[Nottingham] [Social] *TODAY* Thursday 03/12/2015: Up a hidden Alley

[Luke]

The intention was to pull off the list, at least. I blame icedove ;)

Goodnight all, apologies for extra-verbosity.


On 03/12/15 21:33, Luke wrote:
> Pulling off the list, I was getting a bit chatty!
> 
> I noticed you'd recapped the formalities of Swedish there - what drove
> you towards the language?
> 
> Quite a fan of Nordic/Germanic stuff here, in an 'England' context, at
> least. Om du vill tränar lite så kan vi försöker ta det på svenska men
> det är inte mitt modersmål heller!
> 
> Good call on the Zero. A friend and I scoured local newsagents for a
> free magazine version - no dice. I do have a spare B+ still though...
> would be a shame not to use it. This friend is/was into remote control
> cars and quadcopters so lent me a large Nimh battery and voltage
> downverter thing to play with.
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/12/15 21:20, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>> Och din, men min svenska är inte mycket bra...
>>
>> I've heard very good things about evil-mode. Maybe mu4e + evil-mode
>> would be like mu4v(..im)? :P
>>
>> Your Pi project sounds very interesting... Especially with the new Pi
>> Zero, you could do something very impressive, all powered by your back
>> pocket.
>>
>> I will stop spamming the mailing list now! Good night all!
>>
>> Aaron 
>>
>>
>>
>> Luke writes:
>>
>>> Cheers Aaron. Just had a quick scan of your blog before you replied - I
>>> like your bio-data stuff (and also your Chang gifs :)).
>>>
>>> Don't tempt me on the Emacs front! The complete system in a box approach
>>> is appealing, I've been tempted to dive in a few times, with evil mode
>>> in my case (struggle to tolerate the 'emacs pinky' bindings).
>>>
>>> The Rpi wearable I mentioned will most likely use emacspeak, so I'll
>>> have to get my head around it for that use case, but for email, not so
>>> sure yet. Had looked into mu4e and it does seem to do a cracking job.
>>> Anything fast, basically, and I figured mutt would be quickest to get
>>> into (for a vimmer).
>>>
>>> Current setup for 'incoming stuff': on a Pi, accessed via mosh and tmux
>>> for a permanent session with newsbeuter for rss, finch for IM, irssi IRC
>>> and now mutt for email (on local machine). Bringing all this together
>>> into emacs is tempting, but the configs... oh the configs.
>>>
>>> You'll tell me that's the joy of it though, right?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/12/15 20:51, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>>>> Nice to know I am not the only one planning to start attending.
>>>>
>>>> Since you are only halfway between changing email clients, perhaps you
>>>> are open to suggestions. I have been using mu4e for about half a year
>>>> now and I have been loving it since the beginning. It is actually an
>>>> email client for Emacs, but of course, Emacs can be run in text mode.
>>>>
>>>> Hope to meet you at the next social,
>>>>
>>>> Aaron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Luke writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking about it too -- another first-timer -- perhaps next time!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm Luke, by the way. Quick intro: I use a Debian Jessie netinst with
>>>>> i3, wringing the last out of this 2011 Thinkpad (X120e). After the N900
>>>>> bit the bucket I bit the bullet and picked up a Ubuntu phone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently half-way between a move from icedove to mutt and considering
>>>>> soon making one of the Raspberry Pis a wearable 'assistant', with audio
>>>>> instead of visual interface. Recent Foundation licenced ham, also, going
>>>>> for intermediate soon.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope to meet some of the Notts-lot soon.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 03/12/15 19:54, Martin wrote:
>>>>>> Aaron,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh no! Sorry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Diverted to Beeston! Ooops!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope not a wasted trip...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You're very welcome for our Christmas nosh.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (You could be donated a beer in recompense! :-) )
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope you can find us then, we're already scheming where...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Details to follow,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Martin
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aaron S. Jackson wrote:
>>>>>>> Ah, I was just about to attend my first social... 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I finally found the cafe, has everyone left?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Aaron 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>
>>>>>>> To: Notts GNU/Linux Users Group <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>>>>>> Sent: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 18:46:01 -0000 (GMT)
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] [Social] *TODAY* Thursday 03/12/2015: Up a hidden Alley
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Daryl,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oh dear...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for the note.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We've also had others elsewhere flung north and south!...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hence guess we need to rerun this one another evening.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (Quick txt to check for the remaining usual suspect :-( )
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Until the next Thursday,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Martin
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 03/12/15 17:29, Daryl wrote:
>>>>>>>> I'm afraid I won't be able to make it this time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:19 Martin wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     Folks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     *TODAY* is Thursday, and NLUG wanders up a very healthy Alley:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     Up a Hidden Alley
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     http://nottingham.lug.org.uk/event/up-a-hidden-alley/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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