Git: apply pull request as patch

curl -L https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/1507.patch | git apply -v -

VirtualBox – Cannot Register the Hard Drive Because a Hard Drive with UUID Already Exists

After moving virtualbox folder to new location, cant boot any vm. To fix this, one can use this for example vboxmanage internalcommands sethduuid /mnt/stuff/linux_backup/VirtualBox\ VMs/w7/w7.vdi

Copy and paste adds adds 0~ and 1~

From here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/196098/copy-paste-in-xfce4-terminal-adds-0-and-1
Add this to .bashrc: printf "\e[?2004l"

ssh: copy your id_rsa.pub to remote host for no password

Execute on your localhost: ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@remote-host

Ubuntu 16:10: No D-BUS daemon running for vnc session

Open xterm in the vnc, and execute the following: sudo dbus-launch --sh-syntax

Compile ImageMagick 7 on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04: openvpn dns leak

Direct copy from here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn/+bug/1211110/comments/58

I had the problem with Ubuntu 16.04 out-of-the-box. After a full week of 12 hour days trying to resolve this issue, I was finally about to fix it. I made a longer post about it here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/829204/dns-routing-fails-for-vpn-connections-on-ubuntu-16-04-out-of-the-box

Here's the abbreviated version.
Step 1: Goto GitHub and clone the following repo to your home folder:
https://github.com/masterkorp/openvpn-update-resolv-conf

Step 2: Move the .sh files from your cloned rep to the /etc/openvpn folder:
sudo chmod +x *.sh && sudo mv *.sh /etc/openvpn

Step 3: Run the following command to install new packages for DNS:
sudo apt-get install openresolv nscd unbound

Step 4: Append the following line to your OpenVPN Client Configuration files (*.ovpn or *.conf). I did this after the configuration directives but before my inline certs ( tag):

script-security 2
up "/etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf.sh /etc/openvpn/update-systemd-network.sh"
down "/etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf.sh /etc/openvpn/update-systemd-network.sh"


This should resolve the DNS resolution problem. Dmitry has the right steps, but I needed the 2nd script for my system to update. Works like my 14.04 system... before I upgraded to 16.04...

Tmux: mouse scroll

Add this to ~/.tmux.conf set -g mouse on

Linux: start terminator with specific layout

terminator --layout=new_layout

Tmux: Mouse scroll

~/.tmux.conf set -g mouse on

Scallion on Ubuntu 16.04: The predefined type `System.Object' is not defined

Compile scallion on Ubuntu 16.04 xbuild scallion.sln /p:TargetFrameworkVersion="v4.5" Without 4.5 target, geting following error: CSC: error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Object' is not defined

Arch Linux: FAILED unknown public key

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys KEY More here: http://forums.netrunner-os.com/showthread.php?tid=18677

eschalot example: ./eschalot -vct4 -r "^block[s|z]"

Ubuntu 16.04: Tmux mouse scrolling

add to ~/.tmux.conf set -g mouse on
q to exit scroll mode.

Ubuntu16:04: Matlab cant change font size on plots

xorg fonts need to be installed. sudo apt install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi

Terminator: Set size and position in a config file

Example config file location: /home/mwo/.config/terminator/config

Example content [global_config]
[keybindings]
[layouts]
[[default]]
[[[child1]]]
parent = window0
profile = default
type = Terminal
[[[window0]]]
parent = ""
type = Window
size = 2000, 500
position = 420:900
[plugins]
[profiles]
[[default]]


Ubuntu 16.04 and Matlab 2016a: MATLAB has encountered an internal problem and needs to close

There is some problem with matlab UI GPU-based rendering on nvidia as this is causing this problem

Stack Trace (from fault):
[ 0] 0x00007f5bbc4a024d /usr/lib/nvidia-361-updates/libGLX_nvidia.so.0+00344653

The workaround is to launch matlab without GPU rendering: opt/MATLAB/R2016a/bin/matlab -softwareopengl

Ubuntu: ssh to tor server

On the server:

Add this to /usr/tor/torrc HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/sshd/
HiddenServicePort 22 127.0.0.1:22
Restart tor sudo service tor restart
Onion hostname file for the ssh service should be created sudo cat /var/lib/tor/sshd/hostname
Take note of the hostname
On the client:
Have tor browser running on the client.

Add this to ~/.ssh/config: host hidden hostname your_onion_hostname.onion
proxyCommand nc -x 127.0.0.1:9150 %h %p

Ubutnu 16:04: Time zone change

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Ubuntu 16:04: Install Krusader with dependencies

sudo apt install krusader krename kdiff3 konsole kde-baseapps-bin Without kde-baseapps-bin, bookmarks manager does not work.

Ubuntu 16:04: wt-3.3.5 compile error

When compiling latest wt-3.3.5, the following compile errors can occure: usr/include/boost/core/ref.hpp:131:74: note: candidate: template const boost::reference_wrapper boost::ref(T&)
template BOOST_FORCEINLINE reference_wrapper BOOST_REF_CONST ref( T & t )

^
/usr/include/boost/core/ref.hpp:131:74: note: template argument deduction/substitution failed:
/tmp/wt-3.3.5/test/dbo/DboTest.C: In substitution of ‘template const boost::reference_wrapper
boost::ref(T&) [with T = dbo_test26::test_method()::CheckExpected]’:
/tmp/wt-3.3.5/test/dbo/DboTest.C:2381:76: required from here
/tmp/wt-3.3.5/test/dbo/DboTest.C:2381:76: error: template argument for ‘template const
boost::reference_wrapper boost::ref(T&)’ uses local type ‘dbo_test26::test_method()::CheckExpected’ model->dataChanged().connect(boost::bind(boost::ref(checkExpected),
^
/tmp/wt-3.3.5/test/dbo/DboTest.C:2381:76: error: trying to instantiate ‘template const
boost::reference_wrapper boost::ref(T&)’

This can be fixed, by compiling with C++11 mode: cmake ../ -DWT_CPP_11_MODE:STRING="-std=c++11"

To specify prefix folder (i.e., installation folder): cmake ../ -DWT_CPP_11_MODE:STRING="-std=c++11" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="/opt/wt"

To build wt libraries as static (i.e. *.a), do: cmake ../ -DWT_CPP_11_MODE:STRING="-std=c++11" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="/opt/wt" -DSHARED_LIBS=0

Ubuntu 16:04: Segmentation fault (core dumped), but no core file

Make core files to be located in the current working folder sudo service apport stop
ulimit -c unlimited

ImageMagick: Crop images in half verticly

Left halfmogrify -gravity West -crop 50%x100%+0+0 *.tiff Right halfmogrify -gravity East -crop 50%x100%+0+0 *.tiff

ImageMagick: remove alpha and flatten

mogrify -flatten -type Grayscale -alpha remove *.tiff