First Ralphie, now me. I now own an official Red Ryder Carbine BB gun. I
promise not to shoot my eye out.
Making Gnome Usable: Enable Gnome Desktop Icons
If you would like to enable desktop icons within the gnome desktop manager, use the dconf-editor tool for this. org>gnome>desktop>background show-desktop- icons You can also use the “Tweak Tool” as well.
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Siphoning the Punching Bag
AWS Per-Second Billing for EC2 and EBS available in October
Amazon AWS has announced per-second billing for EC2 instances and EBS volumes starting October 2, 2017. There are still hourly charges related to dedicated instances, snapshots, and AWS marketplace images.
A terrific treatise on Linux load averages
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery is a terrific article on Linux load averages from Brendan Gregg. Well worth the time. I learned a lot.
Please be patient. This was tweeted out recently, and his site is throttling requests.
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