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Re: KFest 2006 report
Day Four! And it was a busy one!
Breakfast was standard fare.
Ryan Suenaga gave a presentation where he gave a brief history of
podcasting, then announced that he planned to start one called
"A2unplugged", which would focus specifically on Apple II's. This
should be interesting!
Eric Shepherd gave a session on Intel Mac tips and tricks where he
demonstrated Sheepshaver, a method of running Classic on the Intel Mac,
Parallels, which will run about every x86 OS out there as a window on
Mac OS X, and Boot Camp, which allows Winblows XP to run on a partition
on an Intel Mac. He also demoed some fun things like MacSabre, and
other fun programs.
Lunch was...hmm... I forget.
Sean Fahey demonstrated the SVD, a device that makes it easier to save
images to a PC, but allow you to use them on an Apple. See:
http://thesvd.com
Austin Phelps gave an interesting session on how to build a RAID array,
with a short lesson on the differerent types, and their advantages and
disadvantages. He shared how he built his 1.2 TB array. Sweet! (and
I didn't fall asleep!)
Margaret Anderson did a session on IF adventure games. I remember
those fondly. She provided lots of sources for new and old adventures.
Andy Malloy demonstrated Skype. Very tempting, seeing how it's free
until Dec... I'll have to give it a try!
The dinner wasn't a banquet like it had been in years past. Somewhat
confusing, but this allowed us to hurry to the Roast of the Roasts
where Ken Gagne did a great job as MC, and allowed him to dig into tha
archives and find embarrassing photo's and videos of Apple II folks.
It was a hoot!
Jeri set up a Playstation where we competed at singing Karoke. We have
some fine voices in our crowd. I shocked folks by kicking some butt
singing "Sweet Home Alabama". B-{)
All that made us hungry, so about 16 of us decided to go to IHOP. 14
of us arrived. Neglect lost us the company of two fine folk. They
found their way back to the dorm. IHOP was so frigging slow getting us
seated that we went to Denny's instead. No problems with seating at
all, and we got our food fast. So, since I've already had breakfast, I
intend to sleep in tomorrow. B-{)
I condensed this report pretty drastically. Like I forgot to mention
that we had a cloudburst in the morning that only the couragious braved
to get to breakfast, or that the temperature was wonderful, and that it
was a grinfest from dawn to nearly dawn... You folks just have to
experience this! B-{)
Kirk