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While I am delving into AWS Cognito and learning how it interacts with other services for example S3 object storage, I am jotting down some of the more useful CLI commands. This can be quite daunting to learn so it is very helpful to retain the commands for future reference.…

Since I am always looking for my notes I am adding this snippet here for reference. Handy for checking the time a reboot takes for example.

To save a video to your computer is not as easy in WeChat as one may think. In WhatsApp this is easier since files are also local. In WeChat I did the following: 1. Open web.wechat.com. I used Firefox 47.0.1 2. Scan IR code from WeChat on Iphone to login…

Since I want to capture what I did to take a look at the initial stages Papyros shell I am jotting down what worked for me.  It sounds like soon the developers will have working downloadable images to try so its worth waiting for those.  Getting ArchLinux going in Virtualbox…

Sometimes you need to manipulate lists of IP addresses in Excel but of course it sorts on strings which is not ideal for IP addresses. A quick way to sort is adding another column with the following formula and sorting on that new column. =((VALUE(LEFT(B6, FIND(“.”, B6)-1)))*256^3)+((VALUE(MID(B6, FIND(“.”, B6)+1, FIND(“.”,…

If you like myself have spent way too much time with Outlook chomping newlines in a simple text email this little workaround worked for me.  Assuming of course you do actually have newlines in your text that you are sending you can just use sed to add two spaces to…