I did go to the Chantilly, VA stop of the road tour. I didn't see anyone who looks scary! The Red Hat people look just like anyone else to me. I am still wondering if some Red Hat employees are following the bus and attending the stops "incognito". For example, way in the back row with me, 2 seats to my left, was a lady wearing a shirt that has a graphic of a cheetah and the words "Operation Cheetah Flip". I had this feeling she works for Red Hat, but didn't have the nerve to ask her. I thought the standing room only crowd at Chantilly represented an excellent cross section of users and age ranges. I was especially pleased to note there were as many older folks as younger ones. So many see the possibilities with Linux now. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 15:17, Robert Savage wrote: > Anyone looking for a fun way to spend two or three hours should plan on > attending a Red Hat Road Tour 2002 session, hopefully coming to a town > near you. See http://www.redhat.com/roadtour. > > These four guys (plus a really scary lookin' driver) are wandering across > the U.S. in a bright red RHRT Winnebago -- or Linnebago as someone > suggested at the SIUE session in Edwardsville, IL on Wednesday afternoon. > One look at this rig and you might wonder how five Linux geeks are going > to survive the tour. This land yacht will probably attract babes like a > pile of dirty socks. > > They're passing out hats, t-shirts, and other priceless swag while they > show off RH8 and field questions from the audience. And on the side they > might just be able to fix something broken. Dave "Lobster Boy" Lawrence > wrestled with a particularly evil Gnome2 font problem on my IBM laptop for > over two hours. I call it a font problem, but when a font size shrinks to > a single pixel per character, is it still a font? It was great fun > watching over his shoulder while he chatted on-line with Havoc et al, > trying one thing after another. For a while it was looking like "Stump The > Chumps". Dave kept hacking on it stubbornly well past their scheduled > departure time. The scary driver was threatening to leave him behind. > > Dave doesn't know it, but he actually managed to repair 99% of the damage. > He was typing so fast I have no idea what he did toward the end that made > Gnome2 usable again. At one time or another he was checking out everything > that Gnome2 uses or rides on: themes, Gtk2, xft, the fonts themselves, > nautilus, etc. All I know is when I got home, Gnome2 came back up pretty > much like it used to. Some parts of the Bluecurve theme still appear to be > missing, but that's minor stuff. > > Dave: Next time you come to St Louis (or I pass thru Raleigh) I'm buyin' > the beer! You earned it. > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
