Dale and I will once again have a booth at SCALE! We plan to demo a fully working multi-system setup (LinHES). We'll also be handing out CDs of the latest release. If you are in the southern California area, please stop by and say hello. If you'd like to help out, please drop me a line.

In addition to the booth, I'll be leading a seminar on build a entertainment setup. http://socallinuxexpo.com/scale5x/events/bof.php

Hi,

Are you going to record it or stream it for those of us "shut in's"

Mike

I like that idea, as California is a long way from Brisvegas

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Sorry, we won't be recording or streaming. In the past few years, our booth has gotten a lot of activity at times, more than most commercial booths. As Dale and I will be the only ones at the booth, we wouldn't have time to ensure a proper recording or stream. In addition, the bandwidth is shared and I've no idea if the SCALE would allow us to setup a streaming server.

Hi,

Well, it was a thought however can understand things would may be a bit busy. A little ironic that you will be enlighting the folks on a top class PVR and it's recording / playback features...... Motion for a few snapshots?

Maybe one of the attendees will capture the seminar and share. Hope you don't mind if we keep open the idea anyway.

Wishing you guys much success .
Mike

SCALE is this weekend! Dale and I will be demo'n KnoppMyth and handing out a SCALE edition of KnoppMyth. The SCALE edition is an updated release. A few weeks after SCALE, we hope to make a more general release with a few more fixes and goodies.

If you can somehow arrange to get your presentation recorded, I'd be gigavox.com (the IT Converstaions, Open Source Conversations people) would probably host and serve it. I believe the also do the post production/editing.

This kind of seminar certainly seems to be in line with their other offerings.

Well, Dale and I got the booth setup. It took forever for them to get power to us. They when they did, it blow up a power strip/surge protector that we had. Fortunately, none of our equipment was damaged. Then it took forever and a dale for them to fix things... Tomorrow, the real show begins!

"Forever and a dale" what the h..l is that?

Nice combination of a spoonerism (meant to be 'Forever and a day') and a Fruedian slip!

(changing to your name could convey that they were so incompetant that you had to help them out, Dale?)

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Hi,

That was how I took it also, sometimes folks need a little senior guidence to get things right, never mind the extra time

Mike

Folks as you will see, I am not a photographer. The pictures that I took at SCALE are available for viewing at http://www.rdt1.org/SCALE.5x/ (15, 21 and 22 might be viewable). In 21 you see 2 19" LCD's in the foreground on the front table, with a pcHDTV 5500 box in the center (complements of pcHDTV.com) that was given away in a raffle. In the background is the "big screen" and the Dragon 2.0 (thanks to StormLogic at mythic.tv/) blue LED just visible on the left. Above is the KnoppMyth logo poster (40" x 30"). Sorry about how poor they turned out.
In my opinion, they are very bad.

rdt's < $.02 worth summary of SCALE.5x

This year the KnoppMyth team was assigned booth number 4 on the front row between booth 2&3 assigned to Dell and booth 5&6 assigned to IBM. This is probably because the team has been known in the past (as some SCALE staff told me) to provide "cool demonstrations". Thanks to the organization of the SCALE team and staff, this year was "bigger and better" than ever.

The KnoppMyth team showed off the Dragon 2.0 from StormLogic at http://mythic.tv/ displaying HDTV content on cesman's 37" wide screen tv in the back with two systems in the front being used as frontends displaying on 19" LCD monitors. On the left was a generic PC booted from the CD and on the right a small fanless VIA mb system from LogicSupply booted off an internal flash disk. At times cesman showed the Dragon streaming media to his N800 wirelessly. A very "cool demonstration" indeed.

On Saturday evening, cesman gave a "Birds of a Feather" presentation that included an installation onto a system. This gathering was more than filled to capacity as some were standing in the back and some were sitting on the floor. Many responded afterward that "it was the best of the show".

On Sunday cesman raffled off a pcHDTV-5500 tuner card provided by the kind folks at http://www.pchdtv.com. This was a popular part of "our" presence as a request for a raffle ticket was prevalent.

The team gave away nearly 300 CD's of the very latest (a SCALE 5x edition, thanks to the effort of cesman, the developers, and the testers) of the KnoppMyth software. This is in contrast to some other organizations that a) gave out the previous version 6.06 (as 6.10 is current) or b) required a "donation" to receive a CD. Some of the "other" distro folks present were Freespire (giving out CD's), Redhat, fedora (yes they were separate) Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Ulteo, Haiku, ReactOS, FreeBSD, & NetBSD. Some were not providing CD's, one would burn a copy for a fee, etc. Many of these folks are considered to be "bigger than our team".

One interesting (at least to me) note was that the KDE & Gnome booths were right across the aisle from each other.

There were seventy booths this year, but KnoppMyth was, in my opinion, the best and the "coolest".
Thanks to all those here who help out.

Hi,

Thank you for the photos and summary! It may not be as good as being there but appreciated by this "have to stay home" Only thing missing from the summary was to do an install to one of your neighbors machines, just for show & tell of course..

Will the Scale5x version of KM be available for those unable to attend?

Glad it was a success
Mike