[HLUG] Post more to the website please

[Julian Robbins]

Just added a post about our survey results

http://www.hlug.org.uk/survey-results-of-what-members-want-from-our-meetings/

See everyone tomorrow -

Julian

On 25 May 2015 at 11:33, George DiceGeorge <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ive just made David a user of the website
> http://www.hlug.org.uk
>
> hoping he can post this there
> under his own name
> with a pretty picture
>
> Hope to see you all wednesday evening
> by which time the website will be humming with new posts and comments!
>
> [g]
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: david winterton Sent: Sunday, 24 May,
> 2015 19:54 To: Herefordshire Linux and Open Source Users Group Subject: Re:
> [HLUG] Post more to the website please
> Dear All,
> I know this is stating the oblivious, but I will either be there or sending
> my apologies Weds, depending how well silaging is going on the farm.
>
> Just the shortest article for the site:
> Just as windows gives it's users hours of fun running defrag, linux can
> fill it's root partition with older versions of programmes if left
> unattended, mine got to 8.5gb (I use Chakra, which is Arch based so the
> commands used are Arch) and entirely filled the partition.(/var/cache being
> the culpit) Unlike windows however this is not really a problem till it
> gets to excess as it means you can reinstate any up graded programme if
> 'progress' is not to your liking. The answer is simple, if everything is
> running to your liking then the command 'pacman -Scc' (without the ' ')
> will wipe the lot. this is not recommended.
> 'pacman -Sc' will wipe all the older copies, but best of all the programme
> 'paccache' will give you total control over it all.
> I am sure those of you far more learned than me will know the commands for
> Debain and other O/Ses.
>
> Now I think this is fairly interesting but what makes it fun is with Linux
> you can open the root folder, go to /var/cache, open a terminal issue the
> commands and see your computer change before your eyes and followed by a
> general upgrade 'pacman -Syu' repopulating it the file.
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 5:59 PM, George DiceGeorge <dicegeorge at hotmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
>  Everyone on this list knows of many interesting projects
>> http://www.hlug.org.uk/inkscape-review/
>>
>> so why not post one to the website now?
>>
>> it only takes a few minutes
>> ( and wordpress is fab,)))
>>
>> Please link to longer articles etc
>> (then weh we have a few hundred posts
>> we can decide on categories and other developments)
>>
>> There's already been two posts in 2015
>> please post more now!
>> (yes you dear reader)
>>
>> George
>>
>> http://www.hlug.org.uk/next-meeting-2/
>> Login is bottom left.
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