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Most new PCs don't come with DVD drives anymore. So it can be a pain to install Windows on a new computer.

Luckily, Microsoft makes a tool that you can use to install Windows from a USB storage drive (or "thumbdrive" as they are often called).

But what if you don't have a second PC for setting up that USB storage drive in the first place?

In this tutorial we'll show you how you can set this up from a Mac.

Step 1: Download the Windows 10 ISO file

You can download the ISO file straight from Windows. That's right - everything we're going to do here is 100% legal and sanctioned by Microsoft.

Configuring AWS ECS to have access to AWS EFS

If you would like to persist data from your ECS containers, i.e. hosting databases like MySQL or MongoDB with Docker, you need to ensure that you can mount the data directory of the database in the container to volume that's not going to dissappear when your container or worse yet, the EC2 instance that hosts your containers, is restarted or scaled up or down for any reason.

Don't know how to create your own AWS ECS Cluster? Go here!

New Cluster

Sadly the EC2 provisioning process doesn't allow you to configure EFS during the initial config. After your create your cluster, follow the guide below.

New Task Definition for Web App

If you're using an Alpine-based Node server like duluca/minimal-node-web-server follow this guide:

Update and upgrade the system

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo reboot

Configure timezone

In penance for cracking stupid jokes on Twitter, here's my Emacs cheat sheet. Emacs has a steep learning curve, so I've tried to order them by importance so you could learn them in stages.

One overall rule of thumb: pay attention to the minibuffer (the line at the bottom of the editor). It will often guide you through a process, and also gives you hints about what state you're in, such as the middle of a multi-chord sequence.

The other rule of thumb: when in doubt, C-g it out.

Basics (mandatory)

You simply can't get by without having these at your fingertips.

	# Insert your company-hash here. When you get the download link, this is the long alpha-numeric scring
	# that comes after setupdownloader_ in the filename.
	# Do not include the square brackets (but do include the = if there is one).
	$CompanyHash = ""

	### Modify below this line at your own risk!

	# If it's already installed, just do nothing
	$Installed = Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*" \|
	Where-Object { $_.DisplayName -eq "Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools" }

	# Install ARCH Linux with encrypted file-system and UEFI
	# The official installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide) contains a more verbose description.

	# Download the archiso image from https://www.archlinux.org/
	# Copy to a usb-drive
	dd if=archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX bs=16M && sync # on linux

	# Boot from the usb. If the usb fails to boot, make sure that secure boot is disabled in the BIOS configuration.

	# Set swedish keymap

	require 'rake'
	require 'rake/testtask'

	Rake::TestTask.new do \|t\|
	t.test_files = Dir.glob('spec/*/_spec.rb')
	end

	task(default: :test)