Re: Could someone teach security to Open World?

pagesflames_at_usa.net (Dusan Bolek) wrote in message news:<1e8276d6.0411150154.66d0eddb_at_posting.google.com>...
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> I have to somewhat step aside from my previous post. It is true that
> online services are not very good, but when I tried to use the
> supplied registration phone number, I got a clerk who was very helpful
> and handled everything as I needed. So in the case of troubles, phone
> contacts are a way to go.

I find it stressful never knowing if anyone reads email in a timely manner or whether a psychotic phone-tree is going to do battle.

> My attendance is not going to trouble my pocket, which is very good,
> because it wouldn't be nice to pay 1625USD (standard price + gold pass
> + proceedings) of the registration fee from my own pocket, no matter
> how cheap could be the rest.
> I was very pleased that at the one moment, there were some already
> sold out hotels available again (and sold out for the second time in
> less than day), so I was able to rebook from some probably a budget
> hotel (Serrano Hotel) to a better one (Westin St. Francis). I have
> never been in SF before, so I hope that this hotel will not be as
> annoying experience to stay in as the one from last year Paris Oracle
> OpenWorld (getting reservation less than week before the mayor
> conference starts is not a way how to secure a good hotel).

SF is a great place, but one time I went to a conference and got a cheap hotel, had to listen all night to screaming drug addicts beat up on each other in the next hotel. There is some great food to be had wandering about.

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> > I would have liked the scheduler to be able to show everything and
> > then take away what I don't want to go to. I'd also have liked to be
> > able to search on a list of presenters to select their presentations
> > all at once.
>
> You can do this. Use Conference Catalog and search for speaker's last
> name. However, you have to know his/her name before. There is no list
> to select for. But using this you can learn that Jonathan Lewis will
> present his "Oracle Database 10g SQL Optimization" on Wed 12/8/04 from
> 3:00 PM in the Room 304.

Well, what I meant was being able to put in Lewis, Kyte, and some others that I knew I wanted to see, at once, and getting all their presentations rather than going back and forth and back and forth. I suppose that's the frustration I deserve, thinking in set theory terms. :-)

jg

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customers, they can persuade to buy the books that count." - Lynn
O'Shaughnessy (not referring to Lewis or Kyte)