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How to Raise an Objection to Increased Property Rates Joburg

The city of Joburg is again rerating the market value of properties in the City. The previous time this was done was in 2018 – where rate increases became effective July 2018. Use the objections.joburg.org.za website to object. The deadline for objecting is end of March 2023. The userguide on how to object is on […]

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AWS costs (in Rands) every programmer should know

An article on AWS costs was seen and it was thought decent to convert it to rands from dollars… Taking R:$ as 15 Component $/month R/Month 1 modern vCPU (4 AWS ECUs) 43 645 With 1 year convertible reservation 43 645 With 3 years convertible reservation 30 450 With spot pricing (estimated) 30 450 1 […]

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Using ansible and vault to securely ssh into many vms

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The price of Things

What is the price of things in 2021 really? At a coffee shop (Morgan’s Blouberg): A flat white single/double is: R27/R30 A toasted chicken mayo with small chips: R50 A pub: Rock Star Diner = Black label draught 500ml: R45 Carlyle’s on Derry = Black label draught 500ml: R42.5 A burger: Shwarma Express = A […]

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Mount external hd permanently on raspberry pi

The best tutorial to use for mounting an external Hard Drive permanently on your rspberry pi is on raspberrypi.org documentation List all the disk partitions sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL Identify the name of the disk partition (eg. sda1) Install the relevant storage driver for your FSTYPE (eg. exfat-fuse or ntfs-3g) – usually already install on […]