tech•ed backstage

Have you been to tech•ed in years past? Have you seen the array of colours used for cables in CommNet areas, Recharge Bars, around the Exposition Halls and inside the Session Rooms? You’ve thought either the person laying all those cables is colour blind or needs some serious tips from House & Garden on matching seasonal [...]

Tomorrow is my first day on site at the venue (I don’t get to leave again until the 11th of September). I was supposed to be down there today but some lingering issues with the 2140 imaging procedures and timings delayed my trip to the convention centre by a day. David Haysom sent me an [...]

Nearly every IP network you use allocates IP addresses to clients via DHCP. There is a lot you can do with DHCP and it is a fairly well thought out and extensible successor to BOOTP.
This post briefly explores the sorts of issues we have with DHCP on a large scale temporary network, and the sorts [...]

I’ve not forgotten to post – I’ve just been busy undebacling a debacle.
Everyone loves fast Internets. Providing really fast Internets at tech•ed this year has provide to be a complete pain in the proverbial.

[ The following performance analysis was submitted to tech•ed backstage by Arpan Gupta and the RRAS team. They own the RRAS/ipnat.sys components of Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2. Given that we're using it for address translation at tech•ed 2009, it is rather handy having them on board. We challenged the RRAS team to validate [...]

I can’t believe we are just 4 weeks today from the first step we will take onsite at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre. I know this because its Friday night as I write this, my first backstage blog entry after some mind bending few day working on event technology runsheets.This is a great [...]