2000 Atlanta Linux Showcase Photos

Here are some photos I took at the 2000 Linux Showcase conference. The photos were taken with a Sony Mavica FD-83 digital camera. This page only contains what I thought were the best of the bunch; the rest of them are available on a separate page if you are authorized to access that page.

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 Keith Packard, one of the original X developers, talks about Translucent Windows in X.
#432
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 A live (not slide) demonstration of true translucent windows in the X Window System.
#433
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 A demonstration of a ``transparent'' X client (basically, a bitmap is used as a one-bit alpha channel).
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 This slide from the talk, ``Mozilla as a cross-platform application development framework'' is a pretty graph describing the architecture of Komodo.
#494
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 Marc Torres from ALE introduces Ken Coar's keynote. Ken is from the Apache Software Foundation.
#499
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 Ken Coar from the Apache Software Foundation.
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 A particularly good shot, depending on your point of view, of Steve Best from IBM talking about JFS. :)
#537
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 This slide from Dan Phillips' talk on GFS basically describes how a filesystem tries to write to new sectors when it's making changes to a file.
#539
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 The VA Linux Systems booth at ALS.
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 Red Hat's Fancy Booth. Background: Open Source Development Network.
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 Open Source Development Network booth.
#544
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 IBM's big fancy booth at ALS.
#546
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 Yes, America Online, of all corporations, had a booth at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. I asked them why they were here and their answer was basically ``to recruit''. They handed me a box of Recruit-Mints with the AOL logo.
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 The LinuxMall.com (Linux General Store) booth, and the shirt featuring an unretouched photo of Bill Gates with devil horns, captioned ``BILL SAYS: BUY IT.''
#548
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 Atipa's booth. They make dual-processor Linux boxen. I think. The people at the booth are certainly making productive use of their time with the freebies. :)
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 The ActiveState booth.
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 The ``Microscared'' cover, Linux Magazine issue no. 1.
#559
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 At the PocketLinux booth you can see actual hand-held computers running Linux instead of WinCE or whatever they call it now.
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 This is a tape robot made by Cambridge Storage Systems.
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 Another photo of the Cambridge Storage Systems tape robot.
#568
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 I forgot to ask who these girls were working for. They were sticking little penguins on peoples' shoulders.
#569
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 As you can see, these girls were certainly dressed to get peoples' attention. :)
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 A live demonstration of the Wine installer that will soon be shipping with Wine.
#586
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 The desktop's association between file extensions and applications can be used to allow people to run Windows applications in Wine just by clicking on them.
#587
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 Wine can actually run WinAmp. At least it played the ``llama's ass'' sound. :)
#588
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 The use of Wine to compile Win32 applications on the Linux platform is almost here. This is a live demo of the process, which basically entails the conversion of DSW files to Makefiles, the fixing of capitalization mistakes ano other stuff in Windows source files that tends to propagate because Windows is case-insensitive, among other misfeatures.
#589
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 A demonstration of Wine running the Towers of Hanoi program from a Windows programming book. I apologize for the poor quality of this slide but I hope you get the point.
#591
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 ESR giving his talk at the VA booth about ``Hacking Memes for Fun and Profit''. I didn't stay for the whole talk because he was saying stuff I already knew and I had other booths to take photos of.
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 Illiad himself signing User Friendly paraphenelia.
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 Jim Reese from Google giving a keynote talk about Google.
#599
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 A slide showing the really formal working environment at Google. :)
#600
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 A slide showing a monitor at Google's office showing current searches. Yes, ``manure tea'' actually turns up search results. It's something you water plants with.
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 A slide containing a photo of a portion of Google's former clusters.
#604
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 Google's current Linux clustering solution.
#609
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 $deity = "Larry Wall";
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 Yes, this drawing refers to Perl's TIMTOWTDI philosophy. :)
#702
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 Larry Wall signs my copy of the Third Edition of Programming Perl. I suppose Larry's face should have been in this photo as well. :)
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 Darin Adler gesticulating while giving his talk on Nautilus and GNOME.
#709
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 Projector demos of the state of the Nautilus project. This one shows the new file manager that will replace the existing one in GNOME.
#711
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 The ``Hardware Overview'' in Nautilus. I'll take this over ``My Computer'' any day. :)
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 ``Emblems'' you can attach to various files in your ``folders'' in Nautilus.
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 Emblems are automatically placed on folders you can't write and/or read to.