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Toggen WMS

A few years ago I had to install a solution that would take the place of some of the functionality of an ERP that was not coming across during a business acquisition Toggen WMS (Warehouse Management System) is written using the CakePHP 2.x framework with some UI in...

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Google Chrome Infuriating Redirects

Google Apps has the ability to define a custom hostname for it's calendar, drive, mail, sites, groups services How it works is you create a CNAME record in DNS that points from your custom domain to Google which then intelligently redirects you to the correct service...

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Zint – FNC1

GS1-128 Barcodes have a FNC1 character at the beginning but if a field is variable length a FNC1 is embedded to delimit the end of the field from the next AI code Zint is a open source barcode generator and it already has the AI rules in it so that it knows when to...

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vmguest.iso

Question: What is the Hyper-V equivalent of VMWare Tools? Answer: Hyper-V Integration Services If you are running Hyper-V on Windows 10 and need the vmguest.iso to get Video and Mouse working on older Windows versions Further to this...

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Speedtest from the CLI

Awaiting a speed increase on you Internet connection but it's not there yet? Want to know within an hour when the speed increase happens? Create a crontab entry crontab -e With this content MAILTO="" 0 * * * * /Users/username/sites/speedtest/speedtest.sh >>...

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Bash alias to copy ssh public key

If you need to copy and paste your public key into dozens of different VM's in Azure or AWS this can be handy. It copies your public ssh key to the clip board and displays it on screen # put this into ~/.bash_profile alias getkey="cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | tee...

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