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An anonymous reader writes "Extremetech.com reports that: 'Computer scientists from think tank SRI will present a novel take on distributed computing at LinuxWorld, all in a search for a little lost penguin.' For more information on Centibots, head over to the Centibots Project homepage." ReadthePaper writes "I just read a great interview with Jon "Maddog" Hall of Linux International." And finally, Hawkxor writes "Sun Microsystems VP Jonathon Schwartz demoed Sun's new desktop-oriented Linux distro 'Mad Hatter' and 3-D Desktop Environment 'Looking Glass' at LinuxWorld. Sounds pretty cool."
Some guy from SCO held a gun at my head, and said I had to pay $100 to leave the Linux conference. It felt like robbery, but he said it was just licensing. I'm not sure if I believe that.
...they should have programmed the bots to go looking for all that SCO-infringing kernel code.
Or beer.
(did I spell that right?)
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
I clicked on the link, fully expecting to see robot centipedes. After all, it's called "Centibots", so what else could it be, right ? My excitement piqued when I saw the title: "Linux Powered Robot Swarm Descends on LinuxWorld". Excellent! Not just a single centipede robot, but a whole swarm of them, attacking LinuxWorld! Imagine my disappointment when I learned that these were not killer Linux centipede robots, but a rather ordinary swarm of peaceful robots, powered by Linux. Oh well, I guess that's pretty cool too.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
to explore and map an area that is inaccessible to human, such as a building full of toxic gas or smoke.
"Thanks to the efforts of these robots, we now know that this building we couldn't enter due to its being filled with toxic gas does contain chemical weapons. And we've found that this other building we couldn't enter due to smoke is indeed on fire and has people inside; once the fire's died down, we'll know exactly where to go to get them out."
The coolest voice ever.
One fun thing that happened at LinuxWorld was this guy who decided to put up a Penguin Computing poster on Microsoft's booth without them knowing it. He walked over the booth with me behind him as camera-man and talked with the lady there for a while and I, myself, didn't even notice that he had put up the poster! See a close-up and the full metal jacket.
SuSE happened to have their area right next to Microsoft's. I attended a presentation for Openexchange (SuSE's answer to Microsoft Exchange). The presenter would occasionally say things like "and later I'll explain how Openexchange saves you money over SOME OTHER GROUPWARE PRODUCT WHO SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS", while staring at the Microsoft guys.
In the end I received a Geeko plush toy and a copy of their boxed professional desktop product. Yaaa swag.