[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-----
> 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.
> > 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> linux-user mailing list
> linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> http://www.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user
> 



More information about the linux-user mailing list