So I had 250GB of data to upload to Google G Suite. Some ~200GB is Pictures the other is a mix of Documents and an assortment of Macbook home directory detritus. So I wanted to upload the photos and get them to automatically appear in Google Photos. Google Backup and...
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Insync on Ubuntu 18.04
I had some small issues getting the insync client running on a fresh (defaults install) of Ubuntu 18.04 to install insync-nautilus Unfortunately the standard Ubuntu 18.04 deb package doesn't add a list file for the insync repo so you can't enable nautilus integration...
AWS CLI S3 Download of Mac Files to Windows Causes Failures
I have recently needed to upload several hundred GB of files from a Macbook Pro Laptop to S3, then download the S3 Files into 4GB t2.medium Windows 2016 Server EC2 instance so I could use Google Backup and Sync to upload the pictures and docs to a GSuite account. This...
aws cli – can’t encode character ‘\uxxx’ surrogates not allowed
If you get the above when trying to do an aws s3 sync then check your LANG settings... for some reason inside a docker container I had no LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 set and so the aws cli could not encode the romantic little love hearts and weird characters that people embed in...
Run a docker container command from synology crontab
Use the information here to edit the /etc/crontab and then restart with synoservice -restart crond http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-use-cron-on-a-synology-nas/ # /etc/crontab every 2 hrs at 15 minutes past 15 */2 * * * root...
Call to undefined function opcache_reset()
Got this error message 2018/03/13 22:12:41 [error] 17149#0: *7057 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function opcache_reset() in /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/opcache/opcache.php:72 And then created a file...
VMWare 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...
