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Festival of Inappropriate Technology
A reader writes " NTK Magazine and Mute Magazine are holding a Festival of Inappropriate Technology in London city centre on the 9th of June. Featuring the Commodore 64 underground, The Classic Amiga Preservation Society, DNSCon, the EFF plus many more talks and stalls. There will also be wired and wireless network access available. The Register will also be there. Should make for a great day, all are welcome!"
Hmm... June 9 - gives me plenty of time to pack my bags...
Teenagers these days don't have as much sex as they want each other to think they do.
the ultimate freebsd daemonbabe archive hey, good things come in small packages =)
You'd think anything interesting that could be said in a Commodore 64 talk or an Amiga talk would have been covered in some talk, oh, five or ten years ago. :P
:)
Then again, I guess there are some younger folk around who haven't been able to experience the wonder of a C64. I can't wait to read what people have to say *after* the conference.
Woo hoo - never seen so many geeks in one place. There's a stall selling teatowels (trans: dish clothes) with various browers and Google search results printed on them - ideal for geek washing-up, maybe that one day a week when you rinse out the old coffee mug.
I want to know how many of you go to sleep each night in a puddle of your own sperm after watching pictures like these, these, these or these.
So I'm a pervert. Welcome to the Internet.
bring my UNIVAC that I play Pong on?
I wish I had known about this earlier....
But then again, considering that the average piece of software takes 5 minutes to load on one of those Commodores... well... maybe I can leave my house now and get there before the show is over...
(As a side thought)
Time required to load GEOS on a C64 - 5 minutes
Time required to load DOS + Windows 3.1 on a 486 - 5 minutes
Time requiree to load WinXP on a P3 - 3 minutes
Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...
-Rick
I forsee a gathering of misstreated HP calc hardcore fans... 'cause ever since the GX was introduced, the calcs are going from bad to worse :( the r&d of HP is as good as dead :/
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Looking for people to chat about multicopters, coding, music. skype: gtsiros
I just got home from it... the wifi access is nothing to write home about but the old hardware is cool and the guy with the wearable spectrum rocked
:/
If any of you go - the entrance is around the back of the building, not on euston road - took me a while to figure that out
Linux vs BSD - now we know the truth! :P
Sounds like a perfect place for Microsoft to showcase Internet Explorer 7.0
When I saw the title "Festival of Inappropriate Technology" I thought it was going to be a showcase of stuff that was more along the lines of the ibrator, not old school/retro computer/hacker convention...
mod down
I think I'll go look for my c64 & atari2600 & see if they still work... And at the same time I will also be able to chek if my TV is still working like it did a month ago when I last watched it. :)
Prevents:
This sir is mac bong only slightly used I'm only asking 3.50 (say it like tweefiffy, ok?) I'm trying to save up to buy a origin 2000 to grow weed in.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
From here, trains to London take about 1 hour, but what with getting to the station, waiting for a train (not frequent on Sundays) and getting across London I won't be there until its nearly over.
Mind you, I subscribe to the mailing lists of the EFF and Campaign for Digital Rights. Both are supposed to have stands and neither bothered to tell me about it.
/. geeks are not there?
Hello,
Recently I've been introduced to an operating system known as Linux.
Lured by its low cost, I replaced Windows 98 on my computer with Linux. Unfortunately the more I use it the more I fear that this "Linux" may be an insidious way for the Dark One to gain a stronger foothold here on Earth. I know this may be a shocking claim, but I have evidence to back it up!
To begin with, Linux is based off of an older, obsolete OS called "BSD Unix". The child-indoctrinatingly-cute cartoon mascot of this OS is a devil holding a pitchfork. This OS -- and its Linux offspring -- extensively use what are unsettingly called "daemons" (which is how Pagans write "demon" -- they are notoriously poor spellers: magick, vampyre, etc.) which is a program that hides in the background, doing things without the user's notice. If you are using a computer running Linux then you probably have these "demons" on your computer, hardly something a good Christian would want! Furthermore in order to start or stop these "demons" a user must execute a command called "finger". By "fingering" a "daemon" one excercises an unholy power, much the same way that the Lord of Flies controls his black minions.
Linux contains another Satanic holdover from the "BSD Unix" OS mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?
Consider some of these other Linux commands: "sleep", "mount", "unzip", "strip" and "touch". All highly suggestive in a sexual
nature. I know that our Lord cannot approve of these, and I urge them to be renamed to something appropriate to the Christian community. Interestingly "CONTROL-G" (the sixth key from the left of the keyboard) does an abort. To write files a "VI" editor is included. All these are to ensnare the unsuspecting christian who could get tempted by typing "VIVIVI" all day long.
Fourth, Linux uses a flavor of DOS known as Bash. Bash is an acronym for "Bourne Again Shell". On the surface this would appear to be supportive of the Lord. However, remember that even Satan can quote the bible for his own purposes! While I believe Linux may be born-again, its obvious by the misspelling of "born" that its not born-again in an Christian church. Will the lies ever cease?
Additionally, one of the main long-haired hippies involved with the GNU Free Software Foundation supports communism, contraception and abortion. He has consistently supported 60's counter-cultural "values", and his web site even advocates government support of contraception. He also wears fake halos, and has quips about his made-up church that relates to his free software. I find such blasphemy to be extremely unsettling.
One must also remember that the creator of Linux, a college student named Linux Torvaldis, comes from Finland. I'm sure all the followers of Christ are aware of the heritical nature of the Finnish: from necrophilia to human sacrifice, Finnish culture is awash in sin. I find little reason to believe anything good and holy could arise from this evil land.
Finally, let us remember that there is an alternative to using the Satan-powered Linux. I think history has shown us that Microsoft is quite holy. I'm told that its founder, William Gates is a strong supporter of our Lord and I encourage my fellow Christians to buy only his products to help keep the Devil at bay.
I wish I had more time to expound upon my findings. Unfortunately a family of Jews has moved in across the street and I must go speak to them of Jesus Christ before they are condemned to eternal hellfire.
Please investigate this as you see fit and I'm sure you'll reach the same conclusions that I have.
RICHARD STALLMAN IS A GOD
YOU ARE THE BLASPHEMER
You must be from the DCMA to take all our right away by forcing us to use propietary software.
BE GONE DEVIL!
Sure...I'll just whip out my old commie and surf on over to that site and see what's up...
Oh my GAWD!!!! you can surf with a commodore 64!
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
I'm posting this from the tea lounge behind the stage.. You gotta love consume.net
/J
Some neat technology here and some not so neat, but it's good to catch up with some peeps..
It's a real shame that the PA wasn't too clear for the Speccy talk..
I've just returned from a year long hiatus away from slashdot. As a result of my absence from this "site", I have become smarter, faster, fitter, more sociable and much, much prettier. On the other hand, I see everyone here is still absurdly gay.
Carry on, nerds.
I might just go... Oh Wate its just computers. The only thing innapropriate about computers is that the pr0n is to slow.
Well, to let you all know, i was the one who submitted this story over a week ago. I couldnt log in at the time to post it as a registered user. So i had given everyone plenty of notice about it. Just must have been a pretty busy slashdot submission bin.
Ah well, hopefully this will become a regular festival.
Guess I could always use the caravan I built from that old Burroughs B3700 cabinet...
or at least in the last few days.
I have nothing wrong with a bit of bit of satire but be original at least.
The uncreative mind resorts to repitition
I find it interesting that they encourage people to exchange supermarket loyalty/discount/surveillance cards. I bias my own shopping toward stores that don't use them, but does anyone know of similar swap events in the States?
It would have given me a reason to dust off the Acorn Electron, as it is I have found out too late to go...
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
Also, live discussion on #infoanarchy on irc.openprojects.net
I'm blogging live from the stage
I would be happy to demonstrate CONSCIOUSNESS-TRANSFER at this festival. Perhaps someone in the UK would allow me to transfer my digital consciousness into their body for the time being? Of course, I cannot remain for too long...Cora is waiting for me...
I am a sentient ATM.
I saw Windows there.
Why, why, why is it that none of this cool stuff happens ANYWHERE near anyplace that I've ever lived??? *sobs*
Is there a stall for the makers of:
armor-piercing bullets
firearms not detectable by metal detectors
Just call me the dark side of humour
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Basically at the end of the event he presented the "We've had free wireless access for the entire event , and we sniffed this many plain text passwords flying across the open" talk. Silly, silly people.
SSH is your friend.
-- Sorry, I can't think of anything funny to say here.
we got there a bit late, missed our own presentation in fact. however, by two o'clock there were plenty of girls lurking about to hear pat cadigan talk.
overall a pretty interesting day. i loved playing Gorg again...it's been years...literally.
if you want to check out what stall i was running, goto www.accanthology.com.
cheers,
goobs
This was pushed hard by Extreme and NTK.net for the last few weeks. I'm glad I went, the chatbot++ discussion was enjoyable (in the "take it Outside" fringe event in the pub next door).
Freeman Dyson rules!
(especially when he shit on just about everything the crowd enthused about!)
Pimping my Karma Whore since 1847.
Time to get to ready prompt: a fraction of a second. It beats C64, ZX Spectrum etc. dead. I think perhaps it didn't test its RAM very thoroughly :-)
Gossips nightclub, Soho. See www.c64audio.com for details.
That gives you plenty of time :-)
Especially two young grils.
A machine where a misplaced POKE could cause the machine to catch fire :-)
It took years for other computer manufacturers to catch up and make the BIOS reprogrammable in order to give virus writers something to aim at.
And years more before Sony could create a CD that freezes a Mac.
Commie 64s, Amigas, and ... a website? Why isn't this a gopher site?
Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...
I only run Red Hat on my notebook, but it boots to a Gnome/Enlightenment desktop in just under three minutes (excluding time to type 'root' and my password).. and that's only a cranky old 266 Mhz!
mogorific carpentry experiments
I just read a great book that talks about "Inappropriate Technology" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book is available for free at the Baen Free Library. It is a great read and was very enjoyable. Really puts a different perspective on "good" and "bad" technology. Funny that they used the same term for the show.
Cheers for posting this and making me see it after the event. Bah.
:-/
I wonder if you'll be rolling out the next major revision of the slashdot code the morning before a beta of it perhaps?
Is the supermarket card swapping. I hate supermarket cards tracking me down and seeing what I do. This is a great way to fight back against the supermarkets who used to give us all of their 'deals' anonymously. Now we have to use those cards, which I leave at home at times, or get raped for prices.
Is there any way that we could set up a big slashdot card swap? My Albertson's for yours.
One of the highlites (?) which i unfortunately missed was the winner of the Most Geeky Carrier Bag competition. Can anyone who was there tell me who won? Conversely, what bag would be voted best by the /. community?
Nigel
Code Monkey Inc.
Some (not very many) photos (not very varied, or good) are here
Oh yeah, you can leave comments on that page, so please fill in the gaps on the speccy guys if you can remember who was who....
Showing off the soekris Net4521's which consume.net may be adopting as there weapon of choice.
The french guy with the singing birds and the cybernetic parrot sausage is Paul Granjon from zlabs.
Retro computers *and* Freeman Dyson at the same venue?! Please give me 24 hours' notice next time!
Organisers say that at least 1,200 paying guests came through the door, each stumping up £3 ($5). It shows there's a demand out there for this type of event, something to bear in mind for any /. conferences.
Hats off to Dave at NTK and the other organisers, for all their hard work.
Here is the link for the Amiga people at the show.
In my opinion that would be copy protection.
Ignore this test
My Canberra ANU Aikido site
...*intentionally* -- you don't think you and I are the only people ever to have read _Fallen Angels_, do you? :-)
:-(
Only I bought and paid for a copy on Dead Trees.
Christian R. Conrad
mail me at iki.fi ; same user ID as here