RE: Linux Demo Days

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Richard wrote:

> > What's the 'plan' for these days?
>
> The plan is to show various types of technical and office
> software. I've got two apps that I'm working on now. These are IRIS
> Explorer and GRASS. There's also quite a few apps that come with
> linux CDs as standard. I'll also give demos of Star Office,
> Applixware and Wordperfect 8 as well as the mail apps that are used
> under Linux. We will have a dialup internet connection for this.

Would it be worth coordinating somewhat what people want to bring along?
I'm more of a TV/video/graphics person, so GIMP, Blender, that sort of
thing is what I have on my machines currently, although I pretty much have
everything sans games office suites. Too much time messing about with
PCPlus coverdisks mostly, although my favourite software-to-be (gnokii)
was supposedly on one of the more recent ones, and I bought it only to
find it wasn't there, or didn't seem to be there. Most disappointing.

Alex.

P.S. today's tribulations - trying to get a 10/100 net card (PCMCIA)
working on my laptop. Part of this entailed (because I don't have a laptop
CDROM) copying the win98 cd from my desktop via a serial cable. mm nice.
Also entailed using terminal software to copy other terminal software,
because they couldn't agree on xmodem protocols long enough to copy a file
of any substantial length. I am punishing myself by writing lines this
evening; This is why I don't use windows 500 times :(.

Also, on a stranger note, does anyone know how the same piece of software
on the same OS could report different serial throughput on two different
machines (one sending, one recieving)? I.e. the sending machine says 'I'm
sending at 11k CPS', recieving machines says it's only recieving at 10k
CPS. Somethings up there. . . .

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