Impressions of a CeBIT morning
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Hi CPians, my boss gave me one of the free CeBIT tickets we got from another company. But as we just rolled out a hotfix of a critical software, I agreed to visit the fairground only half a day. Only four hours for the world's larges IT fair ... What should I see first? Of course I went to hall 9 first, where the Fraunhofer Institute shows things that may become big in a few years. The newest of the newest. Well, as I was walking through the future ;) I found a small demo screen with a small guy standing in front of it and a panel saying "Digital Watermarking" above it. Let's hear what the real professionals already can do to sounds and images ... You probably know what happened. The watermarking guy and me chattet about steganography for almost 40 minutes. First hour gone. :sigh: Then I passed by the passport printing authority. They demonstrated fingerprint scanners and the new "biometric passports". A man in the booth seemed to be bored, so I asked him what benefit in security he expects from those fingerprints on a chip in my pass. After a while he ran out of arguments and said that they only have to produce biometric passes, because the government made a law about it, because the EU would have punished them otherwise, because the EU made a directive about biometric passes, because ... because ... damn it, the swiss found a cheaper solution, but the german goverment didn't copy it for whatever a reason, so they have to follow that new law and produce those new biometric passports. I smiled and went away. The rest of my second hour I walked through the "public sector parc" and the "linux parc". Then I visited a lecture about that passport stuff in the convention center which was a waste of time, except from the point that I have to get a new passport before summer to get away a last time without scanning my fingers. At noon I reached Heise. The Heise booth is always (every year it's the same) full of people gathering on a much too small space in front of a presentation screen. It was crowded and the air was bad as usual. A show ended, but nobody left his/her seat. There was no free seat (of course), so I sat down on the floor (next to a really cute guy). In a few minutes Mr Knopper would be there and demonstrate his new Knoppix Live DVD. Knopper himself - the booth got really crowded now
Corinna John wrote:
I'm a shy little geek who doesn't know how to approach nice men
He might have been the same. He was possibly sitting there thinking "I'm a shy little geek who doesn't know how to approach nice women". (Well, anyway, that's how I think sometimes)
Corinna John wrote:
Have you also been there?
No. But, I'd love to go to CeBIT sometime.
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Hi CPians, my boss gave me one of the free CeBIT tickets we got from another company. But as we just rolled out a hotfix of a critical software, I agreed to visit the fairground only half a day. Only four hours for the world's larges IT fair ... What should I see first? Of course I went to hall 9 first, where the Fraunhofer Institute shows things that may become big in a few years. The newest of the newest. Well, as I was walking through the future ;) I found a small demo screen with a small guy standing in front of it and a panel saying "Digital Watermarking" above it. Let's hear what the real professionals already can do to sounds and images ... You probably know what happened. The watermarking guy and me chattet about steganography for almost 40 minutes. First hour gone. :sigh: Then I passed by the passport printing authority. They demonstrated fingerprint scanners and the new "biometric passports". A man in the booth seemed to be bored, so I asked him what benefit in security he expects from those fingerprints on a chip in my pass. After a while he ran out of arguments and said that they only have to produce biometric passes, because the government made a law about it, because the EU would have punished them otherwise, because the EU made a directive about biometric passes, because ... because ... damn it, the swiss found a cheaper solution, but the german goverment didn't copy it for whatever a reason, so they have to follow that new law and produce those new biometric passports. I smiled and went away. The rest of my second hour I walked through the "public sector parc" and the "linux parc". Then I visited a lecture about that passport stuff in the convention center which was a waste of time, except from the point that I have to get a new passport before summer to get away a last time without scanning my fingers. At noon I reached Heise. The Heise booth is always (every year it's the same) full of people gathering on a much too small space in front of a presentation screen. It was crowded and the air was bad as usual. A show ended, but nobody left his/her seat. There was no free seat (of course), so I sat down on the floor (next to a really cute guy). In a few minutes Mr Knopper would be there and demonstrate his new Knoppix Live DVD. Knopper himself - the booth got really crowded now
Nice to hear back from you - I already wondered if you've left for better. I'm a shy little geek who doesn't know how to approach nice men (damn it, why don't I have any business card to hide in his backpack when he's distracted?) He probably thought the same... or that you are with the really cute guy next to you ;) It's appaling that the passport guy himself is visibly unconvinced of his product. I'd be ashamed to stand at the booth this way.
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Corinna John wrote:
I'm a shy little geek who doesn't know how to approach nice men
Corinna John wrote:
... he had a wonderful smile (whenever Knopper made fun about Windows)
Corinna John wrote:
install Beryl on my SUSE an I'll be happy!
Select one from the following choices:
- "Haha, yeah Windows sucks huh?"
- "Hey, Knopper even looks like a penguin!"
- "Soooo, which version of Linux do you use?"
- "I think I might try that Beryl desktop on my Suse machine - it looks pretty nice."
- Any random comment plucked from thin air to get the guy to look at possibly the only female in the room.
Why be shy? After all, it's just a conversation and if you really do say something awkward, you'll probably never see the guy again anyway... Having said that, I hope he reads your post. :rose:
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Miszou wrote:
I think I might try that Beryl desktop on my Suse machine
That would have been a good comment. Why didn't I think of it? Maybe the responsible part of my brain was already searching the web for Beryl installation instructions.
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Nice to hear back from you - I already wondered if you've left for better. I'm a shy little geek who doesn't know how to approach nice men (damn it, why don't I have any business card to hide in his backpack when he's distracted?) He probably thought the same... or that you are with the really cute guy next to you ;) It's appaling that the passport guy himself is visibly unconvinced of his product. I'd be ashamed to stand at the booth this way.
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Linkify!|Fold With Us!peterchen wrote:
It's appaling that the passport guy himself is visibly unconvinced of his product
He started the conversation with something like "Ich bin ja nur Bundesdrucker, kein Biometrie-Experte, aber..." which means as much as "I don't have a clue about biometry, but I know how to use these little scanners here". I assume he is happy that the fair is over.
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peterchen wrote:
It's appaling that the passport guy himself is visibly unconvinced of his product
He started the conversation with something like "Ich bin ja nur Bundesdrucker, kein Biometrie-Experte, aber..." which means as much as "I don't have a clue about biometry, but I know how to use these little scanners here". I assume he is happy that the fair is over.
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Poor guy.. he probably picked the short staw. At the booth I used the "I have no idea of loudspeakers, I am just the software guy" excuse myself - but I try to show that I am convinced of our product. If I weren't, I'd really try to evade that.
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Hi CPians, my boss gave me one of the free CeBIT tickets we got from another company. But as we just rolled out a hotfix of a critical software, I agreed to visit the fairground only half a day. Only four hours for the world's larges IT fair ... What should I see first? Of course I went to hall 9 first, where the Fraunhofer Institute shows things that may become big in a few years. The newest of the newest. Well, as I was walking through the future ;) I found a small demo screen with a small guy standing in front of it and a panel saying "Digital Watermarking" above it. Let's hear what the real professionals already can do to sounds and images ... You probably know what happened. The watermarking guy and me chattet about steganography for almost 40 minutes. First hour gone. :sigh: Then I passed by the passport printing authority. They demonstrated fingerprint scanners and the new "biometric passports". A man in the booth seemed to be bored, so I asked him what benefit in security he expects from those fingerprints on a chip in my pass. After a while he ran out of arguments and said that they only have to produce biometric passes, because the government made a law about it, because the EU would have punished them otherwise, because the EU made a directive about biometric passes, because ... because ... damn it, the swiss found a cheaper solution, but the german goverment didn't copy it for whatever a reason, so they have to follow that new law and produce those new biometric passports. I smiled and went away. The rest of my second hour I walked through the "public sector parc" and the "linux parc". Then I visited a lecture about that passport stuff in the convention center which was a waste of time, except from the point that I have to get a new passport before summer to get away a last time without scanning my fingers. At noon I reached Heise. The Heise booth is always (every year it's the same) full of people gathering on a much too small space in front of a presentation screen. It was crowded and the air was bad as usual. A show ended, but nobody left his/her seat. There was no free seat (of course), so I sat down on the floor (next to a really cute guy). In a few minutes Mr Knopper would be there and demonstrate his new Knoppix Live DVD. Knopper himself - the booth got really crowded now
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Hi CPians, my boss gave me one of the free CeBIT tickets we got from another company. But as we just rolled out a hotfix of a critical software, I agreed to visit the fairground only half a day. Only four hours for the world's larges IT fair ... What should I see first? Of course I went to hall 9 first, where the Fraunhofer Institute shows things that may become big in a few years. The newest of the newest. Well, as I was walking through the future ;) I found a small demo screen with a small guy standing in front of it and a panel saying "Digital Watermarking" above it. Let's hear what the real professionals already can do to sounds and images ... You probably know what happened. The watermarking guy and me chattet about steganography for almost 40 minutes. First hour gone. :sigh: Then I passed by the passport printing authority. They demonstrated fingerprint scanners and the new "biometric passports". A man in the booth seemed to be bored, so I asked him what benefit in security he expects from those fingerprints on a chip in my pass. After a while he ran out of arguments and said that they only have to produce biometric passes, because the government made a law about it, because the EU would have punished them otherwise, because the EU made a directive about biometric passes, because ... because ... damn it, the swiss found a cheaper solution, but the german goverment didn't copy it for whatever a reason, so they have to follow that new law and produce those new biometric passports. I smiled and went away. The rest of my second hour I walked through the "public sector parc" and the "linux parc". Then I visited a lecture about that passport stuff in the convention center which was a waste of time, except from the point that I have to get a new passport before summer to get away a last time without scanning my fingers. At noon I reached Heise. The Heise booth is always (every year it's the same) full of people gathering on a much too small space in front of a presentation screen. It was crowded and the air was bad as usual. A show ended, but nobody left his/her seat. There was no free seat (of course), so I sat down on the floor (next to a really cute guy). In a few minutes Mr Knopper would be there and demonstrate his new Knoppix Live DVD. Knopper himself - the booth got really crowded now
Glad to see you're still here, Coco - I thought you'd left for greener pastures. I admit this is a bit naughty, but will you figure in this year's Hostess the Mess? :-D :-O
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Miszou wrote:
I think I might try that Beryl desktop on my Suse machine
That would have been a good comment. Why didn't I think of it? Maybe the responsible part of my brain was already searching the web for Beryl installation instructions.
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Poor guy.. he probably picked the short staw. At the booth I used the "I have no idea of loudspeakers, I am just the software guy" excuse myself - but I try to show that I am convinced of our product. If I weren't, I'd really try to evade that.
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Linkify!|Fold With Us!That's because you actually are convinced. :D
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Miszou wrote:
I think I might try that Beryl desktop on my Suse machine
That would have been a good comment. Why didn't I think of it? Maybe the responsible part of my brain was already searching the web for Beryl installation instructions.
____________________________________ There is no proof for this sentence.
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Hi CPians, my boss gave me one of the free CeBIT tickets we got from another company. But as we just rolled out a hotfix of a critical software, I agreed to visit the fairground only half a day. Only four hours for the world's larges IT fair ... What should I see first? Of course I went to hall 9 first, where the Fraunhofer Institute shows things that may become big in a few years. The newest of the newest. Well, as I was walking through the future ;) I found a small demo screen with a small guy standing in front of it and a panel saying "Digital Watermarking" above it. Let's hear what the real professionals already can do to sounds and images ... You probably know what happened. The watermarking guy and me chattet about steganography for almost 40 minutes. First hour gone. :sigh: Then I passed by the passport printing authority. They demonstrated fingerprint scanners and the new "biometric passports". A man in the booth seemed to be bored, so I asked him what benefit in security he expects from those fingerprints on a chip in my pass. After a while he ran out of arguments and said that they only have to produce biometric passes, because the government made a law about it, because the EU would have punished them otherwise, because the EU made a directive about biometric passes, because ... because ... damn it, the swiss found a cheaper solution, but the german goverment didn't copy it for whatever a reason, so they have to follow that new law and produce those new biometric passports. I smiled and went away. The rest of my second hour I walked through the "public sector parc" and the "linux parc". Then I visited a lecture about that passport stuff in the convention center which was a waste of time, except from the point that I have to get a new passport before summer to get away a last time without scanning my fingers. At noon I reached Heise. The Heise booth is always (every year it's the same) full of people gathering on a much too small space in front of a presentation screen. It was crowded and the air was bad as usual. A show ended, but nobody left his/her seat. There was no free seat (of course), so I sat down on the floor (next to a really cute guy). In a few minutes Mr Knopper would be there and demonstrate his new Knoppix Live DVD. Knopper himself - the booth got really crowded now
Corinna John wrote:
I'm a shy little geek who doesn't know how to approach nice men
I can help you, little girl. (evil grin).
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Corinna John wrote:
I'm a shy little geek who doesn't know how to approach nice men
I can help you, little girl. (evil grin).
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I can help you, little girl.
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