Postcard From Linuxbierwanderung 2000

Martin Ling writes: "The Linuxbierwanderung 2000 , at Coniston in the UK's Lake District, is currently in full swing. There is an ongoing live site with pictures and a diary, including details of our Beowulf projects. And of course, there's a webcam. Events have included talks on SETI & radio astronomy, wearable computing, and a trip to the Sellafield nuclear plant. Oh, and that whole lot in the village hall is running through one 33.6kbps modem .... Emails to this address should get through, and I will print them on the notice board."

Comments

*Jealous*

[Duxup]

Am I the only one who gets a little jealous when we see all these stories about people going to all these Linux conferences? I never hear about them until after or just before they happen. Is there a site that has information on when where and what the focus of each of the Linux conferences are?

Better yet is there a way we geeks who don't live in cities that don't have these conferences can band together and go in hoards (is that the right term for a group of geeks?) of geeks? Perhaps if we were organized in groups we could save a few $ on airplane and hotel rooms. Someone could probably even make a few $ of they organized these trips and sold them and found some customers.

Re:Petition to Ban the Spammers

[cje]

a) avoid feeding the trolls and spammers

Note, however, that the spammers don't particularly care if they're fed. They just wait for a new story to be posted and let loose. If people reply to their posts, they don't care. If people don't reply, they don't care. It's not possible to "feed" the "penis bird guy" or the "magenta syringe" guy because they're not paying attention anyway.

I don't think there is anything of quality posted anonymously - hasn't been for a long time.

<COSTANZA>Ah-HAA!</COSTANZA>

But how can you tell?

Seriously .. if Slashdot were to run a story about rumors of Fooblatz Corporation beating its workers with aluminum bats if they fall behind in production, and if some employee were to post anonymously confirming the rumor, who would see it if it were bracketed on each side by 20 "And today's topic is: MDMA" posts?

I've seen plenty of AC posts in the recent past moderated up for being interesting, insightful, and (most prevalent) funny. Just because most ACs have nothing of importance to say doesn't mean that they all do. AFAIK, the ability for people to post information without fear of being identified or tracked down is one of the primary things keeping Rob from doing away with (or crippling) the AC system.

I find that anything posted by what is obviously a "new" user (currently user numbers around 216,000 or so) is almost certainly junk ..

This is a bit of a stretch. Sure, there are a lot of people who have obtained accounts for no purpose other than to post crap. But to suggest that everybody on the Internet that can meaningfully contribute to Slashdot already has an account here is, well, probably wrong. :-)