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Ask the Egyptian Installfest Organizers
The Linux-Egypt group recently held an amazingly successful installfest. This event was a milestone both for Linux installfests in general (was it the largest one ever held?) and for Linux in the Arabic world. Alaa Abd El Fatah, one of the organizers, has offered to answer your questions with help from other Linux-Egypt members. We'll post their answers to 10 or 12 of the highest-moderated questions as soon as we get them back.
Pyramid Cluster!!!!
Linux or pirated copies of Windows?
I tried for 5 years to come up with a clever sig...only to realize that I am not clever.
It's possible in Arabic, but you have to format the disk from the outside in.
Linux and the GPL are subversive loopholes in the copyright system designed to destroy the software industry. When you use Linux, you're effectively both stealing from software developers and endangering the security of your country. So my question is, how does it feel to profit off of a cheap communist scheme while simultaneously taking food out of the mouths of many hard working professional software developers?
Sincerely,
Darl McBride
CEO, SCO Group
of middle eastern *nix users.
The camel book
I personally had more problems with the tire run than expected. The crawl-under-the-barbed wire excercise was also difficult.
We already have about 10 of them.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
What do Egyptian nerds wear? Black horn-rimmed kaffiyehs? And do you wear Star Trek robes, or wear the shirts underneath regular robes and stick a little Star Fleet pin on your lapel? Do robes *have* lapels? How do you say "bite my shiny metal ass" in Egyptian? What's the ancient heiroglyph for "FR15T P05T!?" How awesome would it be if you took that cord that holds your kaffiyeh on your head and modded it with EL wire? Do Egyptian nerds survive off of Cheetos and Mountain Dew, or is it more like big mouthfuls of qat and Pyramid Dew? When you're playing Tomb Raider what do you say - "Nice rack!" or "Dude! You can totally see my house in this level!" What kind of beer do Egyptian nerds drink? Do chicks dig Egyptian nerds, or are you all in the same boat as us? Do you guys freak out over Japanese chicks and pocky? How do you keep all the fucking sand out of your case mods? Do you have "Type-R" camels? Do you have low-rider camels with neon on their nuts? Do you guys know the Icy Hot Stuntaz? Do hot Egyptian girls come to LAN parties? Are you as excited about Half-Life 2 as we are?
(And I'm only slightly kidding about these. We'll learn more about each other by talking like nerds than we will by pretending to be politians...)
Eager minds want to know...
It would be absolutely awesome if Linux could encourage people of all races and nationalities to gather together and sing Kum Bah Yah in peace.
How many women do you see at stateside installfests by comparison?
I'd think you'd find Jimmy Hoffa in a chicken costume before you'd find two women to rub together at such a geekfest.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Yes, it will involve considerable searching. But when you find two women at such a geekfest that will let you rub them together, it'll be worth it.
Linus Torvalds (CA)
Oh yeah, great example of American technology right there...
Hear here folks: the father of Linux is now American and, before you know it, he'll have created Linux when he was a student at Berkeley!
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash