> Can someone tell me what one *cannot* get addicted to?
There really isn't anything. It's not the activity itself that's the problem, it's the addict's response to it. Addiction is basically when you are so obsessed over an activity that you are harming yourself over it. If you're not actually harming yourself - for example, hurting your physical health, your ability to keep a roof over your head, or your personal relationships, then it's not much of a problem, is it? It's not about a big-pharma conspiracy, or being a Luddite or anything ridiculous like that. The state of being addicted is a brain malfunction, regardless of how you got there.
Look, when you have a cold, often you can beat it on your own, but for a few, it develops into pneumonia, and they need to go to the doctor. I can change my car's oil but not the head gasket. That's what mechanics are for. When I broke my ankle, I needed a crutch until the bones healed. When my heart was broken, after a year of struggling to get over it, I needed a "crutch" for my heart. I saw an expert, because I'm not one; I had run out of ideas. I went for less than 4 months and it was all I needed - no drugs required, fortunately. It was worth every cent.
Just like other fields, there are good therapists and bad ones. They should take their time evaluating you and be kind and patient. They should not just prescribe Prozac in your first session and tell you to go away. They should explain all potential treatments and side-effects to you. You should be comfortable around them. And, find another therapist, if you aren't seeing improvements after a period of time. Sometimes it takes only a few sessions to figure things out. A good therapist will also tell you when they believe their services are no longer needed, or aren't working for you.
I am concerned that one of you may be reading this article, and influenced by some of these really ignorant comments. Maybe you're worried that you have an addiction, or wondering why you just can't seem to get over your sadness, or whatever. Don't listen to wrongheaded value judgments about seeking professional help. You deserve to be well and functional. You don't have to announce it to the world if you don't want, but do yourself a favor and at least go for one visit. Don't be a Jim Henson over a mental health problem.
That's funny, I thought by bragging about your m4d 5k1llZ maybe you were posting an informal resume and hoping for a job offer from AFCC. (I'm just teasing).
Given the illegal nature of hacking making it difficult to do any kind of census, I don't think anyone can validly claim that "most hackers are" anything.
I'm 100% certain given human nature, that there are sociopathic hackers who are every bit as good or way better than you, so I disagree that "the best" hackers have a "strong sense of right and wrong." Some of them have none whatsoever.
Last, I rather suspect one reason you never got caught and/or prosecuted is precisely because you didn't really do any damage. I can guarantee you that if you had caused problems people would have started trying to hunt down the source of their break-ins. Unethical hackers do it for money, cred, revenge, etc. People get caught for other reasons besides whether they got sloppy, e.g. I know of a very high profile case where the reason the guy got caught is because he started sleeping with his partner's wife, and so the guy basically ratted him out. A lot of law enforcement counts on the social engineering factor eventually screwing things up for a criminal - why, because as the saying goes, there's no honor among thieves.
Now an organized attack by people devoted to a cause, that's a different thing psychologically and requires a different approach. However you will still see people operating according to human nature; people can be compromised, bribed, blackmailed or just plain pissed off and coerced or convinced to work for you. So it is simply not enough to have a Bruce Schneier or Kevin Mitnick++, you have to also have experts in psychology. This is something generally not considered a geek strong point. (I don't know where I was going with that, but it seemed worth saying.)
First, unfortunately for the rest of the world, the US is in control of ICANN and doesn't have to do a damn thing if it doesn't want. Unfortunately for us, that leaves open the option that the rest of the world does take their toys and goes home, i.e. "invents" a new internet and leaves us out of it. I was about to say that neither extreme seems very likely, but given the current political climate I'm not so sure.
I'm sorry to have to agree though, the idea of the UN controlling the Internet is scary, for exactly the reasons that people have mentioned. It's currently largely unregulated (another word for that is "free", get it?). The comments from UN reps in other countries (e.g. Syria) revealed amazing ignorance of how the internet works, and an explicit desire to exert firm control over content. The complaint by Brazil about the.xxx TLD was really stupid - such a domain could make it easier to filter out porn sites if one wanted - because they are NOT going away. I like the internet just the way it is, thank you very much.
So far I have yet to hear either a good technical or policy-based argument against leaving it in US hands. I'm willing to be convinced, but so far all the arguments against US control have boiled down to, "we don't like you and/or don't want you to have it." Not good enough for me, sorry. I'm going to write my Congresscritters and ask them not to turn it over.
To Cliff: First, I'm a lot less suspicious of Apple's motives than I am of yours.
Here are the actual steps to solve your problem, Cliff, if you really are interested in just getting your old iPod to work on Windows with iTunes. I just now verified this works on my Windows XP with powered FireWire and an original iPod, bought before Windows was supported (in fact, I'm listening to it as I type this):
1. Download the 1.3 Windows updater for iPod. It's a setup.exe file. Here's the URL:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/ You'll have to login using your AppleID. Don't have one? It's free. Create one. 2. After you restart your machine, launch the Updater by going to the Start Menu and selecting iPod->System Software 1.3->Updater. 3. Connect the iPod and wait for the Restore button to become active. 4. Press the Restore button. This will make it a FAT32 (aka Windows file system) iPod. 5. When prompted, disconnect, then reconnect the iPod and let it update itself. 6. When the iPod gets back on the desktop, launch iTunes and sync away. Your iPod should now play songs as well as sync them.
Windows doesn't support HFS+ (aka Mac file system). Apple can't control Microsoft, and they can't control third parties that try to add HFS+ support to Windows, either. So, if you don't own a product, should customers expect you to support it? No. It's not your product. MediaFour's XPlay, which you said you used, relies on their own driver for HFS+ support. If you bought an **original** iPod, you knew this, and you also knew use of Mac iPods on Windows wasn't supported. I don't see how you possibly could not have.
Having strictly one way to do each task in an application limits accessibility for the disabled. This limitation might be solved, however, by violating one of his other guidelines - having more than one mode - one could have a Keyboard-Only mode or a Mouse-Only mode, for example.
Or maybe better, allow users to have their own, potentially system-wide interface configuration, with an interface API that every program receives keyboard, mouse, or other input device events from.
Do the people running websites have any responsibility for creating environments which are truly free, and not dominated by the most hostile members?
I don't think Jon understands the meaning of the word "freedom." Having a "truly free" environment means there are no restrictions; anyone can post about anything. Hostile members, by definition, will be able to try to dominate a discussion if they want. Slashdot lets each reader control the viewing of his/her own content, without regulating content themselves. This is true freedom - you can flame, but others are equally free - to ignore you or flame you back.
It is just as ridiculous to claim that mere words literally prevent certain groups of people from posting their own words. You can say what you want about cultural differences, but in a truly free forum like this one, NOT having to "take responsibility" for your own words actually encourages people who would otherwise not post at all, because the social pressures are not there - it is precisely because people do NOT know if I am black, male, female, or what have you, that I can post without worrying what anyone thinks about it - whether someone will lob a racist or sexist remark at me, or devalue my opinion because of my genetic makeup. And ultimately it is still my choice to read or not, to post or not.
Even in the freest society, people don't ignore traffic lights or knock down traffic signs - if they did, others would get injured or killed.
This is the most naive thing I've read in a while. Do you even drive? People ignore traffic lights and knock down signs all the time. MOST people obey the law because it is far more convenient (and less expensive) and, get this, because if they did, THEY would most likely be injured or killed. The people who run traffic lights and knock over signs do it mostly because they think they can get away with it (both legally and physically). So what "freest" society are you talking about?
So, the nice thing about a "free" society is that if I can't take the heat, I'm "free" to avoid the group entirely and form my own little fascist, private, speech-controlled community. In fact, this already happens.
Looking at most of the prices and sizes on the websites people have linked to here, it seems pretty clear that their target market isn't a female keyboard jockey with limited income. I am pretty skeptical about an ergonomic design with a heavy, heavy price tag - the people who can afford to buy it wouldn't seem to be the ones who need it most. I doubt most companies will fork out the several hundred dollars (and up) required for this stuff, either. I've had to search awfully hard to find solutions that fit my physique and budget.
Most keyboards are made for larger hands than mine. Whenever I can find a small keyboard with smaller keys, my wrists are just in much better shape; unfortunately I have had a hard time finding small keyboards.
The standard 101 key keyboard with number pad makes you have to reach for your mouse further away. If you do a lot of mousing, this can wear on your shoulder joint (at least it does mine). If I use a small keyboard without the number pad, and then make sure that the mouse or trackball is on the same level as the keyboard, it makes a big difference.
Currently I have a Suntouch Jr. keyboard with a trackball (although using a trackball doesn't work for everyone) and a $50 kneeling chair from Office Depot, which I alternate with my task chair. This seems to work quite well.
Good luck. I sincerely doubt that the fraction of potential customers Amazon is running off by this action has even the slightest chance of being enough to outweigh the value of that patent,...
You can't make your decisions to buy or not to buy based on whether you think it will be effective - otherwise cynicism takes over and no one boycotts anything. Vote with your dollars; if they lose even 10% of their business, that's still a lot of money. Capitalism doesn't work if people won't put their money where their mouth is. I do it for myself as much as to try to affect a change, because I feel like a hypocrite if I don't.
Not. Cygwin does not REQUIRE purchase. A newer version is available for purchase. I just went to sourceware.cygnus.com and beta 20.1 is still available for download, for free, as always.
In addition, if you click on the links to each of the projects on sourceware, there is a nav bar on the left with a section called "Download". I don't think you were looking very hard.
At any rate, once again, "free software doesn't mean free as in 'free beer'; it's free as in 'freedom'." Read the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html). One is, in fact, allowed to charge money for software.
And as long as I'm repeating things that really shouldn't have to be, Michael Tiemann is not the CEO of Cygnus, it's currently Alex Daly until the merger occurs (that was actually a shot at the author of the Salon article on the merger).
Once you've developed for one Linux, you haven't developed for them all. There are significant enough differences between the various avatars of Linux that not all binaries will just run on all Linuces. In fact, one source tree may not even compile on all Linuces. So it isn't just a matter of whether one is familiar with each type of Linux or if the package type is different, or that someone just signed an exclusive contract (sorry, I had to say it).
The switch to glibc 2.1 caused unexpected problems for us. SuSE is a very different animal from Red Hat, in terms of certain libraries and where they are located, among other things.
For these reasons I feel a Linux standard is needed; otherwise developing for "Linux" will be too much of a pain for companies and it won't really happen. If not that, then software development companies will all eventually gravitate toward one proprietary version of Linux, and we'll have the Micro$oft effect all over again; the oppressed will become the oppressor.
The only way to stop spam is to start hitting the guilty parties in the pocketbook.Spammers clearly don't even care if they send out valid information - we've been hit with spam that advertises non-working URLs!
Spam is just so cheap that spammers don't even bother with quality control, and they don't worry about irritating people or costing anyone money- they don't have to pay for the cost to the recipients, and even one or two responses pays back the cost of the spam.
I wish ISPs would realize what an unexplored revenue source spammers are. I claim that the number of people on any given spam list is comparable to a full-page ad in a major newspaper. How much is a full-page ad in say, the Chicago Tribune? Why should spammers be treated any different than for example, Sears, the Democratic Party, or Saks Fifth Avenue? Make them pay for advertising "space," at comparable market value. Make them sign an advertising contract before spamming. People who advertise without paying would incur fees over and above the normal advertising rates. Advertising without a contract could be grounds for canceling one's account.
Spam would automatically go down because most people couldn't afford it. It would automatically be traceable because the ISP makes them sign a contract. It would have valid information and only rarely have duplicate addresses because the spammer (now advertiser) can't afford to send more e-mail than necessary, and can't afford to send a new, correct message.
Yeah, pretty much the male crowd hovered around the ugly side of average. I didn't see anyone I'd call a "hot guy." No, I take that back. A couple of the guys from VA Research were cute, but I can't say who cause my sister works there and she'll just tellum.
fragment: "Women like to see attractive sales guys?" BAH! As far as my Stud Watch is concerned, Sales Droids don't count. So that's the Stud Watch report for Linux World!;)
The Cool Stuph report is that there was definitely cooler stuph than at ESC-West or the Open Source conference, and AbiSource is moving up in the world, from one to 2 colors on their T-shirts!
Coolest Free Stuph award goes to LinuxCare, wot with their LINUXGRUVEN bumper stickers and the LNX sticker-badge similar to UK, DE, FR, etc. ones people like to put on their cars.
Second is Compaq for the LINUX license plate with the New Hampshire motto: "Live Free Or Die" (or as George Carlin put it, "Live Free Or DIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!")
The band at the kickoff party was great, Man Or Astroman rocks all the gluteus maximus; they're Linux geeks too, and one of their amps is now plastered with a LINUXGRUVEN sticker. They did the "Love Theme" from the MST3K movie, btw.
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I just wanted to post a sane response here:
> Can someone tell me what one *cannot* get addicted to?
There really isn't anything. It's not the activity itself that's the problem, it's the addict's response to it. Addiction is basically when you are so obsessed over an activity that you are harming yourself over it. If you're not actually harming yourself - for example, hurting your physical health, your ability to keep a roof over your head, or your personal relationships, then it's not much of a problem, is it? It's not about a big-pharma conspiracy, or being a Luddite or anything ridiculous like that. The state of being addicted is a brain malfunction, regardless of how you got there.
Look, when you have a cold, often you can beat it on your own, but for a few, it develops into pneumonia, and they need to go to the doctor. I can change my car's oil but not the head gasket. That's what mechanics are for. When I broke my ankle, I needed a crutch until the bones healed. When my heart was broken, after a year of struggling to get over it, I needed a "crutch" for my heart. I saw an expert, because I'm not one; I had run out of ideas. I went for less than 4 months and it was all I needed - no drugs required, fortunately. It was worth every cent.
Just like other fields, there are good therapists and bad ones. They should take their time evaluating you and be kind and patient. They should not just prescribe Prozac in your first session and tell you to go away. They should explain all potential treatments and side-effects to you. You should be comfortable around them. And, find another therapist, if you aren't seeing improvements after a period of time. Sometimes it takes only a few sessions to figure things out. A good therapist will also tell you when they believe their services are no longer needed, or aren't working for you.
I am concerned that one of you may be reading this article, and influenced by some of these really ignorant comments. Maybe you're worried that you have an addiction, or wondering why you just can't seem to get over your sadness, or whatever. Don't listen to wrongheaded value judgments about seeking professional help. You deserve to be well and functional. You don't have to announce it to the world if you don't want, but do yourself a favor and at least go for one visit. Don't be a Jim Henson over a mental health problem.
HTH
That's funny, I thought by bragging about your m4d 5k1llZ maybe you were posting an informal resume and hoping for a job offer from AFCC. (I'm just teasing).
Given the illegal nature of hacking making it difficult to do any kind of census, I don't think anyone can validly claim that "most hackers are" anything.
I'm 100% certain given human nature, that there are sociopathic hackers who are every bit as good or way better than you, so I disagree that "the best" hackers have a "strong sense of right and wrong." Some of them have none whatsoever.
Last, I rather suspect one reason you never got caught and/or prosecuted is precisely because you didn't really do any damage. I can guarantee you that if you had caused problems people would have started trying to hunt down the source of their break-ins. Unethical hackers do it for money, cred, revenge, etc. People get caught for other reasons besides whether they got sloppy, e.g. I know of a very high profile case where the reason the guy got caught is because he started sleeping with his partner's wife, and so the guy basically ratted him out. A lot of law enforcement counts on the social engineering factor eventually screwing things up for a criminal - why, because as the saying goes, there's no honor among thieves.
Now an organized attack by people devoted to a cause, that's a different thing psychologically and requires a different approach. However you will still see people operating according to human nature; people can be compromised, bribed, blackmailed or just plain pissed off and coerced or convinced to work for you. So it is simply not enough to have a Bruce Schneier or Kevin Mitnick++, you have to also have experts in psychology. This is something generally not considered a geek strong point. (I don't know where I was going with that, but it seemed worth saying.)
First, unfortunately for the rest of the world, the US is in control of ICANN and doesn't have to do a damn thing if it doesn't want. Unfortunately for us, that leaves open the option that the rest of the world does take their toys and goes home, i.e. "invents" a new internet and leaves us out of it. I was about to say that neither extreme seems very likely, but given the current political climate I'm not so sure.
.xxx TLD was really stupid - such a domain could make it easier to filter out porn sites if one wanted - because they are NOT going away. I like the internet just the way it is, thank you very much.
I'm sorry to have to agree though, the idea of the UN controlling the Internet is scary, for exactly the reasons that people have mentioned. It's currently largely unregulated (another word for that is "free", get it?). The comments from UN reps in other countries (e.g. Syria) revealed amazing ignorance of how the internet works, and an explicit desire to exert firm control over content. The complaint by Brazil about the
So far I have yet to hear either a good technical or policy-based argument against leaving it in US hands. I'm willing to be convinced, but so far all the arguments against US control have boiled down to, "we don't like you and/or don't want you to have it." Not good enough for me, sorry. I'm going to write my Congresscritters and ask them not to turn it over.
To Cliff:
First, I'm a lot less suspicious of Apple's motives than I am of yours.
Here are the actual steps to solve your problem, Cliff, if you really are interested in just getting your old iPod to work on Windows with iTunes. I just now verified this works on my Windows XP with powered FireWire and an original iPod, bought before Windows was supported (in fact, I'm listening to it as I type this):
1. Download the 1.3 Windows updater for iPod. It's a setup.exe file. Here's the URL:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
You'll have to login using your AppleID. Don't have one? It's free. Create one.
2. After you restart your machine, launch the Updater by going to the Start Menu and selecting iPod->System Software 1.3->Updater.
3. Connect the iPod and wait for the Restore button to become active.
4. Press the Restore button. This will make it a FAT32 (aka Windows file system) iPod.
5. When prompted, disconnect, then reconnect the iPod and let it update itself.
6. When the iPod gets back on the desktop, launch iTunes and sync away. Your iPod should now play songs as well as sync them.
Windows doesn't support HFS+ (aka Mac file system). Apple can't control Microsoft, and they can't control third parties that try to add HFS+ support to Windows, either. So, if you don't own a product, should customers expect you to support it? No. It's not your product. MediaFour's XPlay, which you said you used, relies on their own driver for HFS+ support. If you bought an **original** iPod, you knew this, and you also knew use of Mac iPods on Windows wasn't supported. I don't see how you possibly could not have.
Having strictly one way to do each task in an application limits accessibility for the disabled. This limitation might be solved, however, by violating one of his other guidelines - having more than one mode - one could have a Keyboard-Only mode or a Mouse-Only mode, for example.
Or maybe better, allow users to have their own, potentially system-wide interface configuration, with an interface API that every program receives keyboard, mouse, or other input device events from.
Do the people running websites have any responsibility for creating environments
which are truly free, and not dominated by the most hostile members?
I don't think Jon understands the meaning of the word "freedom." Having a "truly free" environment means there are no restrictions; anyone can post about anything. Hostile members, by definition, will be able to try to dominate a discussion if they want. Slashdot lets each reader control the viewing of his/her own content, without regulating content themselves. This is true freedom - you can flame, but others are equally free - to ignore you or flame you back.
It is just as ridiculous to claim that mere words literally prevent certain groups of people from posting their own words. You can say what you want about cultural differences, but in a truly free forum like this one, NOT having to "take responsibility" for your own words actually encourages people who would otherwise not post at all, because the social pressures are not there - it is precisely because people do NOT know if I am black, male, female, or what have you, that I can post without worrying what anyone thinks about it - whether someone will lob a racist or sexist remark at me, or devalue my opinion because of my genetic makeup. And ultimately it is still my choice to read or not, to post or not.
Even in the freest society, people don't ignore traffic lights or knock
down traffic signs - if they did, others would get injured or killed.
This is the most naive thing I've read in a while. Do you even drive? People ignore traffic lights and knock down signs all the time. MOST people obey the law because it is far more convenient (and less expensive) and, get this, because if they did, THEY would most likely be injured or killed. The people who run traffic lights and knock over signs do it mostly because they think they can get away with it (both legally and physically). So what "freest" society are you talking about?
So, the nice thing about a "free" society is that if I can't take the heat, I'm "free" to avoid the group entirely and form my own little fascist, private, speech-controlled community. In fact, this already happens.
Looking at most of the prices and sizes on the websites people have linked to here, it seems pretty clear that their target market isn't a female keyboard jockey with limited income. I am pretty skeptical about an ergonomic design with a heavy, heavy price tag - the people who can afford to buy it wouldn't seem to be the ones who need it most. I doubt most companies will fork out the several hundred dollars (and up) required for this stuff, either. I've had to search awfully hard to find solutions that fit my physique and budget.
Most keyboards are made for larger hands than mine. Whenever I can find a small keyboard with smaller keys, my wrists are just in much better shape; unfortunately I have had a hard time finding small keyboards.
The standard 101 key keyboard with number pad makes you have to reach for your mouse further away. If you do a lot of mousing, this can wear on your shoulder joint (at least it does mine). If I use a small keyboard without the number pad, and then make sure that the mouse or trackball is on the same level as the keyboard, it makes a big difference.
Currently I have a Suntouch Jr. keyboard with a trackball (although using a trackball doesn't work for everyone) and a $50 kneeling chair from Office Depot, which I alternate with my task chair. This seems to work quite well.
has even the slightest chance of being enough to outweigh the value of that patent,...
You can't make your decisions to buy or not to buy based on whether you think it will be effective - otherwise cynicism takes over and no one boycotts anything. Vote with your dollars; if they lose even 10% of their business, that's still a lot of money. Capitalism doesn't work if people won't put their money where their mouth is. I do it for myself as much as to try to affect a change, because I feel like a hypocrite if I don't.
Not. Cygwin does not REQUIRE purchase. A newer version is available for purchase. I just went to sourceware.cygnus.com and beta 20.1 is still available for download, for free, as always.
In addition, if you click on the links to each of the projects on sourceware, there is a nav bar on the left with a section called "Download". I don't think you were looking very hard.
At any rate, once again, "free software doesn't mean free as in 'free beer'; it's free as in 'freedom'." Read the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html). One is, in fact, allowed to charge money for software.
And as long as I'm repeating things that really shouldn't have to be, Michael Tiemann is not the CEO of Cygnus, it's currently Alex Daly until the merger occurs (that was actually a shot at the author of the Salon article on the merger).
Once you've developed for one Linux, you haven't developed for them all. There are significant enough differences between the various avatars of Linux that not all binaries will just run on all Linuces. In fact, one source tree may not even compile on all Linuces. So it isn't just a matter of whether one is familiar with each type of Linux or if the package type is different, or that someone just signed an exclusive contract (sorry, I had to say it).
The switch to glibc 2.1 caused unexpected problems for us. SuSE is a very different animal from Red Hat, in terms of certain libraries and where they are located, among other things.
For these reasons I feel a Linux standard is needed; otherwise developing for "Linux" will be too much of a pain for companies and it won't really happen. If not that, then software development companies will all eventually gravitate toward one proprietary version of Linux, and we'll have the Micro$oft effect all over again; the oppressed will become the oppressor.
The only way to stop spam is to start hitting the guilty parties in the pocketbook.Spammers clearly don't even care if they send out valid information - we've been hit with spam that advertises non-working URLs!
Spam is just so cheap that spammers don't even bother with quality control, and they don't worry about irritating people or costing anyone money- they don't have to pay for the cost to the recipients, and even one or two responses pays back the cost of the spam.
I wish ISPs would realize what an unexplored revenue source spammers are. I claim that the number of people on any given spam list is comparable to a full-page ad in a major newspaper. How much is a full-page ad in say, the Chicago Tribune? Why should spammers be treated any different than for example, Sears, the Democratic Party, or Saks Fifth Avenue? Make them pay for advertising "space," at comparable market value. Make them sign an advertising contract before spamming. People who advertise without paying would incur fees over and above the normal advertising rates. Advertising without a contract
could be grounds for canceling one's account.
Spam would automatically go down because most people couldn't afford it. It would automatically be traceable because the ISP makes them sign a contract. It would have valid information and only rarely have duplicate addresses because the spammer (now advertiser) can't afford to send more e-mail than necessary, and can't afford to send a new, correct message.
Yeah, pretty much the male crowd hovered around the ugly side of average. I didn't see anyone I'd call a "hot guy." No, I take that back. A couple of the guys from VA Research were cute, but I can't say who cause my sister works there and she'll just tellum.
;)
fragment: "Women like to see attractive sales guys?" BAH! As far as my Stud Watch is concerned, Sales Droids don't count. So that's the Stud Watch report for Linux World!
The Cool Stuph report is that there was definitely cooler stuph than at ESC-West or the Open Source conference, and AbiSource is moving up in the world, from one to 2 colors on their T-shirts!
Coolest Free Stuph award goes to LinuxCare, wot with their LINUXGRUVEN bumper stickers and the LNX sticker-badge similar to UK, DE, FR, etc. ones people like to put on their cars.
Second is Compaq for the LINUX license plate with the New Hampshire motto: "Live Free Or Die" (or as George Carlin put it, "Live Free Or DIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!")
The band at the kickoff party was great, Man Or Astroman rocks all the gluteus maximus; they're Linux geeks too, and one of their amps is now plastered with a LINUXGRUVEN sticker. They did the "Love Theme" from the MST3K movie, btw.
Gah. I've prattled long enough.