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Complete OSCON Coverage

An anonymous reader writes "Reporter Jay Lyman attended the O'Reilly OSCON developers' get-together and wrote daily briefs plus a wrap-up that are all posted on NewsForge now. If you didn't make it to this excellent conference, reading Jay's reports is the next best thing." Yes, NewsForge is also part of OSTG.

41 comments

  1. gnaa fp by I+have+this+account · · Score: -1

    lol nigger nigger

  2. WHO CARES!?!?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NO ONE!!! FIRE MICHEAL SIMMS!

  3. Did Parrot Dan get pied by Python Guido? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    It was supposed to happen at OSCON after the Parrot team conceded that they could not run the Parrotbench Python code.

    1. Re:Did Parrot Dan get pied by Python Guido? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Here's the link where the Parrot group concedes (see paragraph titled Pie-thon). Perhaps if Dan had done less chest-thumping and more coding the outcome might have been different.

  4. gnaa fp by I+have+this+account · · Score: -1, Redundant

    fourth post lolol

  5. Damn ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Complete coverage my a** ! No mention of what they had for lunch.

    1. Re:Damn ! by hostyle · · Score: 1, Funny
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    2. Re:Damn ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We had a Microsoft-sponsored bag lunch.

    3. Re:Damn ! by mbrewthx · · Score: 0

      It was here in Oregon they had spotted owl what else. My sister went and all see got me was a t-shirt damm her!!!!!!

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    4. Re:Damn ! by zbik · · Score: 1
      No mention of what they had for lunch.

      Cold wraps: choice of turkey/ham/veggie, with a generous helping of Oreos, chips, and candy. Last year Microsoft heavily promoted their sponsorship of the lunch; perhaps it backfired when people were afraid to eat it... imagine so many great hackers "accidentally" taken out by a case of bad mayonnaise.

    5. Re:Damn ! by RicJohnson · · Score: 0

      For FREE complete coverage, go to OsCon.Com

  6. Worst news EVER! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    5 comments all offtopic and useless lol

  7. suckers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    fuck slashdot.

  8. What happened to the Pie-Thon challenge ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    If I remember correctly Dan Sugalski was all set to EAT PIE in OSCON 2004. Did Guido Van Rossum hit him face on ?.

    Parrot may not be fast enough yet, but it's the future of FreeSoftware VMs . (not a knock off .NET clone).

    1. Re:What happened to the Pie-Thon challenge ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      pics of Dan eating pie?
      Sterling Hughes pint (attempts to get PHP running on parrot) speech?

      Things need to start happening with parrot, so we aren't shoehorning everything onto a VM that may have patent encumbered libraries.

  9. I was there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And I can tell you, the highlight of the show had to be the presentations by JBoss. Their open source solutions were a step above the rest. I tell you right now - nothing compares to JBoss open source solutions, they're leading the way in OSS. I do not work for JBoss.

    1. Re:I was there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      hey let me let you in on a little secret

      YOU ARE A NIGGER

      you're not only black but you're also a nigger

      the holocaust was funny

      YOU ARE A JEWI HATE YOUand niggers
    2. Re:I was there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      God bless you Anonymous Coward. Find the love within to guide you through this tough time.

  10. nigger nigger nigger nigger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jews and niggers... LEAVE the hall!

  11. this is a shit thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i hereby declare this discussion and article wholly uninteresting so kindly commence spamming about gay niggers

    1. Re:this is a shit thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      I agree with you: one Funny post and the only info has been modded Redundant, pathetic...

  12. i hate niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i hate niggers i hate gooks i hate jew i hate anyone who's not aryan and germanic and white and blonde

    1. Re:i hate niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You hate people: you're stupid. And you can't even make a difference between blonde (with boobs) and blond...

  13. nigger nigger nigger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I still can't believe what happened to me. December 25th 1999 is a day I will never forget. That is the day my mother raped me for the first time. (Merry fucking Christmas you bitch!) I mean it was just cruel and sick and nasty. There is no excuse, no rational explanation for her behavior. It wasn't just that she raped me, it was how she did it, the utterly despicable way she went about it. I guess I'm getting ahead of myself a little. To understand you have to go back a year to the events just before Christmas 1998.

    Let me start at the beginning. My dad died when I was 14. My mom and I struggled to put ourselves back together. For 2 years we leaned on each other for support, because we had nobody else. My mom is really young; she had me when she was still in high school. In some ways she was more like a big sister or best friend to me than a mom. We laughed and played together, had tickle fights, and talked for hours. Sometimes she would just hang out in my room and read or watch tv. I guess on some level I must have loved her in a romantic way for a long time. I just did not KNOW it until I saw her pictures. I found a crate in our attic with around 20 old Penthouse magazines. Upon closer inspection I realized the centerfold was my mom! The date on the mag was about a year after I was born. She was the same age then, that I am now. As I looked at this beautiful, big titted, blonde teenager, I felt myself get rock hard. Page after page of my mom's mouth watering tits, bald pussy, and wicked little smile made me want to fuck her.

    But it was her ass, her fat, plump, juicy, adorable ass that sealed her fate. I. Had. To. Have it. I fantasized about licking it, sticking my face as far inside it as I could, and just sniffing it, sleeping, warm and safe and secure with my lips pressed against it. I wanted to suck her ass-meat, to make her cum and pant and scream my name. But most of all I wanted to fuck my mom's sweet ass hard. To peel it open and hold her down and pound it, to ram it and rip it open. A small part of me wanted to hear her whimper, and sniffle and beg - just a little. For a while I became obsessed with Susan. I loved her yes, but I also wanted to utterly dominate her. I guess I kind of lost control and sort of seduced and pressured my mom into giving up her ass to me, if I agreed not to fuck her pussy. At the time I thought that was the greatest night of my life. I convinced her to let me take her out for a special dinner at the Paladin Club, and got her drunk. We even made out, did a little dirty dancing, and groped each other. But when we got home, she refused to have sex with me. I had to persuade her, to explain that if she did not give herself to me I would just rape her anyway. Finally we made a deal. Consensual Anal sex, for a guarantee that I would leave her cunt alone. Clearly she did not like it, but she did (reluctantly) agree.

    Susan let me fuck her ass, helped me tear her up. Her butt juice was so warm and wet, and tangy. She grunted and squealed so prettily, in such a lady-like manner that I fell even deeper in love with my mom. That was our first time together, and I thought the beginning of a special, tender love. In the months that followed my mother withdrew from me. She claimed that I had raped her! That our love was not consensual. I felt really bad about the misunderstanding, and did everything I could to repair our relationship. As 1999 rolled along I thought that I had. Boy was I wrong.

    Susan somehow found out about my alter ego, Jaz1701, the rape Author. She accessed my WEBTV account and read my e-mails from Readers, and visited the numerous free sites that I post stories to. I had written about our true love and how I had fucked her sweet ass during Christmas of 1998.

    I guess the whole issue of rape and incest has been on my mind a lot this year. Jaz has written several stories about it. I was thinking about my mom the whole time.

    Stories like "Rape Confessional", "Rape Betrayal #7", "Sister Betrayed", and "How Much Do You Love Your Wife" we

  14. I HAVE COMPLETE COVERAGE... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    OF YOUR MOM!!!!!!!

  15. Re:i hate niggerhonkeys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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  16. Christ... by jb.hl.com · · Score: 0

    Lets see some modded up comments already!

    Not one comment above 3? Are the mods fucking ASLEEP?!

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    1. Re:Christ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, they're not asleep. It's just this thread is complete shit. This thread contains more shit than CowboyNeals sphincter.

    2. Re:Christ... by jb.hl.com · · Score: 1

      That's true, half the posts are talking about gay niggers.

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  17. Re:Heh... by ScytheBlade1 · · Score: 1

    To be completly ignorant of timezones, and other coutries (and timezones) than mine...

    on Saturday July 31, @06:48AM

    Yeah, looks like they're asleep indeed.

  18. Parrot speed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Parrot is supposed to be 20 times faster than Python when it is complete, while IronPython will only be roughly the same speed as CPython 2.3.

    1. Re:Parrot speed by JRaven · · Score: 1

      If you follow the grandparent's link you'd find they're currently only expecting Python-on-Parrot to be two times faster; given the way they shot their mouths off before, I'm going to wait until I see a complete implementation before I'll trust them. I'd be similarly hesitant with IronPython, but they're at least more conservative in their claims.

    2. Re:Parrot speed by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: 1

      The big difference is that the IronPython guys have a release the you can test yourself. The python on parrot guys aren't close to that -- they couldn't even get parrotbench to run on their implementation.

  19. not be fast enough yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It was not a question of Parrot not being fast enough - Parrot was not able to run the Python benchmarks successfully and were disqualified by default. Seems odd though, the IronPython guy was able to complete the thing himself in 6 months and the Parrot guys have been at it for 3 years. Is CLR a better foundation than Parrot?

  20. OSCON comic by Snaggy · · Score: 1

    Our JoT of the event, featuring the Dyson Geekosphere, Microsoft Free Lunch Survival Kit, and the SCO-doo Dolls. enJoy!

  21. Brewster Kahle by zbik · · Score: 1
    Although there were many great hackers at OSCON this year, I was personally most inspired by Brewster Kahle, the man behind the Internet Archive repository of public domain media content. He pointed out that there's no use in blaming The Corporations for trying to get as rich as possible; it's the job of society and government to channel that greed with an appropriate legal regime (e.g. copyright reform). There was a good parallel with the destructive railroad monopolies of the 19th century, finally curbed by the Sherman Act. He also praised the VLC media player and called for an open-source SMIL-based "video browser"; perhaps something like AMBULANT.

    Some Portland kids called Feel(This)Films followed me around a bit and are hoping to release a short under a Creative Commons license; feel free to contact them if you have anything from the con to contribute.

  22. SCO Moot Court Facts/MP3 by CurtisLeeFulton · · Score: 1

    The SCO "stand in" (as NewsForge calls him) was Jonathan Zittrain, from Harvard Law School. Zittrain debated Mark Radcliffe (representing IBM), who is an IP attorney for the Gray Cary law firm. Radcliffe is currently helping Sun open source Solaris.

    You can download a recording of the entire SCO debate here.

    1. Re:SCO Moot Court Facts/MP3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hmm, I had wondered whether Mark Radcliffe was going to settle in at Radio 2 after Radio 1 axed his afternoon show - seems not. Does this mean Lard has found a job at Novell?

  23. FOSS in remake of King Kong - yuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Don't mind that they are using FOSS in the movie business.
    But to remake King Kong!? Spare me the indignity of it all.

    Might as well remake Gone With the Wind.

  24. 10 hours later by geekoid · · Score: 1

    and still only 36 comments. Apparently, anybody who cares, was there.

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  25. WTF? by scatterbrained · · Score: 1

    What is O'Reilly up to having a conference
    about capacitors?

    http://www.secc.co.jp/pdf/os_e/download/E55.pdf

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