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Linux Conf 2004 Gives in Many Ways
Noddy writes "The Australian Linux Conf 2004 wrapped up today, with a few geek notables being dunked for their contributions.. to charity that is. Cystic Fibrosis benefitted from the likes of Andrew Tridgell, Damien Conway and Linus Torvalds stripping down, Linus getting into his speedos, and all getting wet. Video of the Linus dunking and a few images are available (thanks Internode). Bet the girls can't wait for the 'Geek Boys of Open Source' pinup calendar after seeing these shots of Linus. Great work guys! More conf wrap-up info also at ZDNet."
"Linus Torvalds stripping down, Linus getting into his speedos, and all getting wet"
Only 9.95/hour!
...Phew! good thing stallman wasnt invited>;)
First Bill Gates Photoshop mod!
who wears speedos nowadays anyway...
Fastest. Slashdotting. Ever.
(put your pants back on, nerds!)
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Why would anyone make fun of Linus naked?
I mean, he's just so HOT!!
OMG!!1, gotta go now!
holy crap, there should be a warning on those images! Almost lost my lunch over that. *shudder*
Bet the girls can't wait for the 'Geek Boys of Open Source' pinup calendar after seeing these shots of Linus.
I bet more straight geek guys would buy that calendar than girls.
I was installing Gentoo on my old thinkpad and almost "rm -Rf"'ed it when I came upon the shot of Linus in Speedos. I feel dirty...must shower.
Unless these guys specialize in validating identity on signed code escrow documents or something, I imagine the desired term was notables.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Linus is married to a woman. He has had several children with her. I'm not sure how much more heterosexual you get.
Oh, and forget dunking Linus. Everyone likes Linus, and he was getting up in front of a horde of his fans. You know who Linux folks would pay to dunk? McBride. You want to know what takes *balls* is standing in Speedos in front of a mass of people that hate you and saying "dunk me if you can".
May we never see th
Your thoughts are not our responsibility. Retard.
That reminds me of the segment on Conan outside of the opening of Attack of the Clones where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog goes up to a young woman he finds and exclaims, "Incredible, among all the nerds I've found an actual girl here... you can choose from all kinds of guys who have no idea how to please you!"
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Personally, I think they SHOULD create an "Open Source Geeks of 2004" calendar (or whatever that idea was called; it's been a long week.) *I'll* buy it, anyway. :)
Anise
Once again, Linus shatters previous misconceptions...Geeks do bathe!!!
It shows how these great OSS community leaders have a great sense of humor and humility to put themselves in this situation for worthwhile causes.
I know the great Gates donates money left and right and gets good press for it. Getting dunked gives you more PR goodwill (whether or not that's what these folks wanted) because of the rather personal involvement to the cause.
These are the sorts of people you'd want to be associated with. Not the uptight snobbish boss-types who just don't "get it."
That's what Open Source does to you, it will make you fat! Just look at RMS and where he is now and he's been in the Open Source business more than ten years longer than Linus. So my prediction is that ten years from now, Linus looks like an exact copy of RMS (without the beard). Stay away from Open Source!
nearly lost my coffee over the keyboard there... misread it as "There's .OMG too"... thought someone had had a sense of humour in picking a filetype extension...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
The audio is a little fuzzy for me. But did Linus yell "You throw like McBride"?
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Linus getting into his speedos, and all getting wet.
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