‘winmail.dat’ if you get it, is a result of the sender having bad settings on their Windows operating system in their Outlook Express email client. They could fix it and make it go away so you could ask them to do that (and you should) but if you don’t want to waste the time or brain power, there is a…
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Inkscape: How to Change the Background Colour of Something
How to change the background colour of something in Inkscape (guide for the un-skilled)…
NMAP Quick Guide Ubuntu
Quick guide to nmap on Ubuntu
How to beat the Docu-sign “Document Contains No Data” annoyance
The Story *Someone sent me a Docu-sign document to sign I signed it I got the email back with the PDF I Saved the PDF to my ubuntu machine I tried to open the PDF I just saved, but got the message “The Document contains no pages” message. Couldn’t open. Note: This only happens with docu-sign and not other great…
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
(EDITED: DEC 25, 2024) 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…
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 Overcome a Prestashop 500 Error on Front End
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!).…
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…