Greetings from San Francisco. Rather than taking a Linux Cruise this year, I’ve decided to attend LinuxWorld for the first time. In past years, this conference was absolutely huge — today it is much more realistic in size and hype. The conference got underway this morning, but was preceeded by some labs and tutorials yesterday. So I took advantage of that opportunity to attend a Samba class in preparation for Samba 3.0 being released. It was very interesting. Jerry Carter, who has perhaps one of the better jobs in the world, lead the tutorial and instruction. He’s a fellow who really knows how to work in front of an audience and never needs to be reminded to repeat the question.

I’m sitting in the first keynote speach, featuring HP. He’s doing quite a job of touting HP’s capabilities. Several other folks will have the opportunity to do the same for their companies and products during the week. I’ll attend most of those just to see what they think is happening in the Linux world.

For my part, I’m interested in the ability to deploy some fabulous functionality at a very low cost. I really want to significantly upgrade my home capability (perhaps the connection as well as the wireless broadband has become more and more flakey) and put in a good Family History application (which I’ll also need to build). This will require some additional computers and building at least one rack to house the systems. Having the computers underneath the desk has worked, but heat is a problem. I’ve put a fan under the desk to move air around and keep the boxes cooler than they were before. Getting the systems out from under the desk and into the open air will help with the cooling significantly. I still may need a fan, however. It has been very hot in Colorado Springs the past several days and I’m sure the processors suffered as a result.

Finally, I’ve got to find the time to do all of this. I’ve just gotten a new Church calling which will take a huge amount of time. I don’t want to give up the Temple, but I may need to reduce my committment up there. Where does all the time go? Meanwhile, I’m enjoying the conference and not having to worry about time, at least for right now….