my updated notes on getting an hp laserjet1000 working on ubuntu…
Category: Life Skills
How to beat the Docu-sign “Document Contains No Data” annoyance
The Story *Someone sent me a Docu-sign document to sign I signed it I got the email back with the PDF I Saved the PDF to my ubuntu machine I tried to open the PDF I just saved, but got the message “The Document contains no pages” message. Couldn’t open. Note: This only happens with docu-sign and not other great…
THE SEDUCTIVE AND MANIPULATIVE SALES TECHNIQUES OF THE BC INJECTION REMINDERS
Is the BC government informing you or seducing you with your injection reminder? …
How to Create a 3D Object Out of a 2D Die Line in Blender
First, as always, a big thank you to everyone who has made Blender possible. No question Blender is one of the very best free and open source projects in the world. To my surprise (again) this particular need of creating a 3D object from a 2D die line was not very well documented for Blender or out there in the…
How to move Decred from Decredition to Canadian Fiat Bank Account
I was quite happy to learn I had some decred. I recall when I first received it that it was very nice, ahead of its time, and well thought out crypto. The problem was I didn’t know how to trade in crypto, let alone trade in a less-than-top-3 cryptos. Without further adoo, here is what I did and I hope…
How to Print Multiple Pages to One PDF with Ubuntu and Scribus
This was one of these exercises that seemed like it would be dead easy but took me forever to figure out. My goal was simple: to take one document, and print 4 copies of it to a PDF file (not to paper for now) so that there were 4-up on the page instead of wasting the entire page for this…
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…
HOW TO MAKE A VIRTUAL MACHINE VISIBLE ON THE LAN WITH VIRTUALBOX AND UBUNTU
Why this post? Some new owners took over a company. The previous owner had delivered a crm system to the new owners which ‘ran on a server upstairs’. The buyers asked for all admin passwords to the server which the Sellers provided. However, these were just user passwords and not actual root passwords or system passwords to the actual box.…
How to install Korean Hangul Keyboard Ubuntu Gnome 20.04
If you ended up on my 18.04 tutorial for Hangul then you should be here if you have 20.04. There is a difference now in this procedure starting in Part 2 PRE-AMBLE In Ubuntu there are two things that need to happen to be able to type a non-native language into the operating system. You need to get the fonts…
RECOVERING DATA FROM YOUR ANDROID DEVICE USING FOREMOST AND UBUNTU
“Ooops. I deleted my photos” Well, I thought this would be a bit easier than it was but such is life – HARD…May this tutorial save many or all of you lots of time. Probably you can do all this with Kali, Debian, or other distributions that have the same commands, but I’m ubuntu so ubuntu it will be. My…