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Europe's Largest Linux Event Draws Nigh
steman writes "On the 10th of July 2003 LinuxTag begins, the largest Linux event in Europe. It will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany. Four days will be packed with up to 20,000 visitors, over 120 exhibitors (including more than 30 Free Software orientated projects such as FFII, BSD, KDE and Debian), coding marathon and many conferences (including specialist business and government conferences). Best of all, in the spirit of the Free Software Movement, it will be largely free (entrance, and many conferences are free)."
from the editorial staff at Slashdot. I'm sure I speak for the millions of people (?) who read this website. We are all tired of Michael's endless tripe (a perfect example of which is the previous story).
Please, email all of the other editors and malda@slashdot.org and petition for the removal of Michael from the editorial staff. If we work together, we can make this website great again.
1st
uh first post maybe, doubtful - anonymous it is
Infact even slashdot has their own place like in years past. Here is the feed.
http://saveie6.com/
Step aside and make way for it...HERE IT IS!!!
[b][i][size=9]FIRST POST[/size][/b][/i]
*whew*
Whats the deal? Seems like decent articles to me?
maybe Im missing something
does that make things NE clearer for you?
If you love Linux, mod this post up!!!!
YOU'LL BE DEAD!
This will most likely end up with the French and Poles surrenduring immediately, and the Germans rounding up Jews to be gassed.
Due to the terribly dire economic conditions imposed by the eurocratic statist policies, the Germans couldn't afford any Zyklon-B, so they'll most likely just end up farting in the Jews faces and exposing them to French body odor.
The DEAD vote for YOU!!
Which is why they should be using BSD or Windows, not that Linux trash.
Europe's Largest Linux Event Draws Nigh
:P
As in Bill Nye, the science guy? If so, I'm SO there.
My blog
I generally ignore spelling errors, as they tend to simply be typos. What we have here is a thinking error. Come on, people, repeat after me: orientate is not a word.
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
http://saveie6.com/
I think you'll find that this is the proper link. THANK YOU!!
It's good to see friendly cooperation with BSD in open source events like this.
No matter how free the admission, I can't afford the transportation. You insensitive clod.
Plus, I don't want to leave the U.S.A. Who knows if I can make it back in.
P.S. 55DF4942184C9AE0 activation. You have your instructions.
as it conflicts with when NAMBLA will be holding their event.
Hey FUCKNUT.....
Yes, I am posting with my REAL account, unlike you COWARDLY PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!
Don't you know the first thing about the English language? Libertarian and Nazi do NOT belong together in the same descriptive sentence - they are OPPOSITE POLITICAL VIEWPOINTS. Libertarians believe in NON-COERSION and NON-VIOLENCE - which would also make the "Child molesting" part of your post a completely FUCKED UP nonsensical bag of BULLSHIT.
You are a DIPSHIT, and not a very smart one at that. Do us all a favor and go BACK TO SCHOOL, before you post about things you know NOTHING about.
Now, if you had maybe left the word "libertarian" out of your posting.... hmmm.... my might have something there.
Best wishes on your future educational adventures,
Bawko
Government is the monopoly on the legal (socially accepted) use of coersive force. Think about this next time you vote.
In a recent interview attempt with stallman ... I was graced with the following answer to nearly every question "Open Source does not mean Free".
Which means that BSD (and formerly KDE) are not "free" software.
Tsk tsk tsk ... guess I'll go back to my X11/apache/php/perl/gtk/gnome/evolution/mozilla/gn u/linux now.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
please oh please let this event be sponsored by Right Guard in conjunction with Ivory soap!
Shouldn't that be "draweth nigh"?
You forgot to include the link in your post:
http://www.lp.org/
any inconsistencies. ALSO, in the future, you might want to CUT BACK ON THE CAFFIENE.
PS
MOST people would find it ODD you object to the mislabeling of any rands' philosphy, but NOT MIND CHILD ABUSE. Hmmm....R U hosting a nambla meeting any time soon there, fucko?
Where are "The Beatles" of my generation? I want a refund.
The Coding Marathon will be conducted in the Olympic spirit
Corrupt officials and steroid junkies welcome!
[f. F. orient-er: see -ATE3 6.] 1. a. trans. = ORIENT v. 1. 1880 1849 1849 Ecclesiologist IX. 153 It was always thought preferable to orientate rightly where possible. 1880 JEFFERIES Gr. Ferne F. ix. 218 'Don't disturb the skeleton!' cried Felix, anxious to make scientific notes..whether the grave was 'orientated' [etc.].
b. fig. = ORIENT v. 2. 1884 1866 1866 Ecclesiologist XXVII. 158 Gaining the knowledge requisite for practical working..and orientating himself in general. 1884 World 26 Mar. 12/2 To orientate exactly his present mode of thought.
2. intr. To face towards the east, or in some specified direction; to turn to the east. 1883 1877 1850
1850 NEALE East. Ch. I. 222 [The church] of Haghios Georgios..in Crete..orientates north, and [that] of the Asomatoi..in the Morea..orientates south. 1877 J. D. CHAMBERS Div. Worship i. 1 The Church should Orientate, that is, should be built from West to East, the entrances..being at the West end. 1883 Ch. Times XXI. 673/4 The choir..do not fail to orientate.
3. trans. (Chem.) = ORIENT v. 4b. 1926 1924 1924 E. J. HOLMYARD Outl. Org. Chem. xix. 368 When several compounds have been orientated in this way, the constitution of other substances may be ascertained by converting them into substances of known constitution. 1926 J. READ Text-bk. Org. Chem. xxiv. 550 Such multitudes of benzene derivatives have been orientated that it is a comparatively simple matter to apply this method.
orient, v.
[a. F. orient-er to place facing the east, f. orient east.] 1. trans. To place or arrange (anything) so as to face the east; spec. to build (a church) with the longer axis due east and west, and the chancel or chief altar at the eastern end; also, to bury with the feet to the east.
1727- 41 1896 1727-41 CHAMBERS Cycl. s.v. Orienting, In most religions, particular care has been taken to have their temples oriented.St. Gregory Thaumaturgus is said to have made a mountain give way, because it prevented the orienting of a church he was building. 1896 JEVONS in Classical Rev. Feb. 22/1 The primitive Aryan in taking his bearings literally oriented himself and turned to the east.
b. By extension: To place with the four faces towards the four points of the compass; to place or adjust in any particular way with respect to the cardinal points or other defined data; to place or arrange the parts of a structure in any particular relative position; also, to ascertain the position of (anything) relatively to the points of the compass, etc.; to determine the bearings of.
1896 1892 1882 1882 1866 1842 1972 1965 1953 1926 1842 BRANDE Dict. Sci. etc. 857/2 In surveying, to orient a plan signifies to mark its situation or bearing with respect to the four cardinal points. 1866 Boys' Wonder Bk. 34 To tell him if she saw the Pole-star directly opposite the end of it, so that he might orient his stake. 1882 PROCTOR in Knowledge No. 13. 266 We are certain that the builders of the Pyramid wanted to orient it very carefully. 1882 GEIKIE in Nature XXVII. 123/2 The minute flakes interspersed through the ground-mass..are oriented in the same direction. 1892 J. T. BENT Ruined Cit. Mashonaland vi. 161 To orient it towards the setting sun. 1896 Science 3 July 11 We are now at a loss to orient the several parts of the cranium. 1926 C. E. MULFORD Cassidy's Protégé xiii. 170 Hesitating for a moment while he oriented the report, he started toward the edge of the hill-top. 1953 E. LYNAM Mapmakers' Art ii. 48 All early maps were oriented with the East at the top (whence our words 'to orient'). 1965 Orienteering ('Know the Game' series) 31 Once a map has been 'set' or oriented an orienteer should be aware of his position at all times by relating the map to the ground over which he is moving. 1972 N. J. W. THROWER Maps & Man vii. 102 A network of fundamental survey lines oriented predomin
sounds like a bunch of Eurofags
v., orientated, orientating. -v.t.
1. to place so as to face the east, esp. to build (a church) with the chief altar to the east and the chief entrance to the west.
2. to place in any definite position with reference to the points of the compass or other points: to orientate a building north and south.
3. to adjust with relation to, or bring into due relation to, surroundings, circumstances, facts, etc.: to orientate one's ideas to new conditions.
4. Survey. to turn a map or plane table sheet so that the north direction on the map is parallel to the north direction on the ground. -v.i.
5. to turn towards the east or in specified direction.
Key Words orientate orientated, orientating.
And a good occasion for gathering signatures against software patents in Europe.
Ceci n'est pas une signature
Tag!
You're I.T.!
that whenever anybody posts anything critical of Michael Sims here, especially links to his disgraceful conduct in relation to the Censorware project, the very same Michael Sims floods Slashdot with vast numbers of new stories -- any old shit -- in an attempt to push the critical comments off the Slashdot page, and, hopefully, out of the gaze of Slashdot readers?
Just to really get you laughing, he tells people that he's a *journalist*! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!
Both are products of ignorant white men seeking to restrain the flood of righteous success by my colored brothers and sisters!
Oh, wait.
Maybe it means that you farm out your software jobs to the Orient.
OK... I'll bite.
I believe I DID include child molestation in the same sentence as "Libertarian as being just as incorrect as putting "Nazi" in the same sentence.
Cut back on the caffeine? Blasphemy!!!!
By the way, I did not mention Ayn Rand or her philosophy (Objectivism) anywhere in my post.
Regards,
Bawko
Government is the monopoly on the legal (socially accepted) use of coersive force. Think about this next time you vote.
In my understanding, the spirit of the Free Software Foundation is mainly concerned with the freedom of software, not its price.
Unselfish actions pay back better
Press release here
Thanks for the correction - my mistake.
Everyone who doesn't know what libertarians REALLY stand for - and I'm not talking about the preconceived popular-press hype of "anarchist child molesting nazi capitalist pigs", please check this link out.
Government is the monopoly on the legal (socially accepted) use of coersive force. Think about this next time you vote.
LinuxTag '03 will have a special DVD for visitors, with the first DVD edition of Knoppix with 4GB of live linux.
Michael Sims, Domain Hijacking and Moral Equivalency
mailto:jw[at-sign]bway.net
How would you feel if your webmaster maliciously took your web-site offline, then, when you demanded its return, put up a site attacking your company at your old URL? It happened to a group I was involved in, the Censorware Project, currently at http://www.censorware.net/. The purpose of this essay is to put the behavior on record, and to give you some impressions and inferences about it.
The Censorware Project was originally an informal collective of six people who collaborated online to fight censorware: Seth Finkelstein, Bennett Haselton, Jamie McCarthy, Mike Sims, Jim Tyre and myself. Several of us had never met or even spoken on the phone, yet for some time -- around two years as I recall -- we had a remarkably easy collaboration. There was no funding, no hierarchy, no titles, not even project managers. Someone would suggest a project and take the responsibility for a part of it, others would sign up for other elements, and proceeding this way we got a remarkable amount of work done, including reports on X-Stop, Cyberpatrol, Bess and other censorware products.
Even though two of us were attorneys -- Jim and myself -- we never incorporated the group or wrote a charter or any contracts among ourselves. Mike Sims was obliging enough to register the domain, just as other members paid for press releases and the other incidental expenses which came along. Mike also served as webmaster of the censorware.org site and did substantial work for the group, including writing contributions to several of the reports and lead authorship of at least one. Seth was the source of our decrypted censorware blacklists and managed many technical tasks, but later felt he had to leave the group because of the increasing prospects of a lawsuit, particularly under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). After Seth left the group, the remaining five continued.
Robert Frost said that "nothing gold can stay," and the Censorware Project was no exception. Over the summer of 2000, Mike Sims' reaction to a perceived slight from Jim Tyre was to take the site down for a week. He sent us mail at the time saying something like "The Censorware Project is now closed." I replied to him that, given that the group was a collective and we all had an interest in its work product, the domain, and the goodwill it had achieved, the decision was not his to make. Sims did not reply.
After Seth created a partial, text, mirror, Mike put the site back up a week later without explaining, let alone apologizing for, his actions. Given his continuing failure to answer any email from me (and I think from others) and the overall signs that Sims thought the group was exclusively his, I wrote him several emails requesting that he turn the domain over to Jamie or Bennett, as I felt we could no longer trust him to administer it. We also found out during that time that important email from people trying to contact us, including members of the press, was not being answered by Sims, nor being forwarded to other members.
I ultimately became exasperated that my name was listed as a principal on what had
SAY NO TO FAILURES!
YOU FAIL IT!!!
Harm nor the moth nor butterfly
For the last judgement drawneth nigh
He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar
Fart here and win a free XBox!
Does this mean I'll have to wear shoes and have a bath?
Linus Torvalds will be there
Repeal the DMCA!
The entrance is free only if you preregister on their webiste and print out an entrance card. Otherwise it costs something (last year it was 10E), but everybody who paid received a Knoppix CD, LinuxTag CD and some linux-themed pin.
Just wondering if I need to become gay BEFORE I install the operating system, or does this only apply to Apple users?
Squaresoft is releasing FF II as opensource!
Wait, do they mean the American or the Japanese one?
Visit the RMLL, the World largest Free Software Event. From 9 to 12th July in Metz, France!
Too bad airfare isn't free too..... (Western Canada -> Germany).
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
with what? photoshop? gimp? MSPAint? please do tell.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
You forgot to mention the RMLL2003 :
http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/
Another important and big event !
Can freedom be called freedom if the freedom to take freedom away is part of it ... you say yes, he says no.
... FREEDOM ... chop.
Just once more for good measure
Hmmmm....
Sorry about replying to my own post, but I seem to have mistakenly neglected to provide the link I was referring to. Here it is:
http://www.lp.org/intro/
Sorry about that... too much caffeine, I guess!
Regards,
Bawko
Government is the monopoly on the legal (socially accepted) use of coersive force. Think about this next time you vote.
orientatification is a word!
Orientate is a backformation from "orientation." Some common words that have entered standard English as backformations are "burgle" from burglar, "televise" from television, and "enthuse" from enthusiasm.
For those visitors working on a tight budget, this pub in Karlsruhe has several different dishes (for vegetarians and carnivores) every day for 5 Euros, ask for the "Studi-Essen".
http://www.die-kippe.de/
I am not affiliated with these guys, I used to live in the town, still visit occasionally and am often stuck for somewhere to eat which is != pizza/chinese/kebab/burger.
Not confused enough? http://translate.google.com/translate?u=www.slashdot.jp&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ja&tl=en
Oh, that's what it means? Thanks for rescuing me from my ignorance, I'll be eternally grateful.
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
orient. 1. ... 2. ... 3. orientate (or or-) v.t &i., orient; ...
from the Oxford Dictionary....
/. Where the truth
I hope Microsoft doesn't have their MS Cruise Missle 2003 aimed at the coordinates.
Why don't they have a "quality design" marathon ? The winner would be the one that produces the most quality design, following the Q&A rules most closely.
it should be GNU/Linuxtag
Expect me for "tea."
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We are not amused.
...Thanks to you, this will be the first time a restaurant will be physically slashdotted...
20,000 geeks all yelling for a beer and a sandwich.....
I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
informative. The RMLL are not only the largest free software event in Europe, but the largest free software event in the world!