It really did seem to be monopolized by microsoft, the lack of Be and then the smaller Linux pavilion was obvious. I must admit, the PCExpo did not seem to live up to what it has been the past five years I've been there. Instead of seeing technology that I'd only ever dreamed of, everything was quite attainable. Last year they had 1Ghz alphas, this year - what was the fastest pc around? 1Ghz.
As you stated the Linux pavilion was dismal. Believe it or not, last year since Linux was "risky" it was off downstairs --however, they had a big Corel stand (with free distro's) and RedHat of course was there. Far more interesting displays in the previous years.
For the fun of it, I'll mention what I thought of some vendors.. The AMD folk were all cool. A woman took the time to just show me the PGA athlons and mentioned how the duron would follow the same path, they even had a big burly guy working there that didnt fit the corporate "mold." The SGI people on the other hand were holding electrical probes to zap us if we went anywhere near their displays. Intel had a decent sized section but their presentation was even less informative than the previous year (though the people were better). The IBM people had the "sweaty car salesman look" as usual. Transmeta had a decent presentation on the crusoe obviously.. heh, and they gave away little pretend crusoe chips (after they ran out of "fans." (Fans were handed out with them saying "The only fan you'll ever need"). Overall, I'd say the PCExpo better start getting more cutting edge and less of the buzz word ambush like it has become.
Seems like they took this right out of superman. How possible would this be, especially while maintaining the compact power source? Imagine, soon clone exoskeletons would be made, and there could be a rebirth of hand to hand combat.
The comment makes perfect sense to me. Ever watch average users trying to do everyday things in linux? In the university setting you are always hearing about "techie" kids running their servers. Of course, two days later many of them develop strange theories why their computers no longer boot. Maybe I'd be a BOFH but could you imagine what working tech support would be like if any distro was completely going for mainstream.
Two things just have to be mentioned. Didn't you just love it when they were "rerouting." The guy is fiddling with the hard drive, ha, the least the could have done would be mess with some cables and a piece of mystery hardware. The "bad command or file name" responses in msdos were the kicker though.
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Right on.. Often, I still find myself saying to myself "You forgot to duck."
As you stated the Linux pavilion was dismal. Believe it or not, last year since Linux was "risky" it was off downstairs --however, they had a big Corel stand (with free distro's) and RedHat of course was there. Far more interesting displays in the previous years.
For the fun of it, I'll mention what I thought of some vendors..
The AMD folk were all cool. A woman took the time to just show me the PGA athlons and mentioned how the duron would follow the same path, they even had a big burly guy working there that didnt fit the corporate "mold." The SGI people on the other hand were holding electrical probes to zap us if we went anywhere near their displays. Intel had a decent sized section but their presentation was even less informative than the previous year (though the people were better). The IBM people had the "sweaty car salesman look" as usual. Transmeta had a decent presentation on the crusoe obviously.. heh, and they gave away little pretend crusoe chips (after they ran out of "fans." (Fans were handed out with them saying "The only fan you'll ever need"). Overall, I'd say the PCExpo better start getting more cutting edge and less of the buzz word ambush like it has become.
Seems like they took this right out of superman. How possible would this be, especially while maintaining the compact power source? Imagine, soon clone exoskeletons would be made, and there could be a rebirth of hand to hand combat.
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The comment makes perfect sense to me. Ever watch average users trying to do everyday things in linux? In the university setting you are always hearing about "techie" kids running their servers. Of course, two days later many of them develop strange theories why their computers no longer boot. Maybe I'd be a BOFH but could you imagine what working tech support would be like if any distro was completely going for mainstream.
Two things just have to be mentioned. Didn't you just love it when they were "rerouting." The guy is fiddling with the hard drive, ha, the least the could have done would be mess with some cables and a piece of mystery hardware. The "bad command or file name" responses in msdos were the kicker though.