[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>