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My AWS fiasco

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My AWS fiasco

My miscellaneous website deploys on AWS

So I developed a habit of spending a few dollars and buy a TLD to host a presentation, as I (usually) refer to them as; but articles I've written and some (anonymized) screencaptures of social media debates I've gotten into.

(This is rewrite of this page, incidently. I thought I'd mix it up a bit.)

A few of my websites

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This started when I was getting into arguments with people online who would take such extreme positions on topics, but a common idealogy is that gov't laws & regulations are created out of some kind of pesky gov't intrusion on private business & whatnot & everybody agrees on that. Democracy & all that. Of course the so-called pesky over-reach is most likely stemmed from prior tragedies where disadvantaged, vulnerable citizens suffered or died.

If anything pertinent actually happened then people would already know about it since everybody omniscient like that (kinda thing).

Mounting partitions at startup with /etc/fstab

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Mounting partitions at startup with /etc/fstab

One thing that is helpful for me is knowing how to set up /etc/fstab to mount partitions at boot. This example is for a dual-boot with Windows 7 and Linux with another NTFS "Data" partition accessible from both operating systems. I've also set up partitions for two separate Linux installs, and a shared 4GB swap for them.

Cowsay (or tuxsay) fortunes in terminal

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Cowsay (or tuxsay) fortunes in terminal

This is a quick guide on how to have Cowsay (or Tuxsay, etc.) with fortunes upon opening the terminal.

I have it set up using fortune's "wisdom" quotes. They're not difficult to create; install the "fortune-mod" package (along with "fortunes" and "cowsay"); use the strfile tool on a formatted text like "strfile vocab-fortune vocab-fortune.dat" and put it in fortune's directory, e.g. /usr/share/fortune or /usr/share/games/fortunes/ on Debians.