Comments on: That was @media 2006

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:13:07 +0000

@Cecil, somehow your comment got cut-off please carry on.

Regarding the Wi-fi. I did find a way to get onto the wifi on the second day by going directly to the access point’s login page which were on varying ip addresses. Hence I was able to upload my notes pretty much directly after each presentation.

By: Cecil Ward

Cecil Ward — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:50:53 +0000

The wireless LAN being on the fritz all the time hindered Robin Christopherson’s talk, which was unforgivable on the part of the conference centre people. Enjoyed his talk nonetheless, and at least he got plenty of questions.

I myself had problems with the wireless LAN, and although I didn’t take the time to properly dig into what was going on, I thought I glimpsed it was failing to hand out IP addresses. I seemed to get the impression that the LAN was pretty much ok first thing in the morning but bad later on in the day. Speculating, that would be consistent with a setup where the DHCP server on the LAN was not able to hand out enough IP addresses for such a huge number of simultaneous geeks all armed with laptops, and would normally be fine if there were not so many users around simultaneously. If the QEII conference centre people only have

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:57:21 +0000

@Andy: You’re welcome, your presentation was one of the few that was really about something new in terms ideas, and that’s what made it so enjoyable.

By: Malarkey

Malarkey — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:25:04 +0000

Many thanks for your kind words. I’m very pleased that you enjoyed my presentation.

Many kind regards,

Andy