WordPress is great for a lot of things, so is Drupal and a veritable host of other content management systems. But sometimes you just want something simple. That's where supersimple.website comes in.

Ever get that sinking feeling when you realise you have to update your CMS website?

Switch Gmail from Standard to Basic HTML display

Click this link...

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h

...and click HTML in the popup bar that appears at the top of the browser

If you use gmail, redirect a copy to some other IMAP-anabled mail account.

Download and install Thunderbird

Setup your account IMAP settings

Setup your account SMTP settings

Batch conversion of RAW images (e.g. Canon CRW og Nikon NEF) to JPEG

Get da stuff:

sudo apt-get install dcraw netpbm

Descend into directory containing the raw files, say they're Canon RAW images called xxxxxx.CRW and you want JPEGs:

Back up original grub file:

sudo cp -n /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.orig

Create file for restore somewhere handy:

sudo vi GRUB_RESTORE_CMD

Insert this into the file:

sudo mv /etc/default/grub.orig /etc/default/grub && sudo update-grub

Now edit the grub file:

What and Why

If you often install Ubuntu you will understand the benefits of a local Ubuntu repository. In the following I set up a mirror for Ubuntu Vivid 15.04 packages so that I can install on 64-bit and 32-bit PC's as well as Raspberry Pi. The mirror itself will reside on an Ubuntu 14.04 server and will update the mirror once a day, and I don't have to load the internet connection everytime I install a new OS or want a new package. 

Change the system time and date to what YOU want:

Whah dadnabbit, just let me control my own computer thank you.

1) Shut the net-time-synchronisation the !#@&! up
2) Set time as you see fit
3) Set date as you see fit

NB: Check Mint gots-to-dos after install stuff
Before downloading and installing software:

(All these commands are listed at the end of this article, ready for you to copy and paste into a nearby bash script)
Remember to run update first:

sudo apt update

Version 3.8.0 - Successful 2019-07-17

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install g++ git cmake autoconf automake libsdl1.2-dev libboost-all-dev libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev zlib1g-dev libpng-dev libjpeg8-dev libz-dev libsdl-dev 
git clone -b release/v3.8.0 https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray.git 
cd povray/unix/ 
./prebuild.sh 
cd ..

[Static build:]

./configure \
COMPILED_BY="MichaelafSjaelland@gmail.com"   \
NON_REDISTRIBUTABLE_BUILD=yes   \
CLAGS="-O3 -Wall" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -Wall" \
LIBS="-lboost_system -lboost_thread -ldl -lmvec -lm"   \

We want to share our wifi with the lan through the ethernet connection.

1. Configure wireless:

Insert wifi dongle, boot RPi and check which networks you can see:

iwlist wlan0 scan

Let's say the output shows a network called "FloonNet":

Install some gnome screensavers:

apt-get install xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extra

Go to screensaver folder:

Set date from the command line:

sudo date -u MMDDhhmmCCYY

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Set correct timezone when RPi wakes up:

sudo vi ~/.profile

...and append this line...

TZ='Europe/Copenhagen'; export TZ

(Note to self: Put more cool stuff here...)

Michael says: I prefer to use tightvnc

someone else posted the following, so it something I can't vouch for:

Create a btrfs volume on the server

Assumptions

LAMP: Ubuntu server 14.04, Apache2, Mysql, PHP 5
Web server IP is 111.111.111.111
We want 3 separate Drupal 7.34 sites, suchlike:

STEP 1 of 2: EXPORT site

Assume you have a website at the excellent Pantheon (pantheon.io) and want to move it to Hostinger. (To move a site in the other direction, i.e. from Hostinger to Pantheon, have a look at this article instead). Assume also that your database name is MYDB, and your site is called MYSITE

1. Put the site into maintenence mode to stop traffic (database updates) to your site whilst moving:

Create a new theme called MYTHEME based on Omega4

This is the super-short version of how to get a Drupal theme up and running without benefit of drush. Whether you're a non-programmer or, like me, just don't have access to drush, you might find this relevant.

1. Copy Omega4's skeleton starter kit to the new site...

Change permissions or DIRs and FILEs resp.:

find /path/to/base/dir -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; (find /path/to/base/dir -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Search for files by filename or date:

Let's assume you want to find files with a .bar extension under the directory /foo (or with date 25 September):

Verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum:
Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.
Et sicut res omnes fuerunt ab uno, meditatione unius, sic omnes res natae ab hac una re, adaptatione.
Pater eius est Sol. Mater eius est Luna, portavit illud Ventus in ventre suo, nutrix eius terra est.
Pater omnis telesmi totius mundi est hic.
Virtus eius integra est si versa fuerit in terram.

Color Table

This is an exhaustive list of all text-mode screen attributes.  These
codes are easily calculated via a simple algorithm; see Screen Attributes.

 00 Black       on Black            10 Black       on Blue
 01 Blue        on Black            11 Blue        on Blue
 02 Green       on Black            12 Green       on Blue
 03 Cyan        on Black            13 Cyan        on Blue

By D.A.R.Y.L. on  Think Like A Computer

NB! NB! NB! NB! NB! NB!
This article is undergoing a major re-write and testing. It is NOT consistent, coherent or correct!
Please do not use it yet!

Set up a GNUMP stack on Ubuntu Server 14.04: Galera, Nginx, Ubuntu, MariaDB, PHP

1. Set up nginx

Assuming web server IP is 10.42.0.75 and 3-node DB cluster is 10.42.0.62/63/64

First remove apache:

1. Wireless to wireless sharing

Assuming Machine A:

• wlan0 - wireless connection to external subnet (10.0.0.0) and
• wlan1 - wireless connection to internal subnet (192.168.150.0)

suchlike:

Assume the new IP is to be 192.168.0.99 on interface eth0 and your nameservers are to be 193.213.112.4 and 130.67.15.198. The following is an example of a nameserver check on a current system:

nmcli -f IP4 dev list | grep DNS
IP4.DNS[1]: 193.213.112.4
IP4.DNS[2]: 130.67.15.198

Now fire up your editor of choice:

A slug in the forest near Skien

A photo of a toad in what can only be described as...the road.

Me on a rock

This first article features, appropriately, a picture of me.

This boulder is about half-way up Spitzkoppe in Namibia. I climbed this mountain in 1999, and this picture was captured with my very first digital camera, a Kodak DC-120.