----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert L. Cochran" <cochranb@speakeasy.net> Date: 13 Nov 2002 18:21:15 -0500 To: Red "Hat 8.0 Mailing List" <psyche-list@redhat.com> Subject: Re: CANADIAN Red Hat Road Tour? > Well, I didn't care too much about the hat (I already have 2 and lost a > 3rd.) I'm a bit freaked not to have a t-shirt, but okay, I'll live > without one. The 2-CD crippleware set of Red Hat made me yawn, since I > have all 5 CD's tucked in my NFS directory. The keychain is nice, but I > treasure the one my daughter gave me a few years ago. What really made > me sad was that I didn't get a license-free, fully functional version of > Red Hat Application Server and another license-free, fully functional > version of Oracle 9i in exchange for my 3+ hours of driving (1 hour to > the Road Tour event in Chantilly and 2 hours returning. The extra hour > was courtesy of a massive traffic jam on Route 66 East.) > > And I'd certainly like to know more about the 2 people who sat to my > left. I suspect they were Red Hat employees in disguise...how else can > you get a shirt that says "Operation Cheetah Flip"... > > Bob Cochran > Greenbelt, Maryland, USA > > > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:59, Tom Diehl wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Elton Woo wrote: > > > > > > > > > Is there or will there be a Canadian Red Hat Road Tour? > > > > > If so, where may one find details on it? > > > > > > > > you know, before everyone gets their knickers in a knot > > > > over this RH tour, it might be worth pointing out that > > > > you can learn darn near everything you need on these > > > > very red hat mailing lists. unless someone who's actually > > > > *been* to one of those things can fill us in on what > > > > we're missing. > > > > Agreed, but it was nice to have a face to face meeting with the developers > > and QA guys. FWIW I asked enough questions to get a Black "Red Hat" hat!! :-) > > The road tour guys had REd Red Hat hats :-( They did not give out > > T-Shirts in Phila. > > > > > I went to one last night (los angeles) and I think that Robert is correct, > > > in fact if you hang out on these lists you may be a little disappointed > > > with the tour if you're expecting to get amazingly detailed info. > > > > One thing they did in Phila was to break into 2 groups. Newbee and more > > advanced. Since they did not have 2 rooms the "more advanced" group got to > > stand outside in the cold, but it was still interesting. > > > > > I learnt three main things: > > > 1. The GNOME-Start menu duplicate entries for mouse/keyboard configuration > > > in SystemSettings and Preferences have confused lots of people and this > > > layout will be changed. > > > > > > 2. Quite a few people are unhappy with the fact that the > > > minimal-recommended memory usage for a graphical workstation is 192Mb. > > > Someone (Dan Kegel?) pointed out that the rhn "throbber" in the panel uses > > > 12Mb! > > > > > > 3. Don't go expecting to get a t-shirt (my main reason for attending!). > > > Of an audience of approximately 45 there were three t-shirts. The guy > > > handing them out explained that their normal procedure is to give them to > > > the people that ask the most questions. Lots of disappointed people > > > wandered off not quite consoled with the key-chain and demo-copy of Psyche > > > (3 cdroms, contains no devel-libs). > > > > Hummm, My sample cd collection only had 2 cd's in it. Not of much use to me > > actually. Just what I need a crippeled version of RHL 8.0. > > > > > All in all, it was interesting, but technically less so than this list, > > > and the efficiency of discussion was lower. > > > > > > (Also I was really disappointed not to get a t-shirt!) > > > > It was after all a marketing tour. Sponsered by our friends at IBM. > > I still think it was worth it though, but I got a hat!! :-)) > > > > > > -- > > .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to > > tdiehl@rogueind.com hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market > > with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 > > > > We are still waiting .... > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > Gee ... all I wanted was a simple "YES" or "NO" to my question. There is another thread running titled "RH Road Tour", but all I see are discussions of different types of beers. I thought my question was _clearly_ stated. ... I guess I was wrong. sincerely, Elton Woo P.S. I have PURPOSELY quoted the entire text of this thread, in the hopes that someone would point out where *I* may have erred... "We ALL should make life EASIER for each other." j.woo@sympatico,ca / eltwoo@linuxmail.org ICQ User ID #149608718; Reg'd LINUX User #193975 -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with POP3/IMAP access for only US$19.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
