Linux, Gadgets and Multimedia. In ye olde days a Cyprianus was the Wizard's common spellbook. As a rule a Cyprianus manuscript started with these words: "Even though Moses knew all the secrets of our Art he did not abuse his knowledge. Do Thou likewise."
In the form add the address of the remote computer and use a sftp connection:
sftp://192.168.xxx.xxx (use the actual ip-adress where you see the xxx)
Click ok.
And that's all it takes.
Now you can work with the files on your Mac from Ubuntu.
Nice!
Here is a crash version:
# sudo apt update
# sudo apt upgrade
# sudo apt dist-upgrade
# sudo apt autoremove
Edit this file: /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
Make sure, that the Prompt is set to normal.
# sudo do-release-upgrade
or if you dare and want the upgrade before the actual release:
# sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Mainly based on this blog post.
On the Mac: enable remote login
# sudo systemsetup -getremotelogin
If the result if "remote login is off", then turn it on:
# sudo systemsetup -setremotelogin on
Now the users on the system are able to log in. You have to log in via your user name. But what is it. On the Mac try this in a terminal:
# whoami
# arwen
Then you can read your username, and log on:
# ssh arwen@192.168.0.123
Based on this article.
On the linux system
Enable openssh server, see this article. It's from Arch Linux, but here the actual distro does not matter, since we work in the terminal.
Concerning the systemsetup
Actually the systemsetup is a powerfull swiss knife for the system administrator. Read the man page.
Work in progress - trying to solve the problem: to share screens from MacOS on Zoom:
During today's zoom session with a class there were several issues:
Zoom could not launch, but some threads in blogs mentioned, that Chrome might be the problem. Not Zoom. After a Chrome update, everything worked just fine. It's not a Zoom issue after all.
Here and now I tend to use the Boss GT-1 in the effect-loop. Sometmes with a t-wah, even though experts would say that it should be in front of the amp. All time-based effects - like chorus, flanger, delay etc. will produce a clear sound in the fx-loop.
Generally I use the dirty channel, so all fuzz and distortion noise is made by the Orange amp. That's the real strength of this amp - the dirty channel is wonderful. I don't use the reverb on the amp.
I turn off all amp simulators and distortion on the GT-1.
Reverb and delay should be added via the Boss GT-1.
If I add Boss GT-1 in front of the amp the result is more "muddy". That's why I prefer this solution.
So my sound recipe is simple: use the GT-1 where it shines - and let the Orange Crush 35 rt shine with the ever lovely dirty channel.
Risan has a very clear and informative blog post here. In this post you'll learn how to export the keys - and import them somewhere else. As with any other key in the house: keep it safe.
Risan's article is meant for Unix systems. However, Linux is a close relative. The same principles apply.
An easy way to avoid form-spam in the WordPress plugin Contact Form 7 is to add a quizz. Ask a question in order to sort out robots.
But don't ask questions like "what is five times five". The spambots are perfectly able to hack this sort of input. As an alternative - just ask something else.
You could add a picture to the web page and ask a question about it.
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PS: I posted this four days ago, since then I had no spam mails via the mailform. So the quizz seems to do the trick.
These days I try whether ads from Google is a good idea - or not. The revenue for one month is 20 cents per month for this blogger site plus another website. As of now I'll let the experiment run for a month or two, and see what happens.
It's very noisy this fan. Running like a mad whining chicken.
OBS and Zoom use a lot of the available CPU power. Probably the MacBook is not the mose usefull tool for a conference call. My 5-year old stationary Linux PC performs far better than this.
However, here and now I have to use the MacBook.
But you can ignore the bitch. Above you see my settings. Just turn off whatever you see: show on menubar and set "Ask Siri" to off.
On the touchbar Siri is placed on a really annoying position. At least for me - Siri started every time my fingers touched the bar by accident.
Siri is not a service. It's a pestilence.
Now I hope that Siri is silenced at last - but I would prefer if Apple asked permission before installing this crap-ware.
These files are soooo annoying ... and what a waste of time it is to delete them all.
In .gitignore add this:
**/.DS_Store
I tried and tried to insert a hyperlink in MS PowerPoint. Such a thing ought to be a no-brainer. But no. As usual either Mac or Microsoft or both in a sinister conspiration decided that this simple task shoul seem impossible.
But there is a stupid wordaround:
Whaaat ... after a restart all shortcuts are gone. Access to the Desktop, Documents etc are all gone. How can we get them back again?
Solution
Here's a solution:
Based on: this post
On a Mac you need to know the hidden secrets of the art. Here are some of the practical keys you'll miss from other OS's keyboards:
"I want a fast way to open a browser in a specific URL from a folder."
Here is a solution in Bash. Create a file like this:
#!/bin/bash
# open url in chrome
xdg-open https://whateverURL.whot
Now save the file, as myURL.sh or similar. Remember to make the file executable:
# chmod a+x myURL.sh
Now you can run the file from your favorite terminal:
# ./myURL.sh
Works on: Linux / Ubuntu.
Idiotic UI error in Gitkraken
This is an idiotic UX error in Gikraken's UI. The program starts in full screen, and there is no button or anything that will tell you how to get out of the mess. The solution is:
shift + control + F
For a WordPress plugin I need a program, that will remove any new lines in html. Then you can use the code in a PHP variable. In practise this is what a minifier does. There are many online tools, but I'd prefer to do it myself.
In Bash - that is Linux or Mac terminals - you can do this with just one line of code. First save your markup in a file test.html via your most trusted editor.
Then do this:
# tr -d '\n' < test.html > test.min.html
Understand this code:
Done.
I had some issues with Mac and onedrive. I used Outlook via a browser, mostly Chrome. That was no good idea. There were no error messages from the Onedrive app. I had a hunch and installed Outlook on Mac.
Et voila: that did the trick.
In this article Jed Van Wyngaardt explains what you should put where.
In front of the amp:
