Austin, I finally got a chance to review your presentation and it looks very interesting and informative. OTOH - I don't mean to be picky, but in this case most of the audience would be hardware types. One thing we'd need for a non-Linux group would be a slide defining the term and/or introducting the concept of virtualization. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit, that though I'm an avid Linux proponent and I've actually used Vmware and Wine a bit, I wasn't sure what your presentation was about until I actually viewed the slide show. I should have figured that out, but I guess we use the word "virtual" an awful lot in the computer biz, heh heh. :-) It would also be helpful to have a bit of information about virtualization options on other OS's. I know that wasn't the thrust of your talk but most of these guys only know Windows. BTW, I was curious, since we have some Mac afficionados in our group, how much of this applies to OSX? Another question: I haven't used VMWare since Win 98. Have Microsoft's goofy registration schemes made it difficult to run XP on Windows? Again, I greatly appreciate your offer, and I don't know how much free time you have, so I don't want to make a lot of extra work for you if your busy. But I do think it would be a good talk for us, with some allowances for the audience. So thanks again, and let me know what you think. Regards, Vaughn
Austin Godber wrote: > Vaughn Treude wrote: >> Hello everyone: >> Once again I've found myself in a bind. I need to find a speaker for my >> IEEE consultant's group on Thursday October 11th. I know that PLUG has >> lots of good presenters - for example, Gene Holmerud gave us a very >> interesting talk about his Science Bowl project a couple of years ago. >> So I'm wondering if anybody might be interested, or know somebody who's >> interested. (Yes, unfortunately it's on the same night as the East Side >> PLUG meeting.) The meeting is at the Denny's at Scottsdale and Osborne >> at 6:30 PM. Since we're an engineering group the talk can be pretty >> technical. But we have a fairly wide range of expertise so a very >> specific topic like kernel hacking would probably not interest most of >> us. Computer security is always a good topic, as would anything to do >> with networking or even forensics. Benefits: we pay for the speaker's >> meal, and if you're a consultant yourself or looking for work, it's a >> good networking opportunity. The group is small, about 10 people >> usually. We have an electronic projector and screen available. This >> particular Denny's has a nice meeting room with a door so it's not too >> noisy. Any interested parties, please contact me as soon as you can. >> Thanks! >> Vaughn Treude >> > > I can do my dog and pony show again. Virtualization Overview with a > Linux bias. We can talk details off list if you are interested. > > Austin > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
