While I had the feeling that the conferences were maybe a bit below the level of the ones at the previous linuxworld and the ones at LinuxExpo, there was still a lot to do and enjoy. The showfloor itself, was for many the main attraction. It seems that LinuxExpo (by Red Hat, in North Carolina) is a bit more for the linux geek, and Linuxworld is more a commercial tradeshow.
A Huge thank you goes to Kit Cosper from VA Linux Systems for lending me his PCMCIA smartmedia adapter so that I could very quickly download my pictures to my laptop (with the serial port, 100 pictures would take 1H+, so that wasn't convenient). I suppose I should buy one of those for next time, but I've put it off so far since those PCMCIA cards do cost one fifth of the price of my camera and my freshly bought 16MB smartmedia card works fine in the camera but not in the PCMCIA adapter...
Obviously the IDG folks also deserve a hand for the successful show, which was run very professionally.
And here's the now usual little footer note:
If you'd like to use some pictures, you need to ask me first. I used to give
everything away, but to cover those shows, I've invested money in equipment,
and a lot of time to work with all the pictures and the web pages, so
I've decided that you need to work out some arrangement with me if you want to
use anything on a commercial page (I'm happy to give this away for people to
read, but understand that because I've taken unpaid leave to go to the show and
missed another day of work (and wages) to finish those pages on friday (right
after the show), I'm not too cool about people just using this work to make
money without me getting some share).
(sorry for going into details but I've gotten a few Emails in the past from
people who though I was cheap to not just let anyone use anything they want on
my pages, hence the extra details).
If you have too much money, you can participate in the "Let's reimburse Marc's
camera" fund. I also have other funds, like "let's buy Marc an Empeg car player", and I'm happy to create
further funds if needed
'Till next time
Marc Merlin
(marc_web@merlins.org)
I won't give you the caffeine mint speech, I'm way beyond that (23 hours of
HTML coding/picture editing and stuff with 3H of sleep in the middle)... If
any of those pages make any sense to you, you should feel grateful .
However, it's not because you suffered while trying to decipher the pages that
other people should too: please send me corrections (either factual errors, or
spelling/grammar stuff). Thanks.
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