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..)
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" Download your free copy: http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm 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.
