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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.
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for Australians.
Bring back US-CENTRIC SLASHDOT!
To the 3 linux users living in australia. Not to bad though, considering it's 23% of their population.
I thought it was FreeBSD that was popular with Austrailians what with those jails to help them hold onto their roots.
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?
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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.
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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
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?
sounds like its going to be a huge sausagefest packed nerdliger convention. Will I go? Yeah, maybe if I were a homosexual.
Nh, shut up. And shut up here too. And take your all caps gnu/nick with you.
...together in one place would have to smell like shit, what with the average Linux user's lack of showering.
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.
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Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
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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Will the presentations be webcast?
that you pay my way there and back if you want me to go.
And remember the penguin which bit Linus lives at the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra.
'There is a Light that never goes out.'
you missed last year conference?
Download best 2004 videos from Linux.Conf.Au 2004 Videos Information & Downloads Webpage
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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
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.
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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...
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
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.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
...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.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
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
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
...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!
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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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