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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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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 not sure I would even watch a TV show about Linux.
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oh for Australians... I kept thinking jewish Ethiopians !
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Highly unlikely. Europe -> Sydney -> Canberra would be the quickest way (from Europe)
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.
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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
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.
There usually is a stop in Singapore or Indonesia involved, so it will be London (most common) -> Kuala Lumpur (for example) -> Sydney | Adelaide | Melbourne | ... -> Canberra. Might add up to 30 hours. I'm not ranting, since I've been to Australia several times and I always enjoyed my stay (especially Melbourne and the Whitsunday Islands and the region above Cairns and...). However, the tickets are not cheap and the flight is a royal pain in the ass regardless of the class you are flying.
I don't read replies by ACs.
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.
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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?
Firstly, I live in Canberra so I am 24 hours from everywhere else.........you insensitve clod:) International flights are available from London, Rome, Athens etc. to both Sydney and Melbourne. International flights to/from Europe do not stop over in Indonesia but some do stop for a couple of hours in either Sinagapore or Bangkok. Sydney is a 40 minute flight from Canberra and Melbourne is about 1 hour 15 minutes. You can drive from Sydney to Canberra in under 3 hours, if you drive on the left. Add another three hours for weaving through oncoming traffic if you drive on the right.
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.
I don't read replies by ACs.
I'm sorry, but I'm not in the mood of another 24 hours spend in a plane.
You could say the same about any destination in Australia), so why even bother posting in a Linux.conf.au discussion?
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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.
"Firstly, I live in Canberra"
:(
And here I thought I was the only one on here!
I dont feel special any more
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Yes, I was a little insensitive here. It just bugged me that the poster "highly recommend[s] attending the show". After all going to Canberra is terribly expensive/inconvenient for anybody not living in Australia or the region of Asia. (You might also take into account that we Europeans are not used to such distances. Some of us are astonished if they are still on the same globe after 8 hours of flight ;) )
I don't read replies by ACs.
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?
Well there are plenty of mentions of Linuxworlds in New York and San Francisco, etc.. that's pretty damn inconvenient to attend for us. 20+ hours on a flight. Not to mention KDE Konferences in Germany, GNOME conferences in the US, etc etc.
And yes I've flown to Europe from Australia, and it was the longest day of my life. 8 hours to singapore, 13 hours to france, 45 minutes to london (+ airport wait times of about 5-9 hours, can't remember now)...
So yeah, stop complaining. It's about time we had something happen here for once so I don't have to go "if only I had $3k to spend, and felt like a 30 hour journey...".
-- The doctor said I wouldn't get so many nose bleeds if I just kept my finger out of there!
If you're on a budget you'll get a bus to Canberra from Sydney.
Yhe trip is shorter than to many cities from "their" airport. (I'm looking at you Narita)
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)
And the weather at this time of year is glorious.
'There is a Light that never goes out.'
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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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
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.
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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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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?
You can drive from Sydney to Canberra in under 3 hours
Did that drive recently.. took about 2 and a half hours on a weekday. Just don't expect to stop off in Canberra for a bit and continue on to Melbourne!
If 1. I lived in canberra/sydney. 2. I knew someone else going. Then I would go.
There's lots of us in Canberra.. Muahah :)
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:-)
Excellent, cause mine's a wreck... when can I move in? Add me to the Canberran slashdotter love-in
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t's a pity that the first Linux.conf is being held here,I guess they there trying to go for the Government market.
I'd be more worried about something in the air there affecting the residents. You're that guy from Memento right?
What are those 'seasons' you're talking about?
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
You are correct. You can also do the London - >LAX/SFO -> SYD -> CAN route... but I wouldnt recommend it. Im a Canberraian that lives in London and I have, err hum, a great deal of experience with this trip. It isnt a terribly pleasent one BTW.... 30 hours is a good ballpark.
Oh and looking at the recommendation for the Canberra backpackers... I would give that two thumbs up... at least two years ago... friends of mine have stayted there... its own by a fairly swank Hotel across the road... they even pipe the movie channels from the swank hotels in house cctv to the backpackers... TV in all rooms as well.. dorms and doubles/singles.
And if any space geeks wanna go and pay respect to the ruins of the tracking station that really txed the images and sound of Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the moon then(despite what the move The Dish says... it wasnt Parkes) go to Honeysuckle Creek
Alas there is much left
If you're on a budget you'll get a bus to Canberra from Sydney.
Not necessiarily even if youre on a budget. Ive said in a previous flight that I do the LHR -> CAN trip quite a bit. Once you get to SYD you have 4 choices. Another flight, the bus, the train or hire a car(Id only hire a car if you really need like... well... a car). Never take the train. It takes longer than a bus and drops you in a backwater bit of Canberra... which youll need to spend 20 buck on a taxi to get to Civic(the middle bit of Canberra... near the ANU). Flights are good... dont take long... but then youre gonna need a taxi costing about 25 bucks.
I tend to take the bus. For a few resons. Firstly a bus leaves right from SYD international airport(as the nice people at the help desk). Secondly it takes about 2.5 -> 3 hrs. Thirdly most flights get in at an ungodly hour... by the time youve clear customs its prolly 6AM local time. If you jump on a bus you can have a nice nap(the bus is usually empty at this hour and the traffic on the highway light) and arrive in downtown Civic at a much more reasonable hour.
Are you an 18 - 28 yo female? If so, then tomorrow if you have nothing better to do? If not, umm....Ill get back to you....sometime....maybe :)
Hmm...that laugh...I recognise it from the CLUG mailing list :)
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
Hemos lives in the US, and he recommends it. The flight from the US is not bad at all if you come for a week of conference and a week of holiday. See the great barrier reef!
Are you an 18 - 28 yo female?
:-)
On slashdot? +5 funny.
Tell you what, I'll come over for some of that excellent dope you must have been smoking.
Be faithful to your obsessions. Identify them and be faithful to them, let them guide you like a sleepwalker. JG Ballard
Ask and ye shall receive! I'm an 18-28 female in Canberra. Tomorrow I'm going to a maths lecture just metres from where the Linux conf will be. Hmm... guess that and washing my hair will keep me busy for the next 10 years.... sorry Bob.
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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? (-:
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Dumb, dumb, dumb AC troll!
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
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.
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"Ask and ye shall receive! I'm an 18-28 female in Canberra. Tomorrow I'm going to a maths lecture..."
:)
:S
*drool*
"...just metres from where the Linux conf will be"
Now only if you had said Apple Store! Oh well, I guess the search continues
"Hmm... guess that and washing my hair will keep me busy for the next 10 years.... sorry Bob.
"
OK, Im a bit slow - that went WAY over my head
Perth also has direct flights to Canberra once a day.
>>"Firstly, I live in Canberra" :(
:)
>And here I thought I was the only one on here!
Same here!!
"You can justify anything by putting it in quotes, adding a famous name and making it a sig" - Albert Einstein
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
We could call them The Really Northern Territory and The East Christmas Islands, respectively.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Didn't I mention the Whitsunday Islands somewhere?
I made my divers license in Australia (in Mackay actually). I'm planning to visit Au this or next year, but I already mentioned that tickets aren't exactly cheap.
I don't read replies by ACs.
I've got relatives in Australia, so I've done it a few times. Based on personal experience I really recommend valium for the journey from Singapore or Kuala Lumpur to Europe (and vice versa). You don't really want to know what happens within. Some might argue that drugs are bad under any circumstances, but I don't really see a better way to survive such trips without getting close to insanity...
I don't read replies by ACs.
...but OTOH, wouldn't be hard to think of new ones. Do you make T-shirts for a living or something?
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Welcome to my addressbook. When this headache expires, it shall be done.
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