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    Evening all,<br>
    <br>
    I'm glad that people found the talk worth attending, particularly in
    light of how co-operative my laptop was being that night! I'd
    actually like to add my own thanks to the audience for taking an
    active part in the presentation: It's very hard to give a talk to a
    roomful of silent listeners, so I enjoyed giving the talk a lot more
    because people were throwing in questions and comments. So thanks to
    all present for that.<br>
    <br>
    For those who didn't attend but might have liked to, I've finally
    managed to get a transcription of the talk up on my blog, so if you
    can face reading it you can find it at
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2011/05/27/heart-of-linux">http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2011/05/27/heart-of-linux</a>
    - there are also a few of the scripts I use for my dual-monitor
    setup and a little more info on setting up things like screen and
    bash.<br>
    <br>
    As far as emails go, my address is at the top of thise one,
    obviously :) I'm more than happy to answer questions, but I'll throw
    in a caveat that if you think the answer might be useful to others,
    put the question on the list instead of emailing just me - that way
    you stand a chance of getting a better answer than I might give, and
    other people might learn something too. It is a Linux mailing list,
    after all ;)<br>
    <br>
    I'm delighted to hear that people have been spurred on to use the
    comamnd line (violently or otherwise :) since the event - that was
    exactly what I hoped for, so I count it as a big win that I managed
    to acheive it.<br>
    <br>
    Enjoy the long weekend, all!<br>
    <br>
    Dominic<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    On 28/05/2011 17:04, frank james wrote:
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            <td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Well I am running
              the minimac which has unix and having a ball with it!&nbsp;
              <div>I only used command prompt until now just to do bits
                of things like finding address and mac date and one or
                two other things. NOW at last I can glimpse the power
                that it gives me!!</div>
              <div>Dominic has opened up the lid of the notebook to
                me..wow &nbsp; wow!</div>
              <div>Frank<br>
                --- On <b>Sat, 28/5/11, frank james <i><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frank.james4@btinternet.com">&lt;frank.james4@btinternet.com&gt;</a></i></b>
                wrote:<br>
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                  From: frank james <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frank.james4@btinternet.com">&lt;frank.james4@btinternet.com&gt;</a><br>
                  Subject: Re: [Sussex] Very interesting talk on "Linux
                  as a developer's environment"<br>
                  To: "Fay Zee" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sussex@eglug.org.uk">&lt;sussex@eglug.org.uk&gt;</a>, "Sussex
                  LUG" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk">&lt;sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk&gt;</a><br>
                  Date: Saturday, 28 May, 2011, 13:43<br>
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                          <td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Hi
                            Fay!
                            <div>Do you by chance have Diminic's e-mail
                              address, and if so would you be able to
                              let me have it please. I have a number of
                              queries and I hope that he won't mind me
                              bothering him. Paul Keith and I very much
                              enjoyed the moot and it has spurred me
                              into violent "command prompt" activity.</div>
                            <div>We have 2 new members one keen on
                              "cloud computing".&nbsp;</div>
                            <div>Frank<br>
                              <br>
                              --- On <b>Fri, 27/5/11, Fay Zee <i><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sussex@eglug.org.uk">&lt;sussex@eglug.org.uk&gt;</a></i></b>
                              wrote:<br>
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                                From: Fay Zee
                                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sussex@eglug.org.uk">&lt;sussex@eglug.org.uk&gt;</a><br>
                                Subject: [Sussex] Very interesting talk
                                on "Linux as a developer's environment"<br>
                                To: "Sussex LUG"
                                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk">&lt;sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk&gt;</a><br>
                                Date: Friday, 27 May, 2011, 23:26<br>
                                <br>
                                <div id="yiv1601459503">It was very
                                  interesting from start to finish.
                                  Thank you, Dominic.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  It was nice to see a new face at the
                                  moot - welcome to Paul Willis, from
                                  Rustington LUG, introduced by Frank
                                  James. With Alex that made seven of
                                  us.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  I took away lots of little commands,
                                  and especially enjoyed the demo of the
                                  screen command. I'll be using the
                                  caption facility regularly from now
                                  on.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  Dominic gave Frank and me a screen
                                  command file to make coloured, tabbed
                                  captions at the foot of the console,
                                  numbered so as to switch easily
                                  between them.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  .screenrc:<br>
############################################<br>
                                  # An alternative hardstatus to display
                                  a bar at the bottom listing the<br>
                                  # windownames and highlighting the
                                  current windowname in blue. (This is
                                  only<br>
                                  # enabled if there is no hardstatus
                                  setting for your terminal)<br>
                                  caption always<br>
                                  caption string "%{.gb}%-w%(.rW}%n
                                  %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %u"<br>
                                  hardstatus string "yourname (%n %t)"<br>
                                  <br>
                                  # Turn off the splash screen<br>
                                  startup_message off<br>
############################################xx<br>
                                  <br>
                                  This works well on my Eee PC, which
                                  had screen installed but didn't have a
                                  .screenrc.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  However, on my main machine there is
                                  already a lengthy .screenrc, and
                                  although I appended the new code and
                                  checked for earlier conflicting
                                  commands, it puts an extraneous
                                  "(.rW)" before the caption. Still
                                  works just as well. I've been
                                  practising the other screen commands.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  I've yet to implement the other CLI
                                  bits and bobs.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  Thanks again for the talk.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  <br>
                                  Best Regards,<br>
                                  Fay<br>
                                  East Grinstead Linux User Group<br>
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