Updating your BIOS on Linux Mint 19 can be as easy as on Windows. If your computer is listed on the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, then all you have to do is:
~ $ sudo apt install fwupd
~ $ fwupdmgr get-updates
~ $ fwupdmgr update
The firmware-manager might even get included in the next version of Linux Mint 20.
I like having the user interface of my Linux Mint 19.1 in English, but the regional settings such as numbers and currency in a different language such as Swiss German.
For security reasons, creating symbolic links in a shared folder is disabled in the guest OS (ticket 10085 and manual 5.3 Shared Folders). If you trust your Linux guest OS, you can enable symlinking from the host OS with the following command:
~ $ VBoxManage setextradata "VM_Name" VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/Folder_Name 1Replace VM_Name and Folder_Name with your own names. To get a list of names of your virtual machines, execute in the host console:
~ $ VBoxManage list vmsYou can also list information about a specific machine with:
~ $ VBoxManage showvminfo "VM_Name"Now you can start your Linux guest OS and create the symbolic link, in my case I wanted to point my shared folder to the apache directory /var/www/html, e.g.
~ $ sudo ln -s /media/sf_Websites /var/www/htmlNote: On a Windows host you need to enable symlinks also on the OS level for the current user, otherwise you have to run VirtualBox with administrator rights, @see How do I create a symlink in Windows
The Okinawa Rail is a flightless bird endemic to the Yambaru region in the north of Okinawa. The Japanese call it Yambaru Kuina, and though stylized versions of it are ubiquitous on packaging, advertising or road signs, most people have never actually seen it.
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I’m working on a PHP project, that uses Phil Harveys excellent ExifTool to read Exif and XMP tags from photos. Since ExifTool is written in Perl, there is of course no composer.json to install this dependency directly with Composer. But you can create your own package information in your master composer.json as follows:
{
...
"repositories": [
...
{
"type": "package",
"package": {
"name": "philharvey/exiftool",
"version": "10.75",
"dist": {
"url": "https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/Image-ExifTool-10.75.tar.gz",
"type": "tar"
}
}
}
],
"require": {
...
"philharvey/exiftool": "10.*"
}
}This will automatically download ExifTool version 10.75 and extract it into the vendor folder /vendor/philharvey/exiftool/
Note, that the package type ‘tar’ should extract the file completely. If that is not the case, make sure you have the latest composer version 1.6.2 installed. Some Linux distributions (e.g. Linux Mint 18.3 and probably Ubuntu 16.4 too) are still on version 1.0.0-beta2, which does not support extracting ‘tar.gz’. Read my quick tutorial on how to upgrade composer on Linux Mint 18.3.
When you install Composer (the dependency manager for PHP) globally on Linux Mint 18.3 with the package manager…
$ sudo apt install composer
$ composer -V
Composer version @package_branch_alias_version@ (1.0.0-beta2) 2016-03-27 16:00:34…you’ll get the totally outdated version 1.0.0-beta2. The problem is that this version does not support extracting compressed package files ‘tar.gz’. It also does not support updating itself with:
$ composer selfupdateSo, you need to download the latest composer version (currently 1.6.2) manually and then put it into the directory /usr/local/bin/composer (which overrides /usr/bin/composer)
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer
now login – logout to apply the changes, voila:
$ composer -V
Composer version 1.6.2 2018-01-05 15:28:41
Over the New Year, I’ve spent a couple of days in my vacation home in the canton Vaud. During one night, we got quite a bit of fresh snow and the next evening my wife discovered this roe deer in our orchard. He was probably looking for apples.
When using Apache running on a VirtualBox machine with a shared folder, small files such as JavaScript or CSS files might not get updated from the host and served with additional characters at the end. This happens because of a bug in VirtualBox when Apache is using sendfile to improve data transfer. Just turn the EnabeSendfile Directive off in your httpd.conf, e.g.:
EnableSendfile offHere’s another post from my series why I love JetBrains PhpStorm. This is a SQL query, where I have I list of column names. The IDE not only marks the columns missing in the GROUP BY clause as errors, it also offers an option to fix it for you by adding them to the GROUP BY clause.
More PhpStorm love:
SQL table aliases
JavaScript code completion with dojo
So far nothing except one (little) thing:
Unlike on the D810, the GPS icon is not displayed on the top LCD only on the rear LCD. The GPS icon (on the rear LCD) blinks as long as no fix is available. Having this information on the top would be useful before taking a picture, especially if you have the Standby Timer setting enabled to save battery.