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I have a link for Ron's dual-boot talk. The file is 150MB! <BR>
<FONT SIZE="2">ODP version</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="https://owa.ittesi.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=a81c125f18b9467ca37fcf2744d978e4&URL=https%3a%2f%2fdl.dropbox.com%2fu%2f9879631%2flinuxfest-itt-atl-20100814.odp">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/linuxfest-itt-atl-20100814.odp</A> or</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="https://owa.ittesi.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=a81c125f18b9467ca37fcf2744d978e4&URL=http%3a%2f%2ftinyurl.com%2flinuxfest20100814rwfodp">http://tinyurl.com/linuxfest20100814rwfodp</A></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">or</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">PPT version</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="https://owa.ittesi.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=a81c125f18b9467ca37fcf2744d978e4&URL=https%3a%2f%2fdl.dropbox.com%2fu%2f9879631%2flinuxfest-itt-atl-20100814.ppt">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/linuxfest-itt-atl-20100814.ppt</A> or</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="https://owa.ittesi.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=a81c125f18b9467ca37fcf2744d978e4&URL=http%3a%2f%2ftinyurl.com%2flinuxfest20100814rwfppt">http://tinyurl.com/linuxfest20100814rwfppt</A></FONT><BR>
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<B>From</B>: Narahari 'n' Savitha <<A HREF="mailto:Narahari%20'n'%20Savitha%20%3csavithari@gmail.com%3e">savithari@gmail.com</A>><BR>
<B>Reply-to</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale@ale.org><BR>
<B>To</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<A HREF="mailto:Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20-%20Yes!%20We%20run%20Linux!%20%3cale@ale.org%3e">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
<B>Subject</B>: Re: [ale] ITT Linux Festival!<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:09:28 -0400<BR>
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Any slides and talks recordings any place ?<BR>
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Charles Shapiro <<A HREF="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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And maybe an outdoor pizza barbecue station!<BR>
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-- CHS<BR>
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:04 AM, <A HREF="mailto:wolf@wolfhalton.info">wolf@wolfhalton.info</A><BR>
<<A HREF="mailto:wolf@wolfhalton.info">wolf@wolfhalton.info</A>> wrote:<BR>
> I thought I saw a few lightbulbs go on over the heads of the attendees<BR>
> during your talk.<BR>
> The canned simple classwork code cannot be as cool and memorable as real<BR>
> project code,<BR>
> so I got a lot out of the talk, too.<BR>
><BR>
> Steven Blevins did his Opensource for newbies talk and Ron Frazier did a<BR>
> talk about<BR>
> dual-booting from a more windows-friendly position than what we usually<BR>
> get. Changing the windows boot menu<BR>
> and booting from the windows side rather than letting GRUB handle it. It<BR>
> was an interesting event.<BR>
> The turn-out was about 60 people, and we had to break out to 2 rooms for the<BR>
> first time ever.<BR>
><BR>
> Next time, I am going to see about having a student man the burning station,<BR>
> for people who want copies of distros we have run out of.<BR>
><BR>
> -Wolf<BR>
><BR>
> -----Original Message-----<BR>
> From: Charles Shapiro <<A HREF="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</A>><BR>
> Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<A HREF="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<A HREF="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
> Subject: [ale] ITT Linux Festival!<BR>
> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:47:37 -0400<BR>
><BR>
> Another Day of Pizza has passed at ITT Tech. I gave my talk on<BR>
> WxPython ( first presented May 2009 at the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts).<BR>
> It was I fear over the heads of many of the kids there, since the<BR>
> WxPython library makes heavy use of classes and inheritance in both<BR>
> its interface and its internals. But heck, at least I could give them<BR>
> a flavor of what actual working Python application code looks like, as<BR>
> opposed to the toy academic exercises they're doing. I remember what<BR>
> a shock it was to hit datasets in the megabytes after working with<BR>
> groups of records small enough to load into one page of an editor in<BR>
> school.<BR>
><BR>
> There was one kid there who had some C background and seemed to at<BR>
> least have hopes of becoming clueful. I wound up doing some wiki wiki<BR>
> OO tutorial on the whiteboard in the back corner and recommending the<BR>
> 2 great books for transitioning from C to C++:<BR>
> _C++:The_Core_Language_ ( Gregrory Satie, Doug Brown, O'Reilly Books,<BR>
> 1996), and _Effective_C++:50 ways to improve your Programs and Design<BR>
> ( Scott Meyers, Addison-Wesley, 1998). I hope that the guy I talked<BR>
> to works through them.<BR>
><BR>
> Wolf showed me the wonders of Puppy Linux 4.1, and I am quite<BR>
> impressed. It's got a much spiffier GUI than the Puppy which I'm<BR>
> running my print server on. I helped one of the guys there load the<BR>
> Pup onto a memory stick, and we discovered that syslinux ("mbr.bin")<BR>
> was really the way to go to make the stick properly bootable. The<BR>
> whole OS took only 100 mb of file space. I dunno if you can install<BR>
> Zope on it though.<BR>
><BR>
> -- CHS<BR>
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