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I am setting up on Localhost, in order to save cloud fees and maybe some time during development. Multi-host networking with standalone swarms Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Standalone swarm only! This article only applies to users who need to use a standalone swarm with Docker, as opposed to swarm mode. Standalone swarms (sometimes known …
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Nothing like a good Geeky command after the Yom Kippur 25 hour fast! Ubuntu loves to run apt-daily.service on Startup, which messes with devops pre-installations. In My case I want to run docker-machine. Turn off auto updates edit file 20-auto-upgrades in /usr/share/unattended-upgrades Turn the service back on after 20 minutes or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d https://www.garron.me/en/linux/turn-off-stop-ubuntu-automatic-update.html …
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Devops need to automatically install stuff on Ubuntu, however this clashed with the daily ubuntu auto update. The best way to stop autoupgrades is to prevent Ubuntu from download the updated package list Edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20periodic or whatever number it is Change the 1 for Update-Package-Lists to a 0 APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists “0”; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade “1”; See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/9/how-do-i-enable-automatic-updates https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.regular-upgrades.html Other …
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I am going to try the following code to pre-set a password on Hmailserver. My previous code doesn’t work on the newly installed Cloud Instance. Stay Tuned. The link and code are pretty old, but hope it will still work. Advice welcome! <?PHP // Users password $strPassword = “test123”; // Generate 6 Character Random …
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Skycaps Don’t Work for the Airlines They Work for You! Many travelers and even airline employees are not aware that skycaps, the people who check in your luggage curbside and carry your bags inside the terminal, and to and from the curb, are not airline employees. These uniformed workers don’t get any benefits such as …
The Debate over OpenSource is back! I just read these 2 very interesting articles about whether you should use Windows as your cloud Server, even though it’s less popular? and whether cloud pricing methodologies are making Open Source cost the same as Proprietary? We deal with this question every day. Being cheap and broke …
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Get Google contacts to sync with your Vtiger Install OpenSource Charming CRM. Everything will work much more smoothly than with Vtiger: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B073WXGVSW Here is a bit of directions to get Google contacts to sync with your Vtiger. You need to create an API for Contacts and/or Calendar and give it your URL. After all this …
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Here is a script that can be used to block countries that dont buy your products but still hack their way in . You need to use the ISO code of the country in small letters. Add the script to cron to update it regularly. #!/bin/bash # Purpose: Block all traffic from …
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“I Hate Salesforce” – For people who are frustrated and say Salesforce. Charming CRM based on Vtiger 7 vs Salesforce Charming CRM is based on Open Source Vtiger 7. It is pre-installed on an AWS Ec2 Server. Charming CRM addresses much advice given about Vtiger 7 bugs, especially the WebForms have been fixed. Webforms have …
Microsoft Oulook’s spam filter is broken for a while now. I got sick of wasting time deleteing spam. So I installed SpamAssassin. the last time I used this it was OK. But needed to be taught not trash transliterated Hebrew words like “Mezuzot” since my other Business is producing such Judaica tutorial we are going …
Vtiger is the most popular open source CRM. The project owners also have a for pay service, but are still very committed to the open source community edition. Here are fixes for popular issues found in the Open Source edition. WebForms dont save and then give 500 error Opportunities Mbstring error PDF exports instructions and …
Vtiger WebForms don’t work, so here is a quick and needed fix. Vtiger version 5, 6 and 7 have issue creating webforms to capture leads from their website. They have added the ability to have the form work with other modules than just leads, but it still didn’t work. Install OpenSource Charming CRM. Everything will …
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Adding Cluster Nodes At this point, we have a cluster with a single manager node – a cluster, albeit meagre in substance. Before we augment the cluster with additional nodes, we need to attend to an AWS configuration detail. Docker Machine will have created an AWS security group (in the absence of our specifying the use of …
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