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Published: (2005-06-24 16:29:45.0)

100 systems for your hacking pleasure await you at JavaOne's Hands-On Lab.

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Published: (2005-06-24 11:14:13.0)

Kevin, Vernon and I emerge from the bowels of BART into a cold, grey San Francisco morning. Destination: Moscone. We enter the North Side, and immediately check on the network. Conversations with the conference folks. I look around and notice the new Sun brand colors are everywhere. Off to the Ops room to check in with Steve, and see what needs to be done. The usual gang is there, and hellos and how ya doings are exchanged. I'm off to Room 130 to help with the hands on lab. 102 machines await. Kevin the intern has already started, so Rich and I start grabbing monitor cases to unload. The cases are freaking massive (excuse my poetry) and before I know it, I'm huffing and puffing. We learned a lesson from last year - so we're sure to keep the monitors from their respective cases next to each other. We get to the end and are puzzle by the table configuration. Rich finally figures out that when we had moved tables to get the cases in position, the electricians had laid cables to wherever they found the tables. Laugh. We move the tables back into position and finish the monitor layout. Empty cases need to go back to the Ops room for storage. The trip back is interesting and a challenge. Once the cases get going, it not so bad. The steering sucks - and you really only offer them suggestions on where they should go. I manage to get mine back without crushing anyone or colliding with a speeding forklift. Those dudes haul. Time has flown and its lunch time. Off to Chevy's. We talk about our kids, and Peter the lone single guy at our table end probably wished he was at the other end. Back to work. Registration is next. More lifting and running around. I assume the gopher role and get cokes and longer ethernet cables and ask Dale where to store the cases. I almost take down the temporary walls trying to get the cases throught the door. By the looks I got, the two fellows balancing precariously while they tried to get the signage up really appreciated my tender touch. Or maybe it was my colorful and inventive exclamations. Storage of cases completed, and registration declared complete by Kevin, and I'm off to see what Steve has next. There's some downtime, so I'm off to snap pictures. After a bit a guard stops me and informs me that I need a permit. I'm tired and don't feel like arguing, so I put the camera away and head up to the South Lobby to help with the systems there. We're limited on what we can do - there's no network and no holes drilled in the tables to drop the power. For fun we try to see if we can cram a case into the elevator, but no dice. We contemplate the escalator, but finally agree that would probably be a bad idea. The day is over. I tell my friends goodbye - they're moved in for the week and will spend the majority of their time living in the depths of Moscone until next Friday. Sleep will be scarce. Me - I'm off to BART and a long ride home.

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Published: (2005-06-24 05:00:00.0)