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BSDTag writes "LinuxTag, Europe's largest Linux show was held in July in Karlsruhe Kongresszentrum, Germany. Nicholas Blachford was there for 3 of those days and he wrote about his experience on OSNews, and provided 6 pages of pictures of the event."
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The answer, ladies and gentlemen, is a resounding NO.
Brought to you at 5AM. Dedicated to bringing you the truth. Posted before the GNAA trolls. I hope you enjoy. Lets all help eachother defeat the gay slashdot trolls.
-koft
The GNAA is a small loose knit group of trolls whose sole purpose is to post retarded shit to various websites. Membership of the group is really irrelevant, but they do have guidelines, which are really just part of their elaborate "troll". Basically, you gotta be a nigger, gay, or both, blah blah. Post an fp for the group and your ub3r l33t, bs
The cold hard facts about the GNAA
There's nothing gay or black about the GNAA. In fact, the GNAA doesnt have a single gay or black member at all, and most likely never will.
IRC Chat log
(Nws4Turds) pocide
(Nws4Turds) i m teh luv j00!
(koft) yo, st0p b3ing teh gay
(koft) gh3y is teh sux0r
(pocide) i luv u 2 Nws4Turds !, lets felch!
(Nws4Turds) y3s!
(Nws4Turds) pocide
(koft) ph3lch is teh sux0r
(Nws4Turds) i like teh ph3lch
(koft) thats nasty, yall are gay niggers if i ever saw gay niggers
(Nws4Turds) i'm a gay nigger
(koft) stop being t3h gh3y.
(Nws4Turds) actually, i'm a straight honkey
And at this point, Nws4Turds ebraces his heterosexuality, coming out of a "reverse closet" for a brief moment, exposing his inner self. He then feels the need to expound on this idea.
(Nws4Turds) i had sex this morning
(Nws4Turds) it felt good
(Nws4Turds) she came twice
After these statements i was threatened!
(pocide) k0ft: do not even attempt to fr0st
(pocide) not only will YFI but you'd be testin my gangsta and you don't wanna do that, oh no
Following our conversation, my ids picked up a portscan from 24.174.81.26, the address from a user in the channel known as "penisbird".
(pocide) I see your running IIS and exchange. your machine is going down the deep dark anus hole of goatse!
(koft) Damn, i didnt realize that apache and sendmail were part of IIS and exchange... You guys are leeter that i immagined...
Truth: GNAA is a group of wanna be script kiddies who troll on lame message boards like 'Slashdot'
Truth: The GNAA leader 'PenisBird' has a prefrence for porn depicting under age individuals
Truth: All GNAA members are white
Truth: None of the GNAA members are gay
Truth: All GNAA members live with their mothers
Don't take my word for it though, check out the lameness for yourself. efnet #GNAA
I know some people have fetishes but this is ridiculous.
I'll take the chance to say this:
GNOME SUXX !
SUN fucked it up the ass.
I've been to a number of MSDN conferences, and I *swear*, every one of the people who attended (apart from me) needed to be arrested by the fashion police.
Please, could someone send these geeks to a colour and style co-ordinating course? I've never see such tragic instances of self hatred in the form of bad fashion.
As for the conference itself, I've never seen such money being put to waste by having managers shouting and screaming like Evangelical Christians swearing that *THEY* have the truth.
If is very pitiful when you see a 30 year old jump up and down over the latest "feature" they've added.
So he took a walk around the exhibition area and saw lots of companies. Yes, the exhibition area was surprisingly well populated, but the real meat of the event were the talks (ok, well, maybe I'm biased here because I held one of them).
By the way, there was at least one other party, from the local Linux User Group, on the second day. I couldn't attend because I was too sleepy.
The major highlight in my eyes were the GNOME and KDE talks. The GNOME talk was absolutely hilarious, mostly because the demonstrations crashed all the time. There were at least four spontaneously crashing applications in the presentation, the presenter did not even start two things he wanted to show because "they are broken right now" and the multimedia streaming framework "does not compile right now in CVS". So if you ever tried to compile GNOME from the sources: it's not your fault. In comparison, KDE looked like a finished and polished product, although the guy was also using the CVS version and had one problem where one application misbehaved so he restarted it. Anyway, this is a breeze of fresh air in the usual climate of corporate demos where they only show the stuff they know to work reliably. The Linux and Open Source people just proved that they don't do this to bullshit people, they do it for the fun of it!
By the way: the KDE and GNOME guys used the event to drink some beer together, and they are planning a soccer game (the Debian guys want to be the third team so it can be a tournament). All the talk about animosities is apparently completely unfounded.
BTW: the entrance fee to LinuxTag was free if you placed a reservation on their web page, and 10 Euros otherwise. So everyone and their kid brother were there, all the talks were packed with people. It was quite an impressive sight. I did the scalable network programming talk, which is a topic that normally wouldn't attract a large audience, and even that talk had over 200 attendees. I found the whole athmosphere there very nice and look forward to the next LinuxTag.
Stop stealing SCO code, you fat, smelly, greasy Linux hippies! There's no WAY you could write something as decent as SCO Unix without stealing from us. ...sincerely, SCO Management
Linux will never have widespread use on the desktop as long as GNOME, KDE, and XFree86 are standard. If the goal of Linux on the desktop is to offer choices to the geeks who can actually make it work, then the they're fine. But if the goal is to get as many people using it as possible, development for all three of those needs to end in favor of one standard that looks good, is easy to use, is fast, and just works. XFree86 is already a nightmare, and sticking more bugs and CPU cycles on top of it in the form of KDE and GNOME just makes matters worse.
Yeah, right. As if that's what he was looking at. Sure, anything you say.
that this guys chief writing influences seem to be Dr. Seuss books? Not to mention the really bad puns. Nice coverage of the show in my eyes though, as I've never been to any type of tech convention and it was cool to see what happens when nerds congregate.
LinuxTag, Europe's largest Linux show
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LinuxTag, Europe's largest GAY show
you lick'em, we something or rather
Coverage of the "PHP and Friends @ LinuxTag" effort can be found here.
freebsd rules, openbsd if you are paranoid
The SCO stall was packed full I guess? :-)
Penguin Pr0n,,, yeah baby!
...Crash dump!
Fapfapfapfap...Yeah baby....fapfap.
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From the article:
MySQL had a small stand where they no doubt people queried them using a structured language.
Oh, and 'm not a native English speaker but isn't this bad english?
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I use GNU/Linux and can't get a girlfriend, no matter what I do. From what I can tell, not too many of you have girlfriends either; I must make it clear right now that I do not want advice from you. I am seeking the advice of those who have consentual, regular, heterosexual intercourse with a well adjusted woman.
.... a fucking GNU/Linux hippy". He sounded so defeated. She wanted to go to the beach, but my skin is not adjusted to the sun and my skin peels while at the beach. This was not a turn on for her and when she came back to my mum's basement that night we were going to have sex but the raw skin was too much for her.
You may be wondering why I placed so many restrictions on the type of sexual intercourse. Being a GNU/Linux user, I can get all the men I want, but my ass hurts from years of anal sex. I am tired of pillow-biting. I have met women at Linux User Groups (LUGs) but they didnt want sex the way I wanted it - they brought their strap on and rode my chute like the men did. The date would end with her taking me to a gay bar and selling my ass to a drunk and bearded kernel hacker.
I am convinced, therefore, that I need to meet women that do not use GNU/Linux.
I have tried dating regular women, but find it hard to make conversation. I was surprised that regular women do not give a shit about Free Software or the Microsoft monopoly which leaves me with nothing to discuss. Some women tried to talk about the weather, but I don't keep up with the weather from my mums' basement.
I have had some success, I dated one girl several times. She picked me up from home, mum liked her. I am sure dad would have too, but he left us soon after I installed Slackware on the family computer. I can still hear him crying and see him moping around the house, saying "I knew he was different; I could handle a gay son, but this
Going out at night for a meal can be difficult too; all restaurants refuse to serve smelly GNU/Linux hippies. The only place we can go for food is the McDonald's drive through, but she doesnt like waiting in her car in the heat of the day when I tend to smell the most. She doesn't like the stares she gets from the drive through staff.
I could go on, but I won't. I seek advice.
I want one of those MP3 servers. :-)
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
So say someone was gonna goto next years event, does anyone who was there this year have any good tips? What to expect, where to stay, drink, etc...
Cross posting Xtrem? http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=4185
Das blinkenleits und zee Krauten! Ya! Ya!
Deprive that cow of page-hits and she'll go away. When was the last time a REAL article came out of there, as opposed to bitch-fests over WM widget choices?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Make mine a Cream Ale.
Yes, but it's in German: http://www.fefe.de/linuxtag2003/
The 486 machine mentioned in the article is a Soekris 4501
I've been reading it in IE 6 and it shows a lot of smart tags in the article (my favorite one is a tag placed on every 'Linux' or 'open source' occurence prompting for free trial of VS.NET 2003). Is it me (XP+IE) or is it OSNews?
Three years ago I discovered that our local charity had just spent badly needed funding on installing Novell on the server (actually a good choice in the circumstances) and NT4 on all their workstations. They felt they had no choice because all their workers needed access to the finance system. Although they got education discount for Windows, it was still a significant slice of budget.
It's now 3 years later. Is it possible to run mainstream integrated accounts suites like Peachtree, Sage or MYOB on Linux? Because, if so, that could be the killer app for small charities and churches. OO/SO is now beginning to get really good application integration (I really think I can recommend SO6.1 to businesses when it's released).
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
Did they break out into German Techno dancing like on Sprockets ??
How can he be surprised about the girls ?
:)
There are plenty of girls and women in Europe, who are not kept locked away in the bedroom and kitchen. No matter what you do, there are always some, no matter if it is skydiving, diving, or computer parties (ok, computer parties might have the lowest amount of women).
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Do the coordinators yell, "Ollie-ollie-outs-n-free!"?
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... not since I bought a math coprocessor for my 386sx. Now my machine really flys.