This was a scheduled talk at Tableau's annual customer conference (TCC13). I had done a few practice talks and the content looked decent. Slides and demo of connecting to a hadoop cluster running at headquarters.
The setup of my machine was complicated.
1. Powerpoint slides
2. Tableau desktop running. Already loaded viz'es. Some of these were complicated and take a long time to load
3. vpn in using the hotel internet. My plan was to to connect Tableau Desktop to a Hadoop cluster running in corporate.
All is well as I walked to the podium, all looked good. I then connected my laptop and connected the projector..... and the laptop mouse froze. It stopped working. I was in deep trouble.
Ok, the only option seemed to be rebooting the machine.
A reboot meant:
1. a 5 minute slow reboot
2. time to vpn
3. time to load presentation and software. i.e a 10 minute delay.
And no guarantee that all the data after vpn will load.
An IT expert came and confirmed that a reboot should help. What do I do???
Thinking... if the trackpad does not work - maybe attaching an external mouse will help...The IT guy got usb mouse. fingers crossed...but it did not work. Only the right click worked - no movement.
Next try: use another usb port..- that did not work either.
I announced to the crowd that I am have mouse problems and apologized.
A good Samaritan then got another mouse - it was a Microsoft usb mouse. Plugged it in - and voila - it worked. With renewed energy - I started my talk. Things started flowing and all was well!
The setup of my machine was complicated.
1. Powerpoint slides
2. Tableau desktop running. Already loaded viz'es. Some of these were complicated and take a long time to load
3. vpn in using the hotel internet. My plan was to to connect Tableau Desktop to a Hadoop cluster running in corporate.
All is well as I walked to the podium, all looked good. I then connected my laptop and connected the projector..... and the laptop mouse froze. It stopped working. I was in deep trouble.
Ok, the only option seemed to be rebooting the machine.
A reboot meant:
1. a 5 minute slow reboot
2. time to vpn
3. time to load presentation and software. i.e a 10 minute delay.
And no guarantee that all the data after vpn will load.
An IT expert came and confirmed that a reboot should help. What do I do???
Thinking... if the trackpad does not work - maybe attaching an external mouse will help...The IT guy got usb mouse. fingers crossed...but it did not work. Only the right click worked - no movement.
Next try: use another usb port..- that did not work either.
I announced to the crowd that I am have mouse problems and apologized.
A good Samaritan then got another mouse - it was a Microsoft usb mouse. Plugged it in - and voila - it worked. With renewed energy - I started my talk. Things started flowing and all was well!
