On Friday 11 January 2008, Ed Nisley wrote: > > We'll make sure there is a laptop ready for you > > <diatribe> > > A good rule of thumb for presentations is that if you > haven't rehearsed exactly what you're planning to do, on > exactly the same hardware and software and network and > display that you're going to use, the presentation is not > going to work.
I appreciate you trying to save me from "a recipe for disaster". I've been thinking a lot about that problem, too. The options I have for bringing my own box for the presentation essentially all suck at present. [1) Lugging my Desktop, monitor, keyboard -- YUCK! 2) a T20 ThinkPad with no backlight + work blind, 3) an ancient Acer laptop with a slow CPU and low RAM, which is NOT appropriate for building kernels... -- etc.] > Heck, just putzing with X / backgrounds / fonts / colors to > get a marginally acceptable projector display is good for > maybe ten minutes right up front. That's actually another reason why having someone set that up that has already done it before makes some sense. Another interesting aspect for a kernel talk is that the underying hardware matters. For instance, when I build my kernels I also build the NVidia kernel source at the same time in order to get 3D support with a custom kernel. That's a very typical problem that people will have -- and which can't be emulated in a VMware session as far as I know. However I'd never ask for root access on someone's "real" box -- that's just asking too much. So I figure that running the live part of the presentation from a VMware virtual machine that can be easily destroyed is probably the next-best thing. It also means that if I practice the kernel build from VMware that I know what to expect, but it will also remove all of the interesting surprises in terms of kernel configuration. Beggers can't be choosers, so I have to work with what we can do realistically. If I figure out a better solution before April, I'll let 'yall know via the list. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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