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Oracle AppsLab: Murphy’s Law of Demos

  • Facebook User · 5 months ago
    Or the presenter spends 25 mins trying to get the laptop to "recognize" the projector, doing a little Irish jig on the Fn+F8 key. Then there's the audible incoming cell phone call during the critical moment in the PPT. Or the embarassing list of bookmarks on the Firefox toolbar on display....:)
  • Jake · 5 months ago
    Hahaha, yes those are all good ones too. The projector one is a killer. My odyssey from last year was one of those; good old DVI-VGA connector required, another pitfall of the Mac user.

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  • chet · 5 months ago
    Bonus points if you actually tap dance. (I'm gonna have to learn)
  • Jake · 5 months ago
    Nice, I may try that the next time. On the phone, it's a bit tougher though.
  • Frank · 5 months ago
    Good post Jake. I had a few hairy moments last week, when I did my Connect demo e.g. when I logged in, it took me to an RSS page, and also when I tried to post some media.

    I quite like the idea of “while we wait, are there any questions?”. I must use this in future sessions.

    P.S. another common thing that happens is that after the demo, the presenter forgets to turn off the webconf, and any stray attendees are able to see where he/she is surfing on the web!!!
  • Jake · 5 months ago
    Yeah, sorry about the performance issues. I think R&A have sorted those by now. That login redirects to RSS issue is a tough one to solve. There's another guy hitting it in AU, but we can't reproduce it. Seems to be account/cache specific.

    Since I only run OWC from a VM, I'm always quick to quit and shut it down to quiet my MB's fan, but I have seen that happen a few times. Funny stuff.
  • Joonas Linkola · 5 months ago
    I love Windows Update's "Restarting your computer is required" popup - the only choices are "restart now" and "restart later", with the latter scheduling the popup to reappear. Sat through a presentation a while ago (an internal one, luckily) where the guest speaker's slides on the conference room's computer were constantly interrupted by this message.