Urgent Demo tomorrow suggestions needed

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

I have a guy from BBC's The Money Programme visiting tomorrow
(in this room http://opscam.kw.bbc.co.uk/) to see what all the fuss recently
about Linux is. Ie the VA Linux systems stock exchange shock.

My colleague Ciaran and I have both used Linux for years and dispite the
extremely short notice should be able to setup some demo's quickly.

He's mainly interesting in seeing it do stuff that you cannot do on Windows,
(the fact that it is free isn't enough). Possibly also showing him something
that demo's where MS are stopping freedom of operating system (insisting
companies use Exchange only, MS DDNS, BackOffice or windows media player
format for internet streaming, where you cannot choose to use a Linux desktop
as you've got no client s/w available to you). I can think of things like
masqurading dialup users, X'ing and VNC'ing multiple displays to all over the
office. Multiple X servers on one PC.. VPNs, mounting a WfW share and
exporting as a netware 3.11 emulated service over IPX.. Saddly many of these
are impossible to demo visually.

Remote support will be easy to demo as I have a nokia9110 communicator, see
some of these images for me using the VNC client on it as well as telnet and
xterm sessions: ftp://ftp.bbc.co.uk/pub/Damion/nokia/nokia9110vnc/ the
windows session was on another network over SOCKS, I started the unix VNC
client on the VNC server window I was attached to using the socks5 runsocks
command, that I couldn't do from the nokia, the window manager was KWM as you
might guess.

Last night to 6am I setup my box with full 3d accel for Quake3 arena and a
host of other apps, I'm gonna do dosemu and wine when I get home and
basically try and demo that it can also look impressive not just the other
less visible areas.

Can anyone suggest other useful things ? I'm gonna be bringing in a highly
loaded PC and a 386 with 8 meg and not much disk space to demo it running on
very cheap low spec hardware.

Damion

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Damion Yates - Senior Internet Operations Engineer - Internet Services
email: Damion.Yates [at] bbc.co.uk - phone: +44 1737 839510

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