Restless night, so up at 3:30AM and finally found my Mainframe DVD that I had been looking for but wasn’t looking for it at that hour, which also had my COBOL, ASSEMBLER, REXX and JCL job streams and importantly, my mainframe Log file. It was really nice to see that Log file. /home/bill/MyStuff/Mainframe (BankAtlantic)/Vollie/whb/Log.txt It …
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Big Manjaro update
Successfully applied ~1.2GB update
2FA for GitHub
Enabled 2FA for GitHub on Android Phone…FreeOTP app. Enabling 2FA caused me problems doing a git clone on the command line! The solution was to generate a “Personal access token (PAT)”. I selected “read:packages” on “Generate Token” which didn’t work! Googling didn’t help various solutions said to… use PAT for username & <ENTER>for password. use …
Slow Progress
Trying to complete the LPI Linux Essentials Certification course @ Linux Academy but finding it very hard due to my mom’s (and my biggest cheer leader) declining health condition.
NextCloud
Updated NextCloud from 17.0.2 to 18.0.3
Fixed Manjaro intermittent Grub problem
Finally fixed the problem by using Gparted on Mint and formatting /dev/sdb1 which was the old OS that I moved to the SSD. Manjaro would sometimes point to the correct SSD OS and sometimes point to the old OS. Then ran sudo update-grub on Manjao. But 1st I did a blkid on Mint & ManjaroNotice …
failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
Attempted to apply a large Manjaro update (190+ packages) by… sudo pacman -SyuBut got (after many other messages)… (193/193) checking for file conflicts [################################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) firewalld: /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/firewall/pycache/init.cpython-38.pyc exists in filesystem firewalld: /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/firewall/pycache/client.cpython-38.pyc exists in filesystem firewalld: /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/firewall/pycache/dbus_utils.cpython-38.pyc exists in filesystem and so on… Errors occurred, no packages were …
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Linux Academy Certificates of Completion
I’ve received a few Linux Academy Certificates of Completion without my name. So I reached out to them with the following email. “I have recently observed some people displaying their Linux Academy “Certificate of Completion” on LinkedIn. I noticed the “Presented To” has their name printed below that and above the “Student” on the certificate. …
Mouse double clicks
I don’t know what happened but…knock on wood, I don’t seem to be having the unexpected mouse double clicks, that I have recently been having a problem with lately. It was especially annoying when using Thunderbird as I mentioned. However it wasn’t a Thunderbird only problem.
Thunderbird RSS reader…annoying behavior!
I use Thunderbird as my RSS reader. I like the fact that it flags with an asterisk, new articles retrieved since the previous time. That way I can just concentrate on new things, and not waste my time re-reading something I already read, at least until I realize I’ve already read this. However it has …
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