Random Stuff
Various ramblings of sysadmin, programmer, dancer, coffee snob, food lover and Winnipegger.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Terraform G Suite DNS records
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In the previous post I cited automation potential as one of the reasons to change registrars. While it’s a pretty strong reason for cloud ...
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Why transfer domains from NameCheap to Route 53
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TL;DR: it’s cheaper if you want WhoisGuard and use Route 53 as registrar only . Longer answer with caveats and additional justifications be...
Monday, April 3, 2017
Rebuild AMI using SSM Automation
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In the previous post I used Packer to remove block device mappings from Ubuntu AMI to ensure EC2 auto-recovery is working. While Packe...
Monday, March 20, 2017
Ensure EC2 auto-recovery by rebuilding AMI with Packer
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Problem : Amazon EC2 auto recovery fails if machine image has ephemeral block device mappings defined (even when no instance store volume...
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Enable "Developer options" on Android
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Since release of Android 4.2 the "Developer options" menu is not visible in the Settings by default. Regular users won't m...
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Homebrew cheat sheet and workflow
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If you are a Mac owner and a serious *NIX user, you're probably aware of Homebrew . I have a few of my favorite tools installed with b...
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Add time stamp to a file name from CLI
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I often find myself in need to append a time stamp to a file name, but always forget the right command line parameters. Here's a quick r...
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