Tag Archives: Computers

AWS Logging (or “why am I being charged for free-tier S3?”)

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Justin

I have an AWS account. I created it less than a year ago, so I get some free stuff with the account. In the billing dashboard, I was somewhat concerned to see this: It is only 5 days to the … Continue reading →

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AWS Storage capacity

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Justin

I remember when I thought a gigabyte was a lot. I bought an external 1GB hard disk in 1995, and filled it up in no time at all. As geeky things go, it was pretty exciting. Hadoop is designed for … Continue reading →

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Cygwin and the unreadable files

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Andy

I have a PC which has been upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. At some point during one of the upgrades, some accounts have been “upgraded”. It all looks seamless until you take a look with Cygwin, which I … Continue reading →

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Vi tip of the day

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Andy

When I need to discuss some code with a colleague over a video call, it’s usually necessary to increase the font-size. Rather than hunting down the menu items, you can type one of these: :set guifont=* # (gvim) launches the … Continue reading →

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Windows enhancements to improve useability

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Dom Watkins

There are plenty of user-interface enhancements for Windows, including tools to display useful information on the desktop background, automatically resize windows, mount network drives via ssh and write disk images, and each has its place – more on those in … Continue reading →

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