aKademy 2006 - Day 2
Posted by George Wright Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:22:00 GMT
Day 2 of aKademy - the first day where no talks were scheduled. The joy of getting up at 10 instead of 8! The eV meeting happened today, but I didn’t attend as I’m not a member. Spent most of the time in the hacking room fiddling with Debian Sarge - on which I managed to get wifi to work. Thankfully it’s a fairly normal ACX100 chipset which appears to work quite well. Being able to remotely fiddle using ssh is a lot easier than trying to type on the keyboard that’s built in.
In the evening was the Google reception at Google Ireland. It was actually quite fun. On the way I talked to Rob Taylor who shares my weird obsessions with installing Linux on embedded things, and was very interested in the hardware on my phone (it’s an HTC Universal). I’ll probably be seeing more of him in the future as he’s based up in Cambridge (along with Rob McQueen and the rest of the Cambridge Debian/Ubuntu massive). Win.
The Google reception was rather fun. They had nice little sandwiches and various snacks to eat, but the major fun was obviously the large ice cream freezer they had full of snack size Ben & Jerry’s tubs. Hooray for ice cream when you have a sore throat! They held a raffle to give away an iPod, a laptop bag and a hoodie, none of which I won. I also heard amusing stories all evening about various members of staff at my future College from Rob McQueen.
Afterwards, we (mainly GB people with a few other KDE people tagging along) ended up in a fairly small and random pub. The highlight of the evening was obviously when one of us (no names..) got completely and utterly drunk. We have video evidence. Note: if you can’t sing, please don’t. It’s embarrassing, but you will realise this when you see our videos. :)
After the pub, we decided to eat and ended up at a fast food pizza place somewhere in Dublin. I had a milkshake which required you to suck your eyeballs out of their sockets in order to try and get it up the straw - yes, it was that thick. Afterwards, there was much amusement at the hostel as Chris Howells and I discovered that our room had been double booked and that some fairly random strangers were sleeping in our beds and that our magnetic swipe card keys no longer worked. We were angry. Luckily they managed to give us new beds so it wasn’t a problem, just a fairly large inconvenience at 2am.
