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Ok, so I am working a new shift at work. Here’s the plan, the series will be changing to a single group ride, once a week. The ride will start from the Muny on Thursday’s at 6PM. It will be about 1.5 to 2 hours long. So be there!

Last day of the summit, time for the final sessions and a bit of r&r before my flight tomorrow. Last night I went to the big party at the aerospace museum in Balboa Park. That place is a hoot, tons of airplanes and etc packed into a small area. Not to mention all the creepy mannequins flying them and standing around the displays. Here’s what I did today:

• Performance Analysis and System Tuning of RHEL5
• Performance Tuning Java and JBoss on RHEL
• Open Source Security Updates; Why it’s different and what you should know

Another pleasant day in San Diego, sunny, slightly warm but not baking hot. The day started off again with keynotes. I posted on musicsucks about emusic’s CEO speaking. I also posted some photos the St. Vincent and John Vanderslice show last night. Here are the seminars I attended today:

• Intro to JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Redhat Application Stack
• The Ext4 Filesystem: A next generation filesystem for linux
• Program Performance Analysis and Tuning with AMD CodeAnalyst (CodeAnalyst is pretty slick, helps if you have an new AMD proc and running an RPM based distro)
• Open Document Formats (generally a non-technical perspective)
• Security in a Networked World (mostly about SSO and identity management)

To the right you’ll see the Redhat branded water, or as I like to call it “Redhat tainted water”. It’s something like the MySQL kool-aid. Craig? …

I also got a quick second to checkout the OLPC it’s surprisingly small and toy-like, but seems real sturdy. I couldn’t check out the OS, the battery was dead.

Tomorrow is the last day. It is slightly shortened so I hope to check out more of San Diego, specifically Balboa Park.

I am currently in San Diego For the Redhat Summit. So far so good, the keynote from the CTO, Brian Stevens, was interesting. He talked about the One Child Per Laptop project and Redhat’s role. The other key notes where from AMD and the Open Voting Consortium. I have also been to some interesting seminars:

• General Public License v3
• Best Practices Using Xen Visualization with RHEL 5
• Diagnosing and Troubleshooting Problems with RHEL and Xen
• Intellectual Property, Open Source and Available Protections
• RHEL 5, Yum and You

Tomorrow I am looking forward to a keynote from the CEO of emusic.com (from which I buy music from all the time) and seminars on topics like the ext4 filesystem. Should be cool.