Monthly Archives: June 2005

A linux box on the premises

Just Rambling

A friend brought over a laptop that someone had given her. She couldn’t figure out how to use it and I said just bring it over, I’ll check it out.

I turned it on and was totally mystified by what I saw. It was a Dell laptop and had Linux installed with a Freesbee desktop. I couldn’t figure out how to use it either. Happily I had an unopened unused fully licensed WinXP Pro hanging around so we stuck the cd in in and said “yes” to remove the partition and “yes” to reformat. 🙂

Don’t get me wrong – I am not an anti-opensource bigot. There was just no way that either my friend or I was going to figure out how she could use this quickly when she already was well-versed in all things windows.



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.NET Newbie Sessions at Vermont.NET

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This month, VTdotNET is starting something new: .NET Newbie sessions. It is in response to my ponderings about how to deal with the widening knowledge gap in the user group. So I am really excited that this is starting. The first session is this month at our June 13th meeting. Laura Blood, from Blue Note Computing will present on “Object Oriented Programming in .NET – How to Build and Use Objects”.

Then, for the main session, we will depart from Object Oriented program in it’s entirety (just a coincidence) as Sam Gentile presents on SOA and Indigo. Sam is coming as an INETA speaker!

I just this moment realized the irony in that!

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My kind of business trip!

Just Rambling

I couldn’t pay my husband to come to Orlando with me for a week during TechEd in June or even in March for Connections. Or to San Diego last year. Or to Las Vegas for Connections. Etc….

I wish I had business trips more like this…

There was a time in my life actually when I did. In my late 20’s I had two fab all expenses paid business trips to London with plenty of time to explore. Both of them were consulting gigs. Ahh the good old days.

There’s still hope…

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TechEd Live WebCasts!!!

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Microsoft Tech·Ed 2005 is sold out but you can still explore Microsoft technologies and solutions in this series of webcasts. Join us through the end of May for pre-Tech·Ed webcasts, then tune in for a special week of webcasts June 5-10, 2005, as we simulcast 12 sessions live from Orlando, Florida.

Also, stay tuned for our live “best of” Tech·Ed 2005 webcasts this fall, as we highlight some of the most popular sessions from the event.

[from the TechEd website]

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TechEd Booth Babes

Community Cheerleading

Betsy talks about the dress code of working the booth – anything that you are doing representing Microsoft – at TechEd. The biggest killer is the shoes. I live in my Tevas all summer. I have worn them exclusively at every warm weather conference I have gone to. I have to go figure out what additional shoes I can bring that won’t take up any extra room in my bag for my few hours hither and thither as a booth babe also. One will be for the TabletPC Team (4-5 Wednesday). Another will be at the CodeZone booth (10-12 Wednesday).And who knows, since I’ll have “the shirt”, maybe I’ll get snagged elsewhere also.

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Women who Code BOF is not for chicks only!

Community Cheerleading

Michael Kaplan wants to come to the Women who Code BOF at TechEd. Absolutely! The first one we did had a bunch of guys there. One who was curious how to encourage his teenaged daughters who are interested in things technical but are being discouraged by advisors at school. Another guy was really curious why there were so few women in his C.S. major at college and what he could do to make it be more engaging to women. The more diversity we have at the BOF the more interesting I think it gets, so please, feel free to come!!

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TickTickTechEd

Just Rambling

How on earth I am going to be ready to leave for Orlando on Saturday afternoon, I have NO clue! I am having the usual pre-going-away-for-a-week-to-a-huge-conference jitters. My clients are suddenly having crises left and right. The sun and warm weather has finally arrived in Vermont. I can see the flowers coming up in my lupin field. I still haven’t gotten the rest of the seedlings into the veggie garden. I’m always worried about my darling old dogs not being here when I come back and Rich is stocking up on Kraft Macaroni & Cheese.

I know from past experience when I get to TechEd, I will be stepping out of my life for a week into a different one.You really leave everything behind and get immersed in the whole environment. Trying to get to see some sessions, but ending up talking with a million fun and interesting people. Wandering the expo hall is a blast, not for swag, but to visit with so many people you don’t get to see enough. Just imagine being stuck in a huge building with over 10,000 people who all have the same passions as you do for week. People who understand you and don’t think you’re a dork because you think computers are *it*. People who understand the insane life you lead and how hard it is to walk away from that code even when everybody’s begging for dinner. Just one more line, I know this is gonna do it….

Yep, the last days before I go, I just dread, I’m all stressed out, I don’t want to leave home. But once I’m there, I have just a majorly grand time.

Yep, I’ll be there!

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DevLife blog is live (just awaiting its skin)

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My DevLife blog on the DevSource website is now live. It is awaiting it’s skin, and I’ve asked for Captcha … which one should we use??

But I have started posting things to there as well. Here’s how it’s gonna work. When I post something there, I will post a bit of it on this blog. Click on the text of the post and it will bring you to the full post on the DevLife blog.

You can also subscribe directly to the DevLife blog. It’s a .Text blog. I’ve already got a few posts there now and have some more organizing to do. And no, the makeup picture isn’t there yet!! 🙂

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