Ok so two things. Firefox ESR and mainline. If you are on an unsupported version of ubuntu, like my web server which hosts other peoples stuff, and cannot upgrade. You can keep the kernel up-to-date with mainline. https://github.com/bkw777/mainline/releases/ It parses the ubuntu kernels from the from the Ubuntu archive and lets you select one and […]
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I found a page that showed me how to update the /etc/apt/sources.list file to support ubuntu 19.04 – codename disco which is EOL. https://zzz.buzz/notes/ubuntu-releases-and-apt-sources/
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I followed this site: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo I set everything up as recommended. But I was unable to change the permissions. I was using sudo rsync -azv So, after a bit of googling I changed /etc/exports /export 192.168.1.0/24(rw,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check,async) /export/backup 192.168.1.0/24(rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,async) /export 192.168.1.0/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,async,no_root_squash) /export/backup 192.168.1.0/24(rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,async,no_root_squash) The key was no_root_squash Then I could read and write as root.
Susan had two videos in portrait format that needed to be in landscape per requirement. I used this page: https://www.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/appunti/linux/video/fix_smartphone_portrait_videos I set offset_y=0.0 and crop_aspect=1.0. Here are the finished videos uploaded to Youtube.
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Zoom and XScreensaver do not get along well. When my screensaver would sometimes activate it would sometimes start Zoom and crash XScreensaver. I found this: https://www.gunnard.org/zoom-launches-as-screensaver-in-linux-solution/
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I added a separate router – a WRT310n V2 to my ASUS Zenbook in the office. I run Android Studio over a VNC connection. I was having trouble reaching it from my wired connection which is connected to my main wireless router. I ended up setting a static route to the ASUS Zenbook from my
From the last post, it was necessary to pull the 5.7 tag instead of the latest because the latest was MySQL 8.0 had SSL enabled by default. MySQL 5.7 is more compatible with WordPress since it doesn’t have SSL enabled. It should not be accessible over the internet, so I change changed bind-address = 0.0.0.0
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First, I pulled the image ‘docker pull mysql’ that was the last easy thing I did. I wanted to use my own my.cnf file. So put it in /my/custom and used: ‘-v /my/custom:/etc/mysql’. I pulled a highly optimized one off github: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rhtyd/d59078be4dc88123104e/raw/12d79310970e21604480c41d0c34813e6946be44/my.cnf I had to comment a lot out as many options are deprecated #datadir
First get the Secure Shell App Offered by Google Secure Shell Developers. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell-app/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-search Next get VNC® Viewer for Google Chrome™ Offered by www.realvnc.com https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vnc%C2%AE-viewer-for-google-ch/iabmpiboiopbgfabjmgeedhcmjenhbla?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-search Then when creating a [New Connection] in the Secure Shell App, specify the following SSH Arguments: -L 5901:localhost:5901 Open the Connection that you created. Then open VNC® Viewer for Google Chrome™ and
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It’s just a few days away. Oct. 17th is the day. I’ll be running Lubuntu. That’s Ubuntu with a LXQt desktop. It’s super light-weight which is great for my MacBook Airs. They have 2GB of RAM, an I5 and a 64GB SSD. So Lubuntu is a good choice. I have installed the beta in a
