Backdrop For some reason this particular skill has been on my ‘fear list’ for many years. I had created ssh keys before, I had ssh’d into lots of servers, but one day, I migrated from one laptop to another and tried to ssh into my work computer and… boom: ssh root@123.123.123.123 root@123.123.123.123: Permission denied (publickey) In the past, I just…
Category: Technology
How to deal with the Akaunting default COA account setting error
After setting up my second Akaunting instance (great work, Akaunting team!) I realized again that there is a confusing setup step related to the Chart of Accounts “Double Entry” module. Of course if you are running a ‘real’ business you’ll absolutely have to buy this module, but after you set up your COA for your business, you’ll probably try to…
HOW TO RE-INDEX YOUR SUITECRM INSTANCE
This blog was great and ultimately gave me enough info to get this done, however, it wasn’t for a rookie in MYSQL since the whole part about ‘deleting rows’ assumes you know how to delete a row. It looks like I also wrote a cpanel version of the same need a few years back. Also I elected to turn off…
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 make a Virtual Machine (VM) 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 move Thunderbird emails from one Ubuntu Machine to Another
I thought I had blogged this years ago but apparently I haven’t. It should be part of a backup procedure regardless, but sometimes you just might want to move all your email accounts from one Ubuntu machine to another like I want to today. Heres how you do it. Note: this tutorial assumes that you are putting the .thunderbird directory…
How to Setup FTP to Specific Ubuntu Server Directory
First, I want to give full credits to this blog because this is the brains behind this tutorial. However, because I’m not as smart as the author, I got stuck a few times so this blog is a ‘dumbed down’ version of the same tutorial but with my notes added for the ‘less smart’ 🙂 Please note that if you…
How to Install Older PHP and Server Software with Digital Ocean
Why? Someone asked me to set up some old proprietary server software stuff that would no longer work in a modern server environment. I figured it might be possible if we match the mysql and php versions and give it a shot. Here is my documented journey in case anyone else needs to / wants to do something similar. Set…
How to Backup your Akaunting Installation
If you are like me, you were attracted to Akaunting accounting software because they are one of the first nice looking and open source accounting softwares around that operate in a similar way to the ‘friendly’ GUI systems like Quickbooks online. I was so upset about not having control of the data and / or price plans that I decided…
How to Convert Image to editable text with Tesseract OCR on Ubuntu
First, watch this video for the full meal deal. However, for a quick and dirty summary of how to quickly convert a pretty bad image / photo (or pretty good one) into a .txt file, here we go: 1. Install Tesseract sudo apt install tesseract-ocr 2. Convert the image (ie. .jpg, pdf, etc) into a .tiff file with Imagemagik to…