Last week I wrote a post about creating an S3 Bucket to host a static website. After I posted it I began to wonder, could we command line this to make it creating a bucket a quicker task? This post assumes you have the CLI installed and know the very basics on how to use it. Here is the rundown of the logic and what steps need to take place: A bucket needs to be created, region selected Public access…
If you would like to host static content, Amazon AWS is one of the easiest methods to do so with a very low cost of entry. Creating a S3 bucket is the first step towards doing so. Sign into the AWS Console Under “Find Services” type in “S3” and select S3. Next, click on “Create Bucket”. For the purpose of this tutorial I will call the bucket “tutorial-001-sj”. I have also changed the region to the one nearest me, this…
I was looking at getting larger drives for a small NAS unit I was building out. It is a small 4 Bay Netgear NAS that I inherited. Currently I have a bunch of 2TB drives laying around from a previous project a few years back. These have served me well, but some have a manufactured date of 2011! Time flys, its 2019 now! One of the considerations I was looking at was getting the best value I could for some…
A year ago I posted about an application to help you learn the Arabic alphabet called Write It! Arabic. It has worked great, I spent probably 15-30 minutes a week playing with it over the course of the last year and I can say I have learned all of the letters. I still do not know 100% what I am reading when I see signs in this part of the world, but I am able to sort of sound things…
One in a while I get a CSV and have to turn it into an excel document, its pretty easy but not something I do every day. From time to time a friend will ask me how I have done this. The below is a tutorial on just that! Open Excel and create a new workbook Go to Data and select “From Text/CSV”. Locate the CSV and click Import. This could take a few seconds depending on how large this…
When you stand up an instance on AWS you are presented with a PEM file as the key for SSH into your newly stood up instance. This doesn’t directly work in Putty when you want to connect, but converting it into a format that works with Putty is very easy. If you only have Putty, you will need to also get PuTTYgen. I personally just got the whole installer, it is available here. Once obtained and installed, open up PuTTYgen….
I picked up a new phone app that I really liked about a week ago. I had been trying to learn the Arabic alphabet for a while now, annoying my wife to teach me was not yielding the right result either, but hey, it was worth a shot! Write It! Arabic available here for android and here for iPhone. If you are trying to learn, I highly recommend it. This is better than the flashcards I was trying to make…
Another country cross off the bucket list, Armenia. It is a beautiful country with many things to see, and a nice spot to play beer pong that I was able to find after hours. The Venue is a rock themed bar/pub with a single 10 cup table in the middle. Getting to it is a bit tricky because it is in a basement, they have a sign outside and a set of stairs to go into it. The Venus is…
This weekend I ran into a trivial issue I usually ignore since I will use putty for virtually everything on a Linux virtual machine. I fired up a VM I downloaded and the resolution was 800×600 by default, which compared to the 4k landscape I have available was a little less than ideal. It was a Debian based OS, so the fix was pretty simple. Fire up the terminal and type in “xrandr”, in my case the display was “Virtual1”,…
I have escaped again this last weekend! During my trip to Dubai I managed to find a place to play beer pong. Located at the Media One Hotel on the 9th floor is a place called Mr Miyagi’s. It is an Asian themed bar with four beer pong tables, the food was pretty good but smaller portions that I would have liked. One thing to note is they featured 10 cup as opposed to six cup, also the cups are…