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If you're just starting out with Docker, it's super easy to follow the examples, get started and run a few things. However, moving to the next step, making your own Dockerfiles, can be a bit confusing. One of the more common points of confusion seems to be:

Where are my Docker images stored?

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There are times when a productive person finds themselves overwhelmed with work. You'll look around and proclaim "there's no end to this" as your sense of priority fails you, switching from task to task without completing any of them. You spend too much time on simple or unimportant things. You get frustrated easily and can feel the blue smoke coming out of your ears, longing to escape the dilemma. It's ultimately unfair that the more capable you are the more work you get thrown at you, while those unproductive fools surrounding you laugh off your fervor, chortling away from their lap of leisure.

Well, there's a simple set of rules to solve this problem. Just like the three R's of waste prevention (reduce, reuse, recycle), there are three S's of the stressed over-producer (or alternatively the three D's):

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Haruki Murakami is a wonderful writer. I recently came across this story online, but the version I was reading was the result of a terrible OCR job full of distracting artifacts.

So I decided to edit it, fix all the weird OCRness and turn it into a markdown Gist. You can now read it through the lovely tool, Gist.io.

Here's the finished version:

Man Eating Cats by Haruki Murakami

Recently, at AppFog, we encountered a series of abusive users attempting to cause havoc by flooding UDP.

Some basic iptables settings can prevent this kind of thing from happening.

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Simple untar script that does the obvious thing and creates a directory named after the tar file, then extracts a tar in that directory. This is a handy to install in user scope to augment tar.

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