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Wed, 07 Dec 2005

Do You Know the Way to San Jose

I'm in San Jose doing a conference and flying visit to see various people. To begin it was quite an exciting trip as I missed my international connection to San Francisco in Sydney but managed to get on the flight to Los Angeles an hour later. That turned out to be quite lucky as the San Francisco flight ended up being cancelled due to a malfunctioning air conditioner. Who knew that the inside of airplanes could get so hot?

The conference is interesting and well organised with lots of technical talks and people to meet and talk to. I have met a bunch of HP people who profess to be interested in WBEM - HP is well represented here.

To Ft Collins tomorrow after figuring out what to do with my rental car after discovering I left the lights on all last night and today. Luckily there is a rental car return at the hotel, so I may be able to get away with dumping the car here and catching a taxi to the airport.

Thu, 11 Aug 2005

CIFS 2005

Last week I was at the CIFS 2005 conference, now part of the CIFS 2005 conference, now part of the Developer Solutions Conference & Showcase run by SNIA. As per the the last couple of years, the technical content has been slowly decreasing in quantity and quality, as have the count of companies attending and the number of engineers they have been sending.

I attended some of the Developer Solutions talks about WBEM which were a bit waffly. I don't think WBEM has quite hit the mainstream enough for people to present technical talks about it just yet. iSCSI is apparently on teh spoke at the moment. The talks were apparently well attended and interesting. There were also iSCSI startup-type companies, something which has been lacking at CIFS for quite a while now.

Still, it was great to meet some of the new Samba Team members and put a face and personality to some of the nicks on IRC. I also picked up some cool tips on general Linux stuff and learned all about quilt (googling for quilt doesn't bring up any computer references on the first page at all - WTF?) which was lots of fun.

There are some photos from the conference on samba.org.

Sat, 23 Apr 2005

Finished linux.conf.au

Well it's all over and it was totally rocking. The only major disappointments were that I had a bad case of the flu the entire time (and possibly infected the other delegates) and that I had seen every one of the Best Of talks.

Highlights were Eben Moglen, tridge "reverse engineering" bitkeeper on stage in a few lines of shell, and seeing a bunch of HP people from around Australia and Ft Collins. Eben's talk was almost like a political rally (which I guess in some sense it was) with most of the audience caught in his spell and breaking in to spontaneous applause often.

Muchos thanks to the organisers and volunteers! Congratulations on a very successful conference. Next year's LCA is in Dunedin, New Zealand which looks like a very beautiful location.

Tue, 19 Apr 2005

At linux.conf.au

There's muchos geeking going on and stacks of people sitting around with laptops ignoring each other. Pure bliss!

Wed, 11 Aug 2004

Startup sounds

What's the story with startup sounds? Do the owners of laptops with startup sounds enabled think that it's cool to have a computer? So cool that you have to tell everyone in the room that "hey look, I have a computer and hey, I've just turned it on!". At an IT conference pretty much everyone has a computer so it's not really that cool. posted at: 00:00 | path: /conferences | permanent link to this entry

Tue, 10 Aug 2004

At OSCON

I can't believe the number of people with Mac laptops at OSCON. It really is quite scary. Most of them are even running OS X. posted at: 00:00 | path: /conferences | permanent link to this entry