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Quirky Open Source Convention Photos
Lisa writes "I don't know if you've seen Julian (SuperSnail) Cash's amazing photos from last year's O'Reilly Open Source Convention ,
but they are worth checking out." Julian also took some pictures of the 2000 OSCON too. We figured since OSCON 2002 is almost upon us that this would be a fun thing to post.
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Almost as much fun as stories posted twice!
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It was on the good ship Venus
By Christ, ya shoulda seen us
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast, a mammoth penis
The captain of this lugger
He was a dirty bugger
He wasn't fit to shovel shit
From one place to another
Chorus:
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
The captain's name was Morgan
By Christ, he was a gorgon
Ten times a day he'd stop and play
With his fuckin' organ
The first mate's name was Cooper
By Christ he was a trooper.
He jerked and jerked until he worked
Himself into a stupor
Chorus
The second mate was Andy
By Christ, he had a dandy
Till they crushed his cock on a jagged rock
For cumming in the brandy
The cabin boy was Flipper
He was a fuckin' nipper
He stuffed his ass with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper
Chorus
The Captain's wife was Mabel
To fuck she was not able
So the dirty shits, they nailed her tits
Across the barroom table
The Captain had a daughter
Who fell in deep sea water
And by her squeals we knew the eels
Had found 'er sexual quarters
Repeat Chorus to Fade
./'ed already
It can be found here. Also, the one in my sig pretty much sums it up...(for you AC's that can't see sigs it's here)
From the site:
If you're not the person in the photograph and you want to use the photograph on your non-commercial website, then send me an email and let me know how you would like to use the photograph. I'll email you back and let you know what I think.
The convention may be open source, but the photos sure aren't.
"Oh no, 3 horny women and only 2 condoms...Thank god I read slashdot"
I heard it really blew.
--
Freeper Logic
I've run out of Vasoline!
* * Always question "the National Interest" - 9 times out of 10 it is a cover for evil
How are things in the civilized world? You probably don't know who I am. That's
;).
okay. I'm here to inform you of my mission, what I've found, and what I hope to
teach all of you.
I work for the United Christians Food for Poor Kids Foundation, and let me tell
you, there's a lot of poor kids in Afghanistan. As in most countries in the
Middle East, most people are unemployed, and therefore poor. And where there's a
lot of poor people, UCFPKF is needed.
UCFPKF always has the latest in technology. In this instance, we had access to
some Pentium 4's(r) 2GHz. Obviously, we needed an operating system that could
handle the power of Intel's beast. Unfortunately, we didn't have any computer
experts on hand up to the task, so it was going to be trial and error.
We'd heard good things about Linux and its "ACL's". Little did we know of its
incompatibility with modern hardware. It didn't even support Token Ring
networking, the newest form of Ethernet(r), which we require to always keep
in contact between bases. Also, it didn't seem to use SSE optimizations, which
when processing food amounts, are also very important. Also, there were
homo-erotic implications in the structure of Linux, which is strictly
unallowable in a Christian organization such as ours.
The next obvious step was to install Windows. We hesitated because we knew that
it was common knowledge that Windows crashed incessantly. Our experience was
less than stellar. It also didn't support Token Ring networking. Security is
important in this region because many people try to steal food, but "Windows
2000" (which I hear didn't even come out in 2000) doesn't even allow you to
have seperate permissions. Once again, the SSE optimizations were not used.
I was in a situation that seemed impossible. The two most famous operating
systems had failed me. I walked around the base in a dazed stupor. What was I
going to do for our ultra-important network? A boy saw me pouting and sighing,
and asked me what was wrong. I said nothing, but we exchanged names, and little
did I know, that young Junis had a gift for computers.
Junis saw me the next day, slaving away at the sparse terminal that "Windows
2000" makes you type in. He asked what I was doing with that primitive OS. I
laughed and told him that I was doing inventory. He ran to his village, into his
hut, and pulled out a box I had never seen before. The box said "SCO Xenix" the
front. I had never seen or heard of this Xenix before. But I soon learned that
Junis was a computer genius.
All we had to do was put the Xenix CD into the computer, and everything worked
like magic (not the devil's magic... good magic:) ). Our Token Ring network
integrated flawlessly with it. And it even used SSE optimizations. Well, me and
Junis are now on a new mission. We're spreading the word. It might not be the
word of the lord, but then again, maybe it is
SCO Xenix: The Unix of Tomorrow.
Janet Milman
Network Administrator, UCFPKF
Afghanistan base
- poopbot: information likes to be narrow
You know, when I hit pages like http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/ it makes me really miss my broadband.
On 56k I have time to reply on this thread before that page is even done loading in another browser.
Oh wait, my bad. That site is just slow.
Oh well. I still hate my modem.
My studio - www.graylands.ca
Amazing photos?
Like this, this, this, this, this, this, or this
You're welcome.
So I'm a pervert. Welcome to the Internet.
Well, after this post http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=35308&cid=3812 913 and looking at those photos, I hereby turn in my geek card. I guess I will never have that geek "X" factor. You elite bastards! :)
Damnit, I tried.
*sniff*
it's a joke, laugh.
Sent from your iPad.
You're posting hundreds of high-res photos on /.? Are you mad? :)
You may reply if you answer me these questions three.
/.'ed any time soon, what exigent activity will be required?
question the first!
Thy meaning of life is what?
question the second!
For ye ol' goatse.cx to be
question the third!
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The photos are decent, alright, but I don't see a single snapshot of Heidi Wall!
;)
"Amazing?" -1, overrated
What Open Source Zealots Don't Get
.doc file. I'm continually annoyed myself by people who send HTML mail, never mind the lunatics who use Microsoft Word as their text editor in Microsoft Outlook. Email is much more efficient as plain text. If Stallman had positioned his screed as "use the right tool for the right audience in the right medium" I would have been totally on board with him.
.doc format. It's a lofty and valuable goal. But until the day when Stallman or someone else can figure out a way to get open source developers to scratch someone else's itch with the same fervor and quality with which they scratch their own, it's just not a realistic goal.
The News Forge editorial, We can put an end to Word attachments [link via Camworld], by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation, illustrates perfectly why the free software/open source movement is never going to penetrate the mainstream consumer consciousness.
Caveat: I like open source software. I like the concept and I support it. What I dislike is the zealotry of hardcore open source/free software advocates, like Stallman, and their total disregard for how consumers view and use software. These zealots are stuck in a dogma that is constructed from the viewpoint of someone who develops software, not from the viewpoint of consumers who use software for reasons other than developing more software (which constitute the vast majority). The zealots of open source/free software present the movesment as serving manking, but in fact they have an overwhelming tendency to ignore the needs of any user not like themselves. This essay isn't an anti-open source rant, nor is it flag-waving support of Microsoft's monopolistic practices. It is intended to be a pragmatic look at why open source hasn't lived up to the hype.
Stallman's point in his editorial is that people shouldn't send Word attachments via email. Much of Stallman's rhetoric is justifiable. In fact, I think it's not only counter-productive, but rude, to send Word attachments to people who use open source software incapable of reading a
However, much of Stallman's rhetoric is the usual open source/free software wheel-spinning that shows little consideration for or understanding of the vast majority of computer users. This part of the second paragraph sticks out:
Most computer users use Microsoft Word. That is unfortunate for them, because Word is proprietary software, denying its users the freedom to study, change, copy, and redistribute it.
There are all kinds of problems with Stallman's rhetoric, but this is the most glaring and is the ultimate of example of What "Open Source Zealots Don't Get." Here's the underlying concept that the open source movement has continually failed to understand. Ready? Here it is:
Most computer users don't give a crap about studying or changing software.
Get it? 99.985% of Microsoft Word users have absolutely no desire to view -- never mind modify -- the source code of Word. Why would they? They don't know how to code! Nor do they want to learn! It's like asking them to re-design the shovel to make it more appropriate to their needs. Hey, sure maybe 0.015% of shovel-users customize their shovels, but most people use the tool off-the-shelf, as is.
Stallman is right that people would like to freely copy and distribute software, but this is where we run up against the dirty secret of open source: open source developers like to scratch their own itch. And, unfortunately, that attitude doesn't jive with creating consumer applications, so those consumer needs get left up to businesses that need to make money off their product to exist.
Open source developers tend to work on projects that solve their own problems (which usually revolve around building software and working with others who build software). That's why we have great open source operating systems, web servers, compilers, etc., but are severely lacking in open source office suites, graphics and design tools, games, etc. Independent open source developers don't come together to develop those kind of applications like they do to develop web servers, compilers, and databases because developers typically don't have a desperate need for those kinds of apps. No itch, so why scratch?
Yes, I know there are some alternatives out there (primarily because the zealots have this mistaken idea that Linux will compete with Windows and Macintosh for the consumer desktop). I know about KOffice, AbiWord, GNOME Office, OpenOffice, and Sun Microsystems StarOffice.The only competitive contender on that list is StarOffice, which, of course, started as a proprietary application. Sun Microsystem's CEO, Steve McNeally, acquired StarOffice and open sourced it purely to attempt to spite Microsoft; Bill Gates just laughed. The Gimp is a fine graphics program, but it doesn't measure up (especially running under Windows) to Adobe Photoshop, or even Jasc Paint Shop Pro. And where are the competitive open source competitors for Adobe's Illustrator, ImageReady, PageMaker, InDesign, Premier, AfterEffects, etc.? What open source app would professionals choose over Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Freehand, Flash, Shockwave, Director, Authorware, etc? Answer: they don't exist.
Open source developers don't care enough about those applications to develop them, and they sure don't care enough to develop them for the non-open source platforms (e.g. Windows, Mac) that most of the world uses. The bottom line is...well, the bottom line. If consumers want these kinds of tools that are of interest to consumers, but not of use to the geeks who know programming languages, then the consumers are either going to have to learn to code themselves (ain't gonna happen; we all have other careers) or the consumer will need to pay to have someone else develop them.
The demands for these consumer apps gets filled by corporations who exercise proprietary control over their intellectual property in order to recoup the development costs, because the companies have to hire developers to scratch someone else's itch. And that proprietary control means patents and copyrights1, because to make money off a product you must, repeat MUST, control reproduction and redistribution. And businesses are about making money.
If anyone had been able to demonstrate a competitive, scalable business model for a company that develops open source software, then I might get on board. But even RedHat, the open source developer with probably the most solid foundation and best shot, is still hemorrhaging money. Developing open source software works as a hobby; so far no one has been able to make developing open source software work as a business.
A bunch of developers might come together to develop a super open source web server like Apache to solve their own problems, but they don't get the same personal satisfaction from developing, for example, an open source consumer desktop publishing application or a GUI desktop -- witness the struggle to get KDE and GNOME to some usable point, and remember that Eazel tanked. Problems like those that have plagued the attempt to put an open source GUI on the Linux operating system illustrate another problem with open source: too many cooks in the kitchen screw up the menus. (Oooh. Pun!)
Choice is sometimes counterproductive to usefulness, and usefulness is paramount for a consumer application. This is where "network externalities" -- the economy of increasing returns -- comes into play. If ACME Industries makes ACME WonderSoap, the soap doesn't become more useful to the consumer (e.g. it doesn't clean your armpits better) if more people use it. That might be better for ACME, but my armpit gets just as fresh whether ten thousand or ten million people use ACME WonderSoap. Not so with software. If ACME industries makes a word processor, ACME WonderWord, then ACME WonderWord is much more valuable to me if ten million people use it as opposed to ten thousand, because we're all using the same tool. The best illustration of the concept of an economy of increasing returns is the Microsoft monopoly. People won't switch to Linux and StarOffice, because everyone else in their workplace or community is using Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. In a networked environment where you have to share your output and input, life is more difficult if you're not using the same tool. This is where the open source approach shoots itself in the knew -- every Microsoft Windows XP desktop works the same, but if I want to get my officemate to help me with something, and I'm running GNOME and StarOffice and he's using KDE and KOffice, then we might as well be working on Windows and Macintosh. There's no increasing returns, when there's no consistency.
The open source response to that is "it's not the tool, it's the standard." If every tool adhered to an open standard, then they'd all work together. Which is basically Stallman's point -- use text or HTML instead of the proprietary Word
1I think copyright is an idea that has run it's course, but we're not at the point yet where it can be tossed out the window. And the little known fact is that Stallman has to support copyright, even if he won't announce it very loudly, because the GNU General Public License is founded on copyright. Putting software in the public domain doesn't satisfy Stallman's zealotry because someone can still use public domain software as the foundation or part of proprietary software. Instead, Stallman advocates copyleft, whereby instead of relinquishing copyright, the software developer retains copyright and licenses the software and source code under the condition that any changes or modifications also be licensed under the same restrictions. It's admirably clever, but I think Stallman ought to be as concerned as the RIAA about copyright. If copyright unravels, so does the GPL. [back]
It is a man stretching out his anus to about the size of a baseball, and flaunting it right in front of the camera! And also he has a large scrotum!
Heidi's there, alright; your browsing skills just aren't up to par. Does this, uh, ring a bell? :)
Shaun
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
suck it down fagboi!
test
is so gay that it's funny. I can just imagine him and cowboy neal going at it every night, and thursdays they invite our friend the giver from goatse.cx.
Quite boring I'd say. Those people don't seem to know how to party. Check out these pics from a finnish scene party. :)
Who is this ??
Is she open source?
Does she like grits?
Cute AND Smart?
I think I found a replacement for Natalie Portman!!!
Here's my photo of Open Source :P
It can't be a coincidence that my browser crashed immediately after loading Craig (Microsoft) Mundie's pic. Remind me not to laugh anymore about JPGs bearing virii.
Click here if you just like to click on shit.
Hairy geeks, slimy geeks, overweighted geeks.... yes! That's exactly what we want to see! I'm sure nobody like those pictures taken at Microsoft's booth, they are very unprofessional.
:P
Oh wait...I think I like that.
Yeah right, just copy my pages why don't you - fucking lamer! And you call yourself a troll? sheez! Have some respect!
this picture of the CEO of RedHat?
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Its really irritating to click 'read the rest of this comment' only to find there's only one or two more lines anyway. Can't the thing be made a bit more intelligent and detect whether it's worth truncating a comment or not?
Ta,
AndyJ
CLOSING THE EIGHTH International World Wide Web Conference, I predicted the Internet's stock bubble would burst on Nov. 8, 1999. A thousand people hooted at my specificity.
Next, I predicted that the Internet would gigalapse before the end of Y2K. I said I wouldn't eat my column, again, if the Internet doesn't gigalapse, so the audience booed.
Then, having just sat through a ceremony honoring open-source software guru Richard Stallman, I predicted that Linux would fizzle against Windows like all previous Unixes have. The audience, which I'd expected to run me out of town on a rail, fell suddenly silent.
Taken aback, I stopped, looked around, and asked, "What?"
A few long seconds passed before a single, sad voice answered, "We are in mourning."
That sad voice was not Nicholas Petreley's, whose column hangs above mine. Petreley disagrees about the fate of Linux and his beloved Open Source Movement. He is editorial director of LinuxWorld. He's written that Windows will be Linux roadkill. He won't quietly mourn this column.
Why do I think Linux won't kill Windows? Two reasons. The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash. And Linux is 30-year-old technology.
The Open Source Movement reminds me of communism. Richard Stallman's Marx rants about the evils of the profit motive and multinational corporations. Linus Torvalds' Lenin laughs about world domination.
Disagreeing even on how to pronounce Linux -- "leenucks," says Torvalds -- they flip the collective finger at Bill Gates, the software Romanoff whom they'd like to trap in a basement somewhere. Eric Raymond breaks with Stallman, like Trotsky waiting for The People's ice pick. A Soviet Linux lies ahead, with successive five-year plans every three.
OK, communism is too harsh on Linux. Lenin too harsh on Torvalds.
How about the Back-to-the-Earth Movement? How about Linux as organic software grown in utopia by spiritualists?
If North America actually went back to the earth, close to 250 million people would die of starvation before you could say agribusiness. When they bring organic fruit to market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores -- the Open Sores Movement.
Stallman and Torvalds would have us return to the time when software was so new that one person working alone could change the world over the weekend. But modern software, like feeding 6 billion people, is more complicated than that.
Stallman's EMACS was brilliant in the 1970s, but today we demand more, specifically Microsoft Word, which can't be written over a weekend, no matter how much Coke you drink. Multinational corporations are themselves technology invented to get big things done, things that sustain us in the complicated modern world.
Unix and the Internet turn 30 this summer. Both are senile, according to journalist Peter Salus, who like me is old enough, but not too old, to remember. The Open Sores Movement asks us to ignore three decades of innovation. It's just a notch above Luddism. At least they're not bombing Redmond. Not yet anyway.
The hard part of being down on Linux and the Open Sores Movement is worrying about that menace hanging over us at year's end. No, not Y2K, but Linux's nemesis, W2K, Windows 2000, the operating system formerly known as Windows NT 5.0.
W2K is software also from the distant past -- VAX/VMS for Windows. But it will overpower Linux. NT, now approaching 23x6 availability, is already overpowering Linux. NT and NetWare constitute 60 percent of server software shipments. All Unixes make up 17 percent, and Linux is a small fraction of that. When W2K gets here, goodbye Linux.
Let's hope there's something coming soon that's better than both Linux and W2K. What would that be? Java or what? Let's be looking.
It's early, and trolls are running amok!
Someone should probably mod the parent down.
Unless that kind of stuff is actually considered funny around this time of the night.
Is DAMN HOT.... wow...
You never thought this would happen would you?
but you got to choose the illness, what would it be?
Off the top of my head, I'd say "mania", but I'm not sure if sure if that ever comes by itself, or whether it is simply one part of the "bipolar disorder" that's all the rage these days. Otherwise, I'd probably go for multiple personality disorder, and hope that none of those personalities was too self-destructive.
Avalible here!
Looks like the trolls have got them some mod points to spend.
How the hell am I going to explain that picture to my Sys Admin.
Arseholes.
The pictures were so gay that I thought it was an Apple convention.
Right to the good stuff.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
Utter non-news.
Doesn't it seem that there are an inordinate number of red-heads in this set of photos?
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
The site-design pretty much forces you to look at all 300 pix individually-- can't someone write a script that creates a text-only index-page, with the titles of each image linked to the large-sized version of the pic?
As everyone knows, Open Source software is the wave of the future. With the market share of GNU/Linux and *BSD increasing every day, interest in Open Source Software is at an all time high.
Developing software within the Open Source model benefits everyone. People can take your code, improve it and then release it back to the community. This cycle continues and leads to the creation of far more stable software than the 'Closed Source' shops can ever hope to create.
So you're itching to create that Doom 3 killer but don't know where to start? Read on!
The most important thing that any Open Source project needs is a Sourceforge page. There are tens of thousands of successful Open Source projects on Sourceforge; the support you receive here will be invaluable.
OK, so you've registered your Sourceforge project and set the status to '0: Pre-Thinking About It', what's next?
Now you need to set up your SourceForge homepage. Keep it plain and simple - don't use too many HTML tags, just knock something up in VI. Website editors like FrontPage and DreamWeaver just create bloated eye-candy - you need to get your message to the masses!
Since you probably can't program at all you'll need to try and find some people who think they can. If your project is a game you'll probably need an artist too. Ask for help on your new Sourceforge pages. Here is an example to get you started: Thousands of talented programmers and artists hang out at Sourceforge ready to devote their time to projects so you should get a team together in no time!
So now you have your team together you are ready to change your projects status to '1: Pre-Bickering'. You will need to discuss your ideas with your team mates and see what value they can add to the project. You could use an Instant Messaging program like MSN for this, but since you run Linux you'll have to stick to e-mail.
Don't forget that YOU are in charge! If your team doesn't like the idea of giant robotic spiders just delete them from the project and move on. Someone else can fill their place and this is the beauty of Open Source development. The code might end up a bit messy and the graphics inconsistant - but it's still 'Free as in Speech'!
Now that you've found a team of right thinking people you're ready to start development. Be prepared for some delays though. Programming is a craft and can take years to learn. Your programmer may be a bit rusty but will probably be writing "hello world" programs after school in no time.
Closed Source games like Doom 3 use the graphics card to do all the hard stuff anyhow, so your programmer will just have to get the NVidia 'API' and it will be plain sailing! Giant robot spiders, here we come!
So it's been a few years, you still have no files released or in CVS. Your programmer can't get enough time on the PC because his mother won't let him use it after 8pm. Your artist has run off with a Thai She-Male. Your project is still at '1: Pre-Bickering'...
Congratulations! You now have a successful Open Source project on Sourceforge! Pat yourself on the back, think up another idea and do it all again! See how simple it is?
... the true title of this article should be:
Photos Of Quirky Open Source Conventioneers
In the words of Francis, from PvP: "Gaaayyyyyyy..."
Not one comment over 4 points... I guess there isn't a whole lot of insightful, interesting, funny obersvations you can make about other people's photos.
Not even a grammar mistake to whine about (although the use of "also" and "too" may be questionable).
How about "Imagine a Julian (SuperSnail) Cash amazing photo of a Beowulf cluster"...
I always thought a choad was the part between your nuts and your asshole! thanks, on by, for setting me straight. Mod parent up (+5, Informative) immediately!
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Come on people, when laying out a page, don't hardcode the width of the [frames|table columns] - just because you run at 800x600 doesn't mean some of us don't run at 1600x1200, and vice-versa. I'd expect this from a Windows site (Window motto - "Everyone MUST do things just like I do!"), but from a site targeting OSS/FS?
www.eFax.com are spammers
For sure, the photos where girls appear take much more time to load since ./ effect!
N-e-R-d-Z-z-Z-z-Z!!!!!!!
hehehehehehehe
We figured since OSCON 2002 is almost upon us that this would be a fun thing to post.
I guess Linux geeks have a different definition of 'fun' than I do...
Definitely Tourette Syndrome!
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I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
Are you sure it wasn't a few errant trojii? Maybe it was gaggle of wormii. They're the worst -- they get into your system with tentacles like octopii and barbs as sharp as cactii. You need to step way back and get statii on all your system when you get infected with those. Or you could take a one or more hiatii from online computing altogether and minimize your chances of getting infected.
I hate viruses.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
Do you really expect people to pay for this content?
There's no nudity. I looked everywhere. What's wrong with you, chrisd?
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/set2/small_os5_r 10_0092.html
5 _r 08_9965.html
5 _r 10_0118.html
http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/set2/small_os
http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/perl/small_os
Wow... I sure got an eyeful of the classic nerd being a classic fool.
Long live people that go outside and have kissed a girl!
In one of the seminars I attended promoting linux I saw a picture of a large number of the developers responsible for linux (LT,AC ... etc). It had marker with names of each person in the picture. I could not find the source of the picture but would love to get an electronic copy of it. anyone know were to find it.
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