Refer: https://www.crmarsh.com/aws/
To have your account use bash, you need to update your account:
$ sudo vi /etc/passwd
You will need at the end - ::/home/mruckman:/bin/bash
This is both your home directory and also the :/bin/bash says to use bash
WordPress Bad Cert
Scan your WordPress code to turn off SSL Check, if you are behind a Firewall that re-writes the certs.
Searching for: sslverify
wp-includes\class-http.php(230): 'sslverify' => true
Accessing Oracle with Python
Ubuntu 14.04
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev
$ sudo pip install --upgrade pip
$ sudo -H pip install JayDeBeApi
Refer: https://pypi.org/project/JayDeBeApi/
Another option, untried: http://cx-oracle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#quick-start-cx-oracle-installation
Python Request to Curl
Nice little utility to convert your Python Requests to Curl Statements.
Refer: https://github.com/ofw/curlify
Install
$ sudo pip install curlify
Usage
import curlify
import requests
response = requests.get("http://google.com")
print(curlify.to_curl(response.request))
Message view for Ubuntu
Refer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/msgviewer/
Unzip the file, and run
$ java -jar MSGViewer.jar
Parallels Support OS
Refer: https://kb.parallels.com/124223
Waiting for Ubuntu 18.04 to become supported for toolbox.
Chrome Security Certificate Errors
Refer: http://troubleshooter.xyz/wiki/fix-ssl-certificate-error-google-chrome/
Not tested
Linux Lite – Enforce Logon – Light Locker Settings
You can update your "Light Locker Settings" to enforce logon and then change permissions to prevent it from being changed.
$ sudo Thunar
$ /usr/share/applications/
Right-click and change permissions for "Others:" to "None"
Disable GPU Visual Studio Code
Refer: https://sergeemond.ca/en/articles/visual-studio-code-how-to-disable-the-gpu/
$ code --disable-gpu
$ alias vscode='function _doit(){ code $1 --disable-gpu; };_doit'
How remove Docker from Ubuntu 15.10
Refer: http://tips.tutorialhorizon.com/2016/07/30/how-to-completely-uninstall-docker-from-ubuntu/
$ sudo apt-get purge docker-engine
$ sudo apt-get autoremove --purge docker-engine
$ rm -rf /var/lib/docker # This deletes all images, containers, and volumes