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Category: Technical
USB with Oracle VirtualBox
I fought for some time to get USB devices recognized by VirtualBox. Today, I came across a blog entry with a solution: add your login to the (virtualbox) group “vboxusers”. Problem solved. Not obvious. My check scanner now works via the dedicated Windows 7 machine running in VirtualBox. Here is the relevant blog entry and…
Conky Sensors App
Under Linux Conky polls the system sensors to display status for you. It is fairly straight forward for a programmer to configure. My configuration is shared here.
Thunderbird -> Make E-Mail Links Open in Browser
he ThunderBird email client does not open links that I click in the browser. This time, the fix that worked is from
Apache2 access permissions changes — mod apache2.conf to fix
The infamous Apache2 “You don’t have permission to access / on this server” error started appearing after I updated my Mint/MATE system (Ubuntu) to version 17 (14.04). It is fixed by editing /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. Details in this article.