Registered
I'm registered for LCA 2011! I wasn't expecting to be able to come due to a clash with a work event, but then they moved that event. So, I'm pretty happy about that. Have you registered yet? Early bird closes soon...
MythNetTV talk
I gave a MythNetTV talk at linux.conf.au yesterday, and it went remarkably well. Hardly any fruit was thrown. I'm quite please that so far two patches have been sent to me after the talk, and questions in the talk promoted a release of version 7. I should share the following resources from the talk: the slide deck, my cheat sheet, the MythTV book chapter beta which I wrote while gathering my thoughts for the talk. The last one is probably the most useful, as its pretty much an expanded version of the talk. A historical note from November 2020: the mythtvbook.com website is now offline.
Observations on the Wrest Point hotel
Some simple observations on the Wrest Point hotel... The room is nice, but nothing fancy. The in room internet is free, but doesn't work. Most importantly, the breakfast place in the hotel plays Weird Al while you're eating.
Travelling to Hobart today
After some initial uncertainty because of the economy, I am travelling to Hobart today for linux.conf.au 2009. I'm speaking at the MythTV mini-conf about MythNetTV, as well as a new MythTV book I have been working on for a while. It will be good to get there, although I wont manage that until about 10pm tonight.
linux.conf.au domain name
It looks to me like the linux.conf.au domain name is working again. I wonder what effect that will have on registrations? It would be interesting to see a graph of registration behavior over time...
Kernel report video
The video of the kernel report is cool. It only has left hand audio though. I wish people would ask questions using the microphone though.
LCA 2007 Video: CFQ IO
I'm watching the CFQ IO Scheduler talk now on MythTV using my MythTV program downloader thingie. Beware the very large audio volume jump about three minutes in. Just saying. Oh, and the "pan across blank blackboards for a bit at a funny angle" thing at around 6 minutes is pretty amusing too. Update: now with working URL for the downloader thingie!
Wrong timezone batman!
Heh, the LCA2007 planet is running in a timezone offset from Sydney time by one hour. I wonder how many people that will confuse? Oh, and holy crap does it aggregate quickly.
MySQL User Camp 2006
I "sort of attended" the MySQL user's camp on the weekend. More on that later. This blog post from the guy who wrote WordPress makes me think I should have made it to more of the sessions. Oh well.
Hypothetically speaking
Hypothetically speaking, if you needed to write a four hour long presentation (probably around 200 slides), shared with another speaker, and wanted to keep the style consistent and conforming with your approved corporate style, how would you do it? I'm thinking of some sort of intermediate language, which can then be used to generate slides from a template? Is there anything like that out there?