Day Three

So today is day 3 of the conference. Perhaps I'm getting old or something, but I'm weary already. Today is the official conference opening, with the last 2 days being the "unofficial" miniconfs. Earlier sjh approached me about doing him a favour - and this morning it all came to light - someone had to be Tux.

So despite my best efforts I ended up featuring in the conference opening for the second year in a row, albeit in disguise this time. At least sjh wasn't able to convince me to ride a mountain bike down the stairs while wearing the tux outfit, carrying the Linus cutouts. You just have to draw the line somewhere :-)

So the conference proper was opened by sjh well, and the first of many surprises were announced. Speakers are able to hand out one 1Gb USB memory key device each lecture to whomever they wish. And it appears there are daily prizes of IBM laptops for conference attendees, drawn randomly - you just better mke sure you are in the room when your name is read out - unlike some unfortunates this morning :-(

Tutorials were next and I was stoked to do the kernel hacking one. Unfortunately my laptop wouldn't mount filesystems loop-backed, so I was stuffed as this would be something I'd have to do regularly in the tute. Most disappointed. But at least this meant I could drop into Malcolm's pygtk talk, which looked a pretty good choice as well.

Someone was faking DNS replies today, making life difficult for wireless users. Why they'd do this I can't understand.

The jra quiz show was next - which went down very well. Jeremy is a character. This is something we should do, perhaps over conference dinner, in future years.

Afterwards off to dinner with the Bennett's - both types.

| 20 Apr 2005 | #