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OSCon Day 1
2005-08-04 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearThis hotel room doesn't have a desk, a decent chair, or a network connection, and they closed the convention center at 9. Yeah, I could go back and sit by the door like the guy I saw last night, but instead I'll just sit here and type my post into Emacs and post it in the morning. There's a party out there someplace, but it's at some club which means it'll probably be too loud for these ageing ears.
Somehow people seem to have gotten the idea from my post last night that I was bored. I might have been bored when I sent it, but the convention is anything but boring -- I've been having a blast. OK, maybe I just have a slightly geeky idea of fun. Damian Conway's talk, in particular, was a wonderful tour-de-force. Maybe you had to have been there and been a geek. But I was, and I am.
The expo started today, so we had schwag as well as munchies at the breaks. (They're feeding us -- at well over $1k for a 3-day con, you'd think so! Charbucks coffee, "Danish" for breakfast and boxed sandwitches for lunch, but still...) In the evening there was a "reception" -- tasty finger food, with local beers, wine, etc. Then there was some godawful loud rock band, so even though I wanted to stick around and see whether I'd won the guitar Gibson was holding a drawing for, I bugged out and read LJ instead.
The schwag is pretty good (not even counting the backpack at reg, which came preloaded with a coffeecup, a mini Etch-a-Sketch, and some literature). Fairly heavy on the T-shirts, but Intel's 64MB USB drive (in a little plastic case with cable, lanyard, and keychain) was particularly noteworthy. The little hand-towels from HP are also worth a mention -- somebody's obviously been reading HHGttG. HP and several others had Ubuntu CDs, and there were copies of The Open CD (which also included Ubuntu live) on the flier table. And the fact that Novell was giving out red hats I found deliciously ironic.
But I got sleepy before I could transcribe my notes, and besides the hotel room didn't have a decent workspace, so I'll just hit a couple of highlights. The best sessions were the one by Anthony Baxter titled "VoIP is the new black" but mostly about Schtoom, his Python library for SIP, and the one on "SVL -- peer-to-peer Subversion over Bonjour. This described a rather thin layer overrendezvous/bonjour/zeroconf.
The most enjoyable BOF session was the poorly-advertised jam session; I lucked into it by accident because it had moved from its assigned room into the lobby. It was just four guys sharing a guitar, but good fun until they rolled up the carpet around 10pm. I sang "Desolation--Oh, No" and "Ship of Stone".
Somehow people seem to have gotten the idea from my post last night that I was bored. I might have been bored when I sent it, but the convention is anything but boring -- I've been having a blast. OK, maybe I just have a slightly geeky idea of fun. Damian Conway's talk, in particular, was a wonderful tour-de-force. Maybe you had to have been there and been a geek. But I was, and I am.
The expo started today, so we had schwag as well as munchies at the breaks. (They're feeding us -- at well over $1k for a 3-day con, you'd think so! Charbucks coffee, "Danish" for breakfast and boxed sandwitches for lunch, but still...) In the evening there was a "reception" -- tasty finger food, with local beers, wine, etc. Then there was some godawful loud rock band, so even though I wanted to stick around and see whether I'd won the guitar Gibson was holding a drawing for, I bugged out and read LJ instead.
The schwag is pretty good (not even counting the backpack at reg, which came preloaded with a coffeecup, a mini Etch-a-Sketch, and some literature). Fairly heavy on the T-shirts, but Intel's 64MB USB drive (in a little plastic case with cable, lanyard, and keychain) was particularly noteworthy. The little hand-towels from HP are also worth a mention -- somebody's obviously been reading HHGttG. HP and several others had Ubuntu CDs, and there were copies of The Open CD (which also included Ubuntu live) on the flier table. And the fact that Novell was giving out red hats I found deliciously ironic.
But I got sleepy before I could transcribe my notes, and besides the hotel room didn't have a decent workspace, so I'll just hit a couple of highlights. The best sessions were the one by Anthony Baxter titled "VoIP is the new black" but mostly about Schtoom, his Python library for SIP, and the one on "SVL -- peer-to-peer Subversion over Bonjour. This described a rather thin layer over
svk, itself a layer over svn. The svk layer makes it easy to use svn in distributed mode with multiple private repositories. The svk layer adds the ability to sync up repositories opportunisticly over The most enjoyable BOF session was the poorly-advertised jam session; I lucked into it by accident because it had moved from its assigned room into the lobby. It was just four guys sharing a guitar, but good fun until they rolled up the carpet around 10pm. I sang "Desolation--Oh, No" and "Ship of Stone".
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Date: 2005-08-04 10:29 am (UTC)heard of some for home entertainment and media production. Have you
seen secure internet access only livecds?
Sounds like a great conference. Enjoy Portland!
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Date: 2005-08-04 11:57 am (UTC)I'll bring home a couple of each, but of course they're readily available online.
I'm pretty sure that any live CD will work for secure internet access, but few are specialized for it. For maximum security, detach your hard drive (otherwise it could theoretically be mounted if your live system gets rooted, which is highly unlikely anyway).
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Date: 2005-08-04 11:22 am (UTC)I will be at Linux World next week.
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Date: 2005-08-07 05:24 pm (UTC)