OT: Request for speaker

[Vaughn Treude]

Austin,
I finally got a chance to review your presentation and it looks very 
interesting and informative.  OTOH - I don't mean to be picky, but in 
this case most of the audience would be hardware types.  One thing we'd 
need for a non-Linux group would be a slide defining the term and/or 
introducting the concept of virtualization.  I'm kind of embarrassed to 
admit, that though I'm an avid Linux proponent and I've actually used 
Vmware and Wine a bit, I wasn't sure what your presentation was about 
until I actually viewed the slide show.  I should have figured that out, 
but I guess we use the word "virtual" an awful lot in the computer biz, 
heh heh. :-) It would also be helpful to have a bit of information about 
virtualization options on other OS's. I know that wasn't the thrust of 
your talk but most of these guys only know Windows. BTW, I was curious, 
since we have some Mac afficionados in our group, how much of this 
applies to OSX?  Another question: I haven't used VMWare since Win 98. 
Have Microsoft's goofy registration schemes made it difficult to run XP 
on Windows? Again, I greatly appreciate your offer, and I don't know how 
much free time you have, so I don't want to make a lot of extra work for 
you if your busy.  But I do think it would be a good talk for us, with 
some allowances for the audience.  So thanks again, and let me know what 
you think.
Regards,
Vaughn

Austin Godber wrote:
> Vaughn Treude wrote:
>> Hello everyone:
>> Once again I've found myself in a bind.  I need to find a speaker for my 
>> IEEE consultant's group on Thursday October 11th.  I know that PLUG has 
>> lots of good presenters - for example, Gene Holmerud gave us a very 
>> interesting talk about his Science Bowl project a couple of years ago. 
>> So I'm wondering if anybody might be interested, or know somebody who's 
>> interested. (Yes, unfortunately it's on the same night as the East Side 
>> PLUG meeting.)  The meeting is at the Denny's at Scottsdale and Osborne 
>> at 6:30 PM.  Since we're an engineering group the talk can be pretty 
>> technical.  But we have a fairly wide range of expertise so a very 
>> specific topic like kernel hacking would probably not interest most of 
>> us.  Computer security is always a good topic, as would anything to do 
>> with networking or even forensics.  Benefits:  we pay for the speaker's 
>> meal, and if you're a consultant yourself or looking for work, it's a 
>> good networking opportunity.  The group is small, about 10 people 
>> usually.  We have an electronic projector and screen available.  This 
>> particular Denny's has a nice meeting room with a door so it's not too 
>> noisy.  Any interested parties, please contact me as soon as you can.
>> Thanks!
>> Vaughn Treude
>>
> 
> I can do my dog and pony show again.  Virtualization Overview with a 
> Linux bias.  We can talk details off list if you are interested.
> 
> Austin
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