source code of a personal project (made with Netbeans) to the cloud
I'm using Netbeans for code development of a personal project. Often times the computer I'm working on isn't mine or I may not be on it always (for example it's a library computer or one I'm using at ...
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Good practices of creating redundant archive for long time cloud storage
I want to create digital archive of photos, documents and other imporant stuff to store in the cloud (likely Amazon Glacier). Preferably one year per archive, up to 10 gigabytes each. I want to make ...
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Cloud Foundry and WinSCP
What is the simplest way to access the Cloud Foundry application container using WinSCP?
The way I know, I need following steps:
Login / Target
cf login
cf target -o app-org -s app-space
Retrieve ...
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Run a Virtual Machine inside a Rackspace Cloud Server?
Is it possible to run some semblance of a Virtual Machine (perhaps not something as comprehensive as VMWare / VirtualBox, but something like User-Space Linux) inside of a Rackspace Cloud Virtual ...
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How to deploy OpenProject on Heroku?
I want to deploy project management software OpenProject on Heroku cloud through docker-compose.yml file.
version: '3'
services:
openproject:
container_name: openproject
image: openproject/...
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Syncing cloud storage with external hard drive
I basically want to have a clone of my External HDD uploaded to a cloud service. I need a way to execute a 2-way sync every time the External HDD is plugged in. So, the changes made to the cloud (new ...
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Run Windows application in the cloud
I have an (end-user-oriented) application I'd like to run, that only runs on Windows. I don't own a Windows machine and don't really want to buy a license for Windows just so I can run it in a VM. ...
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What are the relation and difference between a "personal cloud," NAS, and RAID?
I just heard the name "personal cloud." Someone said if I know the technology, then I can build a personal cloud for myself. But I googled the name, and there seems not a definition for that thing.
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