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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
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.
----- "Type theory is like pretzels on crack." -- random friend
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!
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 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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.'
you missed last year conference?
Download best 2004 videos from Linux.Conf.Au 2004 Videos Information & Downloads Webpage
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Bridge - Linux Ethernet bridging
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.
You're right, I did a pretty crappy job of doing that presentation. I was stressed, I had lots of trouble getting my laptop to work with the projector, I got the timing wrong, it all just fell in a heap. Oh well, sometimes that happens. At least I learned from my mistakes and revised the presentation: I've since done an extended version of it at 3 other confs and did a dramatically better job of it each time.
Regarding the regex comment though, it seems you missed the point I was trying to make: sure, regex is appropriate in that situation but I didn't really care about the low-level details. My point was that running the profile showed that all the expensive regex checks were being done on *every* *single* *message* in the mailbox, even when there were only a few being displayed. It's an issue of program flow and structure that becomes blindingly obvious when you do profiling, but may not be obvious when you're working in the guts of the code.