Norbert Tretkowski - Events

MySQL Customer Conference 2008

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:14:20 +0200

Yesterday I visited the MySQL Customer Conference in Munich, as I did last year. The agenda was quite similar to last year's agenda, but I was really surprised how much Sun hardware and software products were integrated (forced?) into most of the not so technical talks.

All in all the conference was okay, but not as good as last year.

MySQL Customer Conference 2007

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:59:06 +0200

Yesterday I visited the MySQL Customer Conference in Munich. First of all, GDL sucks. But the locomotive driver strike was the only negative issue on that day, the conference itself was quite good, especially Jan Kneschke's talk about MySQL performance tuning (which was mostly about combining MySQL Cluster and MySQL Proxy) and the panel discussion about storage engines with Ralf Gebhardt, Jan Kneschke and Kai Voigt as vocal and Kaj Arnö as moderator. All in all a great (but quite long and exhausting) day.

Photos from last weekend uploaded

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:47:00 +0200

I came back from the Debian Bug Squashing Party in Jülich yesterday late in the evening, and during last night I uploaded the photos I took there. Thanks a lot to Credativ for sponsoring this event!

Arrived in Juelich

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:48:00 +0200

I just arrived in Jülich at Credativ, where a Debian Bug Squashing Party is taking place, after 500 km on the autobahn. I already got two pieces of pizza and a Coke light. Yay.

Remaining photos uploaded

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Mon, 29 May 2006 23:32:00 +0200

As promised before, I uploaded the medium and high quality photos from DebCamp, DebConf, the daytrips to Teotihuacan and Xochicalco, and LUG Camp into my gallery. Have fun.

Update: Unfortunately I forgot to adjust the date on my digicam from CDT back to CET, so the time in the exif tags from the photos I made at LUG Camp was 7 hours behind. This problem can be fixed using the -ta option of jhead, thanks Colin for the hint.

Back at home

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Sun, 28 May 2006 18:37:00 +0200

I just arrived back at home. This years LUG Camp was again a great event. Thanks to the LUG Allgaeu for organizing it.

First photos from LUG Camp uploaded

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Sat, 27 May 2006 20:13:00 +0200

I just uploaded the first photos of this years LUG Camp in Ofterschwang. Because of the very limited internet connection, I only uploaded the low quality photos, medium and high quality photos follow next week, when I'm back in the office.

Arrived in Ofterschwang

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:02:00 +0200

Last night at about 04:00 we arrived in Ofterschwang at this years Linux User-Group Camp. There's no real internet connection here (there is, but it's way too slow for more than 100 people), so working isn't really possible. But we have lots of beer, so that's not a real problem... :-)

Worst jet lag ever

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Wed, 24 May 2006 08:38:00 +0200

When I came back from DebConf6 on Monday, I went to bed at about 22:00 in the evening. I couldn't really sleep in the plane, so I stand up 18 hours later, Tuesday at 16:00 in the afternoon. Today I woke up at 07:00 in the morning and couldn't sleep any longer, after I went to bed at 04:00 in the night. Guess what... I feel tired. Looks like I'm getting old, this is the worst jet lag I ever had.

Back at home

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Mon, 22 May 2006 21:16:00 +0200

I just arrived back at home. Now I need a shower, and sleep, sleep, sleep.

Leaving DebConf6

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Sun, 21 May 2006 18:14:00 +0200

This is my last day at DebConf6, I'm going to leave Oaxtepec by bus together with Andreas Barth and Peter De Schrijver in about three hours. It was a great event in a great country, I think we all had a lot of fun. Thanks to all who made it possible.

See you at DebConf7, wherever it may take place...

Daytrip to Xochicalco

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:14:00 +0200

Yet another daytrip yesterday, this time to Xochicalco, again with several pyramids, altars and a museum. Afterwards we went to dinner (quite late), and visited the market in a city which name I forgot (mail me if you know it). And of course, I made some photos again.

Daytrip to Teotihuacan

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Wed, 10 May 2006 05:28:00 +0200

Today a small group of Debian developers (including me) went out for a daytrip to Teotihuacan, the city of the gods. There are two Pyramides, the Pyramid of the Sun, and the Pyramid of the Moon. It was really nice, we had a lot of fun, and I took a lot of photos of the Pyramids, the Street of the Dead, and geeky Debian developers. Thanks again to agi for organizing this great trip.

First photos from DebConf6 uploaded

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Tue, 09 May 2006 03:15:00 +0200

We finally have a working internet connection, hence I just uploaded the first photos I've taken to my gallery. I'm continue to upload the latest photos from time to time, and I'm not going to upload the high quality photos right now, because our connections isn't that fast, but they'll follow when I'm back at home.

Arrived at DebConf6

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Sun, 07 May 2006 20:15:00 +0200

We arrived here in Oaxtepec yesterday in the evening. All in all, I was 24 hours on the way. I met with some guys from Finland in Amsterdam, so it wasn't that boring waiting for the plane to Mexico City. From the airport in Mexico City we took a taxi to Oaxtepec. We ate something, and I learned an important lesson... if a mexican guy tells you something is spicy, it is spicy. After dinner, I went to bed.

This morning, we did some infrastructure work (setting up network cables between the locations). Now we're sitting here in the hacklab, and waiting for internet. We have a local wireless network, but no upstream yet. And thanks to Ganneff I can't make photos currently, because he required my batteries for his radio.