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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...

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.    

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...