chroot is a great tool to rescue systems. But a limitation is that /dev, /sys and /proc are not mounted by default but needed for many tasks. This can be done by using mount –bind on the host. Here an example how to get a functional chroot: mount –bind /proc /target/proc mount –bind /dev /target/dev […]
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If you want to share a single mouse+keyboard with two (or even more) workstations, you can use x2x which has to be installed on every station – a ssh-server is also needed. Then you are able to connect the stations by ssh -X username@remote_host -C “x2x -east -to :0” After this command you are able to
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If you don’t want a guest account just add allow-guest=false to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
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I don’t want my login screen to beep. So I looked for a way to mute it. I couldn’t find a way to do this over a menu or another configuration. After looking a while I decided to move the soundfile away by the following command sudo mv /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg.old Now my login screen is
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You can change the button layout the same way as in 11.10. See https://blog.coffeebeans.at/?p=11
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changing panels also has not changed since 11.10. See https://blog.coffeebeans.at/?p=16
nothing has changed for this since 11.10. So just see https://blog.coffeebeans.at/?p=47
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Creating a standalone EJB-client application works like the following. If you use maven, just include the following dependency: <dependency> <groupId>org.jboss.as</groupId> <artifactId>jboss-as-ejb-client-bom</artifactId> <type>pom</type> <version>7.1.1.Final</version> </dependency> Then you need a file jboss-ejb-client.properties in your classpath. Here an example: remote.connectionprovider.create.options.org.xnio.Options.SSL_ENABLED=false remote.connections=default remote.connection.default.connect.options.org.xnio.Options.SASL_POLICY_NOANONYMOUS=true remote.connection.default.host=localhost remote.connection.default.port=4447 remote.connection.default.username=username remote.connection.default.password=password If you haven’t changed default configuration the username+passwort are added with the
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I already described my full rom upgrade to 4.0.3 in a former post https://blog.coffeebeans.at/?p=208. This time I chose not to loose my apps+configuration and downloaded an official 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 patch from google as the OTA-update failed without an error message and the hourly message that there is an update available was a bit annoying.
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If you rename or move the folder containing your magento installation or want to change the domain you won’t reach it anymore because the base_url is saved in the database and used for redirects. So connect to your database and change the URLs saved there: The URLs are saved under core_config_data and can be retrieved
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