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Linux.conf.au 2004 Registrations Now Open
TRS-80 writes "Get ready, because registrations for Linux.conf.au 2004 are now open. With speakers including Bdale, Maddog, Havoc and of course Tridge, 6 mini-conferences beforehand, including Linux Audio, IPv6, and of course Debian, the opportunity to take LPI exams, and a Partners' Programme featuring the sights of Adelaide, it's going to be HUGE! Register early, because it's going to fill up quickly if previous LCAs are any guide."
Day One
Wrestling with the Kernel - The Steve Irwin talk
The Penguinee and Sheilas - Chicks and Linux
Water Cooling your Rig with Fosters Beer
Day Two
Making Custom Audio tracks with your Favourite Artists - Kylie Minogue
Lost in the Outback - *BSD users group
South Australians just can't tell time...
Organizers: This is the page that needs a fixin:
http://lca2004.linux.org.au/partners.cgi
(list of event dates...)
1. It's the birth place of media tyrant Rupert Murdoch (and still where News Corp holds its AGM).
2. It's one of the few cities that exist in a timezone which is fractional - i.e. Adelaide time is nine and a half hours in front of Greenwich time.
There are no topics listed on the programmes
What am I missing?
...so you get gridlock, whereas in Canberra you get dizzy (and sometimes lost).
:-)
When you're driving there, do take the speed limit signs seriously. Violating 25km/h speed zones is an instant $200 fine, and a yellow curb with a person on it is a 25km/h speed zone 24x7. They're also touchy about poking your bumper over the line at intersections, but they're as slack with their trafficators as Kiwis and BMW/Merc drivers.
If you like slaloms and chicanes, you're gunna just love the highway in through the hills. (-: Last time I was there I saw a full-length semitrailer sticking up maybe 15m into the air off the downhill side of the road at maybe 60deg, upside down, barely visible in the fog at 6AM
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Guaranteed bunfight, first time, every time. (-:
The timetable's not up yet 'coz it's not final yet.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Entschuldigung, aber ich kann Sie nicht verstehen. Wie sagt man "sez" auf Englisch?
"sez" is (in English) the sound of "says"
Yep, one school had the X'ian chutzpah
to include, as a requirement, Christian
beliefs & church-going habits...
The case in point was for a NON-teaching:
"IT Technologist" position in a school
and they're -not- the only employers here
insisting on irrelavent & discriminatory
job qualifications...
I guess SA's church-run employers (eg,
private schools) have no need to follow
the laws that apply for the larger com-
munity...?
PS For overseas readers, the "risk" is
(or last time we checked) "being men-
tioned" in parliament, but nothing more.
For similar job ad's, check any Careers
section of The [Adelaide-based] Advertiser
any Saturday
What is this Leon, scare tactics? I've lived in South Australia 2^5 years and I've never seen any such things!
...if they're not on strike again.
Agreed.
As an Adelaide driver/cyclist, Let me give a few tips on things for tourists to watch out for.
If you're on a bike, the drivers aren't actually out to kill you. They're just not particularly concerned about your survival unless you look like you'd scratch their paint if they hit you.
If you're in a car, be aware that Adelaide drivers follow one simple rule: "I Own The Road". If you try and change lanes in front of them, it's a challenge. They'll speed up. If you drive next to them, it's a challenge. They'll speed up. If you pull up next to them at the lights, it's a challenge. They'll do their best to leave you in a cloud of smoke.
Also, red lights in Adelaide tend to be viewed as advice rather than a law, and don't count unless they've been red for a few seconds.
My advice? Take the bus.
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