On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 hantslug@??? wrote:
> On Sunday 04 Mar 2007 13:09, Andy Random wrote:
> > I have thought about what apps I use on a daily basis, but I'm not sure
> > how well received a talk on Pine would be :),
>
> Here's one vote for it - I'd be really interested,
The problem with pine is the license, while it is free (as in beer) it
isn't GPLed, which personally I don't care about but other here do.
I use pine because I know it, I've been using it for 10 years and I'm very
familiar with using it so the key strokes required are second nature to
me.
If I were starting again from scratch and looking for a console based
email client I would probably look at mutt first.
> especially if it came complete with a few screen shot.
I wasn't planning on using screen shots or even slides really, well maybe
one slide with some basic info on it, beyond that I was planning to do
more live demo type stuff than anything else.
> > Other things I use and could talk on for *five minutes* (but again don't
> > claim to be an expert on) are rsync,
>
> Ooh - yes please! I am currently yellowing out of a) cron and b) rsync, and
> need to get round this.
Well it looks like you are in luck, Adrian twisted my arm into doing an
rsync talk but be warned, rsync is a powerful beast, I don't really use a
10th of its features and options, and a 5 minute talk will only cover very
basic usage.
I see Adrian is now doing a cron talk as well, so that should mean you
have no excuses after the meeting :)
In addition to that you might want to refer to
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/CrontabFormat
and look at he slides or watch the video of the talk I gave last year
which included cron
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TechTalks/5thAugust2006
Andy
