5 Oct
1999
5 Oct
'99
12:36 p.m.
Bruce Lane wrote:
Now, with that out of the way... VCF was fun this
year! There are only
three things that I thought could have been done better.
1). If a person had pre-registered for both days, mark as much on the
badge/tag/whatever. Don't require that they stand in line to re-register
the following day.
I only avoided that by being an exhibitor. I brought my exhibitor badge on
Sunday but forgot the little sticker badge, and I got in anyway.
This seems like a good place to mention the bug I found in the registration
program. It works like this:
1. Enter name, address, etc. on the first registration screen.
2. Press Return.
3. Enter e-mail, age, income, etc. on the second screen. See
pretty (but slow) pop-up menus.
4. Press Esc to change values.
5. See new pop-up menus appear to the right of the places for the
old ones. See menus wrap around to the next lines. of the
screen. See an ?ILLEGAL QUANTITY ERROR.
6. Try to RUN the program again. See a NOT DIRECT COMMAND (I
think) error.
7. Look very inconspicuous. Use the other computer, being very
careful to enter the correct values the first time around.
Actually, I should probably tell Sellam directly. :)
3). POST THE OPERATING HOURS on the signs next to the
registration table.
I had completely forgotten what time the whole thing was supposed to start
and end, and I had practically no access to the 'net during my trip to
check the VCF web site.
I was thinking that a few schedule monitors would be nice. They would work
like the airline schedules at the airport, or the schedule screen that the
Pacific Science Center used to have (I never found what hardware they used,
but I'm sure it's now firmly in the classic category).
The advantage of those is that the schedule can be changed.
Other than that, I enjoyed it, though I had other
business to tend to, and
as a result was only there for a chunk of Saturday. I'd like to hear how
the tour of the computer museum went.
Don't know. Being an exhibitor discombobulated me and messed up my
schedule. I never made any of the speeches or the tour.
-- Derek