About Linux
It was harder to do than you might think. As it turns out, it was hard-code in the theme. So I grep’d recursively for “(‘d.m.Y’)”. Thanks to google I knew what to search for. I was using the shiny-blog theme. I found it in single.php and content.php. It was in two places, one for displaying […]
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Two copies of the same share would show up when I browsed the network. I added the following: to I found this link that told me what to do: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1138394/seeing-ubuntu-server-19-04-twice-on-clients-probably-avahi-mdns-issue
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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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
Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) does not have a package for MySQL Workbench. It was difficult to build from source. I don’t even remember what I did. But once I built it, I saved the source tree in a zipfile. Then in the build directory, wb-build, I copied the Makefile to Makefile.install. I removed any dependencies
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I got a little desktop editor written in java called lxmed (lx menu editor) https://lxmed.sourceforge.net/. It used gksu to call the .jar file. So I set out to find gksu (I have built it before). To make a very, long, story short, I found a ppa with gksu because everyone has deprecated and removed it
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