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Re: [LUG] meeting today (Paignton)

 

On 16 Mar, 2013, at 10:09 pm, Philip Hudson wrote:

On 16 Mar, 2013, at 9:57 pm, Paul Sutton wrote:

How did the Paignton Meet go today ?


Just me and Roly. We had a good chat and covered a wide range of topics, caught up on each other's news, and talked about maybe going up to London for the emacs conf in Camden on the 30th.

Topics, as I recollect, in no order:

1. Package managers in different distros.
2. Relative merits of Ubuntu and debian, their philosophies and aims.
3. Public key encryption, ssh, GPG, keyservers, web of trust.
4. GNU 'screen' use and customization.
5. tcsh vs bash
6. emacs and Lisp, dynamic languages, Python/Ruby/Smalltalk
7. The Mac's free/open-source underpinnings and Apple's FOSS contributions.
8. The future of linux
9. Me forgetting to bring the promised keyboard, having put it right next to the front door so I wouldn't forget it. It's PS/2 BTW.
10. Differences between GNU and BSD userland tools.
11. Foreground/background job control in the shell.
12. Networking, WiFi bridging, (not) kinking UTP ethernet cable.
13. The excellent commandline-fu site.
14. Getting newbies going with confidence: 2.5 hours estimate.

Anything else Roly?

15. Demo'ed ConnectBot on Android connecting to my home server's 'screen' session via ssh using public key.

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Phil Hudson                  http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz
@UWascalWabbit                 PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63


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