[wellylug] If you are stuck for ideas for a lightning talk session

[Brent Wood]

Hmm...

For a below par round, all of these could be shortened considerably with a minor use of alias :-) Or is that cheating?



Brent


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 From: Donovan Jones <lug at gamma.net.nz>
To: Brent Wood <pcreso at pcreso.com>; Wellington Linux Users Group <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz> 
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [wellylug] If you are stuck for ideas for a lightning talk session
 


I cant resist a bit of golf:

dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1}' | sort -R | head -1


Donovan



On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Brent Wood <pcreso at pcreso.com> wrote:

And a wellylug equivalent to the perlmongers solution by Grant for selecting a random package on a Debian based Linux system:-)
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>dpkg --get-selections | tail -n `rand -M \`dpkg --get-selections | wc -l\`` | head -1
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>I figured you should be able to do this with common Linux commands, without resorting to a programming or scripting language.
>This is one way...
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>If I thought about it a bit more I figure awk could probably do this a bit more elegantly, if not even more arcanely!.
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>Brent
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> From: Grant McLean <grant at mclean.net.nz>
>To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [wellylug] If you are stuck for ideas for a lightning talk session
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>Presumably the WellyLUG session on Monday will take a relaxed approach
>to the five minute time limit (as the Perl Mongers did last night) so
>the dire warnings in that page can be ignored.
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>Also, I'm guessing that people with slides will either bring their own
>laptop or put them on a web page.  Bringing PDF/OpenOffice/HTML files on
>a USB stick could also work.
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>The suggestion on our page that people might randomly select a Perl
>module to talk about could be adapted to "randomly select an OS
>package".  For example on a debian-based distro, this 1-liner will
>randomly select one of the packages you have installed:
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>  dpkg --get-selections | \
>      perl -E '@p = map { s/\s.*//r } <>; say $p[rand(+ at p)]'
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>See you Monday.
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>Cheers
>Grant
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>On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 15:14 +1300, Hugh Davenport wrote:
>> Graciously stolen from Wellington Perl Mongers, who had a
>> lightning session last night.
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>> http://wellington.pm.org/lightning_talks.html
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>> I shall add this to the WellyLUG page at some point.
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>> Let me know if you get a spark of ideas for a talk next monday!
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>> Cheers,
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>> Hugh
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