Amazon AWS has announced per-second billing for EC2 instances and EBS volumes starting October 2, 2017. There are still hourly charges related to dedicated instances, snapshots, and AWS marketplace images.
A terrific treatise on Linux load averages
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery is a terrific article on Linux load averages from Brendan Gregg. Well worth the time. I learned a lot.
Please be patient. This was tweeted out recently, and his site is throttling requests.
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High-Tech Websites Using Drupal
Here is an interesting blog post
of high-tech websites that use
Drupal.
GE LED BR-30 bulbs - Avoid
After my third failed GE BR-30 LED bulb, I thought that I would post of my experience. Within 12 to 18 months of purchase, I have had 3 of these bulbs fail in the exact same way with random dimming and flickering.
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Ubuntu to switch back to GNOME and will use Wayland
In a blog post from Mark Shuttleworth , Canonical will stop work on Unity 8 and the desktop server Mir. In Ubuntu 18.04, GNOME and Wayland will be the desktop display technologies.
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