MonadLUG meeting 11/10
Ted Roche
tedroche at tedroche.com
Fri Nov 11 10:25:01 EST 2005
Great meeting last night!
We opened with a discussion of what's going on in GNHLUG. The
MonadLUG chapter has planned their next couple of meetings. On
December 8th, Tim Lund will present some anti-spam solutions. On
January 12, Ken D'Ambrosio will reprise his great presentation on
OpenVPN.
Bill Sconce announced that the Python SIG has secured some space at a
computer lab at SNHU to do some workshops. Details coming soon.
Tim Lund announced progress with locating donors and recipients of
machines his team will rehab into Linux boxes.We had a good
discussion of issues that might come up and concerns the group had.
We passed around a sign-up sheet. This is a great way to get a count
of attendees (there were ten last night) and to give the chapter
coordinators contact information should they need to follow up or
help another member make contact.
Bill Freeman presented emacs. Bill took a refreshing angle on the
presentation: it's really not as bad as everyone says. "You just
type." Bill showed how emacs works within the GUI and there are menus
and toolbars and simple ways to access much of the power of emacs.
Yes, lurking underneath is all of the power of emacs, and the Meta-
key sequences still work (well, mostly) the way they always worked.
From a simple text document, Bill went on to show some of the
delightful add-ons, such as the abc music system for producing
beautiful musics scores in PostScript from a text markup file, to
editing C programs with color-context editing , brace matching and
interaction with the compiler and error-code source linking. Muse
allows for simple outline markup with multiple font effect support in
emacs and output to pdf or HTML. TText can be used for much more
advanced text output. Emacs has a wiki mode. Support for a vast
number of languages and add-ons can be found on the net. Bill
recommended Google as his primary source for add-ons and support, and
a wiki whose URL I missing - anyone?
Bill wrapped up with the required Towers of Hanoi demo. Pretty cool!
Thanks, Bill, for a great presentation! And thanks to Guy for another
great meeting, Ken for providing the space (and scrambling to cobble
together a space due to problems at the school) and to all the
attendees for making it an entertaining night!
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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