There are two ways: 1. FROM THE LAUNCHER ON THE LEFT On the left side of your Ubuntu machine you’ll see the vertical column of apps you can one-click open. Usually the terminal is here. It’s the black box thing with the right-pointing greater than symbol thing and underscore. Click it. It opens. 2. THROUGH THE DASH push your super…
Category: Tutorial
Tutorial: How to Make NextCloud/Owncloud Calendar Work on Iphone Ipod
Unlike my typical tutorial formats, this one will be a near copy/paste from an email I sent to a real person so that other real people can connect this to their real brain and emotions: Dear _____, I’m going to forewarn you that this email is dripping with anger/frustration so try to just plunder through it and even try to…
How to Change Default Contact List View in SuiteCRM in Account View
I love suitecrm. Freedom coding built by the community, super useful, and awesome for business. I’m going to start logging some stuff here that will maybe save some other people time, too. In this case, I realized today that I’m logging into my accounts page, scrolling down to ‘contacts’ and seeing absolutely nothing useful except an email address. The default…
Pressure Sensitive Conveyor Labeler Troubleshooting: Backing Paper Snaps
There are many reasons why the paper backing of the labels might break I have discovered. Here is my list (and I may edit this from time to time as I discover more ways label paper can break!): Rips at the peeler plate in a nearly perfect line Plate angle is too harsh: try reducing the angle and making it…
How to Back up and Move from One Email Server to Another
My goal: Move my email safely from one email service provider to another (IMAP). I was surprised that it wasn’t that easy to find a simple step by step tutorial out there to do this. I hope this tutorial will help someone. If your email account is old, this process may take quite a bit of time, so please allow…
How to Make a Brother Printer and Scanner Work in Ubuntu
EDIT 2020-06-19 Long time no edit! My instructions below still mostly work it seems (which is bad on Brother for not making this more simple – fail, fail fail) I wanted to add a quick note for 18.04 generation Ubuntu friends to consider as you are working through my nasty old messy post below: First, if you are installing a…
How to Back Up SuiteCRM using Ubuntu
I discovered SuiteCRM by means of searching through my web host’s cpanel softaculous thing – that thing that allows one click installs of ‘apps’ for your server. Over time, I became a heavy believer in and user of SuiteCRM. Eventually, I installed an instance for my company on my shared host and the company started using it more and more.…
Making Your Word Press Site Secure with SSL for Free
Well, it has been quite a journey of learning and it has been quite good. Green Geeks, a big American website hosting company upset myself and a few other customers about their unwillingness to support the latest and best free and open encryption service, Let’s Encrypt. They wanted to sell their SSL certificates instead. The mentality is quite different from…
How to Do Let’s Encrypt in Cpanel with Shared Hosting
Did Green Geeks (www.greengeeks.com) not want to help you get Let’s Encrypt working in your Cpanel even though it works in cpanel? You aren’t alone. But we can take matter into our own hands, you know. The tutorial I’m going to share is awesome. It’s pretty much what I based everything on and of course my experience of just making…
How to Make Self Signed SSL Certificate Work in CPanel
Tutorial Assumptions you have a website domain you have shared hosting using cPanel you are using a computer running Ubuntu This isn’t a perfect solution if you have a public facing website, but if you have a private website for yourself, your friends, your business, etc, this will be ‘better than nothing’ and at least give you encryption for your…