Re: [slackware-alphadevel] what to demo

From: Sir Ace (chandleg@wizardsworks.org)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 20:33:00 PST


I would say the seti @home client is nice eyecandy for people walking
by... but I don't know if they have a port, {i'm pretty sure they don't}
How about x-amp with some really cool visual plugin or something...
That'll at least show that thigns on top are running smooth.

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Chris Lumens wrote:

> I need to start thinking about what kinds of programs I can demo on the
> Alpha at the New York show. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'll
> probably need some time to learn how to use whatever I demo, which is why
> I'm asking early.
>
> Ideally, it would show off the speed of the machine and be shiny enough
> that people walking by stop to look. On a somewhat related note, we're
> not going to have any Intel machines at the Slackware booth. The Alpha is
> going to fill in for the Intel when it needs to :)
>
> Well, everyone think about what I can do to demo this stuff. I'm going to
> go try to figure out why ping is broken.
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
> @n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
>

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