[Novalug] My personal FOSE wrap up / tues and wed

[greg pryzby]

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Thanks for the debrief and coming back for the show. Sorry I didn't make
it (Westlake, OH was my location this week!).

64bit vs 32bit-- Address space is the biggest different (how much memory
I can use).



nick at hackermonkey.com wrote:
> I always forget how much I liked DC, NoVA and the Linux guys down there. I had a
> great time at the booth. I love talking to people at the booth, both the workers
> and the people visiting. A few notes about things.
> 
> 1) The visitors seemed more polarized this year. Usually we have a huge spectrum
> of people from experts to beginners, and people that want to try, people that
> refuse to try and maybe a few swag-baggers. This year seemed much more extreme.
> The experts seemed more expert, the haters more so, and the swag baggers even
> more blatent.
> 
> 2) The longer I spend in the booth talking to people, the dumber I feel. Not bad
> dumb, I leave with a list of more things I need to learn and read up about. So
> its a good thing, a nice personal growth thing :-) I still dont quite understand
> 64bit HW vs 32bit HW, but then I have all old HW and nothing remotely close to
> 64 bit anyway.
> 
> 3) I have a doppleganger that works for a VT based scanning company!
> 
> 4) My personal low moment of the show was when I gentleman came up and asked
> "Which one of these is for Windows XP?" I explained what they were and he said
> no way he needed to "remain compatible. Goodbye" and waved off. I yelled
> something after him about "compatible with what?" and then I felt real bad
> about it, I should have been more polite. The more I think about it, the worse
> off I think the poor guy is. Not because he didn't listen to me, but simply
> because here is he running a horribly vulnerable OS and he wanted "the XP
> compatible" cd from me before he even knew what it is I had. So who knows what
> sort of condition his PC is even in.
> 
> 5) We should have done something post show, gone to Fado or something? I would
> have liked to 'debrief' after each night. I dont think the wife cared much
> about my ramblings of the show and who I talked to about geeky things. (Did I
> know there was a DC chess group? NO! Wish I knew then, I STINK and would love
> to play with people and learn to play well!)
> 
> 6) One of the USB encrypted key people told me their product worked with Windows
> and no plans for OSX or Linux, yet, but maybe. "We had to go after the biggest
> market." Ok, no problem. Thats a good company plan, but no plans for Linux yet?
> I actually said "if I buy one, and get drivers written for it, would you want
> them?" and he goes "No."  Fast foward to the other side of the show floor and I
> find IronKey. They were working on Linux drivers, I read about it. Not only are
> they excited that Im from tux.org and know about their product, they want me to
> review it and hand me a 1GB key. Unfortunately it had the old code and wasn't
> Linux ready, so they are sending me a new one in the mail. I can't wait to try
> it on every system I have (CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat EL, Linux Mint and for the
> hell of it, OpenBSD :-) and just see what happens! I don't know why but lately
> I've been very crypto concious.
> 
> I think thats all I have for now, other then a HUUUGE thanks to everyone that
> showed up. If you helped or just stopped, you made the day go great and I can't
> wait to do it again. Next time I'll do the whole show, and show up for
> setup/breakdown, I forgot those were a fun time as well. Yes, Im weird like
> that...
> 
> Did anyone ever get the CDs burned on Thursday? We ran out sometime Wednesday
> afternoon and I know we had made some arrangements with MicroTech (?) to get
> some extras for Thursday. Looks like 300 just isn't enough. We could probably
> make due with 600 or so.
> Nick


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greg pryzby                              greg at pryzby dot org
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