Re: Thanks to all who attended the Conference
The story I heard was thata Vixie wanted wireless to his room. Now we all know how likely that is to happen in NZ. Geek Conference or no Geek conference =) The other 100 people there had no problem getting email over the wireless that was around. Dean On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 08:23, Joe Abley wrote:
On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 10:48 , Joe Abley wrote:
... and the mysterious absense of 802.11b wireless access in the important areas of the hotel (lobby, bar, conference rooms).
Having heard the subsequent thanks to you for providing 802.11b gear, perhaps I misunderstood the criticism (maybe it was "transit through telecom sucks", or "jetstream is wildly unsuitable for use in a conference full of geeks attached at 11M").
Vixie apparently found it more efficient to travel back to Peter's house on the north shore and get his mail there, for example, than to do so in the hotel.
Anyway, congratulations on getting something off the ground. I wish I had been there :)
Joe
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On 15 Jul 2002, Dean Pemberton wrote:
The story I heard was thata Vixie wanted wireless to his room.
I gather it was his modem that didn't like the hotel switchboard (or the other way round, really). But, seeing that most hotels (outside NZ at least) offer a bedside Ethernet port, something should've been arranged IMO. -- Juha Saarinen - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
At 14:27 15/07/2002 +1200, you wrote:
On 15 Jul 2002, Dean Pemberton wrote:
The story I heard was thata Vixie wanted wireless to his room.
I gather it was his modem that didn't like the hotel switchboard (or the other way round, really).
But, seeing that most hotels (outside NZ at least) offer a bedside Ethernet port, something should've been arranged IMO.
In actual fact he spent a fair amount of time plugged straight into the ethernet hub next to the ADSL Modem, and didnt seem to have any other issues... He even used the Dialup Account we set up for him. :P Mark. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On 15 Jul 2002, Dean Pemberton wrote:
The story I heard was thata Vixie wanted wireless to his room.
Now we all know how likely that is to happen in NZ. Geek Conference or no Geek conference =) Maybe he read about this in Hawaii http://www.idg.net.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/C76BC187C46A79AECC256BF3007EFF2F!open... and decided we may be there 8)
The other 100 people there had no problem getting email over the wireless that was around. Yes thanks to Citylink guys for the wireless network. It was great. The way it was set up you could be online while you had a few drinks at the bar too
regards Lin
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 08:23, Joe Abley wrote:
On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 10:48 , Joe Abley wrote:
... and the mysterious absense of 802.11b wireless access in the important areas of the hotel (lobby, bar, conference rooms).
Having heard the subsequent thanks to you for providing 802.11b gear, perhaps I misunderstood the criticism (maybe it was "transit through telecom sucks", or "jetstream is wildly unsuitable for use in a conference full of geeks attached at 11M").
Vixie apparently found it more efficient to travel back to Peter's house on the north shore and get his mail there, for example, than to do so in the hotel.
Well he did have a dialup link set up by Quicksilver. However he didn't get it going till later and didn't ring us up to find out why. He did say later on he did get it going after he found out the impediment.
Anyway, congratulations on getting something off the ground. I wish I had been there :) Well Dean and a few others made a dent on the Mott Beer supply on your behalf.
grin lin - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:44:42PM +1200, Lin Nah said:
The other 100 people there had no problem getting email over the wireless that was around. Yes thanks to Citylink guys for the wireless network. It was great. The way it was set up you could be online while you had a few drinks at the bar too
regards Lin
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 08:23, Joe Abley wrote:
On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 10:48 , Joe Abley wrote:
... and the mysterious absense of 802.11b wireless access in the important areas of the hotel (lobby, bar, conference rooms).
Having heard the subsequent thanks to you for providing 802.11b gear, perhaps I misunderstood the criticism (maybe it was "transit through telecom sucks", or "jetstream is wildly unsuitable for use in a conference full of geeks attached at 11M").
Vixie apparently found it more efficient to travel back to Peter's house on the north shore and get his mail there, for example, than to do so in the hotel.
Well he did have a dialup link set up by Quicksilver. However he didn't get it going till later and didn't ring us up to find out why. He did say later on he did get it going after he found out the impediment.
Anyway, congratulations on getting something off the ground. I wish I had been there :) Well Dean and a few others made a dent on the Mott Beer supply on your behalf.
grin lin
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I found it interesting that I took along a few cards to loan out to people, and ended up handing out just one card, for only an hour or so - the rest sat idle in my bag. So it appears that almost everybody who showed up with a lappy appeared to be wireless capable, which is definitely something for future conference organisers to keep in mind. Cheers Si - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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Dean Pemberton -
Juha Saarinen -
Lin Nah -
Mark Foster -
Simon Blake