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Mounting VirtualBox shared folders on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

This guide will walk you through the steps on how to setup a VirtualBox shared folder inside your Ubuntu Server guest.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes that you are using the following setup:

Oracle VM VirtualBox version 6.0.10 with Extension Pack installed
Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 as the host OS
A fresh install of Ubuntu Server 18.04.2 LTS as the guest OS

You could still make this guide work with other setups (possibly with some modifications to the commands and whatnot).

Kubectl output options

Let's look at some basic kubectl output options.

Our intention is to list nodes (with their AWS InstanceId) and Pods (sorted by node).

We can start with:

kubectl get no

Install MySQL on macOS Sierra

This procedure explains how to install MySQL using Homebrew on macOS Sierra 10.12

Install Homebrew

Installing Homebrew is effortless, open Terminal and enter :
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Note: Homebrew will download and install Command Line Tools for Xcode 8.0 as part of the installation process.

Install MySQL

At this time of writing, Homebrew has MySQL version 5.7.15 as default formulae in its main repository :

Create a Mac App for Zim Wiki

Source: Below are my step-by-step notes based on the instructions found here: https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Install-on-OS-X-using-Platypus

Zim is a desktop wiki app written in Python and GTK. Learn more at: http://zim-wiki.org/

On Macs, you normally run the app by calling:

python zim.py

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

	Disable vim automatic visual mode on mouse select

	issue: :set mouse-=a
	add to ~/.vimrc: set mouse-=a

	my ~/.vimrc for preserving global defaults and only changing one option:

	source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
	set mouse-=a

-# delete local tag '12345'
-git tag -d 12345
-# delete remote tag '12345' (eg, GitHub version too)
-git push origin :refs/tags/12345
-# alternative approach
-git push --delete origin tagName
-git tag -d tagName

	"dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause" XF86AudioPlay
	"dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop" XF86AudioStop
	"dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next" XF86AudioNext
	"dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous" XF86AudioPrevious