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…
Category: Technology
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…
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…
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…
Importing Chart of Accounts into Akaunting
I’m now well on my way to investing my time and support behind Akaunting software but I feel I should continue to blog my frustrations as well so others can benefit, save some time, and hopefully help improve the code (most important). I had relatively successfully set up Company 1 (“Co1” from here on in) and Wanted to create Co2.…
Backing Common Stuff Up in Akaunting
Warning: I’m so busy these days I don’t have time to do nice editing and correction of typos but whenever I have something I think needs to be logged for others I just slam it out. Apologies for the lack of polish but hopefully the content is valuable. After I took so many days to finally set up my business…
How to Deal with Apple hfs+ Files and Hard Drives on Ubuntu
Short version of the story is that I ended up with a drive from some guy who uses Crapple stuff. It was a hard drive with business stuff on it, unencrypted (I can’t believe I thought he would have cared about protecting the company data…). My plan was to simply move the contents to a temporary drive, set up LUKS…
HOW TO INSTALL AKAUNTING ON UBUNTU SERVER (MANUAL)
I thought I would install Akaunting the long and hard way rather than the one click install with Digital Ocean – which is probably the smart way to go. I should say that, sadly, after I got Akaunting setup I could not synchronize directly with my bank in Canada as it seems that it does not support the file formats…