Hello!

[Jason Marks]

Berkeley LUG -

GREETINGS!

I'm a new member. Signed up uhhh uhhh recently.

Let me count the Reason's for accepting my petition:

1. you need diversity & I'm from .... socal. ;o)

2. you secretly desire to repeat the same help over and over

3. I can't seem to ditch Windwoes, but ...

4. I've dual booted before UEFI. Win10 wiped out my boot record

5. I've made bootable USB keydrives w/ Linux, but again before UEFI ( I wouldn't follow the "normal" way and instead installed it natively to the usb keydrive. ) But w/ UEFI, it wouldn't let me install the boot loader to the USB keydrive -- had to go to the internal hdd. pfffft.

6. I've got Linux Mint 19 running in a VM using VirtualBox &

7. This past June/July came to realization that a stand-alone PC running Linux would free up RAM on both the host and the guest by making them both their own machines. (sometimes the obvious escapes me)

8. Bought cheapest AMD based desktop I could and loaded Ubuntu Server 20.04, but then Kubuntu Desktop cuz well, it feels easier. -- Hope to use this "server" as more centralized storage/backup of family pix & vids. ( most Q's will be about this. )

9. int ethernet card power cycles or something. USB to Ethernet works better. Bought another int ethernet card. Hope to install it soon.

10. because there are 10 types of people in the world, those that know binary and those that don't?

peace & 42

[ace36]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 6:26 PM Jason Marks <jym...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Berkeley LUG -

GREETINGS!

I'm a new member. Signed up uhhh uhhh recently.

Let me count the Reason's for accepting my petition:

1. you need diversity & I'm from .... socal. ;o)

Welcome to the BerkeleyLUG mailing-list :-)

For a whole slew of virtual meetings, you might also be interested in visiting a key website courtesy of one of the major contributors and participants to BerkeleyLUG, that of Michael Paoli.

It's his BALUG website's 'Virtual Meetings' page at https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19#virtual_meetings

That webpage has a list of about half a dozen virtual meetings here in the SF Bay Area itself (including BerkeleyLUG's), and also lists a whole bunch of other virtual meetings around the US and beyond.

Note from BALUG's 'Virtual Meetings' list that the San Luis Obispo Linux Users Group -- which is a tad closer geographically to where you are in "socal ;o)" -- has its next meeting this very Thursday evening, October 1st. See http://www.slolug.com/

Hope that this also helps!

-A

[Jason Marks]

Wow. Yes. TYVM.

peace & 42

- jason

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jason Marks (jym...@sbcglobal.net):

> Wow. Yes. TYVM.

All credit is owed to the redoubtable Michael Paoli for having the
vision to create that BALUG wiki page. (I've made a few modest
additions, since then.)

And, by the way, just to stress, it -is- a wiki page, e.g., if you know
of needed updates or additions, please jump right in and do them.