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Linux Community Halloween Challenge
LuMinoR writes "In a cool contest with a Halloween theme, BitDefender is inviting Linux enthusiasts to crash test their upcoming antivirus solution for Linux e-mail servers. The most thorough beta tester will receive 1,000 German beers and a trip to BitDefender's corporate headquarters in Romania, where they will attend meetings with Count Dracula, the BitDefender development team and other local luminaries."
Though, the chance to meet Count Dracula though....
I'd love to know what 'The most thorough beta tester' means... lol
"He loved our software so we bought him beer..."
So there's only one country after all? I always knew my geo profs were lying!
The OP could have immpressed us more by calling it a "robust computer security solution stack". What's with the increasing use of corporate-speak in Slashdot articles and posts?
I want to see the first reports of how well these guys do.
:D
Someone please post the appropriate link when it becomes available!
Thanks.
Oh and.... the golden combo of Ubuntu running Fluxbox would kickass running that app.
Although I would kill to see a FreeBSD version.
Have a good life, earth.
As a beautiful and large breasted female with a penchant for revealing bodices I really dont think its a good idea for me to meet Count Dracula, so I pass.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Of course, in a post complaining about English, I misspelled a word.
It's Sunday morning. I'm tired. I still have to put on some face lubrication solution and use a beard removal solution (part of the facial grooming suite) and head to a lecture at an Ashkenazi Hebrew Religious Solution Center. Meanwhile, others will be on their way to a personal salvation solution center, where they will likely sing from a robust suite of hymns. Unless they're Missouri Synod Lutherans, where they'll have low-frequency dirge solutions.
I think that I'd prefer to have The Count from Sesame St. with me counting those beers. And how big are those beers? 1ml, 500ml or 5l?
ud have noticed that
through extrapolation....one can assume that "most prolific" equates to "finds the most bugs"
there is also another contest going on, gleichzeitig, that rewards the person who discovers the most original way to crash the application.
These contests are stupid. It's just a way for companies to get cheap labor and free advertising. Many people test, one arbitrary person gets paid (and not even paid cash). Game companies love doing this. The company will make millions and one lucky bastard gets some door prizes. Gee, thanks.
Of course if you seek fame and have nothing better to do then more power to you.
Anyone worth their salt isn't going to bother with silly stuff like this so the end product usually isn't top notch quality. In other words, any testing they get out of this will be realtively poor quality. It would be cheaper and produce better results to just farm the work out to India for $2/hr. That is if it weren't for the free advertising.
Ugh... So gimmicky.
Just give me the $8k for two weeks testing and I guarantee that I will find so many problems that you'll be busy for months.
... I do all the work and someone else gets paid... right. I imagine everyone else with actual skill is thinking the same thing.
Otherwise, why would I bother participating in this just for the possibility of being paid?
The ratio of people to cake is too big
Free ... free as in beta testers.
I think your post is pretty funny - and even somewhat true - however I have to say that there IS professional use of Linux. I'm a central IT design guy in a company with 60,000 windows boxes and 1,200 Linux boxes. The Linux ones are the professionals - they do high end stuff like Geo mapping (finding oil, etc.) on them that they can't do on their windows machines yet.
They offer beer, they offer a trip to Romania... and now they have a free advert on Slashdot and free labour to test their program. And Slashdot editors, among others, fell for it...
The winning formula:
1. Set up a contest
2. Make the reward intersting
PRIZE = Get free ads
3. Invite just the 'talented' few
4. Users test program
5. Hacks found and fixed
PRICE = Profit!
My Linux - (L)ove (I)s (N)ever (U)tterly eXPensive
Shouldn't that be: "The most thorough beta taster will receive 1,000 German beers" HIC!
And yet...the numbers are climbing; a week ago a report informed us that our numbers now double, on the desktop, the MacIntosh.
I set up DOS/Windows shops from Huntsville, AL to Chicago, IL...the amazing mass-hysteria of this mega-monopoly is partly my fault; sorry. But now I work to correct it.
An important concept to remember is that while there are still things to be improved, one virus of 200,000+ and your day is toast, your work evaporated, AND YET YOU STILL STAY WITHOUT TRYING TO CHANGE IT.
We did. And every day it gets better, not more expensive.
Enjoy the show!
--- For a good time mail uce@ftc.gov
I only wonder what beer they are referring to.
Germany has both the best and the worst beers I ever tasted.
U.S. citizens: get Beck's, not Warsteiner... (or just as good, get Wisconsin beers, like Liney's or New Glarus)
I mean... you don't have to drink them all on your trip, do you?
http://www.coderoshi.com/
I think this is a better halloween challenge: the Pumpkin PC
look how awesome the fans look in the eyes and system just overall is top notch.
Your ignorance is infinitely greater than you realize.
You insensitive infidel !
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
on similar things. He basically says (and I agree), that inviting random people to attack (or beta test in this case) your software is not guarenteed to get the best result. I can't find the link though.
I wank in the shower.
Count Chocula is a lying son of a bitch;
my cereal most certainly does NOT scratch the roof of your mouth!
-Captain Crunch