I thought this specific tutorial might help others who have the same set up as me: in need of setting up a test environment for trying custom SuiteCRM code before deploying it. A developer may wish to give you some code, log in and patch it themselves for testing, etc, or, you might want to try something without breaking something.…
Author: justadminnit
How to make SuiteCRM Localhost Test Environment
Somehow I got pretty far in life in age and suffering, managed to figure out how to install SuiteCRM on an ubuntu server and basically maintain it (even back it up) but one day I needed to test some custom code on a non-production machine. This is when I realized that I didn’t know (at all) how to make Apache2…
Mother of Business Template Directories
After being involved with more than one company startup, and taking over a few operations, I realized that I’m always doing the same thing which is creating a computer folder structure for the business. Anyone who has done this knows it’s a mammoth task. I finally spent a few weeks and carved out my first ‘template’ called NEWCO_COMPANY_DIRECTORY which can…
Oh, Lord Jesus
From the very depths of my inner man sprung forth this to the extend I was compelled to share it… may one or all of you be supplied by some or all of it… attached also is the guitar chord chart so you, too, can cry out to the Lord of mercy and glory in your time of need. Oh…
How to Install Zint on Ubuntu
How to install Zint (command line) on Ubuntu. I was hoping this would work with a GUI but for the life of me I could not figure it out nor find the repository. It used to work, obviously, by a simple sudo apt install but I’m gettin the ‘can’t find repository’ message. I think it might only work for 20.04…
Covid19- Did We Respond Correctly?
I saw this email today and I felt like it was worth a share for consideration. I have my own thoughts on the matter and it would be interested to see other thoughts on it. I feel a deep dive on this topic of ‘problem versus reaction’ is well worth it… Somehow your response prompted me to dig into this…
COVID19 CORONAVIRUS MARKETING COMMENTARY
I’m one of those people who just can’t find time or care to participate in popular news. So what I do is I go to duckduckgo.com once in a while and scan the headlines. Since Covid19 arrived I’ve been unable to toss the thought that there seems to be a qualified marketing firm behind it. People are ‘talking the talk’…
Making Roblox work on Ubuntu
Before you Begin – A Brief History As sad as this is, and as many countless hours as I’ve wasted on this that I’ll never get back, I’ve resolved there is no way to make Roblox work in Ubuntu / linux – not even running in a VM on Ubuntu. If you want to read more about the vm journey,…
Getting Virtualbox working on Lenovo E540 and T530 on Ubuntu 20.04
Turns out this was a bit of a perfect storm for this combo to start working. There is a bug where some dependency linux header thing messes up getting the right DKMS thing installed and it presents these kind of errors no matter what tricks you try to pull: The BIOS in the Lenovos had need of enabling virtualization Part…
Installing Virtualbox Guest Additions on a Windows 10 VM on an Ubuntu Host
Virtualbox can do a lot more if you get the ‘guest additions’ stuff working. You can read up on other people’s blogs about that more. For now, I just wanted to walk through a bullet point summary of how to get it working on a Windows machine running as a VM inside an Ubuntu Virtualbox host. Probably this method will…