Thanks! But we were kind of slashdotted :-)

Intro

Well guys you really made my day -- poor old Duron 800/512M with some 3 dozens of sites and 300 gigs of free software on FTP was literally crawling until I've limited this vhost to 1 conn/IP. And figuring it out has taken some of my lame time, too. :-]

Okay, nevermind that -- hope that those who managed to get the contents yesterday enjoyed the situation. :-)

Facts

This is old news: the event happened on October 9, 2004. Microsoft rep in Ukraine had to use free software to get on with a presentation on a free software conference since his munition failed to cooperate with projector. See below (also posted to the places I could track down).

Resources

Please refer these images if you need and not original gallery -- these are hosted on 4-way Xeon, SCSI RAID and faster pipe, not on overloaded all-in-one server:

http://paq.osdn.org.ua/~mike/img/MS-uses-OOo/IMG_0395.sized.jpg (IMG_0404 was a miss)

http://paq.osdn.org.ua/~mike/img/MS-uses-OOo/IMG_0405.sized.jpg
http://paq.osdn.org.ua/~mike/img/MS-uses-OOo/hpim2544.sized.jpg

Full size versions in the same dir.

Yes, most of the gallery comments are in Russian; here's online-translator.com's translation of 0395's comments.

To get back to the gallery: follow this or that link. Keep in mind it's 2Mbps 0:00--4:00 GMT, 128Kbps most of the time, 1 connection per IP.

2 site admins who link to the pages: please fix the link to ...IMG_0404 to one of these , that one is completely unrelated and people mostly hit that URL and not the relevant images. It's around the ratio of 100:1. heh... shuffled the stuff around myself, mod_rewrite is handy as usual.

Facts (below)

As for the facts:

• it was not Master but ALT Linux Compact 2.3 (page|ISO|ML)
• it was Third Ukrainian Free Software Developers' and Users' Conference
• it was sponsored by IBM, Novell and EMT (yeah, I work for ...us; another funny thing is that Microsoft proposed to sponsor the conference too but we decided to politely decline the generous offer)
• it is the head of Microsoft Ukraine, Mr. Valery Lanovenko
• it is the Tablet PC which failed to feed the projector on the secondary head properly to blame
• and indeed it's OpenOffice.org on our Linux/ThinkPad running their PowerPoint presentation ;-)
• IMG_0395 has Mr. Lanovenko's personal comment -- he tries to make an impression that it was PDF (we as the conference staff recommended to keep those at hand) but all of us know OOo doesn't display PDFs ;-)

You bet there was some debate afterwards but no tomatoes flying (which was quite the fear of Mr. Lanovenko's coworkers) :-)

Shameless plugs

BTW, there's going to be 4th such conference this autumn (first weekend of October), you're welcome! (details at the conference site, see above)

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Michael Shigorin
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