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See, the problem with convincing slashdot editors that Western Australia doesn't exist goes back to a week in 2003, when Linux.conf.au was held at the supposed University of Western Australia ( see here for a pictures of Hemos at it - http://theducks.org/gallery/daffy/hemos_daffy ). We had to go to a lot of effort to make it look like they were in Western Australia .. we flew them all around in planes for about a day, saying they were going to Australia, but in fact it was really held in rural Florida. We did up a university there with all these fake signs saying "Welcome to The University of Western Australia", had accent coaches for about 1000 people, and it all worked really well.

the number of PowerBook Linux users is so small

Yes, because Airport Extreme doesn't work with Linux but Airport did, so everyone who DID use Linux on their ibooks and powerbooks now can't upgrade them and has been forced to move away from the Apple platform.

Linux kernel hacker Rusty Russell used to have one of the most banged up Powerbooks I'd ever seen.

And once again, to the GGP post, it's not Apple or Broadcom's damn fault that Airport Extreme doesn't work with Linux. 802.11g radios are much more "dangerous" than 802.11b in terms of how they can be used and controlled by software. Very very few (if any?) 802.11g cards have open source drivers for any platforms. Everyone I know which 802.11g cards under Linux uses NDISwrapper and the DOS NDIS drivers to use them.

But he's a bad bad man when it comes to laptops. According to his ozlabs friends, he's destroyed more than anyone elses. This is a pictures of his powerbook G4 *sob* the poor thing.

Yes.. Japan does have a lot of telephone poles.. :)

But next to no IPv4 space, so pretty much every ISP will NAT you.

Who needs penguins when you have ducks :P

This powerbook belongs to Linux Kernel Hacker and IBM ozlabs employee Rusty Russell.. the pictures don't do it justice of how bad it looks. I'm surprised it still worked...

Unfortunately, even with all these cool features, Australia still has a problem with counterfieted money. There is an extremely large number of very high quality $100 notes in circulation. I work in the cash office of a supermarket in West. Aust. and we pick up a counterfeit *polymer* $100 about once a month. The quality of these fakes is amazing. About the only way to pick them out is a slightly misaligned print and a slightly different serial number font. Even then, we still wait for confirmation from the Australian Federal Police before turning them over as evidence.

And if anyone's interested in what our notes look like, I have a page up at http://www.theducks.org/old/notes/ with scans of all of them except the old paper $100. Enjoy :)