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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...
CakePHP 2.x Reducing Database Column Sizes by changing from TEXT to VARCHAR Column Types
I was using a TEXT database field for some text settings and found that it uses 64kb of data SELECT name, char_length(comment)/1024 FROM settings; Checking the field size with the above query I found that the largest content was 0.6660 kb. So I had specified a...
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...
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 >>...
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
So I achieved this certification on Sept 29 2019 My last Microsoft Certification was Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer in March 2002. So a while in between drinks
Learn AS-400
If you want to have a look around AS-400 try pub400.com Just so I remember the SSL Port is 992