UPDATE: This tutorial below will flash you back under the nasty tracking eyes of Google/Alphabet. You will get the google play store and all the ‘fun’ but you will also get spied on and ultimately regret it. I have since updated my tutorial/solution to this: How to Flash Cyanogen Mod on Nexus 4 Using Ubuntu There is no play store…
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How to Fix Owncloud Maintenance Mode Message Ubuntu Server
Did and upgrade to your Ubuntu packages and owncloud is mucked up? Same. So I blogged this because it happens all the time and I always forget how to do it quickly. Hope this helps you, too: Access your server via terminal (ssh in) move to your owncloud directory. Mine is default and if yours is too copying and pasting…
How to Flash OpenWRT on a DIR-615 C1 Router
Before I explain the ‘how to’ part, please allow me to explain everything I tried to do first in case some of these key words save someone else the pain: -I tried everything I could find on the well meaning but horrendous pages of OpenWRT. Specifically this one for this router located here. -I tried the ‘upload via recovery mode…
How to View Multiple Page Fax with Ubuntu
I got a fax recently as a .tif image file and when I went to open it on the world’s best operating system ubuntu, and it wouldn’t view anything except page 1! I thought there was a bug with the operating system but it turned out that they actually had, built right into ubuntu a viewer designed specifically to handle…
How to Make Telegram Desktop Auto Start on Ubuntu 14.04
You want your Telegram app to start when you turn on your computer each time? Ok, here’s how you do it. First, review the first three steps on this blog I did here. Now, simply take note of the location of where I tracked down this Telegram Desktop app. —then click through some other telegram folder and then do the…
When does Libre Office Calc decide to overflow text into adjacent cells, or cut them at the boundary?
You are trying to do a spreadsheet and keep it tighter but the vertical column boundary cuts the text off. And you want to stop it. It’s easy. Check it out.. 1. Annoying red arrow cut-offs! 2. Highlight cell or row and then right click on it, and ‘format cells’ 3. Click that check box ‘wrap text automatically’ 4. Yay!…
How to Find and Edit Kijiji Ad Posting
So you’ve posted an ad on kijiji and now it’s lost? I hear you. It’s not really lost it’s just oddly a bit hard to find when you end up on other pages. Go to www.kijiji.ca (not .com I found out several times 2. Log in with user/password 3. Go to ‘my kijiji’ button on the right and boom. There…
How to Rotate Permanently All Pages in PDF Using Ubuntu
If you are too busy to read all my blog articles (say it ain’t so, mama) then you may have missed this nugget of helpfulness. How often does the realtor or lawyer or such fabulous professional need to slap a confidential stamp on a doc? However, today I was sent a confidential document that was lying on its side when…
How to Securely Control a Remote Ubuntu Machine with VNC and SSH
I have been trying to do this for a while because I don’t like using WINE and the only other option that gave me headache free access to another machine was a proprietary one. I wanted to be able to tunnel into my mom’s computer and offer her full tech support visually, just like any other remote access software. I…
Clean up Ubuntu with Ubuntu Tweak
I was trying to do an update in Ubuntu and got a message that said I didn’t have enough free space on disk /boot. I started messing with command line stuff but thankfully I found Ubuntu Tweak which did it all in a few safe-feeling clicks. Why Ubuntu-Tweak is not in the Ubuntu Software Center is a mystery that I…