Man, I was exhausted after one day – as usual. But after all it was a great day with many great talks. Even Promise listened to what I had to say… and that’s astonishing…
But since I had the chance to sneak behind the scenes at the Microsoft booth I want to present you a little bit of the pictures I just made…:
The presentation theater as everyone can see it…
That’s the theater from behind… a huge projector and a really big mirror render the HD projection perfect…
that’s hall 2 – which I
traditionally do a panoramic view of…
Here are some pictures of the “Nektar“…
Source: http://www.nektar.de
yeah, things have to be discussed…
I thought winter would be over after seeing the temperatures raise on the 19th of February…
But I should have known better… so it was more like this today:
Just not to forget… a picture of warmer times:
What a great idea of maednes to bring his old NES console for a quick game. Since he also brought most of the best games that ever were releases for the NES (Dynablaster, SMB1,SMB3,…) fun was guaranteed.
I was asked today what tools I use to create the panoramic views on this website. I personally prefer easy to use – “let the automatic do”-tools. That’s why I used Ulead Cool360 for years to create the panoramic views. But since some months I am using the brand new Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 to create the panoramic views out of the raw pictures.
The first step is to load all the pictures into the Suite:
then Tools→Panoramic Stitching…
then you have to select which pictures you want to use for the panoramic stitching process:
Digital Image Suite now creates a preview for you where you can adjust in whatever way you like – unfortunately no perspective adjustments are possible – but normally not necessary if you took the pictures well:
Click Next and you get the “Stitching in Progress” Dialog…waiting … waiting …
And finally: The Result! You have to select the display window – because maybe – like in my example – the pictures are a bit tilted.
Oh… if you want all that a little bit more compressed…have a look at the demo video I made:
demo movie…click on it!
Source 1: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
Source 2: Demo Video
We only had the time to test one lecture hall today – and this is our current setup which worked quite good:
A complete listing from where to where the signals are routed will be available tomorrow.
the headless encoding pc kinda broke for a second.
…and the mandatory panoramic views:
Since we are kind of interested in providing a large user DECT network on the campus of our university we spoke with the Eventphone guys about their setup: and as far as we can tell it’s far more sophisticated than expected.
little panoramic view of the POC server room
the Alcatel machine rear view
patch panel
front view
front view with logo
switching switch
audio patch panel
the actual POC service area in the main hall
Well sorry that there are more pictures than text – it’s just because we have to compile all the information we got and pile it all together into a nice and well understandable text for your reading pleasure.
Well here we are – packed with equipment we arrived in Berlin and successfully tested the first encoding-run for the upcoming 22c3 which starts in two days.
hmm… bad weather
this text was on the equipment to discourage thieves
rest place at the A9
finally some food – well maedness had some sandwiches – but finally something hot
the fairy dust has landed
Since we arrived we unpacked all the equpiment and drawn-in our new “office” for the next days: the video studio – which is kind of above/around hall 1.
so here we are… on the right side you can see into hall 1 through the window.
concentrated calculating power – our four encoding machines + one fallback.
Funny thing beside that: we got our own /24 subnet here – peered with 10GE directly to the Berlin CIX. How cool is that 
This is just a part of the stuff we’re going to take with us for the 22c3:
hrhr…2 Sony HDR-FX-1E, 2 Sony VX-2100, 1 Sony VX-2000, 5 Shuttle XPCs, 4 Shuttle 19″ TFT displays…
well..it’s over… some impressions – more to come:
I spent the whole day in Dresden – introducing Lars Iwer into his new job at Microsoft. But because that did not take the whole day I had some time to walk along Dresden. Actually I underestimated the fact that it’s getting dark quite early at wintertimes. That and because my digital camera isn’t as good as it should be is the cause that there are just some panoramic views from Dresden – not showing any of the usual sights . Oh. I should mention the heroic presentation the Ford Galaxy gave us – yes, Sixt decided to give me another one after the death of the first one.
who designed that?!
since the big picture is >19000 pixels width you can
get a medium size version here.
The first day of lectures is over and it was quite a success because more people than expected wanted to hear our talks…
next time we probably have to double the space…
sickboy talking.
we illuminated the Audimax….yellow and blue: the FeM colors.
thx to teliko for the pictures
On thursday the spontaneous idea came up to have a short break (4 days) at the beach. It was cold though – but nevertheless I love the sea (baltic sea in this particular case).
And of course there are some panoramic views .
Oh by the way: Who knows where this is?
Thanks to Anna for the 4 days.
well…that’s not the harbour, that’s the meeting room…
that’s one part of it… watching straight out of the Courtyard Marriott Hotel…
that’s the view out of my room here…nice, isn’t it?
It’s been some time since I made a picture of my workplace…and since that time one more display arrived… so here are two up-to-date pictures:
as usual from left to right: Mac mini (Samsung TFT 910T), custom P4 (Samsung TFT 910T+19″ Highscreen), HP compaq nc8000 (Belinea 108025, built-in 15″ TFT).
Source: The perfect working environment part 1
That was the coolest Microsoft presented party I’ve taken part in. The live band was great: Scissor Sisters. Man that was an awesome show. So I took some pictures of the location which was calles “Studio 7″ – Actually it was Hall 7 of the RAI Conference Center…but see for yourself how it looked:
that’s what I saw when I came into the hall
Well sine there were no refreshments we relied on the fact that there would be proper food at the party. And there was. At about 7 locations inside the hall you could grab Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Fishburgers and Stuff.
So. I don’t want to bore you with food pictures and blahblah about the organisation… here are the Scissor Sisters!
a short video…it’s shaky but it gives a feeling.
sorry for the bad quality…it’s just my little cam.
that’s a guy up there…controlling the spotlight.
that’s no genetically modified vaccine or something…it’s just alkohol B-). Hmm.. I don’t drink it actually…it’s just for educational purposes.
As I am a true fan of the sessions of Rafal Lukawiecki. And the fact that he is talking about really interesting subjects leads me directly to his todays session “Holistic Security”.
“You know all the security technologies, but are you secure? How much should security cost? The tough realities of today make security of enterprise systems one of the highest priorities on most IT Professionals’ agenda. This conceptual, rather than technical, session will overview security from a holistic, process-oriented perspective. While still uncommon, this approach seems to best model the threats that affect our installations. This way of looking at security is based on risk assessment and worries about all aspects of the system equally: we do not want to be building bullet-proof steel doors in a house made of paper walls. After discussing the main challenges that make achieving optimal security difficult, we will concentrate on three process-based holistic approaches: OCTAVE, Simplified Security Risk Analysis, and Threat Modelling.”
This panoramic view is in my opinion by far the best I’ve made this week. Enjoy.
This is a quite good panoramic view of the RAI Conference Center entry…and the Microsoft Billboards …
We attended the Chalk and Talk Session “Microsoft and Opensource” today… Actually a very interesting session, but I spare any comment on it here, just not to annoy anyone (which would otherwise be possible).
“Many customers have questions about Microsoft’s view of Open Source and its ability to coexist and interoperate in a Microsoft environment. The session aims to answer your questions about Open Source and provide information and guidance on Microsoft’s position on open Source. “
This is where the TechEd Europe 2005 takes place…well actually the TechEd Europe 2005 takes place BEHIND me when I took that picture…but possibly nobody will post THIS perspective
Well. The Keynote. It’s less than I expected -actually it’s a nearly 100 percent copy of the Orlando TechEd Keynote… damn! – I knew everything they would say… well said.
So here are some panoramic views for your pleasure:
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