Okay, so the cute act hasn't worked, the pleading doesn't seem to have done the job either. So now it's come down to threats: If we don't get chairs for the remaining sessions we'll release to the market, piece-by-piece, the following acts of cultural vandalism:
- Bill Bitner's "Best of Karaoke" DVD (with bonus 12 hours of hilarious out-takes) - Richard Lewis' narrated slide show "Great Telegraph Poles of the South West" - Jim Vincent recites famous soliloquies from "The Bold and the Beautiful" - Rob van Der Heij's interpretation of Hamlet as a series of pipeline stages - A copy of my own "Stool Pathology for Dummies" - Rick Barlow's instructional video "Auto-taxidermy" - Adam Thornton's "Guide to Great Cough Syrup Vintages" - Alan Altmark illustrated instructional "Leprosy for fun and profit" - Martha McConaghy hums the themes of TV's greatest Reality Shows - Chuck Morses' classic "Introduction to Java" - as performance art - A thesis describing a new branch of mathematics based on the wine bill from a dinner with Romney White, Mike Cowlishaw, and Steve Record So be warned! Now signup ASAP: Sess Day Time Speaker Title 9120 Tu 8:00a McConaghy Introduction to VM Hands-On Lab - Part 1 of 2 9351 Tu 8:00a White 64-bit Support in VM 9102 Tu 9:30a Hammock Alternative Lifestyles for the Under 60 (MIPS) Crowd 9121 Tu 9:30a McConaghy Introduction to VM Hands-On Lab - Part 2 of 2 9304 Tu 9:30a Morse z/VM 64-bit Support Externals 9202/5547 Tu 11:00a Courtney How Many Linux Images Can Dance on a Single S/390?: Linux and the Big Leagues 9305 Tu 11:00a Franciscovich Under the Covers: The VM Control Program (CP) - Part 1 of 2 5515 Tu 1:30p Smrcina Using Linux as Your Main Desktop Machine 9105 Tu 1:30p King The Future of IBM S/390 Mainframe Small Platform Computing (zSeries and Multiprise) 9207/5560 Tu 1:30p Lewis Linux S/390 Installation Morse Lab - Part 1 of 3 9306 Tu 1:30p Franciscovich Under the Covers: The VM Control Program (CP) - Part 2 of 2 9307 Tu 1:30p Bitner VM Performance 101 9125 Tu 3:00p Zimelis CMS/TSO Pipelines Tips and Techniques 9208/5561 Tu 3:00p Lewis Linux S/390 Installation Morse Lab - Part 2 of 3 9222/5545 Tu 3:00p Robinson Measuring and Tuning Linux on VM and Other Platforms 9308 Tu 3:00p White CMS Fundamentals 9209/5562 Tu 4:30p Lewis Linux S/390 Installation Morse Lab - Part 3 of 3 9309 Tu 4:30p McConaghy VM Networking Overview: RSCS, PVM, TCP/IP 9353 Tu 4:30p Hall An Introduction to Extending VM/ESA with CP Exits 9310 We 8:00a Lewis VMSES/E Introduction 5514 We 9:30a Egen Setting Up X-Windows on Linux Desktop 9311 We 9:30a Lewis An Introduction to Using VMSES/E for System Programmers 5511 We 11:00a Knapp Networking Linux: Connectivity & Internet Options 9108 We 11:00a Barlow Beginning CMS Pipelines Coding Tutorial 9109 We 1:30p Zimelis How CMS/TSO Pipelines Differs from UNIX Pipes -- Two-dimensional Pipes 9313 We 1:30p Scrima CP Beyond the Basics - Running Guest OS's; VM, OS/390, VSE, Linux 9359 We 1:30p Altmark VM TCP/IP Advanced Configuration 5524 We 3:00p Egen Linux As your Corporate Firewall 9314 We 3:00p McConaghy Hints and Tips on VM System Service Migration 9315 We 3:00p Barlow RSCS: Communicate With Everything (Except Maybe Your Teenagers) 9229/5554 We 4:30p Post Linux/390 System Management for the Mainframe System Programmer - Part 1 of 2 9316 We 4:30p Bitner VM Performance Monitoring of Major VM Components 5566 Th 8:00a Grundy Application Debugging Lab - Part 1 9111 Th 8:00a Worthington Using the Enterprise Storage Server in a VM Environment or... Swimming with Sharks 9230/5555 Th 8:00a Post Linux/390 System Management for the Mainframe System Programmer - Part 2 of 2 9361 Th 8:00a Franciscovich Taking Advantage of VM's Dynamic Configuration Capabilities: Part 1 of 2 - CP 5567 Th 9:30a Grundy Application Debugging Lab - Part 2 9362 Th 9:30a Barlow Taking Advantage of VM's Dynamic Configuration Capabilities: Part 2 of 2 - Hardware I/O 9112 Th 11:00a Worthington Enterprise Storage Server Copy Services and z/VM 9118 Th 1:30p Worthington Implementing Native FICON Chase with the IBM Enterprise Storage Server - Part 1 of 2 9214/5563 Th 1:30p Lewis Linux S/390 Installation Morse Lab - Part 1 of 3 9227/5531 Th 1:30p Grundy Tooling for Enterprise Applications on Linux for zSeries 9317 Th 1:30p Vincent Ordering Software Saroka Maintenance for VM 9365 Th 1:30p Scrima CP Beyond the Basics - Advanced Guest Operating Systems: VM as a 2nd Level Guest 9119 Th 3:00p Worthington Implementing Native FICON Chase with the IBM Enterprise Storage Server - Part 2 of 2 9215/5564 Th 3:00p Lewis Linux S/390 Installation Morse Lab - Part 2 of 3 9224/5553 Th 3:00p Pajak TRACS - Implementation of a Ronksley z/VM-Linux-Websphere Production System 9319 Th 3:00p Vincent Hidden Gems on VM: Great Tools You Never Knew You Had 9216/5565 Th 4:30p Lewis Linux S/390 Installation Morse Lab - Part 3 of 3 9320 Th 4:30p Vincent VM Security Overview and ESM Options 5510 Fr 8:00a Thornton Using the Andrew File System 9117 Fr 8:00a Franciscovich Care and Feeding of www.vm.ibm.com 9369 Fr 8:00a White Getting Out of the Dumps With the VM Dump Tool 9116 Fr 9:30a Mohr Cooperative Application Development Tools for VM: Direct Access to OS/390 Data Using CMS/MVS TOOLKIT 9321 Fr 9:30a Vincent TRACK for VM - A SysProg Tool Must-have!