UKLUG the Good and the bad

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Well UKlug has finished and i really enjoyed it, learnt a lot and took home some great things, but to put it all in bullet points

Good:
1) Some real big guns there and some fantastic speakers
2) Very well organised and venue was perfect.
3) Very good vendor turn out and we went away with a couple of them we will use.
4) Cutting edge (well as far as notes can be).

Bad:
1) I completely screwed up my session (very poor proof reading, under ran, projector was max 640×480, which was to low for my content but i had not thought to check before, overly nervy), though got more people coming up to me afterwards for thanks, questions and requests than the last one (perhaps it was out of pity)
2) I think that keeping a big gun talk for last session, would stop people like me slopping of to the pub and staying there on a warm Friday afternoon.

Neutral:
1) Faced the double edge sword of London being the venue, on the plus side its very easy for a lot of people to get too and so the official
attendance is high, but on the down side, people don’t commit to it and so drop out as work finds it easy to cancel/call back people, but what can you do about that

Another 2 windows app down

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Another 2 Windows apps bite the dust and i shuffle over to linux, this time its windows remote control, down to rdesktop,
It has lots of nice and expected options, i use the following in a taskbar icon

“rdesktop -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD -0 SERVERNAME:3389”

the “-0” is the same as “/console”

And also “super cat” down to “Removable media catalog management”, does what it says on the tin, no further details needed (i use if for keeping a list of the files i have on my NAS)

Frightening Conversation Number 1

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You ‘re there writing a web site and behind you, you hear your dearest say “If you wanted to kill someone and get rid of the body, Argos has every thing you would want, flat pack incinerators and power tools at very reasonable prices, They even have a patio extension with built in hand rail to cover the crime scene”,

I’m sleeping in the toilet tonight!!!

Down to earth with a bump

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so you think you can get all smug, and know your stuff but it turns out the you are only ever scratching the surface no matter how much your learn, take me for example i use eclipse and do most of my proper code in java rather than lotus script, all of my desktops are Linux (admittedly i still have a vmware image), so i decided to work with a college on a serious project, Linux/Jboss/Spring/Domino 8.5 all the latest stuff, total CV frenzy, and do it in the most hard core form, now I’m looking at a RedHat server command line with no GUI in sight, and a bunch of build files!!

So it not imposable but it certainly gonna take a bit more time, perhaps i’ll skip the rest of tonight and go watch tank police (feel the power that they got)