Pete Salzman (President, left), Melissa Hardenbrook (Secretary, right) and Mike Simons (Vice President, center), who ran our last meeting at Z-World!
A good crowd showed up for the talk, including about a half dozen new faces!
Our "Free Stuff" table, including copies of the new local tech. magazine,
Wirehed.
Stephen brought three computers. A MacOS 8 system (left),
a PC running Linux and Windows98 in a tiny silver case (right), and a
Sun Sparq 5, also running Linux (right).
For guessing how large the world's largest Linux cluster is,
Nicole Carlson won a Caldera hat. (She doesn't wear hats, though, so
gave it to a good home.)
From the depths of our swag collection, we found a Linux/Java t-shirt
from Sun. We gave it to the first Java fan to hold up their hand.
A close-up of Stephen's PC and Ultra 5 systems.
Stephen Helms (with Mike Simons poking on his Sparc to get X working
for the projector).
A VNC client under Windows98 displaying the Mac's desktop, remotely!
Starting up a VNC client on the Mac, to connect back to the Windows
desktop!
Woah! Infinity effect! The Windows desktop shows the Mac desktop,
which shows the Windows desktop showing the Mac desktop showing the
Windows desktop showing...
Stephen discusses the basics of a 'man-in-the-middle' attack on
Windows' "SMB" clients and servers.
Mike Simons setting up alternatives to the Sparc, since it refused to
talk to the projector.
More Stephen...
An SSH client for the Mac, providing a shell connection to the Sparc.
With Cygwin, Windows users can launch an X-Window environment!
A pair of Xterms providing BASH prompts. Remember, these are BASH prompts
on the WINDOWS system!
With Netatalk, Linux and Unix boxes can provide fileshares that Macs
can connect to (shown here is the Mac 'Chooser' application).