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I’m currently sitting up in the projection booth in one of our larger auditoriums. Just a few minutes ago, a presentation started. The presentation is part of a series of high-profile seminars featuring important people in the medical world. 2 minutes before the lecture began, the presenter waltzed in with her Ti-Book. Good taste, I thought. But it became quickly apparent that there was a problem. She didn’t bring her DVI to VGA adapter! The new Ti-Books don’t have a VGA plug on them, only a DVI jack. DVI is superior for its digital as well as analog signals, working great with large, high quality monitors. Unfortunately, there are serious limits set to the length of digital video cables. More than 15 feet, and reflections make the system unworkable. Hence, you rarely see lecture halls set up to accept DVI connections. There are repeaters that can extend the signal, but they are expensive, and difficult to configure properly, hence, analog video is usually used. She didn’t realize this, and began to panic as she realized her Ti-Book wouldn’t work with the system, 2 minutes before the lecture.

I stayed cool as a cucumber. I pulled out my USB zip drive and a 250mb zip disk. I plugged it into the Ti-Book. She began making calls on her cellphone, desperately trying to find someone with an adapter cable. I transfered her file, and moved the zip drive to the laptop I had brought. By the time she was done with her first call, which had turned up nothing, I had her presentation running on a secondary laptop. The seminar started right on time.

I am a file Ninja. Totally Sweet.

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