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Ottawa Linux Symposium 2000
Anonymous Coward writes "Looks like a good lineup of speakers. Should be fun again this year." It takes place July 19-22. I was there last year, and had a fantastic time. Highly recommended.
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drunken barn dance. Cats for everyone.
BYOET...Bring Your Own Electrical Tape
If you don't tape them little fuckers down, they'll scratch yer balls off...
they should rename linux to loonux becuase so many crazy freaks use it. haaha
that is a wonderful summary of ideals. have you noticed how little moderation there has been since TROLLDAY? it's amazing and wonderful!
HCC is now Rebel.com (25% Corel owned I think) The Puffin Group was bought by someone too.
Gather round all you friends
For I have something to say,
About a new invention
We call it: Troll Day.
A day of great joy
A great fair to attend,
Where everyone posts trolls
And moderation is dead.
It's not like most holidays
Of which you may have been told,
Since we hold it every Tuesday
And everyone gets stoned.
So now I take the pleasure
to invite you all here,
And remind you of our next Troll Day
Held once a week, not once a year.
(P.S. See you on Tuesday :))
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This is interesting..The trolls are having a hey day with a Canadian story. Is it because they feel insecure? Do they know already know enough Canadians to be scared for their own good. Are they trying to get back at all their Canadian friends for every jab at Americans the Canuks ever leveled at them? Or are they worried that a Canadian will take their job/livelihood away. I don't know the answer. For the trolls out there...try and say something that hasen't been said about Kanada yet...be funny...be original...don't just recycle the cliches....
Have you ever been to Canada? If so incorporate it into your troll. We might laugh. If its real!
Oh, of course there are canadian trolls. they just don't bash canadians :)
THERE IS NO GOD
How about east, to Britain. Don't kid yourself Canuk.
Well IMO they can't really be called American before age 10.. These are just little kids who hijaacked their daddy's computer. Maybe it is all one person. Personally, I can't really think that someone would spend the time to push reload on Slashdot all day just to get some first posts and flood a few threads. I just don't get it. I think they are Martians.
You don't know these are Americans you stupid Canuk. These could be people of some other nationality trying to make Americans look bad (as most people not in US seem to enjoy doing). Talk about stereotyping.. you fool. I could go on and on but that would just lower myself down to your level no wouldn't it? Ignorant and vocal? American kids have better access to technology at school etc, so of course they come visit Slashdot and post some trolls, just as any foolish kid would do.
They are Canadians trying to make Americans look bad.
Candians are the same people, they just have a government that taxes them to death so it makes it tough to be greedy. Americans are not all one people. Far from it. You can't use the word "American" really, because there are so many different cultures that that term would bring unfair stereotyping.
I knew a young lady at Brighton last year,
Whose hobby was swimming below the long pier.
Each morn she would venture, this trim little lass,
And give you the pleasure of seeing her ----
Antics in the water, in surf and on sand;
The cutest of all, the belle of the strand.
Her bikini was lovely, the best of the knits.
And displayed ot adantage the swell of her ----
Trim little figure, which threw me in heat;
That fair little maiden, so lush, so petie.
She never was lat, came to the same patch
To enjoy the delight of cooling her ----
Self in the water, she'd frolic and play;
Her fun loving nature was out on disply.
She'd float on her side, and for shells she would hunt,
And go through the motions of washing her ----
Clothes out completely and then ring them to dry,
And hang up her undies with langorous sigh.
She could dive like a frog and swim like a duck,
And shoed by her motions she knew how to ----
Frolic in water, clear up to her chin
Without getting drowned as so many have been.
Exhausted with swimming, for the shore she would start,
And enjoy the pleasure of letting a ----
Few fellows cast eyes at her beautiful shape
And whistle and stare and hornily gape.
Then she'd dash up the beach she'd decided to quit
and race to the bathhouse to go take a SHOWER.
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he said that pussy is for men
and ass is for fags.
next he said, "bend over, and i'll give you a surprise."
Any relation to POET SMURF?
God loves it when you spread his word...
when you spread your legs!
I'm wet just thinking about it....
and everyone's invited....
Now you are going to tell me Micro$oft is a monopoly. Ha
Hello my dear friends
I have something to say,
Please gather around me
And hear me this day.
Do you ever wonder what it means to be a troll?
To be laughed at and flamed and written off as cold?
To be hated and dispised and hunted by some,
To be a savior of justice, of liberty and of freedom?
For never was there a more beautiful creature than a troll,
One with great morals and purpose and ideals and goals,
For where ever censorship and injustice and moderation do lie
You can count on TollTroll, Gnulix or The Hot Grits Guy.
We trolls will return justice and freedom to this land, :)
We fear not the evil of the Moderators hand,
After all look at what we trolls did for freedom on Usenet!
Er, wait a second... ignore that, thats not what I meant
So if you have ever wanted to be hated but loved,
If you have ever wished to be kissed and then shoved,
Help us trolls save slashdot from the hell that awaits,
Before VA then Slashdot becomes the property of Bill Gates.
(P.S. See you on the next weekly Troll Day (Tuesday))
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Hello my dear friends
I here must now plea,
For the life of a friend
Whose stories many do not see.
What friend do I speak for?
What drives me to speak?
My friend is the great BSD
Now humbled and forgotten and meek.
For how many posts of Linux doth we see?
How many development kernel posts rage forth like the sea?
When no where can be found the great BSD?
For we are 0wned by VA and now pay the fee.
How many of you have this article seen?
Or this or this, or this one revealed.
For nowhere on the front page can BSD be seen
For we are 0wned by VA and our coffin here sealed.
I beg you forget not the great BSD
Without which Linux would likely not be,
And though we are now owned by a Linux company
I beg you not forget the great BSD.
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Gather round all you friends
For I have something to say,
About a new invention
We call it: Troll Day.
A day of great joy
A great fair to attend,
Where everyone posts trolls
And moderation is dead.
It's not like most holidays
Of which you may have been told,
Since we hold it every Tuesday
And everyone gets stoned.
So now I take the pleasure
to invite you all here,
And remind you of our next Troll Day
Held once a week, not once a year.
(P.S. See you on Tuesday :))
--
POET TROLL
YOU can make a difference. Join today.
United Coalition of Trolls for the Abolition of Moderation
Gather round all you friends
For I have something to say,
About a new invention
We call it: Troll Day.
A day of great joy
A great fair to attend,
Where everyone posts trolls
And moderation is dead.
It's not like most holidays
Of which you may have been told,
Since we hold it every Tuesday
And everyone gets stoned.
So now I take the pleasure
to invite you all here,
And remind you of our next Troll Day
Held once a week, not once a year.
(P.S. See you on Tuesday :))
--
POET TROLL
YOU can make a difference. Join today.
United Coalition of Trolls for the Abolition of Moderation
Sad.. this site sucks nowadays with so many idiots writing that shit. Better find some other forum with more intelligent people left. Bye, slashdot, you were once great!
Both the Ottawa and Montreal region are great IT places but I think you'd be better in Montreal. Life is better there. Bar closes at 3 A.M. instead of 1 A.M in Ontario. (duh why close at 1 AM when everyone is goin out at 11 PM ?). People are more friendly and know how to have fun. I've heard that from people living in Toronto/Ottawa. There are lot of big names in MTL.
Even better is the Royal Brittania Pub on Richmond. It's like Royal Oak meets Leon's (Lots of sofas!
Bars close at 2AM in Ontario. It was changed years ago.
To you americans: Legal Drinking age in Ontario is 19, and sice quebec is 5 minutes from Ottawa(where it is 18) you can at least come to get piss drunk after you stop by the Linux Symposium.
Wow. Americans actually DO think they beat canadians at everything.
Canada, as it turns out, was the first country in the world to connect
every school in the country to the internet. They finished the rural schools last year.
Before that, most urban schools were on the net by 1996.
America will *NEVER* have internet access in every school.. I certaintly won't be the one to go set them up in East L.A..
The following link is put up in protest so somebody out there will actually see the current BSD article that is buried in /., never receiving front page news. Kinda like how Star Wars rumors are more important that news about Linux's cousin BSD, getting front page while /. et. al ignores BSD.
BSD article
remember! Stem side down
Nothing good ever came out of that death valley
Run for your lives. They are trying to eat your brain......
They suck eskimo cock!!!
&*(^*^$(&)(C LJK IYFT%*^DC....ooh ooh yeah, thats the ticket.
OK whos next...
You are sick dood!!
Why else would they put so many politicians there.
...catholics aren't allowed to use condoms while sodomizing young boys or humping cats...SO INVITE ALL THE CATHOLICS FOR FROLICKING.
Raisins for the nipples of every man woman & child in Kanaduh!!!!
It will be orgasmically delicious.
I like em bald, that way I can pretend they are still 13....mmmmmmmmm
DON'T FORGET TO HIT SLASHDOT WITH YOUR BEST TROLLS ON TROLLDAY (FORMERLY KNOWN AS TUESDAY) THIS WEEK.
GET READY...
Why do you trolls even bother? Do you always have to bash everything? This is news for nerds, not news for retards! Why must everyone screw around in life! You probably think you are cool by finding that "kanaduh" almost sounds like "Canada". I am proud to be Canadian and I do not have to take this crap. We as Canadians get very annoyed when Americans try their hardest (a feable attempt as it is) to put down other things. These American's actions do not justify the actions of all other Americans. Canadians perceive when a troll makes a comment like "Crapanda Sucks" or some mindless idiotic thing, that that they speak for all other Americans. I live on the Canadian/American border and most of the Americans I have talked to are nice people. It is trolls like you that give America a bad reputation.
Sodomy for all!!
Yes even Jesus...
also, don't panic and shave your ass.
thankyou.
Who will come first......god only knows.....come on boys stroke it for your god
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My friends an issue I must now address
One which has grown rampant and now runs unchecked,
What do I speak of with half sullen eyes?
I speak of Trolls posting multiple replies.
One time long ago only one post did one need
Then came moderation: the Demon Spawn Seed.
Now if one wants to ensure that his post chance be seen
Required you hit the submit button until your thumbs bleed.
Now please dont think that I am being rash,
Have you had your post moderated into the trash?
Do you sit and wonder chance you post will be seen?
If did then you'd hit the submit button for 2-53.
Now what can you do to help stop this crime,
Where Anonymous Cowards are treated like slime?
The answer is close and soon shall be yours
If you join me and hit the submit button until your arm's sore.
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that Buffalo could feel good about itself
My friends an issue I must now address
One which has grown rampant and now runs unchecked,
What do I speak of with half sullen eyes?
I speak of Trolls posting multiple replies.
One time long ago only one post did one need
Then came moderation: the Demon Spawn Seed.
Now if one wants to ensure that his post chance be seen
Required you hit the submit button until your thumbs bleed.
Now please dont think that I am being rash,
Have you had your post moderated into the trash?
Do you sit and wonder chance you post will be seen?
If did then you'd hit the submit button for 2-53.
Now what can you do to help stop this crime,
Where Anonymous Cowards are treated like slime?
The answer is close and soon shall be yours
If you join me and hit the submit button until your arm's sore.
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YOU can make a difference. Join today.
United Coalition of Trolls for the Abolition of Moderation
Canada might be a little cold for some people, but who cares? As for America's reputation...there are so many reasons to hate it besides the fact that there are vocal and ignorant people. like you said, trolls bash everything. don't let it get under your skin, and don't stereotype people. if you don't want to be stereotyped, then don't stereotype other people. also, i'd like to suggest that there are probabaly some canadian trolls out there.
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My friends an issue I must now address
One which has grown rampant and now runs unchecked,
What do I speak of with half sullen eyes?
I speak of Trolls posting multiple replies.
One time long ago only one post did one need
Then came moderation: the Demon Spawn Seed.
Now if one wants to ensure that his post chance be seen
Required you hit the submit button until your thumbs bleed.
Now please dont think that I am being rash,
Have you had your post moderated into the trash?
Do you sit and wonder chance you post will be seen?
If did then you'd hit the submit button for 2-53.
Now what can you do to help stop this crime,
Where Anonymous Cowards are treated like slime?
The answer is close and soon shall be yours
If you join me and hit the submit button until your arm's sore.
--
POET TROLL
YOU can make a difference. Join today.
United Coalition of Trolls for the Abolition of Moderation
My friends an issue I must now address
One which has grown rampant and now runs unchecked,
What do I speak of with half sullen eyes?
I speak of Trolls posting multiple replies.
One time long ago only one post did one need
Then came moderation: the Demon Spawn Seed.
Now if one wants to ensure that his post chance be seen
Required you hit the submit button until your thumbs bleed.
Now please dont think that I am being rash,
Have you had your post moderated into the trash?
Do you sit and wonder chance you post will be seen?
If did then you'd hit the submit button for 2-53.
Now what can you do to help stop this crime,
Where Anonymous Cowards are treated like slime?
The answer is close and soon shall be yours
If you join me and hit the submit button until your arm's sore.
--
POET TROLL
YOU can make a difference. Join today.
United Coalition of Trolls for the Abolition of Moderation
My friends an issue I must now address
One which has grown rampant and now runs unchecked,
What do I speak of with half sullen eyes?
I speak of Trolls posting multiple replies.
One time long ago only one post did one need
Then came moderation: the Demon Spawn Seed.
Now if one wants to ensure that his post chance be seen
Required you hit the submit button until your thumbs bleed.
Now please dont think that I am being rash,
Have you had your post moderated into the trash?
Do you sit and wonder chance you post will be seen?
If did then you'd hit the submit button for 2-53.
Now what can you do to help stop this crime,
Where Anonymous Cowards are treated like slime?
The answer is close and soon shall be yours
If you join me and hit the submit button until your arm's sore.
--
POET TROLL
YOU can make a difference. Join today.
United Coalition of Trolls for the Abolition of Moderation
Wow.. that is a good point.. to be fair, canada can't either. I was speaking of the provinces. in the territories, Yukon, NWT, and Nunavit, there are reomote regions where it is physically impossible to have internet access.
In Saskatchewan, where I live I have seen snow in every month except August. I have come to the conclusion that Alberta has strange weather paterns due to it's position near the mountains. When it snows in the summer here, it's ususally rain on a cold day that melts the second it hits the ground.
Those are flamer hang outs.
Or so I have been told.
I am such a slut!!!!
I'd like to be a troll for VA now.
note to VA, you can't buy linux.
do you mind?
She's loose like a goose.
They're fucked up enough as it is....
between your sister and her pussy?
,.
Try an experiment when you travel around the world:
One month, wear a T-shirt reading "USA", the next month, "Canada" and report how often people either spit on or smile at you.
In 1980, using Canadian passports, six US embassy personnel hiding in the Canadian embassy got out of Iran after the Iranian Guards had stormed the US embassy in Teheran and held the US embassy staff hostages. It's nice to have friends, isn't it?
I HAYT THOSE KANADIAN HOSERS WHO TALK ABOOT LAME SHIT, EH? ITZ ABOOT TIME THAT THEY RUN A GOOD OS AND NOT LINSUX, EH. LINSUX HAS ABOOT 13000000 BUGS, EH. ITZ NOT ABOOT FREE OSES, EH. ITZ ABOOT GOOD OSES EH. AND IF U KANADIAN HOSERS DONT C THAT THIS IS WHAT IT IS ABOOT, THEN U KAN SUK IT EH. LATROZ DATROZ MEMBER: KOALITION 2 BAN MODERATION
and says to hump as many cats as possible. including your sister's.
Thats called the Ottawa handshake
He's just using me for sex
by humping cats.
Once upon a time
In a not so far land,
There existed a website
And it was quite grand.
Though not very flashy,
And often quite slow,
It was a wonderful place,
Where many did go.
Then one stormy night
When evil was near,
Moderation was implemented
But not many seemed to care.
Those who hated microsoft
And who held Linux dear,
They all praised moderation...
They had little to fear.
But if ever a voice
Did praise FreeBSD,
It was moderated down
Such posts are all shitty!
And should ever a poster
Disagree with a moderator on a bad day,
Woe to his karma...
Slowly Moderated away.
And woe to the man
Who did not follow the herd,
For a nice feature of moderation
Was that he would never be heard.
What happened to this free forum
Where opposing views often did meet?
Was liberty defeated?
NO! We would not retreat.
Anonymous Coward to the rescue...
The signs of rebelion came soon,
The Jackie Chan posts,
Hot Grits, ascii pr0n, The trollmastahs loom.
With weapons of ascii
and bowls of Hot Grits
Anonymous Coward said
"Enough of this shit!"
Began The Great War
Where many moderators fought and died
But it all was in vain...
Natalie Portman: Naked and Petrified!
The war is not over
There are still battles to fight,
YOU can make a difference
Help us trolls make Slashdot right!
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Ottawa, Gay capital of Kanaduh!
"It's like heaven" He said
...the ever-lovable ``gnulix guy'' is from a Canadian city very near Ottawa?
More ever-lovable ``gnulix guy'' trivia for my beloved Slashdot fans.
...signed, the ever-lovable gnulix guy!
Think cnews
Think regex
Think 10 Commandments for C programmers
CANet, RNP as well (I was in Brazil when he spoke in Rio)
Pretty much a legend and he still has a bunch of code in many of today's popular open source projects including Apache and PHP among many others.
Would be nice if these conferences would schedule themselves such that those of us without alien timewarp technologies can attend all the related ones. In particular OLS conflicts with the O'Reilly Open Source conference. Grr...
-Rasmus
You know, the reason /index.html doesn't link to /2000 is that the site is not ready or "released" yet (I know the organizer). That's why there's talks like "High availability blahblahblah" and "Mike talks about something" in there. They'll get fixed eventually as soon as the speakers finalize their topics.
I'm definately coming (over the atlantic too) if I can fit it into my schedule (and I'll try damn hard to make it fit). Last year was just so incredibly fun.
The Dominion Tavern on York street, next to Zaphod Beeblebrox (mainstream dance bar), that's where you want to be.. Only half decent punk rock dive bar in this town..
Actually, I wonder if there are enough linux punks to make it worth promoting a punkrawk show well the con is on.. Probably not..
In that case, you might also want to check out the
Ottawa Carleton Linux Users Group (OCLUG) too.
Welcome!
Cheers,
Vic
Hi all...
:-) ).
(Sorry 'bout the slight off-topic, this was too good a chance...)
Yeah, I'm in a similar situation (plan to graduate about one week before the show, but from a Dutch university). Looks like a great place to meet & greet the local IT crowd. (Networking's all that counts
So Ottawa is the place to be for IT-guys? I was thinking of Montreal, but hints about the best place to be for IT are greatly appreciated. Good to hear anyway they've got
<SHAMELESS PLUG>If you happen to know anyone who could help me get a job in that area (Canada has that cute little 'you can get 12 months working experience here' visum for recent graduates) I'd like to hear about it... and I guess you could cash in on a little bonus from my future employer... Anyway, getting a job in Canada from this side of the big lake is kind of hard. Anyway, check my site for a little more info. (Darn! Have to update that one REAL soon!)</SHAMELESS PLUG>
I did the Eastern Canada tour three years ago (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa) with my wife. All the cities impressed me greatly, but Ottawa was especially beautiful.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
depends what you want...if you like cheap drinks, go to stoney's from 8 - 10..buck a drink.
its usually fairly quite until like 10:30 or so..
If ya like Belgique (sp?) go to the Royal Oak.
If ya like free beer, go to the OLS functions.
The basic sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of UCBerkeley grad students was still the core of BIND. --PV
...loosen that tin foil hat..you are way to paranoid!
:), and paid for a few buses to drive us down to Montreal for an Installfest and gave us a few copies of their beta 2 Corel Linux.
I was at the last OLS, Corel sponsered it as well, all they had was a simple sign that said "Corel", and I think they gave away a copy of wordperfect.
This is not a trade show, and Corel realizes that. I hope that they do sponser it again this year, because it ain't cheap to bring in a bunch of speakers, and rent rooms in a nice Hotel for the talks...also there is _tons_ of free beer at OLS!
I am also a member of the Ottawa LUG, it has been around for longer than Corel has been interested in Linux, and they don't participate too much with us...from what I can remember over the past year they have gave away a few copies of WP (I got one
About what you said about Americans, I would have to agree, but all the IPO's are based on American greed, rather than their self centered-ness.
The basic sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of UCBerkeley grad students was still the core of BIND. --PV
As a jealous Torontonian, I wonder why it is that Ottawa seems to have a disproportionately cooler Linux scene. I mean, Corel, HCC, Puffin, etc.
obRoadtrip: these dates are now in my palm pilot.
Even Better is the Heart and Crown in the Byward market :) ..
... even better beer ..
Great music.. sing along
(Hope this year it's less than $150 to attend)
That's fantastic - I'm moving to Ottawa in a few months for a job (just graduating)! This'll be a great way to start off living in a new city I think... I can't wait, I've never actually been to anything like this before... :-)
Yeah no duh there's gonna be no snow...the conference is in frickin July! We're not living in the tundra up here...it does actually get warm for half the year.
True, I was just trying to provide a counterpoint to all the anti-Canada sentiment in this discussion. I just don't see why when someone mentions a tech-convention in Canada, people respond will all this name calling. I mean, it's not like we're some backward snow-bound country. Hey, my hometown might be getting a chip-fab plant.
Little bit of trivia. What's the only country to successfully invade the USA, and burn your capital to the ground? Give up? Look north
The chix are cuter at the H&C but the Celtic Cross is a lot more homey and authentic.
Do it in February?
.... ahem, forget it.
Today's high in Ottawa is -6 C. That's about 23 degrees Farenheit for the benefit of the Yanks.
This is also why they do the Glengarry Highland games in July. It's hard to toss yer caber when it's shrunken down to a wee
Californians have more summer than Ontarians. Maybe get _them_ to move their little get together.
MV
Go for the OLS; stay for the beer.
Prendre un verre de bière mon minou
Prendre un verre de bière righthrou
Tu prends un verre
Tu m'en donnes pas
J'te fais des belles façons
J'te chante de belles chansons
Donne-moi-z-en don.
If I went, I would especially look forward to two grand talks:
L. Marowsky-Brée from an undisclosed agency no less : "High Availability Blah Blah Blah"
and
M. Shaver:
"talks about something"
Honestly, isn't it weird that right from the beginning those talks, where the speaker doesn't give a shit (it seems), subjectively rank among the most interesting talks of this symposium?
:)
Roland
Humm Maybe the Elephant and Castle , but of course i have no social life
..........sig...........
to the success of Linux and OSS in the market place. There is an unfortunate tendency for those in the U.S to act as if they are the center of all that is Linux and OSS ( a side effect of the America tendency to look mostly inwards); this is borne out by the recent Linux IPO's. With this Symposium we see/hear indications of the great progress and inroads that Linux/OSS is making elsewhere in the world. Naturally I for one am very happy about this - it means that Toronto can't be far behind for a Linux expo (hopefully held over the weekend so I can stay for the whole event!). Of course I would be somewhat leery about this - remember that Ottawa is Corel's home town and with the recent Corel/Inprise(?)/Borland (whatever they are now) merger, they doubtless want as much Linux oriented positive spin out as possible. I didn't see any mention of Corel in the article but the fact that there is a solid LUG in Ottawa and Corel being focused in Ottawa does sound a little coincidental..
How can you go wrong?
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I just wish there were more Linux-related events, especially ones geared towards educating the newbies.
My (appropriately geeky) hat is off to the organizers of this, and all other Linux conferences.
It's superb we have such conferences.
But timing is not good. O'Reilly's yearly
Perl Conference is held this year in
Monterey, CA between 17th and 20th of July.
I think many people have interests in both
conferences and won't be able to attend
one of them
-- "If you had fallen into a shit pit during a battle, lick yourself off and move on." - Jaroslav Hasek
It's coming :)
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Werner Almesberger will talk about the interesting possibilty of launching a new Linux kernel from within Linux. This sounds like a cool feature, in theory you wouldn't even have to restart a machine for kernel upgrades anymore.
The Glengarry highland games and music fest is just after OLS and not very far away. The timing is quite good in most peoples eyes 8)
Alan
I already know him as the world's most knowledgable person on aerospace facts and trivia, so it's good to have him aboard.
I might go to this one. Ottawa isn't far away at all. The last time I was there I had a great time.
And on a side note, how can ET phone home when SETI@HOME'S servers aren't answering?
Ignore Alien Orders