From: Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>
Subject: Re: sending mail while unplugged
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 07:42:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <plop87brvwfira.fsf@gnu-rox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84k7ameiyc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann's?= message of "Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:59:07 +0200")
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On 13 jui 2003, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
>
> > Nice feature to have. I only wonder how you, guys, use the gnus
> > (un)plug feature. I mean here I am automagically unplugged when and
> > only when I do NOT have any network connection (e.g. in the train).
>
> When I log in, ~/.xinitrc starts Gnus unplugged.
Not exactly the same way I do but your way is good too.
> I get up in the morning. I turn on the laptop. I log in. I wait
> for Gnus to start. I go plugged. I fetch news. I have breakfast
> and take a shower. I go back to the laptop and get new mail and
> fetch news once more, just for the heck of it. I do something for a
> minute. I go back to the laptop, go unplugged, hibernate the laptop,
> put it in my backpack.
>
> I go to the trainstation. In the train, I wake up the laptop, read
> mail in unplugged mode and answer it and so on. At the end of the
> train ride, I shut down the laptop.
I must admit this is how I thought everybody used to use the
plugged/unplugged stuff so it fully match my thought :) At least this
is how I DO and I imagine.
> In the office, I put the laptop into the docking station and turn it
> on. (I had shut it down before because Linux doesn't like to wake up
> in the docking station for various reasons.) I log in. I wait for
> Gnus to appear. I plug it. I send queued messages. I work.
Wow ! You can use your linux box at work !! This is not my case, indeed
:( I have to travel everyday with my 2 laptops : mine and another
running the evil OS !
> In the evening, it's ``same procedure as every year, James''.
Same.
zeDek
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-15 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-10 13:02 Alexander Kotelnikov
2003-07-10 15:03 ` Gaute B Strokkenes
2003-07-11 6:29 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-07-13 11:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-07-15 5:42 ` Xavier Maillard [this message]
2003-07-10 16:36 ` Steve Evans
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