Re: Linux Meetup Groups near Christchurch

2009-05-22 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > By all means feel very free to re-start the monthly meetings. > ... > Be warned however that finding competent free of charge orators who live > nearby and know about any of the subject matter below is like finding a > needle in a hayst

Re: Linux Meetup Groups near Christchurch

2009-05-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
By all means feel very free to re-start the monthly meetings. If you wish to use the hall we have used in the past see: http://www.stalbans.gen.nz/sacrc.html Be warned however that finding competent free of charge orators who live nearby and know about any of the subject matter below is like find

Linux Meetup Groups near Christchurch

2009-05-22 Thread Seriously Ubuntu
Was surfing around and fell upon this: http://linux.meetup.com/cities/nz/christchurch/ Christchurch Linux Waiting List Start a Meetup Group for the 11 people waiting. Linux, Extreme Programming, Agile Software, Search Engine Optimization, Ruby, MythTV, PHP, Boardgames, PHP, Security Industry, L

Re: a do nothing shell ?

2009-05-22 Thread John Collis
Hi, Last time I had to do this, I simply wrote a simple command in C, that would wait for a character and then exit. It doesn't have to be too complicated. You could easily print a simple prompt (to alert any user who looks at a terminal) and then wait. For security just don't use getchar