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This worked for me on Linux Mint 19.

First, install “xbindkeys” and “xautomation” with :

$ sudo install xbindkeys
$ sudo install xautomation

Then see which mouse button to remap by running "xev | grep button" and press the button you want to remap in the xev window. For me, it was button '8'.

The above comes from https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/map-mouse-on-linux/, but that article references /etc/X11/xorg.conf which I had trouble making.

A young man who's studying computer science in college asked me for information regarding how to get an internship in the software industry. Here's what I told him :

There is great demand for programmers with a bit of experience. You just need to get a bit of the right (or desired) experience.

I think there are several ways to do this :

I'm looking to start trying out Drupal 8. But I need some themes for display.

Here's a couple good articles on how to handle this :

http://www.undpaul.de/en/blog/2013/06/02/upgrading-busy-theme-drupal-8

http://www.undpaul.de/blog/2013/07/04/theming-drupal-8-conversion-themes...

For my current D7-based themes, looks like I have a couple options :

- Modify "slightly" the PHPTemplate-based themes and use them mostly as-is.

- Run the PHPTemplate-based theme thru "Twigify" at https://drupal.org/sandbox/forest/1974984

Here's a response to Open Source: The New College!

Although I have two bachelor's and one master's degree, I've been blogging for a while about the declining value of a college education.

This is a follow-up to a previous post where I was having trouble running apt-get as part of the initial boot process for a new AWS instance.

I actually never could automatically load packages using the recommended workaround of using apt_mirror :


#cloud-config
apt_mirror: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/


When I'd check the cloud-init log at /var/log/ apt-get would just sort of silently fail.

Ubuntu's cloud-init is a mechanism which can be used to provision a new instance upon initial boot. I imagine cloud-init can be used in many environments, but I'll focus on its use in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

You can invoke cloud-init in at least a couple ways :

- shell, with a lead line of #!/bin/sh
- cloud-init, with a lead line of #cloud-config

I was able to install the AWS PHP SDK 2 on Ubuntu 12.04 using Composer.

Here's a simple script which will show sample output from the EC2 Describe commands :

https://gist.github.com/dkl4/5135777

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the new SDK for PHP 2 for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is kind of lacking in documentation. Since the PHP SDK 2 for AWS is pretty new (November, 2012), hopefully this lack of documentation will be addressed. However, here are some notes which will help me and hopefully others.

At least for now, I'll focus on EC2 examples and code as that's what I need at the moment.