[lug] Re: BLUG presence at the Computer and Technology Showcase

[Robert L. Harris]

Give me a sample abstract.  

Thus spake Wayde Allen (wallen at boulder.nist.gov):

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Wayde Allen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > OK, several people mentioned that they "might" be able to give
> > presentations at the Denver Computer Technology Showcase.  The names I
> > have are:
> > 
> >    Robert L. Harris - "I may consider the Linux as a server actually, and
> >                        that could work on the desktop also." 
> > 
> >    Ferdinand P. Schmid - "I would be willing to prepare a presentation
> >                           with information on how our company is migrating
> >                           to Linux. It was a difficult battle for me to
> >                           fight with all the traditional arguments 
> >                           (security, difficult to administer, ...)  but
> >                           we now have all critical systems migrated to
> >                           Linux."
> > 
> >    Alan Robertson - "I think I know someone who would speak on this latter
> >                      topic, if he gets a laptop from SuSE, and gets his
> >                      proverbial sh*t together on his home (now work)
> >                      network ;-)" 
> > 
> >    George Sexton - "This is a follow up to our attempted conversation at
> >                     the Dark Horse. I think a lot of people would be
> >                     interested in MRTG which is an SNMP graph program.  It
> >                     is primarily designed for monitoring network usage but
> >                     it can also be used to monitor other SNMP variables.
> >                     ... <snip> ... I use MRTG to monitor the bandwidth
> >                     usage on the eth0 and eth1 interfaces. Describing the
> >                     software and demonstrating the installation and
> >                     configuration would probably take something on the
> >                     order of an hour.  I would probably want to
> >                     demonstrate using it to monitor CPU utilization as
> >                     well. Anyhow, I think this is a nifty program that a
> >                     lot of people would be interested in." 
> > 
> > We need to get the titles and abstracts for these talks to Tony Patton by
> > the end of this week.  Please let me know if you are planning on doing
> > this ASAP.
> 
> So far I have only received a title and abstract from Ferdinand.  I need
> to call Tony Patton this morning to give him an update.  Are you other
> guys still interested in giving a presentation?  The cut off date for the
> call for papers is February 29th so we really need to get these in!
> 
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)
> 
> 
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