[Lincoln LUG] Saying Hello

[tom bruton]

It's all ways good cake, maybe u should make a bad cake see if the trend
continues
On 4 Mar 2015 20:37, "Rebecca Newborough" <bobobex at bobobex.org> wrote:

> 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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