Re: [PLUG] Info Interview Request for Linux Sys Admin training & employment?

2017-09-11 Thread Vedanta Teacher
Hu, I'll look at that too. I'm re-entering school winter term for STEM but I'll look at that as well. Blessings, Paul W. On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Mike C. wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently been accepted & enrolled into the RebootNW training > program for

[PLUG] Info Interview Request for Linux Sys Admin training & employment?

2017-09-11 Thread Mike C.
Hi, I've recently been accepted & enrolled into the RebootNW training program for long-term unemployed people through WorkSource Oregon. If you're interested to know more, you can check it out here => http://www.rebootnw.org/ I'm interested in getting training through the Linux Foundation, LPI,

Re: [PLUG] Moving/copying old home to new machine

2017-09-11 Thread Russell Senior
> "Neal" == Neal writes: Neal> Personally, I'm a fan of using tar over ssh for initial copies, Neal> because tar handles hard and soft links gracefully and quickly: Neal> [...] Neal> I had tried rsync a few years ago. Even though I've Unixed and Neal> Sunosed and

Re: [PLUG] Suggestions for featherweight laptop

2017-09-11 Thread Dave Lien - W7DAL
/ >USB 3 ports use blue plastic in the connector, afaik./ That's what I thought too Russell, but all 3 of these USB jacks are black. However on closer inspection with a bright light and a magnifying glass I see an "SS" marking on 2 of them along with the traditional USB mark on all 3 so now

Re: [PLUG] Moving/copying old home to new machine

2017-09-11 Thread Neal
On Sep 5, 2017 9:45 AM, "Paul Heinlein" wrote: ... rsync over a network can handle the situation where your UID/GID on the source system is different from that on the destination. Typically "cp" will be somewhat faster while rsync will be safer and more flexible.

[PLUG] What to do when perl module installation fails

2017-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
Running sa-learn this morning displayed a warning (error?) message not before seen: "Use of uninitialized value in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/AskDNS.pm line 214. plugin: failed to parse plugin /etc/mail/spamassassin/Botnet.pm: Can't locate

Re: [PLUG] Suggestions for featherweight laptop

2017-09-11 Thread Russell Senior
> "Dave" == Dave Lien <- W7DAL > writes: Dave> To install Linux from an ISO burned to a USB thumb drive enter Dave> Setup again and select F9, then Boot From USB Hard Drive Dave> (UEFI). (I still don't know which if any USB ports are really 3.0 Dave> and which are 2???)