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Yet Another LinuxWorld Update
Well, we're finally closing in on the end of the show (Sleep! I can sleep again!). We're sending out as much streaming audio at
mp3-2.thesync.com:8000 as we can - and hopefully we'll have video again by 3 PM EST. Jon Katz is here signing Geeks and will be on at noon EST. The show ends at 4 PM EST - so get it while you can.
Update: 02/04 07:06 by CN : Footage from the Beanie awards is available over at TheSync now. See who won, who got hugged, and who got slagged. *grin*
hehe, sitting on the floor (literally, in a beanbag chair) next to jonkatz+rob... hemos just ran away, oh well. its quite nice here! come down if ya can
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If anyone wants to see more pics from LWE, click here!
Includes candid shots of Alan, CmdrTaco, Hemos, Emmett, and all those nifty mascots that are there!
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Hemos does not want it to be known that he lost the Hemos award.
I agree...if people don't feel like following the rules, then what can we do? Perhaps they get their points and wish to use them: It's easier to moderate down an obvious Troll or Flamebait than to dig through numerous decent posts to find the best. This behaviour is apparant when you notice a thread with 150 posts has 8 of them at "5", and the next highest post has a "2". We as moderators must be more vigilant, and read more thoroughly...I'm guilty too. Just my thoughts...
Blar.
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:56:16 +0100
From: Bram Moolenaar
To: VIM Announcements
Subject: Vim gets Beanie Award!
Thursday night, February 3, in a crowded party,
the slashdot Beanie Awards have been presented.
And guess what? Vim won!
The category "Best Open Source Text Editor" listed
Emacs, Xemacs, Pico, Joe and Vim. It's great that
Vim has been voted to be the winner.
Thanks to all who voted!
The $2000 price will be donated to ICCF Holland,
to help the orphans in Uganda.
See http//www.vim.org/iccf for info on the project.
we have a whole bunch of public access laptops here. i should figure out how to log out so my cookie isn't hanging around all over here...
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I just watched the Slashdot Beanie Awards on thesync; after wading through Rob and Jeff's endless banter and lame jokes, I finally got all of the winners:
Hemos Award: Hemos
Cluestick Award for ?? Journalism: Microsoft
Big Dumb Domain Name Bully: EToys
Big Dumb Patents Bully: Amazon
Best Slashdot Story of 1999: The Quickies
Favorite Slashdot Comment Poster: AC
Favorite Slashdot Author: CmdrTaco
Best Dressed: Tux
Best Designed Interface in Non-Graphical App: Pine
Best Designed Interface in a Graphical App: Gimp
Most Deserving of $2000: Debian
Best Open Source Text Editor: VIM
Best Apache Module: ModPerl
Best Perl Module: CGI
Best Open Source Book: Programming Perl
Best Desktop Theme: Brushed Metal
Best UNIX Ear Candy: XMMS
Best UNIX Desktop Candy: Enlightenment
Best Open Source Advocate: Linus Torvalds
Most Deserving Open Source Charity: GNU/FSF
Best Newbie Helper: Tom Christiansen
Unsung Hero: Alan Cox
Most Improved Kernel Module: USB
Most Improved Open Source Project: GNOME
Best Merger: VA and Andover.Net
Congratulations to all of the winners!
Matt Welsh
Damn, it's a sad sad day when /. gets filled with WWF catchphrases.
I was watching the real-video, and as they said I should get drunk to watch it, I did. (I follow their commands blindly, since they released the slash source code. So now I've finished half a bottle of the cheapest scotch ever, and I must say, it really does make the award 'ceremony' more pleasurable. Actually, the feed just died a few minutes ago, but who cares? :-)
Don't quit your day jobs.
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot... You guys don't have day jobs!
And the brethren went away edified.
(later)
Katz: Hey, there you are! This hellmouth of a convention reminds me of an essay I once wrote...
Me: Who are you?
Katz: My name is Jon Ka...
Me: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS JABRONI!
Katz: Well, all this geek chat has made me thirsty.
Me: You know what you can do? Go into the kitchen
Katz: k..
Me: Find yourself a glass..
Katz: Alright, now what?
Me: Now fix yourself a nice tall glass of SHUT UP JUICE! FIX IT!
Katz: [shrieks in terror, runs away]
Me: If yA SMELLLLLALALALALA, what the AC is cookin
What version of Adobe Premiere did you use for the video? I can't seem to get Win NT to run for more than a few minutes yet obviously Premiere is everyone's favorite.
Come on now. The Rock is set-up for all his lines. The Rock would be some kind of fool in the real world, especially with Katz.
I can see it now:
Rock: At last...
Katz: Hello...
Rock: the Rock...
Katz: Sir, please quit shouting...
Rock: has returned to...
Katz: Security!
And the Rock disappears at the approach of a security guard both bigger than the Rack and with a far smaller ego.
Come on now. I think the WWF is the combination of the worst traits in man, The Rock doubly so. It is also sad at how popular it is and how much money it makes. At least it is doing better than that blasted Battle Dome thing after it.