We had another great show at the Large Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference. Over 70 people attended the Birds of a Feather Session on Tuesday. For the people who missed it, here are the slides that we presented. Next stop: CES.

One of the coolest things at moka5 is we get to meet a lot of the high-tech heavyweights and to discuss technologies with them. Today Vinod Khosla, one of our board members, spent 3 hours (!) with our engineer team to discuss all kinds of topics. One of the topics was on how to build a successful product by conducting experiments and iterating them quickly with the customers. Here is an excerpt from the discussion:

LISA '06 will take place in Washington, D.C., December 3–8, 2006. We will have a Birds-of-a-Feather session at 7:00pm on Tuesday, December 5 and we will be in Booth 109 during the exhibition. Three of our founders will be there, so stop by. Sorry, we are not giving out USB Hamsters this time.

Update: We will have two USB Hamsters to give out at the BOF session. Stop by to win one.

As we are getting closer and closer to finalize our product, we would like to gather all the feedbacks from our beta users. Click here to take the moka5 survey to help us improve it. We love to hear from you.

Have you heard about this "One Laptop per Child (OLPC)" project? The goal of this project is to create a very low cost laptop that every child can afford one. Right now they are still developing the hardware but their software is available for preview. We put their software in a LivePC, so now everyone can try it our easily. The user interface they have is pretty cool. Check it now by download the LivePC here. Make sure you have the LivePC Engine installed.

Thanks for all the people who stopped by our booth at VMworld a couple weeks ago. If you have not downloaded and tried our software yet, please do so now. If you want a quick overview on how LivePC and LivePC engine work, here are the slides for a quick overview. Check it out:

We had a great day at VMWorld yesterday. So many people stopped by our booth and they were impressed with our LivePC technologies. Here are some quotes:

• "This is the best thing I see in this show."
• "When I signed up for VMWorld, I did not expect to see something this cool."
• "This is such a great idea, how come I didn't think of it first."
• "How much is it? When can I buy it? Free?!? No way!!"
• "Can I buy that USB Hamster?"

If you have not stopped by, please do so. If you have already stopped by, stop by again. We still have a lot of USB Hamster Wheels to give away.

VMworld, the annual conference on virtualization, will be held in Los Angeles, California, next week. A few of us will be there, including our CEO, Monica Lam. We will be at booth 827, so stop by and say hi.

Another BIG reason for you to stop by is we are going to have drawings to give out USB Hamsters. Connect this hamster to your computer and the faster you type, the faster it runs. If you want one of these, write down an idea of a LivePC on your business card and we will pick the lucky winners at the end of each day. This is a video of our little pet at the office.

I would like thank all the people who participated in our LivePC creation webinar. I hope you get all the information you need to create your LivePC. If you still have any questions, please feel free to post it on our forum. For the people who missed it, we will post the webinar soon.

By the way, we can now post video on our blog (Thanks Andy).
Here is a short clip of Ardi, John and Gerald getting ready for the webinar.

We are going to have an online seminar to show you how to create a LivePC. Couple of our engineers will be there to answer all your questions. It's on this Thursday, 10/26/2006, at 10am PDT. You can sign up from here. Sign up now as space is limited.