rants and (hopefully) useful info
I have been working on/with ERPNext for some time now, but had never tried to change much in terms of the output formatting – mostly because I was too afraid to mess anything up. I only made minor changes with the format builder/GUI tool, which, I must say – is not intuitive, and which I…
I am an absolute novice on the cyber security front, so I make no claim more than that about my ability. There are a lot of articles that claim/say “you don’t need an anti-virus system if you are running linux”. Maybe they’re right – maybe it’s just foolish optimism. Even so, much better to have…
I have tested this sequence several times on Debian Stretch 9.4 & 9.5 (and recently 9.8) – it works consistently. It is based on various documents which are available on the ERPNext forums. I have left my little scraps of notes in comment lines. The syntax is ZSH/BASH compliant if you want to copy/paste it.…
There are a few cases where you might want to keep your old version of PHP for compatibility, or preference, but also need a newer or cutting edge version for a particular app (eg. Nextcloud [howto/whyto post to follow]). Fear not – this CAN be done. Here’s my marginally modified version of the post from…
Maybe I did it wrong, but the way my various LANs and systems are set up, I can’t always get to a few of my endpoints without a 2 step process of doing an SSH to 1 “server”, and then from there, doing a 2nd SSH to the desired endpoint. eg. If the remote endpoint…
The content below is an almost exact copy of this (brilliant) article/tutorial by Eric Severance. In hindsite, it feels like the steps followed are obvious. As a n00b13 it was confusing, since I did not grasp the underlying foundation adequately. I can/will not add anything to it – I will only change the layout to…
Once you have set up your ssh keys on the remote host (the server), and also on the local client (your PC), you can connect without (necessarily) having to input a password. To make this secure, the 2 connecting machines need to establish that you’re an OK person on both sides by exchanging keys which…
There are MANY such guides on the internet – this one is probably not any different or better than those. You should read the man-page for SSH-keygen. THE best resource/book that I have read on the topic is SSH Mastery – Michael W Lucas. His books are generally some of the best on each topic…
If you’re currently a WinX user, and would like to run BASH/ZSH type commands, BUT, you are NOT keen to go the w10 route with its built in ubuntu-shell….. There are a few options available to you: msys2 gitbash this was initially my preferred choice, but I had some compatibility issues with SSH/GPG, so I…
On the topic of minimalist… I like a small footprint…and I stumbled upon some numbers and according to the “internet”… Plain Openbox only: 58 MB XFCE: 89 MB (with default configuration of Debian) LXDE (gtk+ 2 version): 78 MB (add 20 MB to openbox) On my “fully loaded” desktop station, including/running LibreOffice and a bunch…