The Background I upgraded my ubuntu server last week and after I did so, the Prestashop front end went down – but not the back end! Everything seemed fine because no one was checking the front end so after someone changed something in the back and refreshed the front they thought they had killed the site (and so did I!).…
Category: Technology
How to Change Discount Type (Amount, Percent) Default Value in SuiteCRM
Sadly this wasn’t easy. In the Quotes / Line items module, when you are entering the type of discount there are two types by default: Amount (Amt) and Percent (Pct). Someone asked me to change the default from Pct to Amt. I logged in as admin, went into Studio, went to the Line Items module, went to ‘Fields’ and, like…
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…
How to Make a SuiteCRM Production Subdomain on Digital Ocean Ubuntu Server
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.…
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…
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…