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Lulu Tech Circus
Stacy Doster writes "Lulu Tech Circus, the latest endeavor of Red Hat co-founder Bob Young, is coming to Raleigh, NC, Sept 27-29th. Then on to Boston, DC, Chicago, Toronto and Atlanta. Lulu Tech Circus is going to have everything geek - Don Becker, LAN tournaments, a swap meet, Robot building and more. Check out the cool experiences. Stop by or nominate yourself or someone you know in the Raleigh area for The Lulus. Three Lulus will be given to the three winning uber-geeks. The winning prize is a trip for two to Kennedy Space Center."
Please move along.
damn you got it
"The winning prize is a trip for two to Kennedy Space Center."
Second Prize is a trip for four.
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
God, please stay in Michigan, Taco, don't ruin it for everyone.
Hmmm. Wouldn't uber-geeks want to go to LBJ in Houston instead of Kennedy Space Center since that is where all the real geeks monitor the US Space program?
Oooh! Or what about JPL? They always seem to have really cool stuff going on there. Of course the geek would annoy the hell out of his significant other by fawning over their rack-mounted clusters and robots... so I guess going to Kennedy is best.
What is music when you despise all sound?
Then again, that gives me time to build up my small ubergeek to super "Larry Wall" uberness.
OK, you may now mod me to oblivion, I am full of love. =)
-Cyc
/.'s 10 Millionth
This is a perfect setting for NAMBLA recruitment!
PS: Red Hat is the best, bar none.
Everything geek?
So no women then? except for the kind you gotta pay for? That last expo I went to was costly...They should include a discount in the admission fee...
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WIN XBOX!
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Tech Circus is giving away a XBOX to one lucky winner from the first 1000 paid registrants.
I thought this was to be another linux-powered Gates-hating circle jerk?
Seems like if you ever had anything to do with linux at all Slashdot will advertise whatever you send 'em.
Karma shmarma.. Insightful/Flamebait or Funny/Troll are subject to the intelligence of the moderator, not the poster.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Stop posting duplicate stories.
There is a heck of a lot of marketing shite on that website which abstracts what they are actually doing.
I made the mistake once of driving 3 hours across Florida to go to Kennedy Space Center. What a disappointment! Anything the public gets access to is run by a lame amusement park company and the whole thing is set up more for 8-year-old boys obsessed with rockets than geeks. The only particularly cool aspect of the place was the actual Saturn V rocket hanging, disassembled, in an enormous hangar-like building. Other than that, though, it pretty much sucked.
For the Side Show, a real never before seen "Secure OS" from Microsoft.
5 days!?
boy oh boy ARE YOU EVER GOING PLACES!
visiting uncle sally with yer mom over the long weekend and forgetting yer laptop isnt 'a life'
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I can't wait to hear from you
-FortKnox
There's a booger entangled in my pubic hair.
No civilized person on Earth considers a trip to Alabama a "prize".
"Cuz they may be training them there, but no way are they lettting people from Huntsville fly this stuff."
"Larry busted out of the capsule and is trying to hit a satelite with a beer bottle. Oh, and we need to know how to unclog the toilets because the boys ate all the freeze-dried chili and they're tore up something fierce."
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
I'm interviewing for the tech circus "IT wonder human" role in 30 minutes... wish me luck.
BlackNova Traders
Sorry, I'm just kind of obsessed that a country would outlaw electronic gaming of any kind. Wow.
Sorry to burst your bubble:
Winning an Xbox would give me the chance to check out the mod to run Linux without personally enriching M$.
I thought the only company a geek needed in a trip was his own right hand.
Mmmmmmmm...Simpson's reference.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - famous slashdot "Stephen King Dead at 54" troll poster was found dead in his Florida home this morning. He was 54. There weren't any more details. I'm sure the slashdot community will miss him; even if you're not a fan of his work there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
So far I have the following two terms:
Meat Curtains
Sausage Wallet
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This should be the finest geekfest ever! Wall to wall useless eaters slobbering about Linux. Man, just think of the smell. 1000's of unbathed jerks wandering around trying to out cool each other! Looking down on anybody that seems to be "new" to Linux. That's how you win converts, talk down to them! Don't even show up with anthing less than a Pentium 4 2.2 gig, you will be laughed at. Don't bring any junk to see either, that will bring down the rath of the uberjerks. Man, don't you just love geeks.
Seems to be a bigger waste of your time. Do you think this will stop b/c you said so?
Secondly, for those who can read. This has nothing to do with Red Hat. Other than being Bob Young's newest company.
I made the mistake once of driving 3 hours across Florida to go to Kennedy Space Center. What a disappointment! Anything the public gets access to is run by a lame amusement park company and the whole thing is set up more for 8-year-old boys obsessed with rockets than geeks. The only particularly cool aspect of the place was the actual Saturn V rocket hanging, disassembled, in an enormous hangar-like building. Other than that, though, it pretty much sucked.
... that can be really interesting, if you like aviation. More meat, less fluff in my experience (since, in a real sense, they are generally trying to sell you on an airplane, or at least an airplane's concept, and assume you're knowledgable enough about aviation to be worth selling to).
When I went to Houston it wasn't bad, though I would have liked a little more technical detail on what was going on in the control room at the time (they were running a simulation of an aborted shuttle takeoff, where the shuttle makes a big u-turn in the sky and lands) would have been nice. There was the whole visitor-centor nonsense that seems to plauge more and more landmarks these days, but overall the experience was interesting, if only for about an hour or so.
Now, touring an aircraft production facility (for general aviation aircraft)
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
Perhaps we now know the identity of the anonymous benefactor who's put up a $200,000 bounty for anyone who can get Linux to boot on an unmodded X-Box!
Insanity is the last line of defence for the master diplomat. But you have to lay the groundwork early.
Look at the person who submitted this 'story'. It is a person who runs the site advertised.
So do we get to see RMS light himself on fire? I'd pay to see that.
Yeah, I just loved the effect that this experience has in showing how.... professional these geeks must be! Cmon, this is a TECH circus, how hard it is not to print database error messages to your web pages?
/usr/local/adodb/drivers/adodb-postgres64.inc.php on line 296
Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: Sorry, too many clients already in
I nominated Bill Gates for a Lulu, because him and his company create the best software & hardware on this planet.
... it will be really awesome. I was working with them over the summer working on my website, GoRobotics.net. They have a whole lot of really great ideas. Believe me, they don't want it to turn out to be a big trade show that normal geeks can't afford any more than we do. While some thing may seem expensive you have to remember that this stuff does cost money and nothing is free in this world ... including music and software. The TechCircus still has a few bugs to work out, but hey, this is their first show. I've talked a bit with Will Jahnke, the head guy at the Circus, and he definitely has a vision. Fear not geeks, it could really rock!
As a life long Linux user, I can't say i have ever heard of a 'vagina'? Can I run Linux on it?
Wasn't she Boss Hogg's wife?
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Where is Jon Katz these days?
Being the NAMBLA member that he is, he's most likely away on a child sex tour.
...will the goatse guy be part of the freaks' show? Also, will there be any bearded penguins?
Get your tickets now!
Just wanted to let everybody know that this is going to be a cool event.
I am a member of a team of people who are presenting our Opensource Fighting Robot, OpenSaurus, at this event.
We have a booth and are doing a talk about autonomous fighting robots.
If you have a fighting robot and are willing to bring it to fight ours, please email andrew@liststream.com and we will chat.
Check out our web site at http://opensaurus.com for more info.
Although I'm planning on going, mostly because Andrew Hunt of Ruby fame is going to be there, I got kind of burnt out by all the human-spam in the Raleigh area.
What do I mean by human spam? I mean, first I hear some LuLu rep talking about it at the local Triangle Mac Users Group meeting.. I laughed because 90% of the folks in that meeting don't know what "Darwin" is, let alone what most of the cool talks are about (except I did see they are offering Final Cut Pro seminars!).
Then the worst. A few days later THEY SPAMMED OUR SLASHDOT MEETUP! Of all the things to not spam, they sent some droid (Photo #2) over to our nice meetup at Flying Saucer, to sell us all on the idea of going to this thing.
After about 25 minutes, his salesmanship is over, and the business cards handed out, he dissappears.
What the hell were they thinking? Welp.. I guess if it gets folks to go.
Of course, our local slashdot trolling committe made fun of the silly name. But that's typical.
Mildly interesting tangent, we had a sales guy from this group show up at our second Slashdot Meetup in Raleigh, NC. He showed up and pretended to be interested in Slashdot and geek stuff, but really was trying to recruit people to show up or present or whatever. I was never quite sure what he wanted, but he really came across as a sales guy.
He made sure everyone used the right buzzwords.. it's not a conference, it's not a trade show.. I don't remember what he called it, but I wasn't impressed. He had to explain what the heck a Lulu was (all I could remember was the little girl from my mom's old comic books). One of the guys I was with had a beef with RedHat, as well, as he had lost a tad of money, and the guy who was starting Lulu Tech Circus was still making tons off it.
Anyways, the guy was giving out cards and stuff, but he didn't really impress anyone, I don't think. We were far more impressed with the fact that the bar we happened upon had a wireless network and two people had randomly brought laptops..
KSC isn't bad, but it's not as great as you might think.
But again, I'm spoiled.
I can see an SR-71, a V2, Redstone rockets, Apollo 13 (the real deal), Russian Soyez and Vostok capsules, Chuck Yeager's jacket, Svetlana's space suit.
Then I can go eat homemade Amish pie.
www.eFax.com are spammers
...and it seemed to go well. I will find out for sure before the end of the week.
BlackNova Traders
Please oh please oh please oh please come to Southern California with this show.
I'm tired of the same old "computer shows," harvest festivals, and monster truck/dirtbike events. I need this!!!
Tim_F
That's been my favorite for a long time now.