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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