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IT related tech tips since 2006VMWare Fusion 8.5.10 Guests on Mac High Sierra 10.13.3 NAT Network not Working
Just booted both a Windows 10 and Fedora 26 VM on my Macbook and found that the default network adaptor setting of "Share with my Mac" caused the guest OS to not have a valid IP Address: So after some investigation I think the problem is that Mac High Sierra 10.13.3...
Get the Size of an Amazon Bucket
Command to get a listing of each object and it's size, the number of objects and their total size in human readable format: aws s3 ls --summarize --human-readable --recursive s3://BUCKET_NAME/ # output is a really long listing ... with this...
Configure CakePHP 3.x and React so 401 Unauthorized Errors are Caught by fetch()
Update: Another way of globally implementing CORS is to add a .htaccess with the following in it Doing JWT authentication with CakePHP and when I put the wrong...
Word for Mac 2016 Label Merge Work-a-round
I have been trying to create labels with a mail merge in Microsoft Word for Mac 2016 After much frustration (a colossal waste of time) with trying to get it working using the recommended merge field options: { INCLUDEPICTURE "{ MERGEFIELD...
Bootstrap Glyphicons and Font Awesome in CakePHP 3
This is how I use both bootstrap glyphicons and the font awesome fonts in cake with some simple helper methods. You first need to copy your font awesome files to webroot/webfonts and glyphicons to webroot/fonts and the respective css files to webroot/css and include...
A Good Mac Terminal
Just been using iTerm2 for a number of weeks on my Macbook Pro. It's been stable and easy to use. The mac terminal itself had been buggy and exited randomly.
Using DRAC 6 to update BIOS on Dell 710 Server
My tips from my mac Use fn+command+F11 to send the F11 key to get into the BIOS boot device selection screen when connecting from a mac to remote desktop to a java instance of the DRAC console.
ntpdate
Just upgrading from 5.1 to 5.5 of the Vcenter Server Appliance and was wanting to set time synchronization Get a list of public NTP server from http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/au Login to the upgraded VCSA as root and run ntpdate your.ntp.server.name.here will confirm...
Playing with the … spread operator on JSON objects
const stringify = (obj) => { // use 2 spaces and pretty print it return JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2) } const token = "hijames" // starting array const config = { headers: { 'Authorization': `Bearer ${token}`,...