Updated 2017-02 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, FOR METHOD 1. Background To check and see the IP address assigned to your network interfaces at any point in the Unity desktop, right-click the network icon (up-down arrows, e.g.) and choose “Connection Information”. Or, in a terminal: me@myhost$ sudo ifconfig To see even more detailed information about your networking…
Updated 2017-02. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Summary This is a description of what I did to get linux-to-linux file sharing working on a home network where client computers get full access to files on the server without entering a username and password. This method does involve running a script once to mount (make available) the desired…
Summary This has been a very trouble-free printer for many years for both Windows and Linux computers. For some reason, the Ubuntu Linux install (Gnome) ALWAYS suggests the wrong driver. Once you manually switch it, you will get 2-sided printing and no problems. I am even seeing the ink level in Ubuntu Linux 22.04. Linux…
Updated: 2017-02. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Apache 2.4.18 and PHP 7.0.13. NOTE: In the default PHP Apache2 module configuration, you must enable PHP for user directories. Summary: Let the hacker beware (Disclaimer) These pages describes how I activated the public_html user directories to be served up by the Apache web server and set up virtual directories, meaning…
I created a separate website containing a huge collection of writings my father created later in his life. I repeated part of the “About” page below that describes it. The posts on the website will be a collection of mostly one-page articles written by my father, Jack Briggs. Many were printed in a newsletter at…
Update 2016: I still use this script to process scanned photos and negatives. Summary This page describes a perl script that can be used to add EXIF date and copyright values to a series of JPG files. This may be useful to give missing EXIF tags to JPGs created by scanning a photo or a…
Summary As of MySQL 5.0, renaming a table is trivial with the “rename table” function. Renaming a column was a little cryptic, even looking at the documentation. Here are a couple of concrete examples. To rename a table from “lu_wind_direction” to “lu_direction”: To rename a column called “wind_speed” to “speed” in the table named “spacetime”: So, when renaming a…
Summary If you have a database and you don’t need a full US state and zip database, it might be helpful to have a look-up table of state names and abbreviations. I searched for a little while and didn’t find anything simple right away, so here is a little SQL script to make a state…