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South Pacific Mac Developers' Conference 2002

Posted by pudge on from the if-you-happen-to-be-in-the-area dept.

Andrew Lindesay writes "There will be a South Pacific Mac Developers' Conference held in Auckland, New Zealand on the 24th and 25th of August. This is an exciting opportunity for those interested in Mac OS X development in New Zealand to meet and make contacts. The conference this year will be hosting a number of talks from Apple USA as well as local speakers, covering a number of topics relating to Mac OS X development. We are now taking registrations for the event."

17 comments

  1. Take Me Home Tonight by The+Lyrics+Guy · · Score: -1

    Eddie Money feat. Ronnie Spector - Take Me Home Tonight

    I feel hungry it's a hunger
    That tries to keep a man awake at night
    Are you the answer I shouldn't wonder
    When I can feel you whet my appetite
    With all the power you're releasing
    It isn't safe to walk the city streets alone
    Anticipation's running through me
    Let's find the keys and turn the engine on.

    I can feel you breathe
    I can feel your heart beat faster.

    Take me home tonight
    I don't want to let you go till you see the light
    Take me home tonight
    Listen honey
    Just like Ronnie sang
    Be my little baby.

    I get frightened in all this darkness
    I get nightmares I hate to sleep alone
    I need some company a guardian angel
    To keep me warm when the cold winds blow.

    I can feel you breathe
    I can feel your heart beat faster.

    Take me home tonight
    I don't want to let you go till you see the light
    Take me home tonight
    Listen honey
    Just like Ronnie sang
    Be my little baby
    Be my little baby.

    Just like Ronnie sang
    Just like Ronnie sang
    Be my little baby
    Be my darling
    I feel a hunger
    It's a hunger.

    (Repeat chorus)

  2. Do you Opera users love it wide? I know I do! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    -klerck

    DTABN

    1. Re:Do you Opera users love it wide? I know I do! by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1

      Now I'll have to use superior OSS software - MOzilla. It hasn't been affected by one of your tricks - oh well.

      --
      --Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
  3. Woo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Trans. From the Host Geek Pt. 1 by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Credits: BankOfAmerica_ATM

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    Begin Fwded Message:

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    ---------------
    - Tuesday June 24, 6pm - 7:30pm


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    310-581-1500
    ---------------
    - Tuesday July 9, 6pm - 7:30pm


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    949-729-4433
    ---------------
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    ---------------
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    Some point later, I'm here in this white room. It's scary at first, I know they're watching me. All I have in this room is this computer terminal. This has got to be the Project Fastus that's what the ATM has been trying to get inside all along. So I guess it's great that I'm (and he???) is insid, it's like I'm in the frickin' Death Star or something, but I don't see any garbage chutes or anything.

    After a few hours of clicking through on thiscomputer terminal (looks like they're running some old-ass *NIX : ) these two guys in suits come into my room from my room. Now it's serious.

    They drag me into a room full of all this really sciency equipment-you know, blooping and bleeping gadgets, big cold noises from the air conditioner. I thought I was in 2001 for a second, except instead of HAL, there's this big bald guy. He's red and pretty sweaty despite the massive air conditioning. He barks a few words to the suited guys and they go away.

    "So you've been harboring our little ATM problem," says the man nonchalantly. I don't say anything (I'm nervous). He restarts his spiel a few seconds later, this time with a bit of veins comung out of his neck.

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    "I belive the ATM!" I told him, stickin to my guns while Istuck it to the man.

    "You'll learn in time," the red and sweaty man said it from his mouth, but the noise of his voice was all over the place. And then he was gone. Not by turning around, by like, vanishing. And the sciency room was gone too, replaced by the big white place I was stuck in. I don't know where I am. But this shit is If you are ready to become the biggest man you can be, then order your supply of Magna-RX+ today! See for yourself, what thousands of satisfied men (and their lovers) have already discovered: Magna-RX+ is the world's #1 Best-Selling Penis Enlargement Formula for one very simple reason: IT WORKS AND NOTHING ELSE CAN COMPARE!
    crazy. If someone gets this message...please help.


    END TRANSMISSION.

    - poopbot: news for turds, stuff that splatters
  5. Penis! Penis! by Anal+Cocks · · Score: -1

    THE TROLL POLKA (ARSCHFICKEN MIT ZIEGEN)
    By Serial Troller, 2002-06-25


    Is das nicht ein early post? Ja! Das ist mein early post! Is das nicht ein Goatse ghost? Ja! Das ist mein Goatse ghost! Early post, Goatse ghost, Oh, du schone, Oh, du schone, Oh, du schone, Slashdot sucks!
    Is das post at minus one? Ja! Das ist at minus one! Is das trolling so much fun? Ja! Das trolling is so fun! Minus one, trolling fun, Early post, Goatse ghost, Oh, du schone, Oh, du schone, Oh, du schone, Slashdot sucks!
    Is das nicht ein big crapflood? Ja! Das ist mein big crapflood! Is it worthless Linux FUD? Ja! Das ist mein Linux FUD! Big crapflood, Linux FUD, Minus one, trolling fun, Early post, Goatse ghost, Oh, du schone, Oh, du schone, Oh, du schone, Slashdot sucks!
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    ____________________

    Change Log:

    • Subtle changes to most verses. It sounded really gay before.
    • Removed all references to Taco's pud. May have been high at time. Will investigate further.
    • Finally think I have goat sex written correctly in German. I think. Arschficken?

    (C) 2002 Serial Troller. Permission to reproduce this document is granted provided that you send all the bukkake porn you can find to serialtroller@hotmail.com.

    --

    Hey, kid... wanna touch my "kernel patch"?

    -- Alan Cox

  6. Things you won't see there by speechpoet · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. The iSheila 2. Opening number: a big "Some Enchanted Evening" singalong 3. Steve Jobs resplendent in a koala-fur turtleneck 4. Seminar: "Networking for Sheep" 5. Anything that SpyMac says will be there 6. Delegates from Canadian Samoa 7. New USB-to-MIDI-to-didgeridoo interface 8. Announcement of Microsoft lawsuit against Micronesia for trademark infringement 9. Crowds jamming the "Download bootleg 'Crocodile Hunter' AVIs!" booth 10. The G5 (sigh)

    1. Re:Things you won't see there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I really hope that you know where New Zealand is. Hint: It is not a state of Aussie.

      All the mac users of NZ could attend though and you'd still have empty seats.

      Heh, I'd like to see the crocodile hunter find a dangerous animal here to wrestle with. "Look what we have here the dangerous kiwi with that fierce beak, worms don't stand a chance. Be careful!!! Whoaaa!"

    2. Re:Things you won't see there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I moderated you down because that was plain dumb. Dumber than macaddict even. Shut the fuck up you fucking joke

  7. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who gives a fuck about the Mac. Please go away fatboy 'Pudge.'

  8. PttP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is now official. Netcraft confirms: *Slashdot is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *Slashdot community
    when IDC
    confirmed that *Slashdot market share has dropped yet again, now down to less
    than a
    fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft
    survey which plainly states that *Slashdot has lost more market share, this news

    serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Slashdot is collapsing in
    complete
    disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the
    recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *Slashdot's future. The
    hand
    writing is on the wall: *Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be
    any
    future at all for *Slashdot because *Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very
    bad for
    *Slashdot. As many of us are already aware, *Slashdot continues to lose market
    share. Red
    ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeSlashdot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
    developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeSlashdot
    developers
    Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly.
    There can no longer be any doubt: FreeSlashdot is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenSlashdot leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenSlashdot. How
    many users
    of NetSlashdot are there? Let's see. The number of OpenSlashdot versus
    NetSlashdot posts on
    Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400
    NetSlashdot users. Slashdot/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of
    NetSlashdot
    posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Slashdot/OS. A recent article put
    FreeSlashdot at about 80 percent of the *Slashdot market. Therefore there are
    (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeSlashdot users. This is consistent with the number
    of
    FreeSlashdot Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeSlashdot went
    out
    of business and was taken over by SlashdotI who sell another troubled OS. Now
    SlashdotI is
    also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *Slashdot has steadily declined in market share.
    *Slashdot is
    very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *Slashdot is to
    survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *Slashdot continues to
    decay.
    Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all
    practical purposes, *Slashdot is dead.

    Fact: *Slashdot is dying

    It seems that the Janitors, in their infinite wisdom, have banned people who have low/negative karma from posting more than twice per day. Personally I find this completely stupid.

    All the trolls will simply post AC as I am doing now. Proxies can be used to get around any ipid bans that result from AC trolls.

    Surely it is better to let the trolls post at -1 where it is out of most peoples way rather than have them all post at 0 and suck up mod points and time from "legit" users?

    I have tried to communicate my thoughts to the slashcode team but alas, to no avail. They are probably all sittin on their starwars bed sheets watching anime hentai tentacle rape pr0n.

    Here is my proposal: All trolls that cannot post using their account post as AC. Use proxies if need be (www.antiproxy.com [antiproxy.com] is a good source). I suspect this will show them how useless this idea is. Will blocking troll uid's stop trolls? NO! will ipid bans stop trolls? NO!

    I seriously fail to see the point of this and consider it a stupid move by the janitors.

    They want us to troll and crapflood at 0 rather than -1? Fine! So be it! No longer will we post at -1 where few people dare to visit, now we will post at 0 where we will be more visible and waste peoples time, energy and mod points! Hoorah!

    The next thing you know, posting AC will be banned! Then what will you do? No more posting interesting insider tidbits! Groupthink all the way baby! oh yeah!

    So logout, post shit, use proxies and above all have fun!

    Let the games begin! -- on by

    1. Re:PttP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, Slashdot is dying. A symptom of that is all these fucking Macintosh stories.

  9. Make sure you charge all batteries before you go by evil_roy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do they have electricity in Auckland yet ? I was looking eastward a couple of years back and the lights went out all of a sudden. They haven't come back on yet ...so either the power is still off or the last person out really did turn off the lights.

  10. Why don't you just get a REAL operating system? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Instead of flying all over the country to find other Mac users to talk to because you feel lonely.

    1. Re:Why don't you just get a REAL operating system? by gibler · · Score: -1

      Yep. They should use linux. Heaps more people than the mac. Hell, without the use of macs in universities it would be dead here.

      Dead.

  11. Re:Make sure you charge all batteries before you g by finnatic · · Score: 1

    Yes, electricity supply to Auckland central was restored - if you haven't noticed it since, I'd suggest checking what you're drinking (does XXXX always stand for Beer?).

    For lots of details on the outage (and it could happen to any city... let's face that ok?):
    http://www.ema.gov.au/5virtuallibrary/pdfs/vol13no 4/davis.pdf

  12. Bah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bah. Who cares? It was only Dorkland.
    I had a good laugh when it was going on.

    This limit of two posts per 24 hours for those wth low karma is silly. I'm now posting as an AC.

    Mod me all you like.