Technical notes, and other ideas.
Installation
Refer: https://launchpad.net/~osmoma/+archive/ubuntu/audio-recorder
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install audio-recorder
User the "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo (Audio output) for Source to record from browser and you can also choose VLC, for example, to record from an application.
Also make sure to go into additional settings to change your target output folder.
Install through the software center "higan"
Calibarate the settings for a Gravis GamePad Pro
Settings, Configuration
"Super Famicon", go through all the Key Combinations
Refer: http://airbornesurfer.com/2015/04/how-to-setup-a-generic-joystick-or-gamepad-in-ubuntu-linux/
$ sudo apt-get install joystick
$ sudo apt-get install jstest-gtk
See if it's calibibrated properly
$ jstest-gtk
When doing ssh or scp you get the following error:
no matching cipher found: client aes256-cbc,aes192-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc server chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr
You can fix with, but you've removed security
$ scp -c none other-stuff-here
$ ssh -c none username@hostname
Refer: http://steronius.blogspot.com/2014/10/ssh-no-matching-cipher-found.html
[jboss1@haldevjbs13 /tmp/mongo-backup/export-testcms-20160709]$ less /home/jboss1/.ssh/known_hosts.old
[jboss1@haldevjbs13 /tmp/mongo-backup/export-testcms-20160709]$ less /home/jboss1/.ssh/known_hosts
$ cd ~/.local/share/Trash
$ sudo chown -R your_user_name:your_group *
Installing Wine 3.0
Refer: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-play-world-of-warcraft-on-linux-with-wine
If you are getting black buttons, use winecfg and change default setting to Windows XP instead of Windows 7
$ winecfg
$ sudo apt install winetricks
$ winetricks, launch, and choose option install corefonts
$ wine uninstaller
Refer: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/how-to-add-wine-repository-ubuntu
You might want to install from /tmp, because your going to download a Release.key
Instructions: install-wine-on-ubuntu.txt
Older Install Wine in Ubuntu 16.04
Refer: http://linuxg.net/install-wine-1-8-on-ubuntu/
Install with the following:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.8 winetricks
Remove with
$ sudo apt-get uninstall wine1.8 winetricks
For Unity install Gnome Version from software center
Refer: http://www.howtogeek.com/110138/how-to-back-up-your-linux-system-with-back-in-time/
Location: /home/username/.config/pac
Refer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pacmanager/files/
Sometimes when using less to view a log file, seem to need a little extra than just a screen full and the copy command just does not work well. You can use the following two commands in combination to grab line numbers and then extract just those lines.
$ upower -i $(upower -e | grep BAT) | grep --color=never -E "state|to\ full|to\ empty|percentage"
Found that Parallel Tools seems to keep hanging when it needs to do an update. If you cancel the auto updater it works much better from the command line.