Software reference

Mediawiki - Wordpress - Phabricator

CodeLite - Eclipse - Sublime - Scite - Emacs

LibreOffice - Gimp - i3

Chromium - Firefox - IceWeasel

Linux software raid

OS installation

Create and boot from Ubuntu USB There should always be a boot USB for this in my set, but it needs recreation on new Ubuntu versions... Download the latest 64-bit Ubuntu desktop iso Format a USB drive as FAT (NOT exFAT or NTFS) Burn the iso to the USB, providing a GB of space (we want to add the nvidia driver once booted) sudo usb-creator-gtk Boot with it On startup, select the USB EFI boot option in refind, select "Try Ubuntu", hit e and add [ nouveau.noaccel=1] to grub line, hit F10 to start Once it is running, start System Settings, select Software, enable proprietary drivers Ubuntu 15.10 setup Ubuntu repo management To see what repos Ubuntu is currently using: cat /etc/apt/sources.list Set up a new Pi in 10 minutes The BEST thing to do is to copy the MicroSD from Carambola (marked with a black 'O'): open a terminal so we can watch the MicroSD /dev/sd{#} assignments sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog take the carambola MicroSD card out of the Pi and put it into an Anker hub (gets less hot than the small MicroSD sleeves - and it WILL get hot!) put another new MicroSD card into another Anker hub open another terminal dcfldd bs=4M if=/dev/sd{Letter of carambola} of=/dev/sd{Letter of new card} They will get HOT... I don't know how to make sure they don't get TOO hot yet... cross your fingers I guess... Drop the new card into the new Pi, boot, change /etc/hostname and reboot Raspberry Pi Raspbian setup Update gentoo kernel OpenELEC multi-boot install The easiest way is to add a new drive just for OpenElec and install OpenElec to it with the installer. But if you want to SHARE ONE DRIVE with other boots, DO NOT DO THAT :-) Do this instead: On an existing refind-booted system, set up two new ext4 partitions one about 2GB in size, labeled [SYSTEM], and marked as bootable the other with 10GB or more, labeled [STORAGE] prep the drives (no journal, ssd trim) download openelec and mount; there are a couple ways: get the img and install to a thumb get the img and mount (see below) Set up OE drives to mount in other OSes to /openelec-system and /openelec-storage /dev/disk/by-label/SYSTEM /openelec-system ext4 noatime 0 0 /dev/disk/by-label/STORAGE /openelec-storage ext4 noatime 0 0 copy target/KERNEL and target/SYSTEM to SYSTEM cp OpenELEC_img/target/KERNEL /openelec-system/ cp OpenELEC_img/target/SYSTEM /openelec-system/ set up UEFI boot subl /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf (and add this block) # MDM Trying this, from: http://openelec.tv/forum/64-installation/70783-how-to-efi-booting-openelec-on-new-pc-s-nuc-s # Only I had to change BOOT to SYSTEM. and quiet to debugging. menuentry OpenELEC { icon EFI/refind/icons/os_openelec.png volume SYSTEM ostype Linux loader KERNEL # options "boot=LABEL=SYSTEM disk=LABEL=STORAGE debugging" options "boot=LABEL=SYSTEM disk=LABEL=STORAGE quiet" } I THINK you need one or more of these too, not sure! cp target/boot/bootx64.efi /openelec-system/BOOT cp target/boot/bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/ cp target/boot/bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/ OpenELEC boot from thumb NOTE: I have the image already on a white stick with red lettering... anyway... Get the latest dev version (stable didn't work for me although this may change) dd it onto a thumb reboot and select to boot to the thumb in BIOS when the boot: line comes up, type "live" to get run a live Kodi rather than run the crufty old installer Windows 10 new setup Grep for Windows Create sublime symbolic links to preferences, typically here: C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\User etc.

Cloud and AWS tasks

AWS clone create a snapshot of an instance create an instance of a snapshot Example... instances -> pa-jenkins-win-test -> right-click, Create Image -> { name: pa-jenkins-win-test, AMI ID: ami-57cadc3d } This creates a new "AMI Image"- WARNING: The source machine will be rebooted! monitoring it, waiting for it to be ready... ready. man that took a while. Select AMI -> rightclick -> Launch... instance type: t2.medium (same as original; 2 vCPUs, 4GB mem) config: SELECT THE SAME SUBNET (us-east-1d) so on the same LAN and can ping each other; (all other defaults) storage: (default) tag instance: { name: "pa-jenkins-win-test-older" } security: select existing { "pa-shared immed_inno_group raleigh-windows-dev" } (as per Brad, previously - note that "raleigh" is no longer available) LAUNCH --- select an existing key pair or create a new pair let's use the existing ones since this is a shared resource 2014Dec25_air.pem (it's in my docs repo) ---- monitor it, wait for it to be created... because it was cloned from a machine that had the password changed, you can't use the existing key to regenerate i didn't realize it was changed?? anyway, it should be the exact same way to connect to test, but with a diff ip/hostname (*-older) yep. switched IP to 172.30.3.208 and it's good to go! Expand AWS storage stop instance in instance details, right-click the block device link (typically /dev/sd1) click the EBS ID snapshot the volume, wait for it to get to "complete" right-click snapshot, create volume use the same availability zone: us-east-1d on the volume created screen, click to show the volume vol-b88c3c45 get the orig volume: vol-5af8f0a0 https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-east-1#Volumes:search=vol-5af8f0a0;sort=size type this into volume filter to see them both: vol-b88c3c45|vol-5af8f0a0 make note of the attachment info for the old 30GB drive: Attachment information i-ad45941d (pa-jenkins-win-test):/dev/sda1 (attached) detach the volume! holy cow. i thought about restarting the instance and shutting it down first... but i think stopping it already did that! MOVE ON right click new volume, "attach volume" start typing instance name (pa-jenkins-win-test worked) CHANGE TEH SELECTED DRIVE NAME (xsdf or something) to the original! /dev/sda1 geez that's scary, wonder if it will work... YEP!!! AW#ESOMENWESSSS##$$ type "disk management", right-click the 30gb image, select Extend DONE!!!

Ubuntu set up networking
Install NetworkManager, as the wpagui UI sucks sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome YOU MUST remove interfaces from /etc/network/interfaces so wpa gives them up to nm-applet add nm-applet to startup if needed - i don't think it is needed as it seems to start up automatically now - try rebooting first

Ubuntu install Sublime
Sublime editor seems way better than anything else out there on linux: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer git config --global core.editor "subl -n -w" # to use sublime with -n(ew window) and -w(ait for exit)

Install Node.js

Windows Use the latest 64-bit installer From a cmd prompt: npm install -g express Linux install Node.js using the "Node.js Version Manager" nvm details find the latest nvm version curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash source ~/.profile nvm ls-remote nvm install ##### # (latest version, eg 5.8.0) nvm alias default stable (update .bashrc to configure node on even non-interactive shells - see another for example) also: nvm use 4.2.1; node -v; nvm ls; nvm alias default 0.11.13; nvm use default also: You can create an .nvmrc file containing version number in the project root directory and it will default to that version example: npm install -g express # to set the package manager to use a globally shared location

Ubuntu install Java

Install Oracle JDK 8 (9 is scheduled for release in 2016) su - add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java apt-get update apt-get install oracle-java8-installer apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default ctrl-D (back to user) update-alternatives --config java # make note of path update-alternatives --config javac # make note of path sudo subl /etc/environment JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java" # actually, use the path from above, of course