Never show up early (or even on time) when the conference/workshop relies on technology to get started.
Words to live by.
I attended the European Desktop Grid for E-Science (EDGeS) this week to learn all about connecting service computing grids (EGEE) and desktop computing grids (BOINC). Fascinating stuff, really, once you get the demo computers up and running. Honestly, it’s hard to get anyone interested in the wonderful secondary tasks computers can do with their idle clock cycles when we can’t seem to get them even to do their primary tasks.
1 hour and counting… if only it would find that damn elusive DHCP server!
Archive for November, 2008
When I saw an error message on the train schedule screen, I thought it was just a temporary glitch in their display software. However, when I saw that the error was a Windows error, I realized this represented a much larger flaw in their operation at large: relying on Windows for a relatively important task. Maybe even the reason for the constant delays, hmm?
