Yes, there are PS2 Linux users as well, but the XboX has many features (e.g. Ethernet, twice the RAM, twice the USB controllers, hard disk drive) useful in a thin (or fat, in the case of the disk) client but lacking from a PS2.
Oddly, I don't have that one. I'll go to the belconnen mall today, get a pink boob tube from Supre and some pearlescent white paint from the art shop and make one.
OK, since you're going to so much trouble, what would you like on my shirt? Heisenberg was probably right? Schrodinger rules the waves?
I've never met a 4-digit slashdotter before.
'Tis actually the third account I registered. The emails for the first two no longer work, and I have no idea what the passwords might be. The main value in it for me is poking fun at people who unthinkingly proclaim "you must be new around here". (-:
Uses Konqueror to manage her website via SSH, does everything else in Konqueror, Kontact, Kate and OpenOffice. Very rarely administers anything, but if the KDE config menus aren't quite enough, Mandrake's Control Center will do it.
She has a few scripts behind icons to do stuff with one click which would be impossible with a bare copy of MS Windows. Most if not all of it would be achieveble with REXX on OS/2.
...I feel impelled to chip in and mention that your choice of the term "shoots up" is a singularly - albeit probably subconsciously - appropriate description of BASH. (-:
It doesn't look quite as much like the result of a dodgy serial connector as, say, TECO (think "vi with the Shift key stuck down":-), but it's close enough to represent a fairly strong incentive to use Ruby for all of your scripting.
...you've got plenty to keep you busy without having to face random slobs who will probably be utterly shocked to be called out on their impression of bravado. (-:
Hi from Perth. Shall I keep an eye out for the "Johannes Kepler made the Earth move for me" tee shirt while I'm over at the Conf? (-:
However, don't belittle Conrad Parker as a performer, living proof that not all Canucks are boring (he doesn't normally look like a con as he does in that photo, just acts like one sometimes:-) and there were many, many presenters who were attention-getting for their information rather than for their antics.
...the sharks and incredibly poisonous sea-snakes. They sort of cancel each other out a bit - the biologists at Monkey Mia call the snakes "Tiger Shark spaghetti".
Anyway, if you haven't read Terry Pratchett's The Last Continent, do so. It isn't anything like an accurate picture of Australia, even with random magic added, but it's 100% wall-to-wall in-jokes, right down to the last drop-bear.
When they saw how much more wonderful a place Perth is to live (heck, even Adelaide's got better weather), they decided they needed to move West. Since that was impractical, they decided that expanding Australia to the East was the only remaining option. So now Australia has nine states and two territories. The conf is just acknowledging this.
I want to call it Colloquy of Linux in Australia and New Zealand (CLANZ) but nobody's listening. (-:
We're (the royal we're) also idly toying with the idea of separate per-state user Colloquia.
Either way, LCA is top stuff. I hope we get Linus again this year. He likes to come along because of the low-profile, relaxed and informative ambience (you know, they force you onto a dunking stool, that kind of thing).
BTW, if you haven't yet punted around in Planet Linux Australia, do so. It's quite an education, here and there.
You mean you don't refer to your system as GNU/BSD/Mozilla/PublicDomain/OpenGroup/Apache/ Artistic/Linux? Goodness me, credit where credit is due, boy!
Planet Bilious, named after the Oh God of Wine (the antithesis of Bacchus - or Dionysus, depending on your preference for mythologies). Planet Verucca, named after the Verucca Gnome. Planets Death, Pestilence and so on, after the Four Motorcyclists. Planet Hogfather, after the Discworld's pig-propelled sleigh driver. The Soul Cake Duck asteroid belt, with asteroids named after cakes - "Welcome to the Pavlova Uranium Extraction Facility!" - or ducks - "We will be landing at Daffy Station in five minutes, please seal your pressure suits and check your safety webbing". Planet Violet, after the tooth fairy of the same name (or possibly Bob and Helen Parr's daughter, but let's not open that film-can of worms).
You can specify that what you donate goes to locals, and it will - still with zero effective overheads since the organisation itself is paid for by people donating for the purpose. In Australia, the local-charity arm of the organisation is called ADCare, it may be different in the USA.
I just let them spend it where it's needed most. I think they're better judges of that than I am.
I donate through ADRA and AsianAid, since I know from being told by people who've been there, helped out and looked around that not only is 100% of your money is spent on the front lines (the cost of running these organisations is drawn from money donated by others specifically for the purpose) but the methods they use to help people lean heavily towards (re)establishing self-supporting independence.
It's not a dependency-forming handout they bring, it's a future.
If you know of others sticking to similar methods, please list them in reply.
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Yes, there are PS2 Linux users as well, but the XboX has many features (e.g. Ethernet, twice the RAM, twice the USB controllers, hard disk drive) useful in a thin (or fat, in the case of the disk) client but lacking from a PS2.
Big slabs of that are now Japanese-owned, and the laws are marginally less insane in Oz than in the US. So far.
...but OTOH, wouldn't be hard to think of new ones. Do you make T-shirts for a living or something?
We could call them The Really Northern Territory and The East Christmas Islands, respectively.
And I prefer 5-button mice, thank you. (-:
Uses Konqueror to manage her website via SSH, does everything else in Konqueror, Kontact, Kate and OpenOffice. Very rarely administers anything, but if the KDE config menus aren't quite enough, Mandrake's Control Center will do it.
She has a few scripts behind icons to do stuff with one click which would be impossible with a bare copy of MS Windows. Most if not all of it would be achieveble with REXX on OS/2.
Or perhaps he should try Ruby on Rails? Hard to get more integrated or developmental than that.
...I feel impelled to chip in and mention that your choice of the term "shoots up" is a singularly - albeit probably subconsciously - appropriate description of BASH. (-:
:-), but it's close enough to represent a fairly strong incentive to use Ruby for all of your scripting.
It doesn't look quite as much like the result of a dodgy serial connector as, say, TECO (think "vi with the Shift key stuck down"
Dumb, dumb, dumb AC troll!
...you've got plenty to keep you busy without having to face random slobs who will probably be utterly shocked to be called out on their impression of bravado. (-:
Hi from Perth. Shall I keep an eye out for the "Johannes Kepler made the Earth move for me" tee shirt while I'm over at the Conf? (-:
Certainly is. (-:
:-) and there were many, many presenters who were attention-getting for their information rather than for their antics.
However, don't belittle Conrad Parker as a performer, living proof that not all Canucks are boring (he doesn't normally look like a con as he does in that photo, just acts like one sometimes
...the sharks and incredibly poisonous sea-snakes. They sort of cancel each other out a bit - the biologists at Monkey Mia call the snakes "Tiger Shark spaghetti".
Anyway, if you haven't read Terry Pratchett's The Last Continent, do so. It isn't anything like an accurate picture of Australia, even with random magic added, but it's 100% wall-to-wall in-jokes, right down to the last drop-bear.
...Tasmania again.
When they saw how much more wonderful a place Perth is to live (heck, even Adelaide's got better weather), they decided they needed to move West. Since that was impractical, they decided that expanding Australia to the East was the only remaining option. So now Australia has nine states and two territories. The conf is just acknowledging this.
...because next year it'd have to be gnu.linux.conf.nz, and kiwiland doesn't have a "conf" 2LD.
It was originally called CALU, Conference of Australian Linux Users.
I want to call it Colloquy of Linux in Australia and New Zealand (CLANZ) but nobody's listening. (-:
We're (the royal we're) also idly toying with the idea of separate per-state user Colloquia.
Either way, LCA is top stuff. I hope we get Linus again this year. He likes to come along because of the low-profile, relaxed and informative ambience (you know, they force you onto a dunking stool, that kind of thing).
BTW, if you haven't yet punted around in Planet Linux Australia, do so. It's quite an education, here and there.
You mean you don't refer to your system as GNU/BSD/Mozilla/PublicDomain/OpenGroup/Apache/ Artistic/Linux? Goodness me, credit where credit is due, boy!
(-:
...pay for the overhead out of separate donations earmarked for the purpose, and are pretty reasonable on overall efficiency anyway.
So your donation to the organisation is effectively 100% efficient.
<whock!> Right! Sure sorted that argument out...
...or Barbara and Laura?
Planet Bilious, named after the Oh God of Wine (the antithesis of Bacchus - or Dionysus, depending on your preference for mythologies). Planet Verucca, named after the Verucca Gnome. Planets Death, Pestilence and so on, after the Four Motorcyclists. Planet Hogfather, after the Discworld's pig-propelled sleigh driver. The Soul Cake Duck asteroid belt, with asteroids named after cakes - "Welcome to the Pavlova Uranium Extraction Facility!" - or ducks - "We will be landing at Daffy Station in five minutes, please seal your pressure suits and check your safety webbing". Planet Violet, after the tooth fairy of the same name (or possibly Bob and Helen Parr's daughter, but let's not open that film-can of worms).
Definite points for classically understated dry humour there.
IMESHO (yes, you're on /.) ad hominem falls under the debating equivalent of "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".
Mr dj42 hardly even rates on the pomposity scale compared to many others here. To me he sounded kind of whimsical rather than elitist.
Lagrange points might have been carefully designed to enable random cool stuff to happen in scifi stories.
You can specify that what you donate goes to locals, and it will - still with zero effective overheads since the organisation itself is paid for by people donating for the purpose. In Australia, the local-charity arm of the organisation is called ADCare, it may be different in the USA.
I just let them spend it where it's needed most. I think they're better judges of that than I am.
I donate through ADRA and AsianAid, since I know from being told by people who've been there, helped out and looked around that not only is 100% of your money is spent on the front lines (the cost of running these organisations is drawn from money donated by others specifically for the purpose) but the methods they use to help people lean heavily towards (re)establishing self-supporting independence.
It's not a dependency-forming handout they bring, it's a future.
If you know of others sticking to similar methods, please list them in reply.