LCA2006: Day 4
Posted 2006-01-26-2136
Day four. Didn't really notice the weather, not threating rain like yesterday.
I was really impressed by the morning's keynote. David Miller spoke well and it was interesting to me to hear the technical bits about the kernel tcp and network work. I really like the sound of that special secret thing. It would run my ray tracer really well (when I get it a bit more done). The social interaction thing was really quite obvious and common sense, but you know what the say about common sense...
The seminar on KDE4 and Plasma was interesting, but didn't give away a lot. I suspect they haven't figured out everything yet, and fair enough. It should be cool when it arrives. I hope there isn't a too greater drop in the capability when KDE4 is released. KDE rocks.
64 bit vs 32 bit for two arches may me really happy I bought a dual opteron and not a dual G5. In order of increasing preformance at same clock speed: ppc64, ppc32, x86, x86_64. Although, things are always changing, and specific apps might do better on one or another. There is a fairly complex interaction going on.
WBEM sounds good, until you hear the details. Yet another xml over http transport, some wierd and strange model (in UML, which saves it just a little) and little support. I don't know what I'm going to do as my network gets bigger. The technical detail was good, I understood it a lot better after.
The PHP5 and rich web apps tutorial was interesting. It was the first tutorial I sat right through. I was most impressed by how it is shaping up and that it actually isn't that hard. Maybe I'll use some on the new UCGK site (when I get around to it). Learnt a few cool things, didn't really see anything to make me immediately want to install PHP5, but maybe I will sometime.
The Google cluster BoF was a repeat of the Sys admin lightning talk, with a little more detail (a lot they can't say). They did answer a lot of questions that were asked. I must remember to send them my CV in the next week or so (once I convert it from KWord to HTML).
I put up the Thousand Parsec and Worldforge posters, and sold three more CDs. There is quite a bit of interest, and I'm looking foward to the Game Devel BoF (Bird of a Feather) meeting tomorrow. I still have some CDs left.
Someone who was looking closely at the program might notice that I missed an hour or so. There wasn't really anything that appealed to me, which is silly. There are times when there are 3 presentations on at the same time I want to go to and can't. I put the time to good use. Maybe the organisers could arrange the talks into streams by general topic (ie, kernel, applications, systems, development, admin). Maybe, that might not work either. There are some good presentations tomorrow.
Wondering why I only post once and at late night? Well, it takes me 45 minutes to walk, bus and walk a bit further to get to where I'm staying. I also have to write blog entries into escaped php string before ssh'ing the file to my server (which is better than trying to write it over ssh, which I have done).