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Beanie Award Wrapup
The awards began predictably enough as Hemos narrowly took home the Hemos award. It amazes me how many people actually abstained rather than vote for Hemos, but alas, he still won. *grin* The award for Best Dressed went to Tux. Sadly, no one ever thought to nominate or vote for the fine women of FreeBSD, and Tux didn't even bother to show up for the award, leaving me with no one to hug. *pout* However, an Anonymous Coward was on hand to accept the Favorite Comment Poster award, as was CmdrTaco for the Favorite Author award. The Best Slashdot Story went to Quickies, and the Cluestick award for FUD went to Microsoft. Also, the pair of "Bully" awards for domain bullying and patent bullying went to Etoys and Amazon, repsectively.
The fun awards done with, it was time to get a little more serious (but not much) for the two grand awards. Best Unix Desktop Eyecandy went to Enlightenment, and Best Unix Earcandy went to XMMS. Best Desktop Theme went to BrushedMetal, which everyone uses at least a part of. The Best Perl Module award went to CGI, the best Apache Module award went to mod_perl, and the Best Open Source Text Editor went to vim. It's good to see things that I couldn't do my job without get some recognition, although I could probably have said the same about any of the nominees (except for Emacs, but that's a different matter entirely *grin*) The "Most Deserving of $2000" award went to Debian, while the Best Book award went to Programming Perl. Finally in this award category, the Non-graphical and Graphical Interface awards went to Pine and The GIMP, respectively.
The award for Most Improved Kernel Module went to USB, probably because it went from non-existent to usable in so short of a time. Alan Cox won the Unsung Hero award and immediately donated his winnings to the DVD defense fund, proving that he is indeed worthy of the name hero. Best Newbie Helper went to Tom Christiansen, famous for helping newbies find their way out of #perl (I'm kidding! Okay, only a little. Tom still rocks in my book.) and Most Deserving Open Source Charity went to the FSF. Best Open Source Advocate went to Linus Torvalds, surprisingly enough, but advocating by doing is one of the best ways to do it.
Finally, the Big Award for Most Improved Open Source Project went to the GNOME project. All of the nominees in this category were projects that at some point people shook their heads at, and now use on a daily basis, but GNOME just happened to beat out the rest.
Also, a new award for "Best Merger/Acquisition" was announced and awarded to VA Linux/Andover.Net to follow that day's news. All in all it was a good night, with lots of free beer and getting to know people who I'd only seen before on IRC or through e-mail. I imagine it was that way for a lot of people there.
It seems from all of this that it's just a way for Andover to try to buddy up to the Open Source community..."Look we're giving you 100,000$ for no reason at all, we're nice people".
Like as someone said somewhere, (either here, or themes.org - can't remember), "Why do we care about Andover.net? All they did was buy some successful portals"
Say byebye karma.
Best Newbie Helper went to Tom Christiansen, famous for helping newbies find their way out of #perl
I don't think the local trolls could have said it any better! Reminds me of the one helpful soul in #perl who, after looking at my code, told me what I could do with that copy of Perl Cookbook, and no, it wasn't RTFM.
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Alan Cox won the Unsung Hero award and immediately donated his winnings to the DVD defense fund
Nothing against Alan, and it is nice that he donated his winnings to the DVD guys, but does it really makes sense to have a popular vote for an Unsung Hero? If so, shouldn't the person who comes in last get the award, since almost by definition, an unsung person is largely unknown and will have little chance of winning?
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Is it me, or should there have been a Most Stable/Usable Open Source Project? GNOME certainly wouldn't have won. But even the darling Linux probably wouldn't have won this one.
Post your winner for the Most Stable/Usable Open Source Project below.
Joseph Elwell.
Coming soon... the Slashgrits beanie awards.
How many bowls of hot grits should we pour down Rob's pants?
Thank you.
This is one of the more dissapointing areas of the awards. I was sad to only see Enlightment/Enlightment Based themes. There are a lot of other great themes in other window managers. For example, Blackbox(the window manager I use) has a lot of great themes--my favorite, is the default Sleet. I think it looks great, but that's only my opinion.
One of the more surprising awards was the one awarded to Alan Cox, the unsung hero awarded. I was glad that he got it, but I didn't think he would--he is usually mentioned in many of Slashdot's stories. It's nice of him for donating the money, so it's probably a good thing that he got the award.
... it just seems like andover is trying to share some of the big $$ they got from the OSS community.
don't look a gift horse in the mouth...
But, back on topic here, Rob really is a dork. I mean, seriously, this is the kind of guy that I normally make fun of -- he doesn't even have a stage presence, so why the heck did they put him up there?? It's ridiculous...
Anyway, mark me down fuckers - 'cause I don't care anymore!! HAHAHAHHAHAH!
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
GNOME won for most improved is because it was so bad in the first place. Even with all of the supposed imporvements, it still can't touch KDE.
KDE is more stable, has more features, and is overall a much better project, with nicer project leaders and a better toolkit.
No, no, no. Nominees are eligible because they do not have ballads (yet) singing their praises. Although Alan's been on t-shirts and mentioned in numerous .sig's, we have yet to hear a song about him.
There was a bit of contoversy with the other nominees, because although Linus has not yet had any folk-songs sung of him by the firelight, he was excluded becuase there was an off-off-broadway musical about him. While some argue that this is not in the spirit of a true hero's song, others maintain that ANY song qualifies to create an officialy 'Sung Hero'.
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They told us CmdrTaco was voted favorite /. author.
:-)
What we really want to know was how many people actually voted for jon katz
To make it fair, why not give us the results for every entry, instead of just telling us who won?
JD
Too bad there isn't a RealPlayer for Alpha Linux... That would be kinda useful IMHO.
I feel the Hemos Award was rigged, It should have been presented to me as I feel I am a better "Hemos" then the Hemos who accepted the award. This leads me to believe that there is a conspiracy underway to prevent the more worthy Hemos-i from stepping forward to claim their heritage. No - instead we are forced to acknowledge this false prophet Hemos as our true Hemos. This is most Anti-Hemos and his coming has been told in the great book of Hemos for some Hemoniums now. Anonymous Hemos #981376351
The Beanie awards were fixed! It was planned for Hemos to win the Hemos award, right from the beginning! He is an Andover.Net employee, and should have been disqualified because of this. The real winner was Abstain, but somebody with administrative access to the database (*cough*Hemos*cough*) must have tampered with the votes.
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I am usualy of the opinion that feeding trolls is a bad thing; but this is unique.
Maybe someone will post it as a article. Then I guess it would not be a troll anymore, Oh the irony!
"Think of it as evolution in action."
What were the vote results? Its all fine and nice to know Linus won the best open source advocate, but we want to know how RMS, ESR, and all the other TLAs did.
Ken
Tom definitely doesn't deserve the "Best Newbie Helper" award. Sure, he's co-authored many great Perl books, but this just serves to confuse the facts. Tom's EVIL. (He's actually LAWFUL EVIL, which also confuses people, but just remember: EVIL is the opposite of GOOD.)
Go read Larry Wall's 2nd State of the Onion address. Pay particular attention to the following paragraphs:
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
These are virtues of passion. They are not, however, virtues of community. The virtues of community sound like their opposites: diligence, patience, and humility.
They're not really opposites, because you can do them all at the same time. It's another matter of perspective. These are the virtues that have brought us this far. These are the virtues that will carry our community into the future, if we do not abandon them.
If anyone can show me A SINGLE INSTANCE of Tom being either patient or humble, I'd love to see it. Otherwise, I'm going to keep on believing that this award was given to Tom not because he deserved it, but because he led the pack in name recognition.
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Give trolls a beanie
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Geez, I didn't think that guy was still alive?!
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Anybody know if his "show" is still on the air?
/me shudders.
I was really hoping to see a breakdown of the votes as well as just the winners. Or at least a 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Is there plans to do this?
-k
humor_mode(on);
When I found out E won, I looked up from my plate of pancakes and said, "Well, that sucks. I shoulda won that one." (I really like pancakes)
As I ate my pancakes, I imagined Geoff and Carsten gladly accepting the award, and the $2000 prize that went with it.. I imagined them going to the bank to cash it, and stopping by Piggly Wiggly to pick up a roll of scotch tape, only to march home, tape all the bills together in one big long line, roll it up, and insert it into the toilet paper holder right next to the john. "Damnit!" I said to myself, "Geoff and Carsten make too much money! Salary! Stock options! What good would two grand do those two?" , and I began to dream...What would I do with two grand?
I'd put it to good use, thats what I would do with it.
I'd hire a skywriter up in Redmond to put the words "WE SUCK" with a big arrow pointing down to Microsoft's HQ, every day for a year.
I'd go to one of those ultra-sized supermarks and buy like 200 kegs of Log Cabin syrup..keep one for my pancakes, and pour the rest into Lake Washington where Gates lives, so his whole house smells like maple syrup for weeks. Call in the news media, and blame it on Bill, saying he finally went nutty like Howard Hughes did. "He just likes dumping maple syrup into the lake behind his house, then denying it." , i'd tell the press.
Or, if on that particular day, I felt particularly artistic, I would
I'll just eat my pancakes and wait till next year.
"Well, at least your not like Susan Lucci....not yet." - My dad
humor_mode(off);
Congrats Carsten & Geoff
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Now I hate the Gnome just as much as the next guy, but this is a bit overboard...
"BrushedMetal is a Gnome/E theme"
Uh, BrushedMetal is an Enlightenment theme. Enlightenment is not Gnome. I don't have one bit of Gnome on my box but I use Enlightenment and BrushedMetal, eSlate, and BlueHeart.
"I bet KDE and Windowmaker themes weren't even allowed in this stupid contest."
Did you nominate one? I was torn between Windowmakers's AIndustrial, KDE's Photon and E's BlueHeart, and I ended up with BlueHeart. There is a very good reason there were pretty much only Enlightenment themes nominated: you can do tons more with them than with any other wm themes.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
So what if KDE won no awards? If I wanted to use Windows, I would run Windows; it has a better interface anyway. (Spare me the flames, I care not.)
Seriously though, I am not out to bash KDE, to each their own. I am not a big fan of GNOME either, just another excuse to eat resources. That is what Enlightenment is for.
Enlightenment won best unix desktop *eyecandy* -- KDE and GNOME have very little *eyecandy*.
I am not too fond of the default Enlightenment theme. Nevertheless, you must agree that it is hard for a Blackbox theme to win the 'best theme' award. Enlightenment, overall, has the most eyecandy when it comes to themes. Blackbox is an excellent windowmanager. In fact, I am running it now. Nevertheless, it is simplistic. To reiterate, Enlightenment, overall, has really neat stuff when it comes to themes.
Quit complaining about it being 'one-sided.' Did you vote for what you liked? Good, you got your side in. If not, too bad, you should have. This was not intended to be a big deal anyway, it was just for fun.
I was slightly shocked when I read this report and saw 90% of negative comments. Why must everybody be so negative? Do you always have to go out of your way to attack Slashdot or something they have done? Opinions differ, get used to it, and deal. You are not 12 any more, try acting like it.
You people might enjoy life more if you quit whining.
Kind regards,
WHiTe VaMPiRe\Rem
Aye, its got pretty bad, as for trolling, I cant be bothered. I'll just go on saying what I think. I wont just disappear like I did on usenet.
:)
(The fact I lost my ability to connect to a news server may have contributed to my dumping of usenet
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I just found out about the Beanie Awards, and also that the CGI module won the award for best Perl module. Since I wrote the module, does that mean I get some money (which would certainly be a first!)?
Where do I go to get my check?
The scene shortly following the announcement of the Hemos Award.
Even if Slashgrits is just headlines and a poll, couldn't we have a Slashbox for it?
:)
Pretty please? I *need* my daily updates on the latest grits-pouring, pancake-making, ninja news for trolls, stuff that petrifies!
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What exactly does "one of us" mean? Didn't realize this was a cult. And heaven forbid one should read something other than tech news. lighten up guy.
I mean, this happened like, last Thursday.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Anomalous: deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Canard: a false or unfounded repor
"Most improved project? Gnome? Improved from crashing every second to crashing every other minute, I suppose."
I use Gnome and I can't remember the last time it crashed. I must not be running any of the good stuff. What am I missing?
Then I discovered that Enlightenment sucks.
It ran slowly, used icons for things (ick), and made a general mess of my X session. I won't even get started on the customization menu ("transparent" window dragging? WTF?). Maybe somebody really loves Enlightenment, but that somebody is not me.
So then I found Sawmill. Sawmill has the Bluesteel theme, and yet doesn't suck. It has no icons, has genuinely useful customization, and lets me attach a theme to as many or as few windows as I'd like. (I usually pick one xterm for Bluesteel, just cuz). So, I voted for Bluesteel anyway simply because Shinyblue wasn't available.
Enlightenment may suck, but its prettiness can be ported...
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
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I laughed myself to tears and almost wet my pants when I read this. I think it may be because I just watched "American Pie". "The flute is not magical" will be a phrase I will be using for some time to come. Thanks for a good laugh and phrase.
vim has always been 'Charityware' - if you use it, you are encouraged to make a donation towards a charity working with orphans in Uganda. On Friday, Bram Moolenaar announced on the vim mailing list that vim had won the award, and that the money would go to that charity.
Which I think is pretty cool.
Paranoia isn't an infectious condition, it's a way of life
I missed the voting, and now vote.pl only says that voting is over.
I can't find a nominees list anyway. Someone want to help me out?
Thanks.
Open Source is about the users, not the programmers. It is about the community, 95% of which is users!
Back in your cage and keep coding! You've got a "day job" for a reason! You chose to be passionate about coding, now the users are going to exploit it.
Esperandi
You've sold your soul to the GPL!
what was so special about the BSD woman?
LOSER!
A. She's a hottie...ps she USES BSD...
B. In a sea of unwashed men she was a REAL hottie
C. Latex...it's not just for Typesetting anymore!
This
Also, about the transparent window dragging...if you don't like it, don't turn it on.
Which is exactly why the transparent dragging was so annoying. Not because of the option itself, but because it probably took some deal of effort for a special effect of so little use. Give me speed and give me heavy-duty configuration over plain eye candy.
That's what I'm ranting about, really.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Vim....vim....excuse me while I go and throw up...ah that's better :-)
Oh, I know it was intended to be Gnome theme. In fact, Redhat wanted Enlightenment to be a part of Gnome. I still remember the murmurs of disbelief travelling across the SVLUG attendees as Mandrake calmly announced that, no, Enlightenment was not Gnome.
In any case, Gnome always stated that Gnome could be used with any windowmanager. That Redhat commissioned an Enlightenment theme to be used for Gnome appears to be self-deception.
Interesting that Gnome started the work of replacing Imlib and finding a new WM just after Rasterman left Redhat.
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"So back in 1991 this guy Linux uploads a port of Minix to x86 on USENET and nine years later look what happens."
See how many glaring errors you can find in that phrase.
Hands in my pocket
It's sad to see that the FSF won an award for "most deserving charity." Not only is it not a charity (since it does not specifically help the needy or means-test its benefits, as an actual charity does), but it was also far and away the richest candidate already. What's more, it releases code under the GPL -- for the explicit purpose of hurting commercial programmers. A group whose stated purpose is malicious should not be rewarded.
--Brett Glass
Seriously.
Upon occasion I have needed to ask him direct questions or point things out. He has always answered me with direct, to the point, answers. Sure, they are short. But considering how many he must answer, I am astounded that he would continue to answer them.
Additionally go look through the Perl documentation. Tom has been working on that for years. He still is. That is patience.
As for being humble, if you ever find an occasion where Tom is wrong he admits it. Sincerely. Takes it to heart. Learns from it. Despite his many strongly-held positions, he has the humbleness to accept his mistakes and learn from them.
OK, so he is an excellent programmer. His hubris and pride are obvious. But exactly as Larry said, he also manages to be humble and patient.
It just isn't the sort of humbleness and patience that people would sometimes like to see from him...
Cheers,
Ben
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If you have no sense of fun, there's no use trying to explain this to you. But virtually everyone at both computer and science fiction conventions takes such costumes in the spirit in which they were intended, and the wearers generally get many compliments. As the daemon girls at the BSD booth all did.
--Brett
I'm not the original poster. I agree with you totally. Exploitation and objectifying women isn't funny. But, damn, it turns me on! Are you a woman?! Can I bend you over the toilet and love the shit out of you?! Please post your phone number if you're interested.
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Valium is good.
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
Maybe Stallman would consider it to be "hoarding" water.
--Brett Glass
1. s/Linux/Linus/ (force of habit)
2. He didn't upload the port -- he announced he was working on it.
Perhaps you can enlighten me if there's something else.
Wasn't minix already running on x86 and therefore Linus's version wasn't truly a "port"?
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
Perhaps because the GIMP was responsible for introducing GTK, which is unquestionably very widely used and important. Nothing against Qt, but in the spirit of Open Source, it would be best to be using a completely and totally open widget set.
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This never was a troll.. It was however off topic -1 before.. By being a little clever it becomes +3 funny...
:)
A troll seeks to make people mad...
The "Hot grits" posts seek to make people laff
they make people mad becouse they are OFF TOPIC.. Not becouse the post says anything offensive..
Whats wrong with being a little off topic?
Nothing much.. I am a little off topic now...
But those "hot grits" posts were not "a little" off topic... they were TOTALLY off topic...
However a spoof is allway cool... (unless it's done in poor tast... but thats a bit to subjective for my poor brain)
Anyway this never was a troll.. it was just off topic... now it's a spoof....
Being creative is a must when trying to be funny...
Thank you.. and this concludes this rant
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'real men'(tm) think curses is for wimps, just shows how you are not a 'real man'.
ahh fsuk it lets go the whole hog here 'real men' think that HEX is for wimps.
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i have had a few classes. what can i say i didnt have much time to take those pictures and i had a pretty cheap digital camera. i think it really comes down to the fact that i am poor. yeah thats it. heh
Sure, enlightenment might be eyecandy, but that's only because its completely configurable (look at its WM theme, thats certainly not eye-candy.)
As for all its eye-candy effects, I feel that a nice theme like Bluesteel can really *improve* the asthetics of your desktop. What does asthetics have to do with anything? Well, to me (and alot of people I know), the asthetics of your desktop really play a part in how your desktop feels, and how you, as a user, feel towards your desktop.
Simply, I nice looking X session makes me feel happier about the horrible piece of coding that I am about to tackle.
A certain Mr D. Knuth has laid down a yearly increasing prize to anyone who can find a bug in the Tex code. It's been there some years and so far as I know, no one has come up with one yet.
My understanding is that is wasn't exactly a port, either. Linux was written from scratch, with different design philosophies even. It was inspired by Minix (or it's price, at least), but that's about it.
-JuPo
And you ask: Whys vim, and not Xemacs?
Xemacs tries to be too much, it's too big... and betting bigger. A great plus for vim is it's vi compatibility (although if you prefer notepad-like editors such as emacs, it can be set up to work simalarly)
Emacs is a great news/mail reader amongst other things... yes. Pity this award went to 'Text editor'
;)