[ale] ITT Linux Festival!

Mon Aug 16 23:05:57 EDT 2010

I have a link for Ron's dual-boot talk.  The file is 150MB!  
ODP version

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/linuxfest-itt-atl-20100814.odp or
http://tinyurl.com/linuxfest20100814rwfodp

or

PPT version

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/linuxfest-itt-atl-20100814.ppt or
http://tinyurl.com/linuxfest20100814rwfppt

-----Original Message-----
From: Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] ITT Linux Festival!
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:09:28 -0400

Any slides and talks recordings any place ?

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

        And maybe an outdoor pizza barbecue station!

        -- CHS

        On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:04 AM, wolf at wolfhalton.info
        <wolf at wolfhalton.info> wrote:
        > I thought I saw a few lightbulbs go on over the heads of the
        attendees
        > during your talk.
        > The canned simple classwork code cannot be as cool and
        memorable as real
        > project code,
        > so I got a lot out of the talk, too.
        >
        > Steven Blevins did his Opensource for newbies talk and Ron
        Frazier did a
        > talk about
        > dual-booting from a more windows-friendly position than what
        we usually
        > get.  Changing the windows boot menu
        > and booting from the windows side rather than letting GRUB
        handle it.  It
        > was an  interesting event.
        > The turn-out was about 60 people, and we had to break out to 2
        rooms for the
        > first time ever.
        >
        > Next time, I am going to see about having a student man the
        burning station,
        > for people who want copies of distros we have run out of.
        >
        > -Wolf
        >
        > -----Original Message-----
        > From: Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
        > Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
        <ale at ale.org>
        > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
        <ale at ale.org>
        > Subject: [ale] ITT Linux Festival!
        > Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:47:37 -0400
        >
        > Another Day of Pizza has passed at ITT Tech.  I gave my talk
        on
        > WxPython ( first presented May 2009 at the Atlanta Linux
        Enthusiasts).
        >  It was I fear over the heads of many of the kids there, since
        the
        > WxPython library makes heavy use of classes and inheritance in
        both
        > its interface and its internals. But heck, at least I could
        give them
        > a flavor of what actual working Python application code looks
        like, as
        > opposed to the toy academic exercises they're doing.  I
        remember what
        > a shock it was to hit datasets in the megabytes after working
        with
        > groups of records small enough to load into one page of an
        editor in
        > school.
        >
        > There was one kid there who had some C background and seemed
        to at
        > least have hopes of becoming clueful. I wound up doing some
        wiki wiki
        > OO tutorial on the whiteboard in the back corner and
        recommending the
        > 2 great books for transitioning from C to C++:
        > _C++:The_Core_Language_ ( Gregrory Satie, Doug Brown, O'Reilly
        Books,
        > 1996), and _Effective_C++:50 ways to improve your Programs and
        Design
        > ( Scott Meyers, Addison-Wesley, 1998).  I hope that the guy I
        talked
        > to works through them.
        >
        > Wolf showed me the wonders of Puppy Linux 4.1, and I am quite
        > impressed.  It's got a much spiffier GUI than the Puppy which
        I'm
        > running my print server on.  I helped one of the guys there
        load the
        > Pup onto a memory stick, and we discovered that syslinux
        ("mbr.bin")
        > was really the way to go to make the stick properly bootable.
         The
        > whole OS took only 100 mb of file space.  I dunno if you can
        install
        > Zope on it though.
        >
        > -- CHS
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