Chris is currently on stage here at Gnomedex. So far so good. The suspicion is that the WiFi won’t last long – there are fifteen or so laptops just on the row where I’m sitting. Plenty of power, but I think the WiFi might just be overloaded, as things are a bit funky. My wife is on one side, Nick on the other. So far not much to report, but I’ll update this as the conference moves along.
9:15 (12:15 Eastern)
A massive overload of IP addresses appears to have short-circuited the WiFi. I’m currently online (or appear to be), but I have no idea how long it will last. Dave Winer is currently on stage, and the problem is “being worked on”. We’ll see how that goes!
9:30 (12:30 Eastern)
The IP address shortage has been fixed, but now we have a problem with DNS services, which may now be fixed as well. Always an adventure!
10:15 (1:15 Eastern)
Dave is about done, but before he is, 300-odd geeks are singing the lyrics to “Yellow Submarine”. It’s actually quite frightening.
Update: The WiFi never really did work quite right yesterday. Today is good so far, and I’ve heard tell that there are now two T1s. But that capacity seems pretty small for this group, even if the crowd is only about 2/3rds of the size of yesterday. We’ll see how it goes.