Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

  For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?
Thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
 like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
 shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

Rich,

The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:

For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations.
I'd
 like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
 shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread 
has a full-screen projection mode.

The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT 
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't 
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get 
you started.

-- 
Angus

esb2004.lyx.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape.
Paul,
  Aha! In this case I might as well stick with mgp.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread
has a full-screen projection mode.
Angus,
  As I wrote to Paul, Aha!. I've not used acroread for this so it didn't
occur to me.
The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get you
started.
  OK. I'll give it a try.
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
me.
  Anyway, I'll put together a test case and see how it goes. The advantage I
see to using beemer and acroread is that I can provide the presentation to
others -- particularly those stuck with Microsoft -- and they can view it to
their ultimate boredom.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
 was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
 mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
 stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
 computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
 how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
 me.

OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?

Matej

-- 
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial.
  -- Irvin S. Cobb

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Herbert Voss]

Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
read the beamer documentation 86 pages ...
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
Matej,
  Not specifically. I learned decades ago and attended a couple of sessions
offered within the past decade by InFocus on the use of color on computer
slides.
  Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The
first few look promising.
  Major tips:
  1.) Don't read your slides; the audience can read and will do so.
  2.) Use the slides to illustrate your points (e.g., a figure, table or
bullet points).
  3.) Never turn your back on the audience. If you're to the right of the
screen, use your left hand to point; don't cross your body with your
pointing arm.
  4.) Speak slowly and clearly.
  5.) If you want to reach an intellectual audience use blues and greens for
your slide backgrounds.
  6.) If you want to rouse emotions among your listeners, use red, orange or
yellow.
  7.) Keep text simple on each slide; no crowding. Use a large font; your
audience may include those older than 40 years sitting far from the screen.
  8.) Make sure that there is high contrast between text and background.
  9.) If you feel compelled to say, I know you can't read all the tiny
print on this slide ..., don't show it.
  10.) Respect your audiences' intelligence, time and willingness to listen
to you. Make it worth their while. Have them leave thinking, I'm glad I
listened to him.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Fernando Perez]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
 
 Rich Shepard wrote:
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
  was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
  mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
  stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
  computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
  how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
  me.
 
 OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
 presentations well?

The beamer manual actually has a section discussing these issues (good
presentation technique, independently of the tool used for the job).
 
 OT remark: A lyx-example for using beamer would be nice to add to the
 wiki. Links for doing presentations well would also fit in nicely there :-)

Note that beamer comes with extensive LyX examples, and many LyX-specific notes
(nicely highlighted by a blue LyX symbol in the margin) in the very detailed
200+ pages manual.  So anyone who actually downloads beamer will immediately
have far more documentation and examples than they can read.

The supplied examples are lyx files, and range from very simple to quite
complex, highlighting just about any task you may want to do in beamer.

Beamer is absolutely superb.  I just started using it recently, and I've been
really blown away by both the visual quality of the output, and how well put
together the whole thing is (documentation, examples, attention to detail). 
If anyone wants to see an example right away, written using lyx, here is one:

http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/talks/0411_python_scicomp.pdf

Cheers,

f

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The
 first few look promising.
 
 Major tips:

Thanks a lot, Rich, that's exactly what I hoped to get.

matej

-- 
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
[...] sleep is no substitute for caffeine.
  -- Robert Storey in review of Debian
 (when describing re-compilation of kernel :-)

Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

  For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?
Thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
 like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
 shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

Rich,

The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:

For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations.
I'd
 like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these
 shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread 
has a full-screen projection mode.

The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT 
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't 
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get 
you started.

-- 
Angus

esb2004.lyx.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape.
Paul,
  Aha! In this case I might as well stick with mgp.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread
has a full-screen projection mode.
Angus,
  As I wrote to Paul, Aha!. I've not used acroread for this so it didn't
occur to me.
The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get you
started.
  OK. I'll give it a try.
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
me.
  Anyway, I'll put together a test case and see how it goes. The advantage I
see to using beemer and acroread is that I can provide the presentation to
others -- particularly those stuck with Microsoft -- and they can view it to
their ultimate boredom.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
 was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
 mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
 stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
 computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
 how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
 me.

OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?

Matej

-- 
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial.
  -- Irvin S. Cobb

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Herbert Voss]

Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
read the beamer documentation 86 pages ...
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
Matej,
  Not specifically. I learned decades ago and attended a couple of sessions
offered within the past decade by InFocus on the use of color on computer
slides.
  Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The
first few look promising.
  Major tips:
  1.) Don't read your slides; the audience can read and will do so.
  2.) Use the slides to illustrate your points (e.g., a figure, table or
bullet points).
  3.) Never turn your back on the audience. If you're to the right of the
screen, use your left hand to point; don't cross your body with your
pointing arm.
  4.) Speak slowly and clearly.
  5.) If you want to reach an intellectual audience use blues and greens for
your slide backgrounds.
  6.) If you want to rouse emotions among your listeners, use red, orange or
yellow.
  7.) Keep text simple on each slide; no crowding. Use a large font; your
audience may include those older than 40 years sitting far from the screen.
  8.) Make sure that there is high contrast between text and background.
  9.) If you feel compelled to say, I know you can't read all the tiny
print on this slide ..., don't show it.
  10.) Respect your audiences' intelligence, time and willingness to listen
to you. Make it worth their while. Have them leave thinking, I'm glad I
listened to him.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Fernando Perez]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
 
 Rich Shepard wrote:
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
  was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
  mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint
  stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
  computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
  how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her slides to
  me.
 
 OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
 presentations well?

The beamer manual actually has a section discussing these issues (good
presentation technique, independently of the tool used for the job).
 
 OT remark: A lyx-example for using beamer would be nice to add to the
 wiki. Links for doing presentations well would also fit in nicely there :-)

Note that beamer comes with extensive LyX examples, and many LyX-specific notes
(nicely highlighted by a blue LyX symbol in the margin) in the very detailed
200+ pages manual.  So anyone who actually downloads beamer will immediately
have far more documentation and examples than they can read.

The supplied examples are lyx files, and range from very simple to quite
complex, highlighting just about any task you may want to do in beamer.

Beamer is absolutely superb.  I just started using it recently, and I've been
really blown away by both the visual quality of the output, and how well put
together the whole thing is (documentation, examples, attention to detail). 
If anyone wants to see an example right away, written using lyx, here is one:

http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/talks/0411_python_scicomp.pdf

Cheers,

f

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The
 first few look promising.
 
 Major tips:

Thanks a lot, Rich, that's exactly what I hoped to get.

matej

-- 
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
[...] sleep is no substitute for caffeine.
  -- Robert Storey in review of Debian
 (when describing re-compilation of kernel :-)

Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

  For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these
shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?
Thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd
> like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these
> shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

Rich,

The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View --> Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys "pagedown", "pageup" and "escape".

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:

>For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations.
>I'd
> like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these
> shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector?

You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread 
has a full-screen projection mode.

The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT 
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't 
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get 
you started.

-- 
Angus

esb2004.lyx.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the
presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View --> Full screen and
navigating through it with the keys "pagedown", "pageup" and "escape".
Paul,
  Aha! In this case I might as well stick with mgp.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread
has a full-screen projection mode.
Angus,
  As I wrote to Paul, "Aha!". I've not used acroread for this so it didn't
occur to me.
The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use quite a lot of ERT
in your LyX document. I attach a document to get you going. It won't
print, because the images aren't there, but it should be enough to get you
started.
  OK. I'll give it a try.
  I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their "PowerPoint"
stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her "slides" to
me.
  Anyway, I'll put together a test case and see how it goes. The advantage I
see to using beemer and acroread is that I can provide the presentation to
others -- particularly those stuck with Microsoft -- and they can view it to
their ultimate boredom.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
> was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
> mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their "PowerPoint"
> stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
> computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
> how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her "slides" to
> me.

OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?

Matej

-- 
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial.
  -- Irvin S. Cobb

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Herbert Voss]

Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
read the beamer documentation 86 pages ...
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
presentations well?
Matej,
  Not specifically. I learned decades ago and attended a couple of sessions
offered within the past decade by InFocus on the use of color on computer
"slides".
  Google search terms "giving presentations" returned 3,370,000 hits. The
first few look promising.
  Major tips:
  1.) Don't read your slides; the audience can read and will do so.
  2.) Use the slides to illustrate your points (e.g., a figure, table or
bullet points).
  3.) Never turn your back on the audience. If you're to the right of the
screen, use your left hand to point; don't cross your body with your
pointing arm.
  4.) Speak slowly and clearly.
  5.) If you want to reach an intellectual audience use blues and greens for
your slide backgrounds.
  6.) If you want to rouse emotions among your listeners, use red, orange or
yellow.
  7.) Keep text simple on each slide; no crowding. Use a large font; your
audience may include those older than 40 years sitting far from the screen.
  8.) Make sure that there is high contrast between text and background.
  9.) If you feel compelled to say, "I know you can't read all the tiny
print on this slide ...", don't show it.
  10.) Respect your audiences' intelligence, time and willingness to listen
to you. Make it worth their while. Have them leave thinking, "I'm glad I
listened to him."
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Fernando Perez]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote:
> 
>> Rich Shepard wrote:
>> > I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she
>> > was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I
>> > mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their "PowerPoint"
>> > stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with
>> > computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in
>> > how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her "slides" to
>> > me.
>> 
>> OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a
>> presentations well?

The beamer manual actually has a section discussing these issues (good
presentation technique, independently of the tool used for the job).
 
> OT remark: A lyx-example for using beamer would be nice to add to the
> wiki. Links for doing presentations well would also fit in nicely there :-)

Note that beamer comes with extensive LyX examples, and many LyX-specific notes
(nicely highlighted by a blue LyX symbol in the margin) in the very detailed
200+ pages manual.  So anyone who actually downloads beamer will immediately
have far more documentation and examples than they can read.

The supplied examples are lyx files, and range from very simple to quite
complex, highlighting just about any task you may want to do in beamer.

Beamer is absolutely superb.  I just started using it recently, and I've been
really blown away by both the visual quality of the output, and how well put
together the whole thing is (documentation, examples, attention to detail). 
If anyone wants to see an example right away, written using lyx, here is one:

http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/talks/0411_python_scicomp.pdf

Cheers,

f

Re: Presentations with Beemer

[Matej Cepl]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> Google search terms "giving presentations" returned 3,370,000 hits. The
> first few look promising.
> 
> Major tips:

Thanks a lot, Rich, that's exactly what I hoped to get.

matej

-- 
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
[...] sleep is no substitute for caffeine.
  -- Robert Storey in review of Debian
 (when describing re-compilation of kernel :-)