I was at Comdex last week and I saw the exhibit. I must say that I was impressed. They had several objects floating out in mid-air and it really looked good if you stood in the right spot.
This reminded me of a talk I heard by Bill Joy of Sun about 15 years ago at Uniforum in Toronto, where he described that someday, we would be able to sit in our living rooms and watch a 3D football game taking place on the coffee table. You would be able to walk around the table and see the game from any angle. It's still a long way off, but never say never!
I was at the show on Wednesday, giving a talk on the Linux Terminal Server Project (www.LTSP.org). I signed up for the talk over 2 months ago and although I was accepted as a speaker, the talk never showed up on the schedule. I emailed Greg Palmer (organizer) several times and he kept promising it would show up on the schedule in a few days but never did. I flew from Detroit to give the talk. The schedule posted at the hall didn't show my talk. I spoke with Greg about it, he added it to the schedule, printed it and posted the schedule outside the exhibit hall. An hour later I looked, and it was off the schedule again. He must have made more changes and didn't save the first change. Anyway, 4 people showed up to hear the talk, and 3 of them I already new. Other talks had similar attendance. <p>Redhat pulled out before the show started, Informix left after the first full day. They never got the registration system working. It cost me and my partner over $1200 to go there, and we achieved very little. I'd be very surprized to see a LinuxFest2001.
I recently picked up the Kodak DC280. It lists for $699, but I got it from Buy.com for $499. It has Compact Flash, Serial and USB. If you install the USB patches for the 2.2.14 kernel, it works with Linux. gPhoto supports it really well, and you can take the compact flash card, put it in a pcmcia adapter and pop it into your notebook to get the pictures that way. The resolution is something like 1700x1100 and the pictures look great.
Checkout the Linux Terminal Server Project at http://www.ltsp.org This is a project for setting up a server for diskless workstations. I picks up where the Etherboot project leaves off.
Checkout our website at www.dresults.com, we are selling network cards with bootroms, eprom burners, and complete workstations with the bootrom and everything. You can also purchase through Linux Systems Labs (www.lsl.com). If you run the applications on the host, and just run the Linux kernel, Xserver, lpd on the workstation, you don't even need to worry about swap. Also, we are using Net Audio Services (NAS) to handle sound.
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I was at Comdex last week and I saw the exhibit. I must say that I was impressed. They had several objects floating out in mid-air and it really looked good if you stood in the right spot.
This reminded me of a talk I heard by Bill Joy of Sun about 15 years ago at Uniforum in Toronto, where he described that someday, we would be able to sit in our living rooms and watch a 3D football game taking place on the coffee table. You would be able to walk around the table and see the game from any angle. It's still a long way off, but never say never!
I was at the show on Wednesday, giving a talk on the Linux Terminal Server Project (www.LTSP.org).
I signed up for the talk over 2 months ago and although I was accepted as a speaker, the talk never showed up on the schedule. I emailed Greg Palmer (organizer) several times and he kept promising it would show up on the schedule in a few days but never did. I flew from Detroit to give the talk. The schedule posted at the hall didn't show my talk. I spoke with Greg about it, he added it to the schedule, printed it and posted the schedule outside the exhibit hall. An hour later I looked, and it was off the schedule again. He must have made more changes and didn't save the first change. Anyway, 4 people showed up to hear the talk, and 3 of them I already new. Other talks had similar attendance. <p>Redhat pulled out before the show started, Informix left after the first full day. They never got the registration system working. It cost me and my partner over $1200 to go there, and we achieved very little. I'd be very surprized to see a LinuxFest2001.
I recently picked up the Kodak DC280. It lists for $699, but I got it from Buy.com for $499. It has Compact Flash, Serial and USB. If you install the USB patches for the 2.2.14 kernel, it works with Linux. gPhoto supports it really well, and you can take the compact flash card, put it in a pcmcia adapter and pop it into your notebook to get the pictures that way. The resolution is something like 1700x1100 and the pictures look great.
Checkout the Linux Terminal Server Project at http://www.ltsp.org This is a project for setting up a server for diskless workstations. I picks up where the Etherboot project leaves off.
Checkout our website at www.dresults.com,
we are selling network cards with bootroms,
eprom burners, and complete workstations with
the bootrom and everything. You can also purchase
through Linux Systems Labs (www.lsl.com).
If you run the applications on the host, and
just run the Linux kernel, Xserver, lpd
on the workstation, you don't even need to worry
about swap.
Also, we are using Net Audio Services (NAS) to handle sound.