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Update Parallel Tools from Command Line

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.

$ sudo /media/<username>/Parallels\ Tools/install
Refer: http://kb.parallels.com/en/117044
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VirtualBox guest OS accessing local server on host OS

Refer: http://superuser.com/questions/144453/virtualbox-guest-os-accessing-local-server-on-host-os

Enable ONE network adapter. Set it to NAT and start your machine. Don't need to configure anything.

On guest machine's browser type http://10.0.2.2 which will show you the same content as "localhost" in the host OS.

10.0.2.2 is the "default gateway" for NAT connections and your guest OS' IP is 10.0.2.15

Of course you can set a "HOST-ONLY" or an "Internal Network" which will allow you another advanced configurations. I recommend to stay with NAT.

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Google Maps Saved Places

On the desktop version, it's hard to find save places for Google Maps; however, it's saved with Google Bookmarks:

https://www.google.com/bookmarks/lookup?sort=

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Add exFat Support to Ubuntu

Works for Ubuntu 18.04.2 on 05/27/2019
Refer: https://itsfoss.com/mount-exfat/

$ sudo add-apt-repository universe
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Newer notes:

Refer: http://www.howtogeek.com/235655/how-to-mount-and-use-an-exfat-drive-on-linux/

$ sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Older notes that worked on Ubuntu 14.04 but reported errors

Refer: https://www.maketecheasier.com/access-exfat-file-system-in-ubuntu/

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install fuse fuse-exfat exfat-utils

In the event that your system doesn’t automount the external drive, here is what you can do to mount it manually:

$ sudo mkdir /media/exfat
$ sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdb1 /media/exfat
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Fixing Audio in Ubuntu Netbook 14.04

Fixing Audio
Refer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/508221/sound-input-device-microphone-not-working

I had a similar problem on 14.04, sound input source was blank in the 'Sound Settings'. I did the following, what did the trick is installing 'Audacity', for more info check the following link

sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install audacity

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Multiple Versions of Node

Booking flow needs older version of node until we can upgrade and OLCI needs the current version otherwise the DELETE calls fail, here's how we can use multiple versions:

Refer: https://davidwalsh.name/upgrade-nodejs
Refer: https://github.com/tj/n

# node -v which is v0.10.37 for booking flow, EAS is using 4 and booking flow works
$ sudo npm cache clean -f
$ sudo npm install -g n
$ sudo n 0.10.37
$ sudo n stable
# Now you switch between versions but running, selecting and hitting enter
$ sudo n

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Uninstall AKA Delete Apps from Macbook Pro

AppDelete Tool - If an application is protected you have to display the information for it, and change its permissions to read / write in order to delete it.

NOTE: Running applications are protected, you need to stop them first, in addition to changing their permissions.  Parallels Access is an example of a running program.

http://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

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Ubuntu Tweaks for Hardware Installation

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/first
$ sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

Scroll to the bottom of the text file and add your swappiness value
# Decrease swap usage to a more reasonable level
vm.swappiness=10

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-flashback
Log out. In the login window, click on the Ubuntu logo next to your user name (see the screenshot below):

Then click on GNOME Flashback (Metacity). Note: don't select GNOME Flashback (Compiz), because that also has 3D effects, and you want to get rid of those.

Disable advertisements in the Dash and normalize the appearance. Ubuntu shows advertisements in the Dash, whenever you type a query in the Dash.

Click on the grey Ubuntu logo (Dash home). Query: privacy
Click on Privacy - tab Search

Put the slider at OFF.

Click on the grey Ubuntu logo (Dash home). Query: appearance
Click on Appearance - click on the tab Behavior

Check:
Add show desktop icon to the launcher