Another observation was that whenever every speaker wanted to start his/her presentation, it would take a few minutes to setup their laptops as they would be connected to the vga cable on stage.
That was mainly because the speakers did not let us know whether they would require a computer beforehand. It was only when they started to walk towards the microphone would they let their desires be known. Add to that the confusion when someone would want to give a presentation about Free Software and Free Knowledge, which they had made on proprietary applications, on their own machines running MacOS.
Setting up the VGA cable was not a major issue. :-)
Instead of all this wiring, is it possible to use the wireless LAN to broadcast the video-out directly to the projector through a receiver interface?
There was no wireless LAN in the auditorium.
However your initial idea does sound interesting.
Regards, Debarshi
On 06-Feb-07, at 11:10 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote:
Add to that the confusion when someone would want to give a presentation about Free Software and Free Knowledge, which they had made on proprietary applications, on their own machines running MacOS.
did you throw them out?
That was mainly because the speakers did not let us know whether they would require a computer beforehand. It was only when they started to walk towards the microphone would they let their desires be known. Add to that the confusion when someone would want to give a presentation about Free Software and Free Knowledge, which they had made on proprietary applications, on their own machines running MacOS.
<sigh>
i've generally found, that if one buying a Mac and one does not want to use Mac OS X(of which some components of the GUI(Aqua) are under non free licenses), either fry the machine and put a GNU/Linux distribution on it or don't use Aqua, install a Free GUI and the other Free app's with along with Darwin. That's the way to go.
Regards,
- vihan
i've generally found, that if one buying a Mac and one does not want to use Mac OS X(of which some components of the GUI(Aqua) are under non free licenses), either fry the machine and put a GNU/Linux distribution on it or don't use Aqua, install a Free GUI and the other Free app's with along with Darwin. That's the way to go.
Extremist view. Nothing wrong in developing or using Free Software on Mac OS X with Aqua. In fact, it's quite an enjoyable experience :)
On 07-Feb-07, at 5:53 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote:
i've generally found, that if one buying a Mac and one does not want to use Mac OS X(of which some components of the GUI(Aqua) are under non free licenses), either fry the machine and put a GNU/Linux distribution on it or don't use Aqua, install a Free GUI and the other Free app's with along with Darwin. That's the way to go.
Extremist view. Nothing wrong in developing or using Free Software on Mac OS X with Aqua. In fact, it's quite an enjoyable experience :)
true
i've generally found, that if one buying a Mac and one does not want to
use
Mac OS X(of which some components of the GUI(Aqua) are under non free licenses), either fry the machine and put a GNU/Linux distribution on it
or
don't use Aqua, install a Free GUI and the other Free app's with along
with
Darwin. That's the way to go.
Extremist view. Nothing wrong in developing or using Free Software on
Mac OS X with Aqua.
Even thought Aqua is not 100% Free as in Freedom software? Well if you think that's fine, that's your opinion, however others do not share it. If i get into the whole DRM(in OS X and other products) issue with Apple, that's another story all together.
In fact, it's quite an enjoyable experience :)
No doubt the sheer beauty of Aqua is truly breathtaking and yes usability wise they do take care of ALL the little details.
However, be it a GUI or a woman - grace, beauty, charm, aesthetics but a refusal to Open her secrets is not IMHO the ideal situation ;-) Even though it could be INFINITELY enjoyable :-)
For the record i have worked a decent bit on Mac's on both Classic and OS X.
Regards,
- vihan
Debarshi Ray wrote:
Another observation was that whenever every speaker wanted to start his/her presentation, it would take a few minutes to setup their laptops as they would be connected to the vga cable on stage.
That was mainly because the speakers did not let us know whether they would require a computer beforehand.
Oh you were there and we did not meet. Anyway, next time. :)
Regards,
Rony.
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