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guttentag writes "According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Bush's Homeland Security plan calls for transferring $1.2 billion of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's $1.5 billion budget to a new Department of Homeland Security under Tom Ridge. However, the plan transfers only 4 percent of the lab's employees. Ridge's explanation of the numbers: "I cannot give you the kind of explanation you need to deal with that imbalance." LLNL funded and houses the ASCI White supercomputer, among other cool projects." While Livermore has an impressive research record, we would miss most the laser lab from Tron.

Andrew Hutton wrote me with some interesting news about his Ottawa Linux Symposium. It seems that they now have some prizes to give away, including 2 Netwinders, and a bunch of User Friendly hats, plus a few copies of Civ: CTP. He says that with any luck, anyone who registers before July 1st should have a 1 in 20 chance of winning a prize. Also, it seems there now is an IA-64 talk, a Mozilla talk (our friend Mike is a busy man, it seems), and of course, Alan Cox's keynote. If I get lucky, I'll be giving a tutorial while I'm there (if I'm there). Stay tuned and check the website for further details.

Yes, it's YALC - Yet Another Linux Conference. This time, it's in the Great White North. Andrew J. Hutton is organizing the Ottawa Linux Symposium (if that link doesn't work, try this one), a smaller conference, aimed more towards developers than the casual user. Talks include a QoS tutorial, and a keynote by Alan Cox. Andrew asked me to reiterate that this is a "conference and party, not a trade show".