When I started working with personal computers in the early / mid 70’s, there was no such thing as an operating system. Bill Gates was probably a nerd in grade school. Woz and Jobs were also just two kids. Everything in personal computing was programmed in machine code binary, octal, and hex. A box to contain the computer had not even been necessary or invented. A person had to acquire (purchase) all the separate physical...
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Growing Pains
I am really taking my bruises while hacking on my Amazon Cloud web server. But I like the abuse. I must be a cyber masochist. My cloud is called the Amazon Web Service (AWS). They provide their smallest server to hackers like me, with a first time free one year trial to play with their toys. It’s not REALLY a toy, but a “for real” cloud server. Actually as good as any server I would...
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Oh no! What have I done to myself? I have to clean out the cobwebs in my skull and make room for more brains. I am going to get back into my brain shell and be born again, or is it Bourne again… I have to refresh myself in using the BASH (Bourne Again SHell) commands that are used to communicate with Linux and Unix. I need BASH commands but will actually use another protocol...
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I just acquired a new computing toy with which to play. No, not the Raspberry Pie. That’s another nerd toy. But I have something almost as small… I just signed up for the smallest available Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud web server. It is a free usage account for a year. I have no real idea what I am going to use it for at this moment other than a sandbox server to play with and...
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