Visiting the US – Occasional Report – pt3

At last, some free time.

So, I reach the weekend. The guys in the office have been working like trojans all week on keeping things ticking whilst simultaneously covering for sick colleagues and manning the exhibition stand, so I’m left to occupy myself for the weekend whilst they catch up with their families.

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Saturday starts with a visit to the museum at Moffett Airfield. The museum having moved from “Hangar One” to an adjacent building after the hanger was declared PCB contaminated. The museum is staffed by volunteers who are mainly former servicement and women who were stationed at the airfield. Most curious item to see is the Graphotype machine used for punching text onto dogtags

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Since Red Hat has now finally completed open sourcing the last of the Netscape server products acquired a couple of years ago, namely the certificate system, and released it as Project Dogtag it seems appropriate to have one made. I wonder why the product manager never considered this as advertising collateral. Something to quiz him about when he returns to the office from whatever show he flew to next.

And the trailer