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[Glen Page]

This could be real fun.. but seems to be Mac only...
http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
I love the fact that both the app and the web site are named in homage  
to Douglas Adams.

And yes, you did type that out loud... and it brings back memories..  
training at IBM's NH office on how to sysadmin their broken ring (I  
mean token ring) system for schools (iClass??) and they made the  
mistake of making EVERYONE admins... which meant we took over the  
instructor's computer (which was being projected) and started putting  
messages up ("more coffee" .. "is it lunch time yet").. when they  
pointed out that they knew who was doing it because the messages had  
our log in names attached, I remembered that I was an admin. I created  
a few new users and started making the messages come from them! Oh the  
fun that can be had.

On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Mike Diehn wrote:

>
> The why of the problem is that until very recently, no-one has done
> much with automating configuration changes to the X config files.  In
> many distros, we're still hacking xorg.conf by hand to tune stuff and
> wow - it's really archane sometimes.
>
> So, it's not a capability thing, it's a "how the hell does this bolt
> fit in that hole?" thing.  Like a nightmare of assembling big toys on
> Christmas eve...  after too much egg nog.
>
> Here's some things I've found with google.  Then a long meander
> through my fantasy land....
>
> These may be a bit dated:
>   http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/LinuxPresentations.html
>   http://www.astro.umd.edu/%7Eteuben/linux/laptop-display.html
>
> This one seems pretty detailed and makes sense to me and it's current.
>
> http://techxplorer.com/2007/11/15/getting-a-projector-to-work-under-ubuntu-linux-with-nvidia-drivers/
>
> So, if we get clue and can connect something well - like Glen did, I
> think we'll be well served by using VNC after that.
>
> Put one machine up there on the podium connected to the overhead and
> run VNC Server on it.  Then we shy bastards in the back can project
> without ever leaving our seats... :-)
>
> But seriously.  VNC server at the podium, and VNC viewers on our
> laptops.  Most current distros have it already.  There's a DMG for Mac
> and an MSI for Windows.
>
> Even more interesting would be something that many users can connect
> with that would have a mouse pointer for each client, some sort of
> annotation paint-like function for each client, maybe keyboard input
> focus sharing of some sort.  Or at least one keyboard input per
> application.  Like, a couple of Tomboy notes and a few xterms open at
> once, all of us typing away at the same time, pointing at each other's
> code with our cursors, writing obscenities with the annotation
> feature....  [did I really type that last one out loud]  Hmmm...
>
> Wow.  That sounds really fun!  Why wouldn't that be worth doing... OK,
> that's a whiteboard app isn't it?  Googling....
>
> Nope - nothing interesting about whiteboards that do that yet.  Lot's
> of OT stuff about web services, though....
>
> CYA,
>
> Best,
> Mike
>
>
> Bill McGonigle <[e-mail addresses are not shown in archives]> wrote:
>> On Dec 8, 2007, at 10:15, Mike Diehn wrote:
>>
>>> Quite the technically frustrating evening it was for some of us at  
>>> our
>>> Thursday meeting, eh?
>>
>>
>> Yeah, no kidding.
>>
>> Is there anybody here who understands _why_ linux systems have such a
>> hard time syncing up to projectors?
>>
>> Alternately, if we had a known hardware platform to hook up to
>> projectors, are there any good systems for networking the displays?
>> The best I can come up with is to hook up a local ethernet cable and
>> have folks ready to run X over ssh.  Others like NX are technically
>> superior but unlikely to be installed and configured on most folks'
>> machines.
>>
>> Somebody must have a better idea?
>>
>> -Bill
>>
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Glen Page
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill  
anyway.
John Updike