Re: Public Speaking (fwd)

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>     I have been asked by the Elkhart County (Indiana) PC Users Group 
to come
> give a talk about Linux along with a demo. While I'm not a real strong 
public
> speaker, I have given speeches before with a moderate degree of 
success.
>     I would like to ask your all's input as to what aspects of Linux 
should I
> show. While I can demonstrate StarOffice, connectivity, IPChains, Etc. 
I'm
> sure there are a 100 different angels I haven't even looked at as yet.

Since it's a PC user's group I'd stear towards the desktopy side of 
things.  But things like squid, demand dial, masquerade and firewall 
are very nice on a home network,  so they bear mentioning.  I've found 
diskless X-PC's to be handy in a home enviroment, as you can REALLY 
recycle old hardware and the maint/upgrade effort remains at 1.0 
(machine).

>     Since they want a specific demo, I was thinking of dragging out my 
dumb
> terminals to demonstrate that Linux is quite capable of handling 
multiple
> sessions using many different modes TTY on serial, xterm form Windows, 
etc. I
> also wanted to touch on Linux ability to scale, security, stability, 
etc.

I thnk more "industrial" users would find this cool,  but a PC users 
group (I think) may miss the point a little.

> P.S. This is my public announcement that I got demand dialing 
working!!!!
> Actually, I had to get over the embarrassment it was working all the 
time....
> Call it the DUH factor!!!! <BG> I was using ping / nslookup to test the
> connection when I should have been using http all along!!!!

Hey, I spent four hours this weekend chasing a crazy problem there a 
client started on one machine would open a window on a machine across 
the room!  A typo in /etc/hosts!  DOUGH!!!!