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Linuxworld Expo Wrapup
I was at the Expo on Thursday and Friday. Some of my impressions of the conference:
It's getting more business-y and less geeky every year. There are a lot of reasons for that, and it isn't all bad, but it's still vaguely sad to see.
HP and IBM accounted for about half the floor space - seriously. The Expo promoters must have played the two companies off against each other as far as conference participation went, and besides the large areas devoted to these companies, there were other large sections that were intended to represent an average company solving all its problems with Linux - these areas were jointly sponsored by HP, IBM and the other big companies at Linuxworld. It was - quite - as if the entire conference was owned by IBM and HP, but it was pretty close.
There was virtually no BSD presence. I think I saw some NetBSD people - that was it.
The .org pavilion is still going strong - while the rest of the conference is getting more business-oriented (fewer engineers and more salesdrones), the non-profit free and open source software area is still sizable and well-attended.
There were fewer "check out our neat new hardware gadget running Linux" booths and more "buy an expensive rack server running Linux from us" booths.
Linux.conf.au sucked a fair number of the geekiest attendees away from LWCE. Okay, the Australian conference is a lot smaller, but it's still dumb to schedule them simultaneously.
And so is ROBLIMIO.
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What a fucking joke. I've been reading this tripe for the past week. This writing here, the aforementioned tripe, that is how ass kissers write. People who fawn and masturbate over the idea of getting press credentials for a place that's just a little over their head.
Does this answer any of the 5 Ws? Not a one. It tells me nothing. Great, two super fucking massive companies, HP and IBM swallowed the convention space. And this means what? What the fuck are they selling? Dildoes? Handmade soap? Consumer shit? Server blades? Slaves? Chicken fat?
And what the fuck is this following paragraph?
"How to get the best swag"
Was Miller there to actually work, or just collect free shit and brag about it?
I recognize that not everyone lives by my "carry nothing" trade show rule.
And I too recognize that not everyone realizes that people are not the least bit interested in the hokey personal anecdotes of free fucking mousepads.
For those of you who like to collect show goodies, I think the best way to get them is to see what other people are carrying, and if you spot someone carrying an interesting item, immediately ask them where they got it, then immediately try to go get one of the things for yourself.
Wow. I'm speechless. What insight. So the best thing to do is speak to other people?
The best stuff tends to run out early, so perhaps you should spend the first day of the show hunting swag, and the remaining time trying to learn.
Unfuckingbelieveable.
And this, this paragraph. This sickens me. Fucking ill.
As a journalist, easily recognizable as one because my badge said "MEDIA" on it, I could have collected all the swag I wanted, no problem. But I didn't. I was there to work, and running all over the place, and I didn't want to be encumbered by a bag full of anything. I have been to plenty of trade shows over the years, and I have collected enough t-shirts, caps, key chain flashlights, stuffed Tux dolls, and other goodies to last a lifetime. We won't even talk about the expensively-printed "media kits" exhibitors try to shove into the hands of unwary reporters. I could have ended up carrying 20 pounds of paper, all containing information easily available from the companies' Web sites. So no thanks, I do not want giveaways or media kits. I am happy to have nothing in my hands besides a pen and note pad. I am at the show to make contact with people I can later call when I need information for stories, not to be a pack horse.
You have got to be fucking joking. This guy labels himself a 'journalist'? I could gut a goat, stick a media badge on it, but does that make it a journlist? Where's the fucking insight? What has Miller provided except sophomoric anecdotes? A fucking angel food cake sitting on the conference floor would have provided more insight than this drivel. Horrid.
Here's the fundamental tenets of journalism: tell people who weren't there something significant that they otherwise wouldn't ever have known. It is not an rambling blog. This isn't journalism any more than a 6th graders report on the natual history museum is journalism. It's a rambling monologue devoid of content.
This has fucking disgraced journalism. The bush league fucking amateur night bullshit that passes for 'e-journalism' anymore is so fucking pedantic and trite as to redefine the benchmark for stupidity.
And why should I care? It's not like they're adding anything interesting or souping up the performance...
does it still suck as bad as it did last year? How can I resize a window without it taking up the whole screen without revealing the 'close' widget?
Thanks, I'll stay with CDE on Solaris for now.
About the same as the number of *BSDers ;)
Fact: BSD is dying!
I'm just tired of the idjit "You must be getting paid off by Microsoft!!!" accusations we get every time we so much as mention that company's name.
I honestly can't think of anybody who would be interested in paying you, Roblimo. Certainly not given the quality of articles you write.