22 May 2006 (Mon)

11:45:44 # Life debconf7 ends quietly. I'm in the hacklab, and there are quite a few people still left in hacklab. Logistically, this debconf had the conference rooms/hacklab/hotel rooms too far away from each other, and I found myself staying in one location. Swimming pool was a pleasant addition, but I couldn't utilise it when I suffered diarrhoea. Language was a very big problem, since the Hotel people did not understand a word of English (well, they sometimes pretended to understand a few words, but that was not enough to make them do what I wanted.).

Cost of living wasn't too low. The cost of everything within this Oaxtapec Hotel premises was around 50% higher than outside. Even in the outside, the cost wasn't as low as expected, but around 50% of what I would expect from Japan.

It apparently isn't a common practice to have a price tag around, so the price of most of the things on store are subject to negotiation.

Network was down for me most of the time, since there was no wirefull connection to the hotel rooms, or conference halls, and my wireless connection had some kind of kernel or hardware problem which meant I could not be connected for more than 5 minutes.

I had a few interesting work there, but I realized network is a very crucial part of hacking. The following should really be easily accessible offline: Debian mirror (yeah, I can mirror it, no probs), Debian BTS (I could rsync the whole beast), Wiki.debian.org (how?), and Version Control Systems (using git has solved most problems).