January LinuxWorldExpo date & location moved

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January LinuxWorldExpo date & location moved

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday June 16, 1999 @04:53AM from the we-want-more-space dept.

A little birdie told me that IDG has moved the dates of the January LinuxWorldExpo to February 1-4. The location, formerly Washington DC, will now be Javits Center in New York City. The new dates are February 1-4. The dates August 9-12, and location, San Jose, for the August Conference are still on. Check out LinuxworldExpo for more information - and they are offering free exhibit only badges.

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My speculation on why they moved it by rbulling · 1999-06-16 05:46 · Score: 1

The current DC convention center is too small to attract the biggest conferences out there. Maybe the organizers found more interest than they had initially thought was there, and had to move it to a space that could accomodate all the participants.
DC is building another convention center that will also be too small to attract the really big conventions when it is completed. Go figure.
Living near DC, I'd also looked forward to this, but it's possible to take Amtrak from Union Station in DC to Penn Station in NYC in the morning, do a full day's conference, and take Amtrak home in the evening. It's not cheap, but Amtrak has electrical outlets at every seat in the cars, so you can use your laptop all the way there and back without fear of battery failure.
It's not that bad of a drive. by CrAlt · 1999-06-16 05:53 · Score: 1

Im in the NYC area and have driven to DC 5 times this year alone. Should only take you 5 or 6 hours to get here.

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Re:Moron (Was: Re:yo yo yo....) by PsYcOBoRg · 1999-06-16 06:03 · Score: 1

it looks like your a F***** Moron... you lame Puke Face PUNK!!!!

I was a Windoze programmer, Coverted over to a
Linux Programmer.,...

I made this change, Due to the new implimentation of windows 2000 and the Forced conversion. and the forced payment of 60.00 just to get a jump on it.

if you gots a problem wit dis.. feel free ta let me know. you RACEST BIGGET!!!

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A nick is born by Shadowze · 1999-06-16 18:25 · Score: 1

DarthTaco...
funniest thing Ive read all morning.

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doh!! by cswiii · 1999-06-16 00:14 · Score: 1

there goes my chances of attending :( Man, I was already psyched to hop on the metro and ride into town...

...all the future-redhat stockholders must be up in the big apple or something.
1. Re:doh!! by drwatt · 1999-06-16 02:58 · Score: 1
  
  Me too! I'm only 45 minutes away... Totally lame!
  Why are they moving it?
  
  New York City?!
  
  Get a rope!
  
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Rant (Warning: foul language) by Isaac-Lew · 1999-06-16 00:34 · Score: 1

What the FUCK??? I friggin wanted to fucking go (being in the DC area), WHY doesn't DC ever get any of the GOOD Linux conferences? Shit.
1. Re:Rant (Warning: foul language) by Enry · 1999-06-16 00:46 · Score: 1
  
  Actually, DC got the earliest Linux conferences. Anyone remember the ever-fun Open Systems World and their Linux track? This goes back to..hrm..94 and '95?
  
  It was rather fun telling DOD people about what Linux was. Plus me saying some nasty things about encryption laws and the NSA, then later finding out some NSA people were in attenance (oops!).
2. Re:Rant (Warning: foul language) by otis+wildflower · 1999-06-16 23:13 · Score: 1
  
  Hey, I'm happy, considering that NYC is safer and there's more stuff to do besides fear for your life or smoke crack with the mayor...
  
  ;)
  
  ('who on earth could elect a crack addict mayor? Honestly? Throw me a frickin bone here...')
Re:Katz owns slashdot.org by Hemos · 1999-06-16 01:14 · Score: 1

darnit, the secret is out! shit...

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yo yo yo.... by PsYcOBoRg · 1999-06-16 01:26 · Score: 1

dey gonna have one of dem things in Northern CA???

i am a NewBie LInux user... and i would love to go to one of them things...

:P

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not quite boston, but getting closer by bunicula · 1999-06-16 01:08 · Score: 1

YES!

new york i can do. i'd like to see boston happen, but the prospect of taking off to nyc for a few days is better than dc or california...

happy me
same thing happened to macworld.. by eshefer · 1999-06-16 01:32 · Score: 1

macworld (next month) was schedualed to take place in boston but was moved to NY in the end. The reason in macworlds case was that size/visability in NY is greater.

I guess that the same thing applies to linuxworld. Very good.
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Katz owns slashdot.org by Matts · 1999-06-16 01:09 · Score: 1

This is completely off topic, so feel free to moderate away...

I just got my July issue of Web Techniques, and on "The Last Page" by Dale Dougherty it says:

The profiles of so-called geeks that emerged after the Littleton massacre irritated Jon Katz, who runs Slashdot.org, a vibrant "geek" site.

Well, I thought it was kinda funny anyway... :)

Matt.

perl -e 'print scalar reverse q(\)-: ,hacker Perl another Just)'

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NJ or PA? by UnkyHerb · 1999-06-16 01:43 · Score: 1

I wish theyd have one in NJ! Hehe, thatd never happen though, at least Philladelphia would be cool, I can hitch a bus ride to there.

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1. Re:NJ or PA? by gavinhall · 1999-06-16 01:58 · Score: 1
  
  Posted by DonR:
  
  If you can hitch a busride to Phila, do so, then take the train to NYC. Tada, you're at the linux conference. Isn't public transportation wonderful?
  
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2. Re:NJ or PA? by Shiska · 1999-06-16 02:20 · Score: 1
  
  DUDE! Delaware! Wilmington dwarfs "Philadelphia" and this "New York City" that I keep hearing about.
  
  NO SALES TAX!
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Re:yay! by howardjp · 1999-06-16 01:46 · Score: 1

I thought the California people all used BSD of some variety or another. I thought Linux was just an East Coast and Europe thing. ;) I mean, I get all sorts of funny looks for using FreeBSD in DC.
Re:Moron (Was: Re:yo yo yo....) by PsYcOBoRg · 1999-06-16 21:10 · Score: 1

you come up and have the ballz to call me a ghetto nigga... do you know weather or not i am white or black?? did this ever occur to you i might just be a black man??

do you EVEN care that that type of remark just might enrage someone like me?

oh and i type like i talk. if ya dont like it...
dont read my F***** post.

A Bigget is my way of sayin you have been spat on by me. and you should not even have thought of makin this type of comment. people wonder why so many people get shot n killed in americia... you talk like that where i live and you wont get out of the neighborhood alive.

you talk a lot of smak here online, where you think you are safe. but you need to know, you as well as i can be traced.

wit this, i will stop posting to this trash.

i live in americia where we can talk and SPEWL any way we like. so STICK YOU SORRY LAME PUNK ASS BACK where it belongs, and try thinking before you post like that again.

if nothing else, when you see my alias, DONT READ IT!!!!

weather or not i am a good programmer or not is not the issue .... your Comment twards the black man being a ghetto NIGGA is the issue here.

PsYcO

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yay! by Shiska · 1999-06-16 01:12 · Score: 1

sub excludeAllOtherCountries() {

Finally, a show in the northeastern realm of the USA! ... And I thought linux was a california-only thing.

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