Seems that I’ve reached a new pattern with writing blogposts of late which include only weekend posts. Work is getting pretty busy of late with a variety of good things going on so writing here takes a hit. I still like to record the comings and goings of things, what I see and feel, and thoughts about Linux when they occur to me. Unfortunately, I have not been able to be on Linux much due to some work requirements during the days and I’ve tried to be sensitive to the other computer users here which seem to appreciate the Windows ™ experience. I don’t really mind because I just use a thing that I find. Where I do care is when that thing does not meet a level of use or frustrates other users here. Linux on the laptop satisfies me at a few levels but it seems to make others frustrated. The wife unit appears to have issues with printing, writing documents, downloading things. She is unsure where things go even when they show up on the desktop like PDF files.
I’ve not had to take work home and if I did, I’d just haul the work Dell home since it has all the stuff on it and we cannot use USB storage devices to transfer things whatsoever. But I have tried of late to be sensitive to others. Its meant for my few computing hours each day; I’m on Windows XP or Vista. The wife unit appears to like Vista more. She thinks its “pretty”.
The other thing happening in the next week is Linuxworld Expo. I have mixed feelings about that overall. I don’t think it does what its supposed to any longer. I am not sure what the show’s primary goal is. Its definitely not meant to widen the use of Linux across the board unless “the board” is also called the enterprise. But I go because Wednesday is our labs lunch reunion day and this year its widened to a few more folks which worked at Linuxcare and at Levanta and at both one time or another. I’ll resist the urge to link to Levanta because frankly they don’t deserve it. I won’t go much further there because I’ve left all that behind and found something so much better. I’ve found out that work can be a good thing and not a bearable thing. Yay!
If you all go to the show, see you there. We’ll be over at Chevy’s TexMex at 2pm on Wednesday eating and drinking and talking and remembering. Bill, Ed, maybe Gbro; Dave, Ned, Greg, Duncan. Maybe a surprise gift from back in Boston if he can make it. They all have done me the honor of attending. When I think back on Linuxcare and the lab we built, its this core team of people that we got that truly mattered. Ned, Greg, and Duncan were that core team there. We did Linux and we did deals with Dell and others back then. Its interesting that one of those partners at Dell I just found again on Linkedin.
I do have an opinion of Linuxworld; but I’ll resist that one too until I attend the show. I like to post my thoughts after attending when its all fresh in my mind. I’ve been disappointed and felt disaffected a few times after. The show wants to be this other thing and I compare it to SCALE which just rules to me at this point. SCALE offers all the things I go to a show for while Linuxworld has big show anchor booths, pavillions, giveaways, people that are presenting stuff in a frustrating and irritating sort of way, and I see no spirit of the show. I think that left some years ago.
See you later. If I post again, it will be a few captures of the show for the day I go.
