[Speakers] Shorts

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > Perhaps it is time for some more shorts?  A couple or few people with a
> > cool idea, tool, or toy they want to show off?  We've done a couple of
> > these in the past and they went quite well?
> > Anyone have any 10-15 minute topics or demonstrations they've been
> > itching to trot out?
> Have we beat the Mac OS X stuff to death yet?

Certainly not.

> Our previous OS X presentations got me interested, but still left me
> slightly confused about Darwin, Fink, etc. 
> So I managed to get my hands on a new PowerBook at work.  (long story)
> I dual booted it with Ubuntu Linux, and ran into some hardware support
> issues.  (just like a new model x86 laptop :)
> So I decided to try and get OSS running on OS X.  I downloaded the
> native Mac versions of Firefox and Thunderbird (nothing to it).
> Then I downloaded/installed gcc & friends, and compiled some of my
> personal programs I need.
> Then I installed XFree86 and got X-Windows running in OS X, plus some
> command line Fink OSS programs.
> The only bad thing is I'm not sure I can connect the PowerBook to our
> projector since it has a wide-aspect display (16x9).

We can try it next week if you'll be there.
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