[Nottingham] NEC Linux Expo
Andy Davidson
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Jun 27 12:25:00 2003
At 15:18 25/06/2003 +0100, Martin wrote:
>Any news, comments, hot-stuff from those that have been to the Linux show
>at the Birmingham NEC?
>(Or from anyone there even? (:-))
It was fun. I'm not sure whether it was worth my employer *paying* me to
be there, but I got a lot out of it.
But anyway, some highlights :
* The Debian stand was good -- Debian running on a Psion 5mx !
http://photos.nosignal.org/photo.php?o=1&id=692489
* Linux on a PS2
http://photos.l33t-d00d.co.uk/photo.php?o=1&id=691656
* SGI's powerful imaging cluster
http://photos.jml.net/photo.php?o=1&id=692716
* The Microsoft Stand
http://photos.jml.net/photo.php?o=1&id=692717
* Rosegarden MIDI sequencing tools were cool
http://photos.jml.net/photo.php?o=1&id=692724
* Playing Elite on the big screen
http://photos.nosignal.org/photo.php?o=1&id=692512
http://photos.jml.net/photo.php?o=73&id=692764
* Radio controlled Kebab
http://photos.nosignal.org/photo.php?o=121&id=692630
Free Plugs :
* http://www.uklinux.net/ for feeding me beer.
http://photos.nosignal.org/photo.php?o=1&id=692481
* http://www.ukpost.com/ Jason Clifford for feeding me beer
http://photos.l33t-d00d.co.uk/photo.php?o=25&id=691686
* APC for having pretty girls on their stand to play with
http://photos.nosignal.org/photo.php?o=1&id=692506
* Extreme Switches for making Joel the happiest man on earth with a new
purple shirt
http://photos.nosignal.org/photo.php?o=1&id=692526
* Alan Cox just for being great.
http://photos.nosignal.org/photo.php?o=1&id=692485
Unplugs :
* No mention for the company who tried to stop us photographing their demo
of wireless networking going through a fish tank
http://photos.l33t-d00d.co.uk/photo.php?o=61&id=691735
* AVD for not having Linux software to control their (otherwise very cool)
automated, robotic "duplicate a pile of cds and print labels for them while
I go and do something else" computers.
http://photos.jml.net/photo.php?o=37&id=692734
* Nobody had unsecured wavelan for me to steal, so noone can have a mention
or thank you !
http://photos.l33t-d00d.co.uk/photo.php?o=85&id=691759
If anyone else publishes images of the day to http://fotopic.net/ - please
let me know, we're planning to collate all of the uploaded albums into a
meta-site of the whole day's show.
--
Regards, Andy Davidson
<andy@nosignal.org>