[LUGSB] Meeting this Friday - call for topics

[Barry Levin]

Perhaps, dar, the Disk Archiver. Handy little backup utility. Does
incremental backups, and is very good at keeping most of your data if the
media is corrupted. Will only ask for the slices (disks) which it needs (and
the first and last slices.)

On 3/7/07, Michael F. Lamb <mike at datagrok.org> wrote:
>
> I've (shame) not been to a LUGSB meet yet. Seems my schedule always gets
> in the way. But I'm thinking about topics I might present if were I to
> actually make the next one and give my 5-10minutes. So what I'd like to
> know is: what's the audience like? I know, I know, there's all varieties
> from noob to pro, but seriously, do we have a show-of-hands sortof
> guesstimation? Arbitrarily, let's divide people into these categories:
>
>   1. Brand new to linux and wondering what apps are useful,
>      still using windows some of the time (you poor soul)
>
>   2. Linux as primary OS for a while, looking for "tips and tricks,"
>      knows about man pages and configuration files
>
>   3. Exclusive linux use for years, looking for advanced knowledge,
>      knows the "free software song" (you poor soul)
>
> I mean, say I want to talk about vim. (Has this been done?) Should I
> spend 3 minutes on the merits of syntax highlighting and folding, or
> should I jump straight to compiler integration and 'errorformat' syntax?
>
> Or maybe 51% prefers emacs and I should prepare to defend myself? ;)
>
> -Mike
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