Fedora 32 became available yesterday and – LinuxGeek46 that I am – I managed to upgrade 7 out of 8 of my Fedora hosts yesterday as well. It is really cool and works well as I have come to expect…
Author: David Both
I am a computer geek by hobby as well as profession. I have worked for IBM, MCI, Red Hat, the State of North Carolina, Cisco, and BB&T among others. I am now semi-retired and have my own company, Millennium Technology Consulting LLC through which I do speaking, training and consulting for Linux and Open Source Software.
Copy and Paste fails
After a recent upgrade to my primary workstation, and a new installation on a couple virtual machines, I discovered that copy and paste was not working. I use both Xfce and LXDE for my desktops on various hosts, both physical…
Migrate Thunderbird Config from one Linux Computer to Another
While getting ready to do a presentation at Open Source 101 in a few days, I decided that it would be good to reinstall POP_os! on my System 76 laptop. After that I needed to install Thunderbird and migrate my…
Security by obscurity — NOT!
As you can see in the posts below I switched internet service providers on Monday of this week. As a result I received a different block of IP addresses than I had before. I have always heard that it only…
Network migration complete
The migration to AT&T fiber is now complete and everything went very well. Of course that is not to say it was problem-free. I have never been a fan of AT&T but my previous provider has been unable to resolve…
Network migration Monday, January 20
Outages through Monday Due to a large number of intermittent outages with my current internet provider, I have decided to move to a new provider. These outages make access to my web sites with their information about my books, unavailable…
Speaking at Open Source 101
I will be speaking at Open Source 101 in Columbia, SC, on March 3. I will present an extended 3 hour session entitled, “Configuring and Using Bash.” This session is intended for Linux users and SysAdmins of all experience levels.…
Intermittent web site outages
Due to issues with Spectrum business class, this web site is experiencing intermittent outages. I expect them to arrive here between 2pm and 3pm Wednesday, Jan 15 to resolve the problem. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Great first review
“Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin” to be translated into Korean
This morning I learned from my editor that Apress has licensed all three volumes of Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin for translation into Korean. This is a big deal and I am really excited about it.