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Browser histories

Unless you are using Safari on OSX, most browsers will have some kind of free plugin that you can use to export the browser's history. So that's probably the easiest way. The harder way, which seems to be what Safari wants is a bit more hacky but it will also work for other browsers. Turns out that most of them, including Safari, have their history saved in some kind of sqlite database file somewhere in your home directory.

The OSX Finder cheats a little bit and doesn't show us all the files that actually exist on our drive. It tries to protect us from ourselves by hiding some system and application-specific files. You can work around this by either using the terminal (my preferred method) or by using the Cmd+Shft+G in Finder.

Once you locate the file containing the browser's history, copy it to make a backup just in case we screw up.

First off, credit goes to github.com/rudolfratusinski for leading the way here.

https://gist.github.com/rudolfratusinski/a4d9e3caff11a4d9d81d2e84abc9afbf

In a very similar approach, copy the files from the Parallels installation media and drop them in a folder somewhere (eg. ~/parallels_fixed)

Go to the kmods directory (cd ~/parallels_fixed/kmods) and extract the files (tar -xzf prl_mod.tar.gz)

Remove prl_mod.tar.gz file from that directory (rm prl_mod.tar.gz)

Introduction

This is about documenting getting Linux running on the late 2016 and mid 2017 MPB's; the focus is mostly on the MacBookPro13,3 and MacBookPro14,3 (15inch models), but I try to make it relevant and provide information for MacBookPro13,1, MacBookPro13,2, MacBookPro14,1, and MacBookPro14,2 (13inch models) too. I'm currently using Fedora 27, but most the things should be valid for other recent distros even if the details differ. The kernel version is 4.14.x (after latest update).

The state of linux on the MBP (with particular focus on MacBookPro13,2) is also being tracked on https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux . And for Ubuntu users there are a couple tutorials (here and here) focused on that distro and the MacBook.

Note: For those who have followed these instructions ealier, and in particular for those who have had problems with the custom DSDT, modifying the DSDT is not necessary anymore - se

Installing SSHPASS

SSHPass is a tiny utility, which allows you to provide the ssh password without using the prompt. This will very helpful for scripting. SSHPass is not good to use in multi-user environment. If you use SSHPass on your development machine, it don't do anything evil.

Installing on Ubuntu

apt-get install sshpass

Installing on OS X

Ubuntu 16.04 Developer Tools Installation

First things first !

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Standard Developer Tools

sudo apt-get install build-essential git

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Restart Bluetooth Module on Mac OS X
	#
	# Requires Blueutil to be installed: http://brewformulas.org/blueutil

	BT="/usr/local/bin/blueutil"

	log() {
	echo "$@"

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	# You may use this CentOS 7 repository on Fedora Copr for Vim 8 builds.
	# https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mcepl/vim8/
	#
	# Run these commands on CentOS 7.

	# Add this repository:

	sudo curl -L https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mcepl/vim8/repo/epel-7/mcepl-vim8-epel-7.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/mcepl-vim8-epel-7.repo

	# Upgrade Vim to vim 8:

	<?php

	$host="localhost";

	$root="root";
	$root_password="***************";


	$dbh = new PDO("mysql:host=$host", $root, $root_password);
	$dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);