[brlug-general] Next advanced meeting or hangout

[Dustin Puryear]

This looks like about three talks. That's a lot of material. :-)

I think a lot of people may enjoy a talk on the games you listed. I
don't play them myself, but I always want to. (Well, I say that..)

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006, 1:00:44 AM, you wrote:

> Hi again. I wrote an outline for the topic I suggested as the next meeting.

> The Commandline Brotherhood: Mastering the Console

> 0) Introduction
>   "Should you be a Commandline Warrior?"
>   a) Why should you use it?
>     - Fun
>     - Faster
>     - Looks cool (Well it does.)
>     - Key point: learn more
> 1) Setting up
>   "From Dumb TTY to Linux Console"
>   a) Resolution
>     - The default 80x25 size can be insufficent.
>     - SVGATextMode instructs your video card to resize the console on-the-fly
>       without having to reboot. It can be dangerous if you don't set the right
>       refresh rates.
>   b) Fonts
>     - PSF fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts
>     - consolechars -d (default) or -f file
>   c) Keymaps
>     - /etc/console/ files and newer Debian setup with console-setup
>     - loadkeys command
>     - man 5 keymaps
>     - Use: Windows keys for VT switching, dead keys
>     - evexec hotkey program (music control)
>   d) screen (detaching, statusbar, window management)
>     - Mapping Function keys to switch windows
>     - Constant statusbar
>     - ^A for commands
>     - Detaching
>   e) gpm
>     - General overview (howto use, setup is easy)
> 2) Using it
>   "Enter the Shell"
>   a) Automating a login system (fancylogin, bash init scripts)
>     - Logging into 8 shells is annoying. Can be automated OR go a bit further.
>     - mingetty in inittab
>     - fancylogin
>     - My bash init script (aliases, fixed apps, LS_COLORS, PS1, bash completion
>   b) Web browsing (elinks, lynx, links, links2, w3m)
>     - Alternatives, recent is elinks though links2 can do gfx+jscript
>     - Basic usability (show it off)
>   c) IRC (irssi)
>     - Again, show it off
>   d) Other communication (bitlbee)
>     - Explain usefulness, demonstrate adding an account, show it off
>     - Groupchats
>   e) Mail (elmo, mutt)
>     - elmo is better for SMTP, show off both
>   f) Multimedia (mplayer)
>     - It can play many formats and output in many ways.
>     - Video output (svgalib, framebuffer, vidix)
> 3) Graphics and games
>   "It's a GUI World out there"
>   a) SVGAlib (zgv)
>     - Show it off
>   b) aalib (bb)
>     - Show it off
>   c) Interactive fiction games (Inform, adventure, battlestar)
>     - Adventure
>     - battlestar
>     - modern intfic games (wurb.com/if, rec.games.int-fiction)
>   d) Arcade games (tetris, worm, bsdgames)
>     - tetris, worm, ninvaders, snake, etc
>   e) Roguelikes (nethack, crawl, adom, tome, GearHead, CastlevaniaRL, DoomRL)
>     - demo each
>     - my project

> I'm totally inexperienced at giving talks, but I could try.