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Advent of Code

Posted on December 5, 2017

Check out Advent of Code when you have a chance. A fun site to challenge devs during the holiday season.

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I got a Red Ryder Carbine

Posted on November 18, 2017

First Ralphie, now me. I now own an official Red Ryder Carbine BB gun. I promise not to shoot my eye out. A Daisy Red Ryder BB gun lying on the carpet

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Making Gnome Usable: Enable Gnome Desktop Icons

Posted on September 20, 2017 (Last modified: April 24, 2018)

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. [Read More]

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Siphoning the Punching Bag

Posted on September 18, 2017

Punching Bag

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AWS Per-Second Billing for EC2 and EBS available in October

Posted on September 18, 2017 (Last modified: February 1, 2020)

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.