If you have ever used Amazon’s AWS console then you probably know that though sometimes it can be clunky, it has a ton of functionality for interacting with the various AWS services. So when I needed to give one of my coworkers access to one of our S3 buckets, I immediately investigated the laziest option: Figuring out how they could login to the S3 console and use that to manage the bucket.
Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.
It is designed to work on systems with Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) modesetting drivers. The idea is that early on in the boot process the native mode for the computer is set, plymouth uses that mode, and that mode stays throughout the entire boot process up to and after X starts. Ideally, the goal is to get rid of all flicker during startup.
For systems that don’t have DRM mode settings drivers, plymouth falls back to text mode.
Any TTF, OTF, or TTC (TrueType Collection) files can be manually installed on an ad hoc basis.
The Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is a 64-bit register present on all x86 processors since the Pentium. It counts the number of cycles since reset.
Sometimes it is necessary to empty plain text files quickly and without complications from the command line on a local machine or remotely via SSH.