Comments on: Blue Obelisk at the ACS Fall Meeting ‘06 (Part 2) http://geoffhutchison.net/blog/archives/2006/09/18/blue-obelisk-at-the-acs-fall-meeting-%e2%80%9806-part-2/ Geoff Hutchison's personal weblog on chemistry, nanotechnology, science, books, life and software development -- in no particular order. Fri, 16 May 2008 07:55:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.2-alpha By: Geoff http://geoffhutchison.net/blog/archives/2006/09/18/blue-obelisk-at-the-acs-fall-meeting-%e2%80%9806-part-2/#comment-12435 Geoff Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:10:39 +0000 http://geoffhutchison.net/blog/archives/2006/09/18/blue-obelisk-at-the-acs-fall-meeting-%e2%80%9806-part-2/#comment-12435 I think that's certainly a good idea, but I'd still recommend having both. For one, MacIntel users can take LiveCDs and run them either by rebooting or programs like Parallels. For another, it's quite easy to hand out a LiveCD at a conference. :-) The bigger question is what sort of <em>applications</em> to demonstrate. Toolkits are great, but things like PyMol movie animations are much more impressive at a show. I think that’s certainly a good idea, but I’d still recommend having both. For one, MacIntel users can take LiveCDs and run them either by rebooting or programs like Parallels. For another, it’s quite easy to hand out a LiveCD at a conference. :-)

The bigger question is what sort of applications to demonstrate. Toolkits are great, but things like PyMol movie animations are much more impressive at a show.

]]> By: Noel O'Boyle http://geoffhutchison.net/blog/archives/2006/09/18/blue-obelisk-at-the-acs-fall-meeting-%e2%80%9806-part-2/#comment-12402 Noel O'Boyle Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:10:35 +0000 http://geoffhutchison.net/blog/archives/2006/09/18/blue-obelisk-at-the-acs-fall-meeting-%e2%80%9806-part-2/#comment-12402 How about VMWare images instead of LiveCDs? This means that you don't even have to reboot to use the tools. (c.f. free versions of VMWare Server and Player) How about VMWare images instead of LiveCDs? This means that you don’t even have to reboot to use the tools. (c.f. free versions of VMWare Server and Player)

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