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 In French, exploitation has multiple meanings. One use is the negative abusive meaning that describes the action of treating someone or something (the environment) unfairly to benefit from them. The second describes the operation/utilization of a resource. In English, the modern mainstream use of exploitation is the latter.   The origins of the word are from the Latin explicō meaning unfold, deploy and the English borrowed it from the French exploiter , the derivative of exploit circa 1400. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, it started having negative connotations around the mid-1800 “ in part from the influence of French socialist writings (especially Saint Simon), also perhaps influenced by the use of the word in U.S. anti-slavery writing; and exploitation was hurled in insult at activities it once had crowned as praise. ”   It is common for French speakers/documents communicated to an English audience to use exploitation to describe an operation. ...

Introduction You are following a How-To video. The person speaking from behind the glass is making it sound so easy; twist here, turn there, rotate like this. For the first 35 seconds, you've been able to keep up, but now you are lagging. What no one told you is that the person demonstrating the technique has either been doing this most of their life or you are seeing the polished and highly edited 30 minutes of a two and half hour session during which the tasks were performed over and over countless times. The bottom line is that you are watching things performed by someone skilled in the task. One method is to constantly reverse the video, playing back from the last 30 seconds. Tedious at best, problematic if your hands are occupied or covered in cake mixture or grease. The reverse side of this playback-speed coin is hearing someone rambling before the actual topic the title promised to cover. Intros, like and subscribe, sponsor, patron, and additional yada yada to turn a 4-minut...

Like others, I fished out my old Go Pro HERO 3+ and found that I could not link to it via WiFi because I had forgotten the password. A quick search on the internet and it seems that there are still many users of this good, albeit old Action Cam. Some had purchased one off eBay or from a second-hand shop while others, like me, found it in a drawer and decided to repurpose it. If the GoPro has not been used for a while it might not be on the latest firmware. Note that these models are no longer supported. The common thread is that without the Wi-Fi SSID and password, it isn't possible to control the camera from the phone using GoPro's Quik software. I referenced these sites: 1.  HERO3/3+ Information And Troubleshooting : This is an official GoPro Site from where you can download the camera firmware and update the camera Wi-Fi for the HERO 3 and HERO 3+. 2.  Software Update and Reset for GoPro Hero 3, 3+ and 4 : This is another source for firmware (covers more models) and there i...

The final part of this 6-part series uses Postman to create a bucket on AWS S3. The Postman call is low-level compared to the other methods discussed in this series. We discuss why, when, and how to invoke the method.  S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is a service that allows Amazon customers to store any type of file. Netflix uses an S3 to store the movies they stream, while Siemens has an S3 that accumulates operational data on which their cybersecurity teams perform forensic analysis. Ryanair and Nasdaq use S3 to backup their data. Video Podcast Show Notes Part 5

The fifth of this 6-part series creates a bucket in the Paris region using AWS's built-in web-based scripting environment, CloudShell. Similar to PowerShell (reviewed in Part 4), CloudShell provides a web-based interface to a number of popular scripting languages.  S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is a service that allows Amazon customers to store any type of file. Netflix uses an S3 to store the movies they stream, while Siemens has an S3 that accumulates operational data on which their cybersecurity teams perform forensic analysis. Ryanair and Nasdaq use S3 to backup their data. Video Podcast Show Notes Part 4  - Part 6

The fourth of this 6-part series will create a bucket in the eu-west-3 region using PowerShell. PowerShell (PS) is a scripting language available in many OSs and is not bound to any one development environments. The benefits of using an OS scripting language over SDKs is discussed. S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is a service that allows Amazon customers to store any type of file. Netflix uses an S3 to store the movies they stream, while Siemens has an S3 that accumulates operational data on which their cybersecurity teams perform forensic analysis. Ryanair and Nasdaq use S3 to backup their data. Video Podcast Show Notes Part 3  - Part 5

The 2nd of this 6-part series looks at how the GUI can be used to perform actions. We focus on using AWS's S3 console to create an S3 bucket in the eu-west-3 region. S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is a service that allows Amazon customers to store any type of file. Netflix uses an S3 to store the movies they stream, while Siemens has an S3 that accumulates operational data on which their cybersecurity teams perform forensic analysis. Ryanair and Nasdaq use S3 to backup their data.   Video Podcast Show Notes Part 1 - Part 3

This 6-part series starts with a non-technical explanation of what an API is.  S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is a service that allows Amazon customers to store any type of file. Netflix uses an S3 to store the movies they stream, while Siemens has an S3 that accumulates operational data on which their cybersecurity teams perform forensic analysis. Ryanair and Nasdaq use S3 to backup their data. Video Podcast Video Presentation Deck Show Notes Part 2

The third part of this 6-part series looks at how functions that can be performed using the GUI can be made available within a package that can be invoked within a supported development language. SDKs extend the reach developers have, vis-à-vis the ability to make their software perform more functions and manage the scope and capabilities of their solutions. S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is a service that allows Amazon customers to store any type of file. Netflix uses an S3 to store the movies they stream, while Siemens has an S3 that accumulates operational data on which their cybersecurity teams perform forensic analysis. Ryanair and Nasdaq use S3 to backup their data. Video Podcast Show Notes Part 2  - Part 4