Re: [PLUG] Internship for people with Linux command line familiarity

2023-09-23 Thread Kevin Williams
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023, at 16:52, Ben Koenig wrote: > Does anyone here know if Free Geek still teaches a commandline class? I don't > see any references to it (or other classes) on their website but this would > have been a great example of the skills taught in that class. > > If you need a cr

Re: [PLUG] Trying to install Debian 12 as dual boot with Ubuntu

2023-09-21 Thread Kevin Williams
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, at 13:48, John Jason Jordan wrote: > So far I've done this ten times. Only once was I actually able to boot > to Debian. And sitting in front of my new Debian I spent several hours > installing and configuring, which included deleting all the hundreds of > Thai fonts (Why?)

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-17 Thread Kevin Williams
On Sun, Sep 17, 2023, at 17:45, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:19:41 -0700 > "Kevin Williams" dijo: > > >John, what was your specific error that you got when using SSH to your > >computer? What is the local SSH server not already running? &

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-17 Thread Kevin Williams
On Sun, Sep 17, 2023, at 11:05, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 22:22:00 -0700 > wes dijo: > > >On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 11:02 AM John Jason Jordan > >wrote: > > > >> >>> Normally release is done with the Right-Ctrl key, but if you're > >> >>> in the host and the guest has exclu

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-16 Thread Kevin Williams
On Sat, Sep 16, 2023, at 11:02, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:10:31 -0700 > John Jason Jordan dijo: > > >On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:37:15 -0700 > >wes dijo: > > > >>On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 1:32 PM John Jason Jordan > >>wrote: > >>> Normally release is done with the Right-Ct

Re: [PLUG] No Speaker for September yet, anybody want to or have a lead?

2023-08-29 Thread Kevin Williams
I enjoy UnPLUGs. On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, at 18:39, Michael Dexter wrote: > I can offer the new venue, but was also thinking that we should take > advantage of the good weather. > > Michael > > On 8/28/23 9:39 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Neither Michael (last I checked) nor I

Re: [PLUG] Ramnode & Arch & qcow2 - RESOLVED

2023-08-02 Thread Kevin Williams
Good to hear that Michael. I’ve had success with Ramnode as well. On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, at 4:55 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > On 2023-08-02 09:23, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > Have you done a successful Arch Linux install of qcow2 on Ramnode? > > > > I am needing to create a #cloud-config > >

Re: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: July General Meeting is another Un-PLUG at Rose City Book Pub

2023-06-21 Thread Kevin Williams
Looking forward to it! On Wed, Jun 21, 2023, at 3:03 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement > > Michael has a speaker semi-committed, but now for August. Which leaves > us bereft of edutainment in the short term. So, as suggested earlier, we > are goi

Re: [PLUG] RFC: more UnPLUGs?

2023-06-04 Thread Kevin Williams
BSD Pizza Night is on the third Thursdays. How about if on the months we have a speaker for PLUG, we do UnPLUG on second or 4th Thursday? Or on 1st Thursday if we get no takers for PLUG speaker? On Sat, Jun 3, 2023, at 5:17 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > Leaving the UnPLUG a few days ago, there was

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] No speaker, no venue (so far) for June!

2023-05-27 Thread Kevin Williams
Lucky Lab would be fine. Rose City Book Pub sounds really good! On Sat, May 27, 2023, at 12:15 PM, Reid wrote: > > > > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > --- Original Message --- > On Saturday, May 27th, 2023 at 3:24 AM, Russell Senior > wrote: > > > > Russell Senior rus

Re: [PLUG] Looking for a paid POP/IMAP email provider

2023-05-06 Thread Kevin Williams
I second the recommendation for Fastmail, as well as POBox. Features of both: - No ads and no scraping emails for "relevant" ads - You can use your own domain name or theirs (you don't have to have a custom domain) They also have these advantages over Protonmail - Works with any imap email clien

Re: [PLUG] Alternative Meeting Locations

2023-01-25 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi, Alternative meeting locations would be fine. Are we thinking this for the March meeting and after? Are we still good for a 6:30 start time at the Hillsdale location? Kevin

Re: [PLUG] PLUG "Marketing" and hosting input welcome

2023-01-21 Thread Kevin Williams
Ben, Great thoughts. Michael, I am open to contributing to PLUG's LinkedIn page. What is its link? You answered one question I had in the other thread. You are interested in alternate hosting from that VMWare-based outfit. For the static website itself (no meeting recording archive), how abou

Re: [PLUG] PLUG February 2nd In-Person Meeting Soft Announcement

2023-01-21 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi, Thank you for organizing this Michael. I am find with contributing $5 for each PLUG in-person meeting I attend if the venue asks. Meeting with other open source enthusiasts is worth at least that much to me. I do not like the idea of wearing a mask these days. But it is in my interest to do

Re: [PLUG] Question on Linux Firewalls (and hardware)

2023-01-20 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi, The Beelink U59 more than satisfies OPNSense’s recommended specifications. It should run just fine with that setup. Kevin On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, at 8:27 PM, MC_Sequoia wrote: > "See https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-Intel-2-9Ghz-USB3-0-Type-C/dp/B09J4D6TMG/ > > I am trying to determine if this

Re: [PLUG] Protonmail vs PLUG - The battle rages on

2023-01-19 Thread Kevin Williams
Ben, I started migrating from Gmail to ProtonMail a few years ago, bought a paid plan, and parked my domain with them. I switched to Fastmail about four months ago, because proton mail does not support Mutt, or any email client without their local decryption bridge installed (no support for th

[PLUG] January in person meeting?

2022-12-31 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi everyone, Are we meeting in person on the first Thursday of January? Kevin

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu SNAP versus limited memory

2022-12-15 Thread Kevin Williams
Paul and Ben, Great info! Keith, What is your preferred desktop environment or window manager? I agree Debian could be a great choice, or one of its desktop focused derivatives MX Linux or Spiral Linux. If you liked Scientific Linux, consider Alma or Rocky Linux. Kevin On Thu, Dec 15, 2022,

Re: [PLUG] Hello!

2022-12-10 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi Bobby, Welcome to PLUG! That’s really cool that a phone was your first introduction to Linux. You’ll find that our members use Linux in all sorts of contexts. For example, many of our members use Slackware, but not me at the moment. A few of us use OpenBSD and FreeBSD too, which are distant

Re: [PLUG] December 2022 - softPLUG Jitsi Meeting

2022-11-29 Thread Kevin Williams
Looking forward to softPLUG! On Mon, Nov 28, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > Hi all, > > December 1st is the 1st Thursday of December! > > For newer members, this is when we typically host our monthly PLUG Talks for > advanced and/or interesting topics. However, pending a return to in-per

Re: [PLUG] trying to detach running processes - but how?

2022-11-13 Thread Kevin Williams
Is magma.exe the math application listed here? http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/download/x86_64-linux/ According to your process list that you posted, it looks like you use X11 with KDE plasma. You load up konsole, which starts bash and then you start magma.exe from there. Likely it does s

Re: [PLUG] a question regarding something like nohup or disown

2022-11-09 Thread Kevin Williams
rare occasion I cannot access it by ssh. [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Working_with_the_serial_console#Minicom [2] https://man.openbsd.org/cu On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 11:57 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 11:31 PM Kevin Williams wrote: > >> Russell, >>

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Venue Options

2022-11-09 Thread Kevin Williams
:02 AM, Kevin Williams wrote: > I responded to the survey. I attended PLUG PSU and Lucky Lab for a couple > years before the shut down. I miss the in person meetings. I understand 5500 > SW Dosch Rd, Portland, OR 97239 is not feasible for some. I’m ready to go > back in person again

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Venue Options

2022-11-09 Thread Kevin Williams
I responded to the survey. I attended PLUG PSU and Lucky Lab for a couple years before the shut down. I miss the in person meetings. I understand 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland, OR 97239 is not feasible for some. I’m ready to go back in person again with fellow Linux people. softPLUG online on http

Re: [PLUG] a question regarding something like nohup or disown

2022-11-08 Thread Kevin Williams
Russell, Yes, tmux works the same way. Rich, tmux and screen are command line applications that launch and manage sub-shells (a shell in a shell). You can remote into a server, like your shell at your web host, start editing a file, open another window and view a man page, and then detach fro

Re: [PLUG] Renewing TLS/SSL certificate [RESOLVED]

2022-11-07 Thread Kevin Williams
\* Server/,/^\* SSL/p' > dig +short ${FQDN} | > xargs -I {} curl -s ipinfo.io/{} <http://ipinfo.io/%7B%7D> | > jq . > dig +noall +answer ${FQDN} > eof > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 4:53 PM Rich Shepard > wrote: > >> On Sun

Re: [PLUG] Renewing TLS/SSL certificate [RESOLVED]

2022-11-06 Thread Kevin Williams
ZeroSSL, Let’s Encrypt, and Buypass are providers of ACME protocol TLS certificates that require renewal every 90 or 180 days. I believe all three providers do not charge for this service. I have experience with Let’s Encrypt. The Caddy Web server uses zeroSSL by default. Rich, do you use in ma

Re: [PLUG] Renewing TLS/SSL certificate [RESOLVED]

2022-11-06 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi Rich, I’m glad to see you got it installed successfully. I’m curious what app you used to re-issue the certificate. Certbot? Lego? Kevin On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 8:44 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> What might have I done incorrectly? > > Perhaps it was