Quicks and Dirties
Posted by michael on Sunday, 16 August 2015Switch 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
Offline Mail: from Gmail to Thunderbird
Posted by michael on Sunday, 16 August 2015Linux: Batch Convert RAW to JPG or PNG
Posted by michael on Saturday, 8 August 2015Raspberry Pi: GUI from remote host
Posted by michael on Wednesday, 5 August 2015Ubuntu Desktop: Boot into text mode
Posted by michael on Thursday, 30 July 2015Ubuntu 15.04: Local Mirror for Offline Package Installation
Posted by michael on Tuesday, 28 July 2015What 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.
Linux: Quick 'n Dirty Geekery
Posted by michael on Sunday, 26 July 2015Raspberry Pi: Share Ethernet Connection to Wifi Access Point
Posted by michael on Saturday, 25 July 2015This configuration assumes you will be connecting to the headless RPi via ssh over an ethernet connection. Let's say that the RPi's ethernet IP is 10.0.0.99, and the access point DHCP server will operate on 192.168.42.1
This procedure is based on an adafruit document and mixed with my own experience.
Michael's "Gots-to-Have" Package List for New *nix Installations
Posted by michael on Saturday, 25 July 2015Povray: Installation and benchmark
Posted by michael on Saturday, 25 July 2015Version 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" \
Raspberry Pi: Share Wifi Connection to Ethernet
Posted by michael on Saturday, 25 July 2015Ubuntu 15.04: Screensavers for MATE
Posted by michael on Wednesday, 15 July 2015Raspberry Pi: Quick and Dirty
Posted by michael on Tuesday, 23 June 2015Raspberry Pi: Remote GUI from linux host
Posted by michael on Thursday, 23 April 2015Ubuntu 14.04: Setting up btrfs
Posted by michael on Wednesday, 4 March 2015Drupal 7: Install Multiple Sites on Ubuntu
Posted by michael on Tuesday, 3 March 2015Drupal 7: Move entire site to another host
Posted by michael on Thursday, 26 February 2015STEP 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:
Drupal 7: Theming with Omega4
Posted by michael on Tuesday, 24 February 2015Create 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...
Linux: CLI Searching, renaming and deleting
Posted by michael on Monday, 23 February 2015Tabula Smaragdina
Posted by michael on Wednesday, 18 February 2015 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.
Colours for VGA and Web
Posted by michael on Wednesday, 11 February 2015Color 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
Understanding Routing
Posted by michael on Friday, 30 January 2015Ubuntu 14.04 Server: Set up GNUMP server
Posted by michael on Thursday, 29 January 2015NB! 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:
Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop: Set up connection sharing
Posted by michael on Wednesday, 28 January 2015Ubuntu 14.04 Server - Set up a static IP address
Posted by michael on Tuesday, 27 January 2015Assume 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:
The Zodiac and Decan Star Signs
ZODIAC SIGN | DECAN SIGN | MEANING | DATES | TAROT | # |
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ARIES | TRIANGULUM | The Triangle | Mar 20-30 | 2 Wands | 28 |
ERIDANUS | The Celestial River | Mar 30-Apr 9 | 3 Wands | 29 |