[Lincoln LUG] Saying Hello

[Rebecca Newborough]

Hi Geoff

Attendance at meetings varies, depending on what people have got on. There
will always be 2 of us there (me and hubby, Philip) as a minimum. We have 8
other regular members who come to most meetings, and a few others who drop
in as and when time permits.

We usually notice an increase in attendance when I announce on the LUG
lists that there will be cake (LUG birthday, Christmas, Easter etc) -
strange that! :)

Cheers

Becky

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Geoff Crow <grc1 at gmx.co.uk> wrote:

>  Hello Becky and Mo,
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying. Every so often I wipe every thing of my
> laptop and start again trying new distros and clearing away all the
> accumulated junk. The last week has been one of those occasions.
>
> I wanted to try one of the BSD versions then found that it needed either a
> primary partition or a GPT partition.  I didn't have any spare primary
> partitions available and I had been finding the MBR partitioning
> restrictive so I decided to try GPT. After a few false starts I now have a
> GPT partitioned disk with Mint as the main OS. I have not got BSD on the
> laptop, because when I installed BSD it wasn't picked up by Mint and when I
> installed grub through BSD it wouldn't pick up Mint. Another problem I
> found with BSD was that it was very slow in comparison to Mint. So in the
> end I dumped BSD and will reinstall Arch along side Mint.
>
> As for the question of which text editor I use, I have tried a few and
> decided on KDE's Kate I like the fact that it is easy to use (no arcane key
> strokes or talking about buffers or insert and command modes). Just save a
> file as .java and it will syntax highlight, give auto-complete suggestions
> and auto indent.
>
> I have Eclipse installed as well, a bit over the top at the moment but I
> like the way it sets every thing up, catches errors and helps to fix them.
>
> Now a bit more information about the group. Do you get a good turn out at
> the meetings, I belonged to the Mansfield Lug for a while which on a good
> night had six members turn up for meetings. I was hoping for more than
> that.
>
> Anyway thats enough for now, see you soon.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
> On 01/03/15 15:34, Rebecca Newborough wrote:
>
> Hi Geoff and Mo
>
>  Yes, the mailing list is quiet, and we don't hang out on IRC :)
>
>  I've mainly been a debian user in the past - tried Ubuntu, didn't like
> it. However, I'm currently playing around with Windows 8. Please don't hate
> me!
>
>  My husband spends his whole day in a text editor when at work - which
> one do you use? I've used Geany in the past, but am using Sublime Text at
> the moment.
>
>  We look forward to seeing either of you at one of the meetings soon.
>
>  Regards
>
>  Becky Newborough
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Geoff.
>>
>> Welcome to the lincoln lug mailing list! it still surprises me how quiet
>> this list is, maybe everyone's hanging out on IRC? I'm based in Hannah
>> about 10 minutes away from Alford. i don't make it to many meetings because
>> of my visual impairment, but hope to do so in future. I mainly use debien,
>> and arch when i feel like a change.
>>
>> all the best,
>>
>> Mo.
>>
>>
>> On 28/02/2015 17:06, Geoff Crow wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Just subscribed to the mailing list and wanted to say hello.  I've been
>>> using Linux for a few years now, my first distro was suse 6.1. Having tried
>>> a lot of the popular distribution I have settled on LinuxMint for daily use
>>> and Arch Linux when I want to push myself a little.
>>>
>>> I am trying to teach myself Java at the moment(it's slow going) using
>>> Eclipse and also a basic text editor and command line. When you get to my
>>> age new ideas don't stick so easily.
>>>
>>> Any way, hope to see you at some of the meetings in the future.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Geoff Crow.
>>>
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