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Get the Ubuntu Update Notification Text After Login
If you run this: You will get the output regarding available updates in Ubuntu similar to the following 130 packages can be updated. 92 updates are security updates. Ubuntu Version...
EqualLogic Array Won’t Load Java Admin Applet in Browser
Tried to load the admin web page for an EqualLogic PS 6100 series array and got attempted to open sandboxed jar The fix requires editing the java.security file and removing MD5 from the following line jdk.jar.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, RSA keySize < 1024, DSA keySize...
Amazon AMI with EPEL Repo throws error when updating latest etckeeper
When doing a yum update I get Error: Package: etckeeper-1.18.7-2.el6.noarch (epel) Requires: hostname Problem is currently fixed in epel-testing re https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1577707 So to fix you just need to install it from testing: [code...
Google Backup and Sync the Glacial Copy Program
So I had 250GB of data to upload to Google G Suite. Some ~200GB is Pictures the other is a mix of Documents and an assortment of Macbook home directory detritus. So I wanted to upload the photos and get them to automatically appear in Google Photos. Google Backup and...
Insync on Ubuntu 18.04
I had some small issues getting the insync client running on a fresh (defaults install) of Ubuntu 18.04 to install insync-nautilus Unfortunately the standard Ubuntu 18.04 deb package doesn't add a list file for the insync repo so you can't enable nautilus integration...
AWS CLI S3 Download of Mac Files to Windows Causes Failures
I have recently needed to upload several hundred GB of files from a Macbook Pro Laptop to S3, then download the S3 Files into 4GB t2.medium Windows 2016 Server EC2 instance so I could use Google Backup and Sync to upload the pictures and docs to a GSuite account. This...
