new_laptop_7730

TODO

[X] VM: Tails
[x] VM: Kali 2019.1
[ ] VM: FreeBSD
[X] VM: Buscador 2.0
[ ] VM: ParrotSec
[X] VM: Android x86
[ ] VM: Elementary OS
[ ] VM: Metasploitable
[ ] VM: Security Onion
[X] VM: ReactOS - linux-ish distro that can run Windows binaries!!  Should run Evernote when 0.4.11 is released.
[X] VM: Windows 7
[ ] VM: Windows 10
    [ ] WinPatrol
    [ ] iDrive
    [ ] Evernote
    [ ] Overdrive ODM (audiobooks)

[ ] Conky
[ ] Clonezilla - create bootable clone on 4TB drive
[X] Reconfigure LivePatch to run only once or twice per day
[ ] Install ProtonMail Bridge
[X] Configure Evolution to work with iCloud calendar and contacts
[X] Configure iDrive for automated backups

Daily changes

3/13/2019

• Mainly fighting with the damn RaspPi + TFT to run Kali

• Configured bash history timestamp!

3/12/2019

• Installed PIA VPN client

• Configured Calibre, importing all of Calibre from OSX box then importing to laptop (which preserves plugins as well!)

• Tried to get custom touchpad gestures working. Installed the libs and a UI, i just don't know how to configure the UI (terrible UX)

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• Installed ProtonMail Bridge, but it didn't work, only crashed and wouldn't seem to let me set the login credentials

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• failed to get the laptop to mount the iphone filesystem (but Shotwell did try to load when it saw there were photos on it...but I couldn't import them, boo)

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• Installed Calibre (was it already installed?)

2/24/2019

• Installed Vineyard - helper for Wine, so I can try running some Windoze apps without a VM

• Cloned win10 VM on macbook, copied files to laptop

  • VM seems to work but it's so high res I can barely see it.

  • Need to determine how to set a different resolution on the VM

• Installed 'pip' (apparently that doesn't come with installing python?)

• Installed pip 'bandit' (python SAST):

  Installing collected packages: PyYAML, pbr, six, stevedore, smmap2, gitdb2, GitPython, bandit
  Successfully installed GitPython-2.1.11 PyYAML-3.13 bandit-1.5.1 gitdb2-2.0.5 pbr-5.1.2 six-1.12.0 smmap2-2.0.5 stevedore-1.30.0

• Installed pip 'pretty-json' (provides json.tool)

    Installing collected packages: Pygments, pygments-json, pretty-json
    Successfully installed Pygments-2.3.1 pretty-json-1.2.0 pygments-json-0.1

2/23/2019

• Created Tails LiveCD VM

• Installed CPANM (sudo cpan install App::cpanminus)

• Installed "gloc": Perl GNU/Linux OverDrive/eMusic Client -- downloads OverDrive books using .odm files

2/18/2019

• Installed numlockx, so I can use the numlock setting in

    ```Control Center --> Admin --> Login window --> Settings --> Activate numlock

  ```

• Added more virtual desktops/workspaces, so I have 10 total

• Custom keyboard settings: ((Control Center --> Hardware --> Keyboard)

  • Keyboard --> Layout --> Custom model: Dell Precision M laptop (which includes sep numpad area)

  • Keyboard --> Layout --> Options -->

    • Caps Lock Behavior --> Disable

    • Key sequence to kill the X server --> Enable: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

• Keyboard shortcuts (Control Center --> Hardware --> Keyboard shortcuts)

  • Add shortcuts for new virtual desktop 5-10 (Ctrl + #)

  • Tile window to left side of screen = Mod4/Win + <--

  • Tile window to right side of screen = Mod4/Win + -->

  • Move window to workspace 0-9 = Ctrl + Alt + #

• Configure iDrive and run full backup (NEW! Configure and run backups from web dashboard)

  • Download latest set of scripts (https://www.idrivedownloads.com/downloads/linux/download-for-linux/IDriveForLinux.zip)

  • Unzipped to /usr/

  • Ran /usr/IDriveForLinux/scripts/account_setting.pl

2/17/2018

• Buiding vbox from source for current kernel -- failed

• Pulled latest-ish virtualbox version (5.2.25) direct from their repo & it worked!

  https://websiteforstudents.com/install-the-latest-virtualbox-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/

• Installed latest vbox extension pack: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_2

• Added more ProtonVPN server configs

• Installed clipboard manager applet: http://tipsonubuntu.com/2018/02/18/install-copyq-clipboard-manager-3-2-ubuntu-18-0416-04/

• Virtualbox:

  • Mounted new SSD to VirtualBox VMs

    sudo chmod 765 VirtualBox\ VMs/
    sudo chown jpinkham.vboxusers VirtualBox\ VMs/
    sudo chgrp -R vboxusers *    (in the VM dir)

2/14/2019

• Installed Gnome MATE properly: sudo apt install ubuntu-mate-desktop

• Installed Cinnamon as well: sudo apt install cinnamon-desktop-environment

  Post-reboot, both showed up in the menu available at the login screen

• Installed ukuu

  • Used ukuu to install 4.20.x kernel

  • After reboot, virtualbox started up, but it complained that I needed virtualbox-dkms due to missing /dev/virtualbox or something.

• ran sudo apt purge virtualbox to remove and purge

• Reinstalled virtualbox fresh.

• Used apt to install Firefox so I won't have to use the version I downloaded from firefox that had no installer.

FRESH INSTALL DID NOT FIX VIRTUALBOX! GAH!