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…
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…
Installing Formtools on a Server with WordPress
I’m not sure how niche this need is but I was in need of making a quick website and then suddenly needed a quick but robust web form tool. I I thought for sure I had written at least a blog or two about this awesome tool at formtools.org but apparently I have not. I deeply apologize to all the…
HOW TO INSTALL SUITECRM ON UBUNTU SERVER
Suitecrm is absolutely awesome, free and open software to run your organization or business. I’ve messed around with various crm’s like Salesforce but SuiteCRM is just so flexible. Oh, and it doesn’t cost any money. Oh, and if you need help or other stuff you can just pay people to build what you need. I haven’t explored all sectors but…
SuiteCRM Post-Installation Housekeeping
If you’ve been following along any of my other SuiteCRM (“SCRM” from hereon in) blog posts, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of this free and open SuiteCRM software project. As such, I do my best to document things that are either easily forgotten or difficult to find online. Hopefully some of this is valuable to you. 1 –…
How to Recover Admin Access and Password from Digital Ocean WordPress Install
What happened: I thought I had saved my admin user and password safely in my password manager. Two weeks later after installing a WP instance, I realized I had not. Oops… Obviously the first thing I did was try the ‘reset password’ link on the /wp-login.php page. Oddly this failed. It would not send me an email, whether I used…
HOW TO MODIFY THE DISPLAY OF SUITECRM PRODUCT LINE ITEM ROWS IN QUOTE MODULE
It seems like I’m writing a series here on these SuiteCRM (‘SCRM’ moving forward) topics these days so I might as well keep going! If you haven’t read them, these might be of interest: How to change the Row Headers in SuiteCRM Line Items in Quotes Module How to Back up your SuiteCRM stuff on Ubuntu Server For this one,…
HOW TO CHANGE THE ROW HEADERS IN SUITECRM LINE ITEMS IN QUOTES MODULE
PRE-CHAT As always, SuiteCRM is one of my favourite business tools in the free and open software world. I like to describe it as ‘Sales Force on steroids’ because you can do whatever you want with it, basically, since the code is open and community supported. However, once in a while you will hit a road block. This literally took…