[Lincoln LUG] Saying Hello

[Philip Newborough]

A/B Testing with cake. You are one sick puppy :)

@Geoff, welcome to the list, hope to meet you at a LUG meeting soon :)

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:44 PM, tom bruton <tombruton87 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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