I wasn’t there!
Although I managed to touch base with a few of the InteropLabs folks in Las Vegas the week before Interop, I was with a client elsewhere the week of the show (and had been in the French Alps during Hot Stage), so I missed it this year. What about you?
June 1st, 2007 by ssh
Back to the Warehouse
So, I ran off to Tampa for a couple of days to attend a meeting that had been planned before we knew that we would be doing NY. I grabbed an early-morning flight back, and got back here about lunch time Sunday. There were more of the usual suspects here, of course, since most of the team arrived while I was away. It’s great to have chelliott back, and the core team reached critical mass. Of course,...
August 6th, 2006 by ssh
…they’re baaaaa-ack…
The warehouse suddenly filled up this afternoon. Well, filled-up is a misnomer, since there really aren’t very many folks here. But, compared to yesterday, it’s more full. Chris and Kevin showed up today, and we have most of the NAC environment re-created from Vegas. We have a bit of configuration to do on the switches to get the network routing, but we got new versions of Longhorn and...
August 3rd, 2006 by ssh
Shake, rattle, and roll…
Well, we didn’t feel it here, but there was a little rumbler a bit northeast of here: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program ยป Event 40187964. The warehouse is eerie. Quiet. No one here but Chee and me. Minimal equipment. Our racks seem more full than any others. And, of course, I’ve stolen a number of servers from the OSS rack to populate ours for additional servers required this time around. It...
August 2nd, 2006 by ssh
Belmont, here I come…
I find myself wondering what this Hot Stage will be like. Only one InteropLab (NAC). There’s been quite a segregation between InteropNet (formerly eNet) and InteropLabs (formerly iLabs) since I was re-introduced to the team following the “great black listing of 1999,” So I am very interested in seeing how the smaller teams will allow us to connect better. I’ll arrive midday...
August 1st, 2006 by ssh
Another Hot Stage
…here it comes! We’ll be back in Belmont as the only Lab for NY. I don’t have any idea who all will be there, or how it’s all going to work. It’s feeling pretty weird at this point, with most of the Labs folks sitting at home grateful that they don’t have to jump on a plane and head to Belmont. I’ll be arriving there on the 2nd, the rest of the team on the...
July 22nd, 2006 by ssh
It’s Just Not The Same
What a weird experience. Everything here–even the InteropNet (formerly eNet) folks–is quite calm. No emergencies. No one going crazy (except for Jim, but we’ll get back to that later). Just stuff happening at a pretty leisurely pace. We got here yesterday to start setting up the Labs. My flight was delayed, so Jan and Joel did the vast majority of the work. Once again they have me...
April 28th, 2006 by ssh
Why am I here, again?
This is one of those days that I feel like I’m not helping enough. Everyone was going crazy today, with Craig trying to corral Vista and Longhorn (we finally learned that Vista is definitely the client, and Longhorn Server has not got a release name, yet, so it’s still Longhorn). The difference explains how what we were installing the past few days never worked. It helps to have a Microsofty...
April 3rd, 2006 by ssh
I’m turning Japanese
I forgot to mention this in the earlier post for the day, but one of the fun things about coming to the Hot Stage event is always trying to figure out what’s going on with the Internet connectivity. This year, amazingly, we had connectivity when we got here. The 45 net was actually coming into the warehouse. The subnets were assigned and routed. But, going to http://www.google.com/ gets redirected...
April 2nd, 2006 by ssh
What is it about Fry’s?
I know that I shouldn’t ask this question, but I think that there must be something that is inserted into the water or air here in the Bay Area. Folks come here from all across the world and are inexorably drawn to Fry’s. They return to the warehouse with all kind of interesting stuff. Some of it might even be useful. Yesterday, Chris and Brett showed up each carrying a new tank with a...
April 2nd, 2006 by ssh
