The likely hood that something will go wrong is in proportion to it's importance. --- Ed Nisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > That's a mighty concatenation of "exactlys", but > each has > clobbered at least one presentation in the past > year; some > talks have taken several shots below the waterline > in the > span of a few minutes. > > Heck, just putzing with X / backgrounds / fonts / > colors to > get a marginally acceptable projector display is > good for > maybe ten minutes right up front. > > While it's amusing to watch increasingly flamboyant > / > desperate acts of sysadmin derring-do, half an hour > of > gymnastics kills any hope of a coherent > presentation. > > I don't have a spare box right now (pesky > lightning!), but > perhaps we should take up a collection for a crash > test > dummy machine from eBay / somebody's closet that > each > presenter can configure / rehearse with as needed > -before- > P-Day. Ten bucks a head from the regular crowd would > buy a > perfectly acceptable white-box or obsolete Dell. > > Then, if someone could document a known-good > configuration > that matched the library's network, a known-good > configuration for the projector, and a known-good > list of > desktop settings to produce a legible display, and > tape > those to the top of the box, that'd be really great. > > </diatribe> > > -- > Ed > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) > MHVLS Auditorium > Feb 6 - DBUS > Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent > home/small office network using Linux > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
