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BrainShare Barcelona – day 2 – Tuesday 13th September

A busy day. I will post photos later today!

Sunrise:

Sunrise

Up early for a final run through of the keynote. All went well – I co-presented with Alan Murray; we covered ZENworks 7, ZENworks 7 Linux Management and ZENworks 7 Asset Management. Everything worked well – and we were exactly within our time allocation.

Keynote
Keynote
Keynote
Keynote

More sessions this afternoon – TUT 217 – ZENworks Architecture overview and future, TUT 223 – Managing NLD with ZLM and finally TUT 317 – ZENworks Linux Management best practices.

(Session download information: User name: cb_novell, Password: n0ve11)

BrainShare Barcelona – day 1 – Monday 12th September

Day 1 of BrainShare – and it feels like day 5 already!

I arrived in Barcelona on Friday and spent the whole of Saturday training our EMEA Category Specialists and Consultants. That was fun. It was great to see some familiar faces again.

Today I was building the keynote demo for the Tuesday keynote – all of the usual fun.

I also presented my first session of the week – TUT 315 – ZENworks Patch Management best practices.

(Session download information: User name: cb_novell, Password: n0ve11)

I finally finished the evening rehearsing the keynote – late night again. I missed the ZENworks Community of Practice dinner – which was sad.

Building a keynote demo – revisited

I blogged from BrainShare in SLC about building a keynote demo.

The keynote we build for BrainShare in March was based on pre-release code; an early beta of ZENworks 7 Linux Management and a hastily rebranded early look at ZENworks Asset Management.

Things are a lot easier this time – we now have shipping product to demo with – and I am using the fantastic integrated demo system from Doc Hodges. I’ve got a few good workstations and VMware images.

Power

I’ll take some more screen shots and share them online.

Barcelona #2 – at the airport

Ah – it’s fun being back in Spain – the culture is unique.

One example was from yesterday at the airport.

The baggage carousel became jammed with a badly positioned bag, and caused a huge pile of spilled bags and cases. Imagine a pile of jumbled checked baggage about ten feet high and forty feet long. No one came to clear the blockage – so passengers had to fight for their own:



Barcelona

I arrived in Barcelona today after spending a productive day in London visiting customers.

BrainShare is being held in a different venue this year – the brand new CCIB out on the east side of the city. Here‘s a google satellite picture of the place under construction.

The weekend will be spent with training Novell people and preparing for the week. I will post pictures and more.

Firefox vs. IE again

Fun and games again. I found another example where Microsoft is seemingly deliberately blocking the use of non-IE browsers; and this time with no ActiveX fun:

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IE
IE

This makes no sense – even the MSDN subscription download site works with non-IE browsers (even the menuing is fixed in Deer Park)