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So as many of you know, COMDEX is in vegas next week, and for the first time, I'm actually going. Andover.Net will have a booth in the Linux Pavilion, and Hemos, CowboyNeal, Scoop, and myself will be consuming oxygen there for most of next week. So if you're going, stop in and say hi. We're going to be having a little contest (a Linux install race) and the winners will get fabulous prizes. Its going to be BYOD (Bring your own distribution) so we'll see who comes out on top. We'll have machines for people to get their news fix. We're gonna try to broadcast Geeks in Space segments live. And if any open source developers want to run BOF sessions or something about their projects, contact
Josh and try to schedule some time (this is gonna be real informal). Also, if any of the distributions wanna have a rep play in the install contest, let him know too (I've already got a Sucke- I mean Vict- I mean Volunteer from Debian: Hi Shaleh..)
if I boot with tomsrtbt? :)
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Jeremy Katz
Could you move the whole /. operation down here, too? It'd be nice to get to slashdot in less than 13 hops. If it's not too much trouble. :)
is there going to be free beer?
\\ Where's my giant foam cowboy hat and airhorn?
Get an UP2000-based box for that install race. They are not only way cool machines with two of those new Alphas @ 667 MHz, but we also had two SuSE guys over, trying to figure out how to install... And look at the faces of all those bringing their Intel-only distros :-)
just read the subject... ;-)
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Ok Everybody! There's someone spreading FUD in the Ziff Davis booth! Everyone go to the Ziff Davis Booth! (Watch as 15,000 people surge to the Ziff Davis booth, causing it to be trampled into the ground.)
Repeat for the entire week.
Hey, it could make Comdex fun again!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
well.. that would be nice.. slashdot at Cebit. or another place.. preferably somewhere in the netherlands. I'll even try and get you to pronounce Grolsch right.. just stay away from that ditchwater named heineken...
//rdj
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
Comdex like it's parent company, Zd , sucks. When is Zd ever going to have a major show for Opensource/Linux /Free BSD/et al. Answer: Never Oh they may have a conference,here and there but nothing on a large scale .I spent 2 years at Zd as a emplyee.Enjoy your installation contest,but I would just rather stay away from ZD.
I love the Linux install race, but my questions are:
See ya guys there!
Well I had to do a all nighter to get a paper done and after many hours of sleep deprivation I think I figured what this comdex thing is. I guess it is a really nerd convention. That is cool, I would love to be at a nerd convention- it would be better than seeing spots and almost hitting cars from the lack of sleep.
They've gone to comdex for as long as they've been able to afford it. Perhaps you could use a little caffine, to assist your memory?
Wow, Slashdot at Comdex? Cool! I think I will harrass CmdrTaco and Hemos a bit, asking them to sign my Red Hat Linux 6.1 box... :) Anyway, an install contest sounds fun.
Now I know we shouldn't dignify flamebait with responeses, but...
yeah...the evil bastards are so subtle with their corporate tool that it looks EXACTLY THE SAME as before the take over. Sigh...
Dana
Now, who would go to Lost Wagez and think about computers or installing software or free beer?
Normal people go there for the slots, tables, shows, showgirls, call girls, coke, and other entertainment.
No wonder the rest of the world thinks we're weird. Need to get out more.
I'm not going to be able to make it to Comdex. However, if someone could stop by the Caldera booth and check if they are handing out evalutation copies of OpenLinux, it would help me. At previous trade shows Caldera was redistributing GPL material in a form which violates the conditions for redistribution. I have contacted Caldera both by email and phone regarding them changing this. They have complettely ignored email and setup a policy by which to give a run-around on the phone (they will only talk about licensing problems if it is reported to your Caldera software representive and they refuse to assign any representives to GPL authors). Since they have given no indication of plans to change their actions, I require as many written accounts as possible of redistribution by Caldera of GPL works without the source code and without a written offer for the source code. Send email to lockdown34@hotmail.com Thanks.
That would be... Neat :-)
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"Hasta la victoria siempre!" El Comandante
Get up early (or stay up late) for the 5K Run at the Convention Center, 6:30 am, Wednesday. http://www.viagrafix.com/shows/nevada/comdex/5krun Prizes afterwards. Beer at /.?
I agree. They sold out, but they did a hell of a job of it. Most successful selling out I think I've ever seen.
Can people less than 18 years of age go? My parents said they would fly me to a show like that and I am considering this one.
...of ubergeeks? just the mere touch of an Andover.net ubergeek is enough to :
0) Leave that wheelchair behind!
1) Set womyn a-swooning (and about 20% of the men);
2) Clear up the complexion;
3) Cure impotence of all kinds;
4) Regenerate lost limbs;
5) Degenerate vision (forcing thicker lenses -- a geek++);
6) Give powerful visions of lost loved ones;
7) Give skin a healthy, radiant glow;
8) Get rid of that pesky rash;
9) Boost vehicle mileage by 2-3%.
note: suspicion abounds that the BOF meetings will include application of medicinal leeches. You hurd it here fyrst.
Medicinal Leeches!
comdex has been annoyingly worthless for years. Give 'em an enema, guys!
I live in Vegas. Do yourself a favor - after you're done with linux install races and booth babes, go spend a few hours at the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton. Even if you're not a "Trekkie" (I'm not, but my sister is a fanatic - she made me go twice!), it's pretty impressive. They have props and costumes from all the shows. They have a complete timeline of events that must have taken someone 6 months or longer to compile. After you've seen all that and taken the virtual ride, go get a Hamborger at the bar. It's triangle shaped and so is the bun. Hopefully Kevin is your waiter. OK, so you've done the experience and eaten your hamborger, time for the strip clubs! Last year I off-handedly noted to a colleague that COMDEX brings meager gambling profits for the hotels but the adult entertainment establishments do a bang up business. He replied sagely: The average computer guy understands probability alot better than he does women. Touche!
For anyone doing the distribution thing, install trinux or the LINUX Router Project. Both are floppy disk distributions...
(Except for the freedom to say Linux without prefixing those three little inpronouncible letters.)
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Linuxfund.org is throwing a party Wednesday November 17 at COMDEX (Zone C-8) for all interested. Drop by the linuxfund booth (624E, just around the corner from Andover) for details.
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If you were listening to the first 45 seconds of the last Geeks in Space episode, you would know the ZD is hosting Linux Business Expo to run along with COMDEX. You even get to hear Linus's COMDEX keynote if you go to the Expo.
The Expo will have keynotes from Red Hat, Corel, and Caldera execs, plus a Linux learning center where suits can find out about Linux. VA Linux Systems is even sponsoring an "email garden".
I don't see myself as capable of going to LV for Comdex (I'm too busy in college in New York), but what can I do for fun in LV if I was?
The only thing I can see myself doing in LV is to see Chicago: The Musical in the Mandalay Bay hotel, being that I did the same a few times in Broadway.
If anybody's going to Mandalay Bay during their trip to Comdex in LV (the hotel is 4.5 miles away from the Las Vegas Convention Center), can somebody tell actress Charlotte D'Amboise (from that Chicago show) that I (Kit Lo, a geek from Broadway who asked about her father) said hello?
If I were to bring my computer along (a self-assembled Pentium II/333 OC'd to 400MHz), I guess I can find out how can I make my Linux experience easier... and play Q3Test or something...
Besides, I am underage so I can't drink or gamble and stuff (I'm 19).