[GLLUG] Gone Wired Cyber-Cafe

[James Zaldivar]

The difference between a 1024 X 768 projector and an 800 x 600 one is
usually a thousand dollars or more.  They're still not all that common.

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From: linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu
[mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu] On Behalf Of GJG
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:12 PM
To: Matt Graham
Cc: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Gone Wired Cyber-Cafe


I have never had resolution problems but would recommend that 1024x768
be the target resolution for presentations to be safe. It works well
with both of my laptops, window 2000 at 1024x768, and Fedora C3 at
1600x1400. 

I have about a half dozen switches and can provide 48 to 96 ports.
Should be plenty for the group. 

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:03 -0400, Matt Graham wrote:
> On Friday 08 April 2005 13:17, after a long battle with technology, 
> GJG
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:03 -0400, Eric Miller wrote:
> > > I'm at the Gone Wired cyber-cafe eating a scone, washing it down 
> > > with a latte.
> 
> You latte-sipping digerati punk!  :-)
> 
> > > I asked them about having a lug meeting here. [...] they would 
> > > love
> > > to host a meeting on a regular basis. They will setup an area with

> > > tables, chairs, a network drop, and provide a power strip. All we 
> > > need is a network switch and the cables for each computer.
> 
> Nifty.
> 
> > > Oh, and we are more than welcome to bring in pizza. We'll need to 
> > > purchase beverages from them - but I think that's a small price to

> > > pay for them hosting us.
> 
> Ah!  They want to get a group of people in there and have them buy
> drinks.  Makes a lot of sense, since they've already got the 
> infrastructure set up and so forth.  Sounds like this would be a good 
> thing to try out.
> 
> > I have a projector and some extra switches I can donate to the 
> > group. Nothing great, 10MB type, but free and they work. How many 
> > ports are needed?
> 
> Max. res on the projector?  Any projector's good, it's just useful to
> know so that presenters can set their X up for that a little
beforehand 
> and not have to deal with virtual screens and/or xrandr difficulties.

> (KDE 3.3's window manager doesn't really handle xrandr as well as it 
> should.) I have a 5-port 100bT switch that's not doing anything useful

> at the moment.  Not much, I know, but it'd be something.
> 
> And yes, I plan to get this @#$%ing KDE presentation ready for the
> meeting on the 21st.  That will be possible.  I'll send the basic 
> outline to Charles U. after it's in a coherent state, see if he has
any 
> suggestions, etcetera.  Also, I may want to spend a few minutes on 
> xbindkeys even though it's not a KDE-specific program, since xbindkeys

> is Very Useful.
> 

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