[GLLUG] Gone Wired Cyber-Cafe
GJG
ggrant at detroitaerospace.com
Fri Apr 8 14:27:50 EDT 2005
It supports 1024x768. And yes, it was a costly purchase =) but well
worth it.
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:25 -0400, James Zaldivar wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [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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