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GU4DEC Live On The Web
Programmers and others interested in the GNOME desktop environment gather annually for an event called GU4DEC, the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. This year, there's extensive live coverage of GU4DEC (currently in progress, at Trinity College, Dublin) on the web, including a growing online photo album, audio recordings and video streams, and presentation materials. (The schedule is handy if you want to follow along.) I hope there's a similar sort of integrated documenation / dissemination from the upcoming KDE developers' conference at the Czech Republic's Nove Hrady.
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Liselotte looks out at the cottage window towards evening and talks to her mother about the hard way in which father has to work. She says:
"Do you know, mother, what I sometimes wish? I should like to be rich. Very rich! And with my money I would make people happy. I should love to help the poor!"
They go on talking. Liselotte asks:
"Tell me, mother, how does it happen that the Jews are so rich? Our teacher has told us at school that here are thousands of Jews in the world who are millionaires. And yet the Jews do not work. It is the non-Jews who must work. The Jew only trades. But one cannot become a millionaire by trading with paper, bones, old clothing and furniture!"
Mother explains how it is done.
"The Jew is quite indifferent when the cheated non-Jew goes hungry. Jews have no pity. They strive for one thing: â" money. They do not care two hoots how they get it."
Liselotte asks how they can behave in this mean way.
Mother answers:
"Child, one thing you must realise. The Jew is not a person like us. The Jew is a Devil. And a Devil has no sense of honour. A Devil deals only in meanness and crime. You have read your Bible, Liselotte. There it says the Jewish God once said to the Jews: 'You must eat up the people of the earth!' Do you know what that means? It means the Jew should destroy all other peoples. They should bleed and exploit them till they die. That is what it means."
Liselotte tries to understand these things.
Mother continues:
"Yes, my child, that's the Jew! The God of the Jews is gold. There is no crime he would not commit to get it. He has no rest till he can sit on the top of a gold-sack. He has no rest till he has become King Money. And with this money he would make us all into slaves and destroy us. With this money he seeks to dominate the whole world. All that is contained in the following saying:
'The Jew has only one idea in this world;
It is: Money, Money, Money!
By every kind of trick and device
To make himself immeasurably rich.
What cares he for scorn and contempt!
Money was and is his God!
Through money he hopes to lord it over us,
And achieve the mastery of the world.' "
I can't believe I'm not there... it sounds awesome. Drink a beer for me.
Why does GNOME look like shit???
Where is the coverage? Only 15 pics (one of them from the conference, 14 of dublin), not a single slide, the live video is broken... and one video of alan kay's presentation. ok...
A conference in Dublin live on the web??? Only if they can provide a virtual Guinness...
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The 4 is silent, you see.
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All underpants GNOMES report to Dublin!
Trinity College Dublin.
WTF is up with this? I thought it was bad enough when people called every machine on their LAN after a Matrix character!
You can bet your ass my kids won't be going to Neo College, Dublin or Morpheus College, Dublin.
graspee
Q: What do you call a GNOME in Ireland?
A: A leprechaun.
Methinks that the conference's local profile might benefit from a name change.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
What's with that acronym? I could understand GUADEC, or GUDEC, but where does that "4" come from in GU4DEC?
Surely they aren't trying to b3 l33t!
I hope this doesn't get modded down, but you know there all these conferences, trade shows, demos, etc., and exactly what kind of technical job do you have if you get to go to all these?
I mean if I told my boss I was going to take a week off and go to Electronics Expo in Vegas he'd have a fit. Sounds like a great conference, but who get's to attend?
Who, I ask, are all these people attending conferences? Are they some sort of neo-efficient coders? Any one have any ideas?
Signed,
Chained-to-Cubicle.
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
The Czech Republic locale mentioned in the article is at the furthest point from the center. Founded in 810AD by a group of merchants ill-equipped with a sense of direction seeking to sell their wares in Prague, they decided that they had enough already and settled in the first spot they found with water.
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Am I the only one reading this who thinks they should have a special event ham station with GU4DEC as a callsign? (As far as I can tell, G?4DEC isn't currently in use.)
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Stupid troll fucker
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I must be missing the joke -- what black holes are you talking about? The APOD in the link just describes the stellar nursery
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A: A quarter-pounder with cheese.
that's 31337...you obviously aren't.
good day.
Ah, yes. GUADEC. Where you can find out 101 different uses for your regular garden GNOME.
I wonder if the GNOME Foundation will be designing new platforms for their Network Object Model Environment.
Ask me about repetitive DNA
Come on, geeks... You know you want some. Perhaps, quite more than just some.
Hopefully, someone is working on a spell checker for Slashdot too. Not quite GNOMEY, but hey, it's linux.
now fuck off, bitchtits.
I emailed the organisers about the use of proprietary video formats for streaming video. Here's the response I got:
I fully agree with you, Ciaran. I think in this case it may have been a matter of under-staffing (or under-volunteerism) to organize the event.
I've searched the foundation-list mailinglist and have found no discussion about the use of this format.
In short: the use of this video format was not a decision of the GNOME Foundation.
Free Software has proven that it is a viable alternative to proprietary systems. We have come too far to now ask people to compromise on the beliefs that have gotten us to where we are today.
I hope future decisions are given a public discussion.
Ciaran O'Riordan
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Did they look at Videolan (www.videolan.org)? It is GPL'd and it supports both multicast and unicast streaming.
I can't stress enough how COOL Videolan is. I use the server at home to multicast my TV signals to every point on my lan--so no matter where I am I can watch.
I hope they focus on ousting metacity in favor or any other window manager available. This piece of garbage has single-handedly driven me to KDE. Not only is it very feature poor and incompatible with a number of existing applications, it's development model is closed (HP won't fix the long list of bugs listed at bugzilla.gnome.org, and he won't accept patches either).
A: They only had two cars.
There's a discussion that took place a few months ago on the GU4DEC mailing list, where you can learn a little about how the event was planned. There's also more info in this press release.
Ummmmmmmm, Hi, but I use WindowsXP, not KDE. KDE also looks pretty shitty, like most things on Linux do, but GNOME is shittyness to the extreme. Who exactly created that ass-fisting, twat-licking, fuck-ugly pathetic attempt of an interface? With a name like "Znonymous Coward" (WOW HAHAHA ROFL CLASSIC N1 N1) it was likely you created something like that.
MY EYES! MY EYES!
(BTW, word of advice, GNOME should start creating a MODERN skin like the rest of the world has like OSX, XP, and KDE. Then it would look a lot less like a cheap clone of Win98SE.. well, not even that.. a cheap clone of Win95 )
scratching the itch...
Europe? WTF?
Conference ?
OK, I'll be there tomorrow, just let me catch my old Dublin, TX train.
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USE FLUXBOX GNOME SUCKS
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I just checked. Your right, that wasn't the real Miguel. The real Miguel has username: The Bungi (221687)
/.after complaints from ximian! its much more of a challenge to post a carefully crafted troll at -1 to get modded up to +5. After Mono & SourceGear Move Forward MdI briefly had excellent karma... bothered?
:^)
Dr Evil laugh!
I'm going to really start hunting you now. Whenever you post anything other than as AC, I'll reply with my "this is a known impostor troll" template until you stop or lose all your karma and have to post at -1.
lol, if i cared about karma would i be replying AGAIN? Most of the time the mods are on the ball and MdI has terrible karma, this account (and even the IP address of my ISP) has spent weeks blocked from posting to
No, this account is intended to create angry responses just like the ones you always provide. Thakyou kindly the bungi
Be very fucking afraid
please keep feeding me
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