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Linux.conf.au Coming Soon
One of my most favorite Linux-centric shows of all time, Linux.conf.au is gearing up in their latest location - Canberra. The registration is still open; I highly, highly recommend attending the show.
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I believe this will also include the first ever OpenOffice.org RegiCon Australia.
Jay | http://oldos.org
Ahem...I will revert to my grammar nazi roots once more:
the word is TOO
Alright, I'm out...
But, since the topics include :
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# Debian Miniconf
# OpenOffice.org Miniconf
# Gnome.conf.au Miniconf
Shoudln't the conference be called GNU.conf.au or GNU/Linux.conf.au?
Names are important, that's why we use them in the first place. Calling it Unix.conf.au would be misleading. Calling it Linux.conf.au is misleading too
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
I'm sorry, but I'm not in the mood of another 24 hours spend in a plane. (I don't even know if there are direct flights from some city in Europe - Canberra)
I don't read replies by ACs.
I'm not sure I would even watch a TV show about Linux.
----- "Type theory is like pretzels on crack." -- random friend
oh for Australians... I kept thinking jewish Ethiopians !
If the dollar is an "I owe you nothing", then the Euro is a "Who owes you nothing." - Doug Casey
I went to the show last year and found it to be a complete waste of my time. The speakers were dull and unprofessional and the whole show in general had the feeling of a low rent high school play.
Be better in bed. Wikiafterdark!
void translateHemos (*std::string hemosspeak) {
if (hemosspeak == "shows") {
hemossspeak = "conference"; }
}
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I hope the Canberra weather isn't too cold for another great dunking
the reason australia was setup as a penal colony was that the US refused to take anymore convicts and thus Britain needed an alternative.
1. steal a loaf of bread
2. sentenced to 200 years on a paradise island..
sounds good to me.
serenity now!
For those of you who are wondering where linux.conf.au 2006 is going to be, it will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand
hahaha way to know c you stupid mods
i'm surprised you didn't mark him troll
Linux.conf reminds me of linuxconf. Terrible, terrible program that was.
The fact that the moderator doesn't understand C++ Doesn't make the post offtopic. If you don't understand the post, don't moderate it. It sounds like a basic concept, but many people just don't get it. You are not obligated to moderate down every comment that you think may be just offtopic/flamebait/troll. If you are unsure, you better use your modpoints to mod-up what you do undestand, instead of modding down what you don't.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
More likely
1. Steal a loaf of bread
2. Get sentenced to 7 years in a place where the seasons were the wrong way round, you were thousands of miles from England and the guards were the dregs of the British army.
Australia was only a paradise island for a little while, now we're becoming Mini-US.
Nh, shut up. And shut up here too. And take your all caps gnu/nick with you.
The paradise island is New Zealand.
Australia has something like 7/10 of the most poisonous snakes and spiders. Plus there's crocodiles (both salt and fresh water), and jelly fish that can kill if you figure you'll just go swimming in the ocean. People die of the heat and dehydration in the outback. Driving at night angers the Kangaroo God so he smites your car with them. There's also a Cattle God, a Sheep God, a Wombat God and a Roadtrain God. None are happy.
Not to mention they eat things like Musk Flavored Lifesavers and Vegemite. The heat, combined with US and Europe hiding the ozone layer makes it hard on people so they age badly. Crocodile Dundee is only 22.
But it was a nice country with great people, and I'll be back to ride from Cape York to Uluru (Ayers Rock) to Tasmania.
riding round the world on an old motorcycle
Being a grammer Nazi myself....
THE WORD IS ALLRIGHT NOT ALRIGHT
Allright, I'm out.
Mi Nickname might be in all caps, but it's not at least "Anonymous Coward".
You have modpoints _and_ post as AC?. That is tricking the moderation system. AC posting is there for those that doesn't have an account, and for those that has to hide their id for some important reason, not so you can flame and keep your good karma at the same time. Someone that tricks the moderation system shouldn't get mod points. If yoy reply, at least have the guts to show your face.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
The fact that the moderator doesn't understand C++ Doesn't make the post offtopic
Or it could be that the moderator doesn't see jabs at using a wrong word to be on the topic of the thread. I don't, although I probably wouldn't care enough to use a modpoint on it.
Letter To Iran
More likely
/. who live elsewhere:
... Too far inland, it gets very cold in winter and way too hot in summer.
1. Steal a loaf of bread
2. Get sentenced to 7 years in a place where the seasons were the wrong way round, you were thousands of miles from England and the guards were the dregs of the British army.
Australia was only a paradise island for a little while, now we're becoming Mini-US.
Commentry for the majority of
Nah, it is paradise here. I've been to a few places, and its good in Oz. The fact that we posess alot of similarities to both the US and the UK doesn't make it bad here.
In fact, its part of why its good (eg democracy, separation of powers with independentent judiciary).
The seasons are just fine the way they are here.
Having said that, Canberra's weather is pretty poor
Canberra is a city thats a compromise in location because they couldn't decide whether to make Sydney or Melbourne the capital, so they built a whole city in a paddock between the two and dug out an artificial lake to make it look pretty. (Ok, it does look pretty, but its still a man made lake).
Hopefully the weather won't be too bad at the conference, because the whole linuxconf thing has really taken off. I'm sure that this will be alot bigger than the 2003 one in Perth that I went to.
Michael
There is no cryptographic solution to the problem where the intended receiver and the attacker are the same entity.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
plus, you actually have muscle cars in aus.
For those who are attending the conference there will also be a programming competition run during the conference.
Lots of fun was had by participants and observers at last year's competition.
...I thought that I should go to /etc and look for linux.conf.au and then I realized that this was something completely different. I need to get out more. ;P
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
as when I visited the US, I tried to explain to someone that australia was setup as a penal colony, they thought I was talking dirty. Guess it was something about the accent that confused them :)
:D
Also, got strange looks for saying yosemite like vegimite.
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Freshwater crocidiles are relativly safe. Ocasionally someone gets a small nibble, but the don't tend to kill people.
Remember, it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to pull the trigger of a sniper rifle.
Get a bit wet riding from Uluru to Tassie won't it?
Will the presentations be webcast?
No such word as allright. Look it up, Bozo.
that you pay my way there and back if you want me to go.
http://www.answers.com/alright
And I think you mean Spelling Nazi not Grammer Nazi and even if you meant Grammar Nazi, What kind of Spelling Nazi spells grammar grammer!?
Me lost me cookie at the disco.
And remember the penguin which bit Linus lives at the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra.
'There is a Light that never goes out.'
something like half the people's only 'crime' was being Irish. And belonging to secret, patriotic societies. Of course, they couldn't be having any of the freedom stuff. All the Australian's I've known have been of Irish extraction. In addition, they can no longer pronounce their names (Caughlin in particular)).
You're right, I'll use a wet suit and a giant snorkle.
riding round the world on an old motorcycle
you missed last year conference?
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Surprisingly enough, you might find a significant number of Australians actually do read Slashdot. Why bias it towards any one particular country? It couldn't possibly be because it's your country and you're being selfish, could it?
you forgot the drop-bears.
As a fellow australian, I agree, there is much about Australia that makes it "Gods own", but lately I have noticed a creeping feeling of americanisation, and not the good stuff like a bill of rights. Instead we get American style lawsuites where peoples stupidity can earn them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Yeah, but there's a thing that kills people who go swimming in the ocean off new zealand too... it's called hyperthermia.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
Dont complain about the options... but what about all of us who don't live in Europe?
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
My favourite treatment of this topic is from Terry Pratchett's "Lost Continent".
Its been a while since I read it so details aren't 100% accurate:
Death is looking to find out more information about the country of Fourecks, so he asks for the volumes on dangerous and poisonous creatures native to the land, only to be burried under a pile of books.
He then asks for the non-dangerous animals, a single sheet appears with the following words:
"_Some_ of the sheep".
As an Australian, that cracked me up.
I don't get it, where is this sound file?
You mean you don't refer to your system as GNU/BSD/Mozilla/PublicDomain/OpenGroup/Apache/ Artistic/Linux? Goodness me, credit where credit is due, boy!
(-:
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...because next year it'd have to be gnu.linux.conf.nz, and kiwiland doesn't have a "conf" 2LD.
It was originally called CALU, Conference of Australian Linux Users.
I want to call it Colloquy of Linux in Australia and New Zealand (CLANZ) but nobody's listening. (-:
We're (the royal we're) also idly toying with the idea of separate per-state user Colloquia.
Either way, LCA is top stuff. I hope we get Linus again this year. He likes to come along because of the low-profile, relaxed and informative ambience (you know, they force you onto a dunking stool, that kind of thing).
BTW, if you haven't yet punted around in Planet Linux Australia, do so. It's quite an education, here and there.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Well, back when g4 Tech Tv was tech TV, TSS was known to have the occasional linux/OSS segment... but not even TechTV had an all Linux show.
I had a mixed bag.
A session on profiling web apps was poor. Yes, I *would* expect a web-mail app to spend a lot of time in regexs, that's how you look for injected content. Another session was thinly disguised corporate promotion.
The Postgres dudes were really good, the session on "Authentication Stone Soup" (something like that) was really excellent. The GStreamer demo was an eye-opener. Any talk by Rusty or Tridge is a must see.
Whilst I could have read about other things (like Perl 6), it was nice to sit in a lecture and hear about it, as I'm never going to get time to read about it at work or at home.
Best of all, at the end of the day I could sit with the experts in the Belgian Beer cafe and talk about the day's content.
Unless you qualify your post with specifics, I'm going to consider it a troll.
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
It's amazing how interesting RDBMS indexing strategies are after a beer.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
With the connectivity of the web these days, hopefully what seems obscure to some will find the wide audience needed to take proper action. I doubt many American papers carried the subject in 1981.
Letter To Iran
Yeah, but there's a thing that kills people who go swimming in the ocean off new zealand too... it's called hyperthermia.
They're killed by unusually high body temperature?
If 1. I lived in canberra/sydney. 2. I knew someone else going. Then I would go.
You mean you don't have TV output enabled by default?^1 *squints to read /. on his TV set* oh yeah that's why (at least for analog sets) Tv output is only good for video output. Now some of those high def sets can actually be used instead of a monitor...
Oh wait not that kind of linux tv...
^1= I refer to of course, closed source 3-d drivers, like the nivida and ATI ones...
Iliterate kind, my friend. Do not let them burn your karma.
What are those 'seasons' you're talking about?
Thank-you
But Qantas run damn near an air-bridge Sydney Canberra. The flights leave every 30 mins and only take half an hour (including all the fiddling around)
If you do get a choice, go through Melbourne when flying in from overseas. Yes you'll spend half an hour longer on the plane, but immigration and changeover from international to domestic in Melbourne are *so* much more relaxed and easy. In Sydney you can have long lines at immigration, then to get to domestic they make you take a fricking bus that leaves the airport first thing (uh-oh), randomly loops around some freeway ramps (driver drunk?), then veers straight back onto the airfield through a gap in the fencing (isn't that illegal?), where it executes an entire ice skating program (watch out for the triple toe-loop!) before it finally drops you off at the domestic terminal - which, unsurprisingly, turns out to be right next to where you left 20 minutes earlier. You could have walked over in a minute or two, at the risk of being sucked into the odd jet engine, and/or chased by outraged Quantas employees (top speed: 2 mph).
Seriosuly, you need to give yourself two hours minimum for the changeover in Sydney, while one hour should suffice in Melbourne. Net gain: half an hour, and a lot of nerves.
Be faithful to your obsessions. Identify them and be faithful to them, let them guide you like a sleepwalker. JG Ballard
we Europeans are not used to such distances
:-)
What distances? My office lies right between the Linux.conf.au stomping grounds and the local Apple Center, both all of 50 meters away. *And* I'm a European, you insensitive clod!
Be faithful to your obsessions. Identify them and be faithful to them, let them guide you like a sleepwalker. JG Ballard
And remember gents, the best thing to come out of Canberra is the road out! :P
I went there as a speaker in 2002. Great conference and I had a lot of fun except for the part of going and coming back as I live in Brazil it took me more than 40 hours to come back home :)
Scientia est Potentia
Q: How does a New Zealander find a sheep in long grass?
A: Wonderful.
When they saw how much more wonderful a place Perth is to live (heck, even Adelaide's got better weather), they decided they needed to move West. Since that was impractical, they decided that expanding Australia to the East was the only remaining option. So now Australia has nine states and two territories. The conf is just acknowledging this.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
...Tasmania again.
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...the sharks and incredibly poisonous sea-snakes. They sort of cancel each other out a bit - the biologists at Monkey Mia call the snakes "Tiger Shark spaghetti".
Anyway, if you haven't read Terry Pratchett's The Last Continent, do so. It isn't anything like an accurate picture of Australia, even with random magic added, but it's 100% wall-to-wall in-jokes, right down to the last drop-bear.
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Certainly is. (-:
:-) and there were many, many presenters who were attention-getting for their information rather than for their antics.
However, don't belittle Conrad Parker as a performer, living proof that not all Canucks are boring (he doesn't normally look like a con as he does in that photo, just acts like one sometimes
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...you've got plenty to keep you busy without having to face random slobs who will probably be utterly shocked to be called out on their impression of bravado. (-:
Hi from Perth. Shall I keep an eye out for the "Johannes Kepler made the Earth move for me" tee shirt while I'm over at the Conf? (-:
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Dumb, dumb, dumb AC troll!
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Oddly, I don't have that one. I'll go to the belconnen mall today, get a pink boob tube from Supre and some pearlescent white paint from the art shop and make one.
I've never met a 4-digit slashdotter before.
If you have trouble telling me from all the other girls in Kepler boob tubes (as it's sure to become an instant trend), I'll be the girl drinking espresso in Calypso cafe.
*#*#*#*#*#******* I love peanut butter sandwiches!
wtf? it's definitely spelled "alright"
I wouldn't be to quick to trip yourself...
haha...to quick...
As we've said before...the word is too. Wow...talk about a comedy of errors...
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We could call them The Really Northern Territory and The East Christmas Islands, respectively.
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...but OTOH, wouldn't be hard to think of new ones. Do you make T-shirts for a living or something?
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Welcome to my addressbook. When this headache expires, it shall be done.
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