Quoting Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings to the list. > > The next meeting on October 11th. ( tomorrow ) is going to be a > double-barrelled affair. > > 1) We are going to hear Wesley Parish expound on virtualisers & > emulators. > He is going to demonstrate the qemu emulator running a variety of > guest operating systems including Win98 and WinNT 4.0
A slight correction - owing to memory and storage requirements, I will be only showing Qemu on Linux running MS Win98 as guestOS. > For further information about qemu please refer to: > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/about.html > > This is going to be a pretty interesting talk because Wesley has found > that emulators and virtualisers have become more than just a passing fad > for > him. He wants to share his genuine enthusiasm for them with us, and I > can > assure you that he is pretty knowledgeble about qemu. We are going to > attempt > to demonstrate the MYOB accounting package running under qemu on my > Gentoo > Linux ThinkPad. It's a way of keeping one's investment in Windows stuff like MYOB while looking around for something better. I imagine there are people out there wanting to have something of the sort - or so the buzz about VMWare etc, leads me to believe. > > 2) Concurrently we are going to have a 'Help me configure my Linux box' > session. Please bring your complete computer including the mains > cables, > but there is no need to bring mains splitter boxes or network cables. > > Currently there are no takers for this fixup / configuration session so > if > anybody has a need for help getting anything set-up now is the time to > make > mention of it. > > Note:- It's much easier for the helper if he has some time to think > about the > problem. So NOW is the hour. > > There are two rooms with a separating door so this should be possible. > > Tea and Coffee will be available, you may bring biscuits etc. should you > so > wish. It costs $30 to hire the hall for the evening, so there has to be > a > $2.00 (minimum) door charge. To encourage members' attendance, the Door > Raffle Prize this month is a DVD of the Mandriva Linux Limited Edition > 2005. > > CLUG Meeting at the > St. Albans Community Resource Centre > 1047 Columbo Street > > 7:30 p.m. Tuesday 11th. October 2005 > > Finally, Suggestions for next months talk would be very welcome. > > -- > CS > Wesley Parish "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
