

LinuxTag Opens (Hackers are Homeless) 92
LinuxTag started today. Many of the usual exhibitors can be seen, and the floor is quite busy. Especially noteworth is the crowded KDE booth where they are excited about the 2.2 Betas.
kazekiri sent us a report from Slashdot/Japan which you'll need to translate to read, but apparently one of the hotels was closed for hygiene reasons, and many of the developers are without a place to sleep. So now they are
staying in a gymnasium! Fortunately for me, my hotel is open and I got a good nights sleep (after 36 hours without any) and am preparing for my keynote Saturday afternoon, and a Q&A session Sunday afternoon. If you're in Stuttgart, check it out, just don't try any of that Deutsch on me, I barely passed that class.
Deutsch? (Score:1)
I thought we were above this (Score:1)
LinuxTag !! where are the LSM ?? (Score:1)
Re:They're letting CmdrTaco... (Score:1)
Staying in a gymnasium! (Score:2)
Unclean! Unclean! (Score:3)
Re:Any Linux Tag visitors buying VA Linux software (Score:2)
> eh?" *picks up phone* "BUY NORTEL! BUY LINUX!
> TECH TECH TECH!"
If memory serves, one of the provisions in the deal was that Brewster had to get value for his money. I'm not sure buying tech stocks counts.
BTW, did you know that "Brewster's Millions" was originally a novel by George Barr McCutcheon (published 1902), and that according to IMDB it's been made into a movie at least six times? You can read the novel online [virginia.edu] thanks to UVa's Electronic Text Center.
Any Linux Tag visitors buying VA Linux software? (Score:2)
"Cash Burn" (TM)(R)(C 2001 VA Linux)(All rights reserved)(No warranty)
Congratulations to the KDE team (Score:1)
This release is sooo good, that Windows XP pales in comparison. Stable, only very occasional glitches.
I can't wait for the final, but READ the Changelog (of 3!!!! months). It is incredible:
BTW, this is the SHORT Changelog, for the complete thing read the link at the bottom!!!!!!
For a much more complete list, please read the official ChangeLog here: http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_1to2_--
LinuxTag (Score:1)
Re:Staying in a gymnasium! (Score:2)
Yeah, it is. (posting live from the KDE booth)
Actually, this morning we encountered a few fellow geeks sleeping on the streets. Pictures will be posted as soon as I am back home - I forget the cable to transfer the images from my camera. :-/
Re:Damn Alpha-Betas (Score:1)
Hey, that's what you getting when the build's on fire.
Damn Alpha-Betas (Score:4)
Say hi to Booger and Takashi for me!
slashdot japan? (Score:1)
linkfilter [linkfilter.com] - fresh links daily.
What happened to sharing? (Score:2)
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Re:Deutsch? (Score:3)
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Re:"Homeless?" (Score:1)
No, 'crippled' is having the Jag in the shop.
Re:Bad impressions (Score:1)
good (Score:5)
'one pull-up pyle! can you not do 1 fucking pull-up?!?'
Re:Python-esque (Score:1)
Re:Python-esque (Score:2)
"one of the hotels was closed for hygiene reasons" (Score:1)
Revenge (Score:1)
So, go ahead and put us down,
One of these days we'll turn it around.
It won't be long, mark my word.
TIME HAS COME FOR REVENGE OF THE NERDS!
Re:Yes: Deutsch. (Score:1)
Dutch is some sort of German.
Portuguese is some sort of Spanish.
Whatever they speak in the usa is some sort of English.
Oh damn. That last one is true. And now all the brits will get mad.
So your Deutsch (Score:1)
Hackers are Homeless (Score:1)
Translation for you (Score:2)
Now, *that* clears things up.
Re:Deutsch? (Score:1)
Re:ROTN (Score:1)
Sleeping in a gymnasium? (Score:2)
forced to sleep in a gymnasium. It's O.K. Don't
wory about them. They will find a house and beat
those aweful Alpha Beta's! Let's just hope there's
not a sequel(or SQL...).
Re:Python-esque (Score:1)
You lucky, lucky bastard!
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Room for 2 (Score:1)
Oh yeah, internet too (Score:1)
ROTN (Score:1)
Alpha-Betas? (Score:2)
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
IQ Average (Score:1)
Well, their average IQ just dropped a notch. I'm new user 3794.
Japanese /. User ID >3794? Beware.
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dman123 forever!
Moderating (Score:1)
Correct, as far as I could tell too. Let's put it this way... The Apple Cube story had 36 posts and only 5 were scored as 0. All 5 of those were ACs (not modded down).
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dman123 forever!
Re:OT: Re:So your Deutsch (Score:1)
An intersting use of this on Usenet, btw, is the habit to transfer that usage into English in front of a German reading audience - like soc.culture.german - to emulate the German "Sie". Some people use that as a style mechanism (what's Stilmittel in English ?) to acchieve that devastating coldness in a flame that the German Language permits you by keeping formally polite . Some folks there have developed mastery in that
f.
Re:Life imitates art, once again. (Score:1)
Oh, and then there are the 'Black Corps', too... but trust me you won't want to join them, unless you really like fencing with sharp blades while wearing somewhat
f.
Re:Any Linux Tag visitors buying VA Linux software (Score:1)
"30 million in a month, eh?" *picks up phone* "BUY NORTEL! BUY LINUX! TECH TECH TECH!" Three days later "So much for that thirty mil..."
Re:Any Linux Tag visitors buying VA Linux software (Score:1)
Re:Was there a class... (Score:1)
Re:They're letting CmdrTaco... (Score:1)
You people are downright RUDE!
Maybe
The
Maybe CmdrTaco doesnt have a Ph.D. Maybe
I think that to just discredit someone for some reason you didnt even name is purely asanine. If your gonna take a crack at someone at least back your point up. Your just being an ass. All I see are people giving CmdrTaco complete shit. What you don't have anything better to do than analyze the grammatical structure of a
Jeremy
Re:They're letting CmdrTaco... (Score:1)
All I am saying is that people need to back off. God forbid I dare to say something other than "CmdrTaco is an idiot". Even he said it but seriously if your gonna make such extreme claims people should be willing to have real proof not just "You don't read
/. has changed some. Yes it has lost a little of its old luster but thats what happens when people and sites grow. They change.
Again, Back-Off and dont read the site if the people who run it are such idiots. Complaning and being rude has obviously not improved the situation.
Jeremy
Re:slashdot japan? (Score:1)
Gymnasium and what it means in German (Score:1)
So, american junior geeks go to the gymnasium to get their share of Phys. Ed., i.e. to get all sweaty and shit.
For german kids, a Gymnasium (nouns are capitalized in German) is where some of them go after elementary school. Gymnasium == Jr+Sr High School (grades 5 thru 12/13 depending on state). There are some other forms of secondary schools here in Germany.
So, while it will still be a shared-space-sleeping-experience, at least the rooms are a lot smaller
Re:Poor Geeks (Score:2)
In English, "Gymnasium" means a hall where you do gymnastics or exercise.
In German, "Gymnasium" means an upper-tier secondary school (attended from age 11 to age 19 IIRC).
Just one of those strange English/German glitches. Like, don't the words "mist" or "missed" around Germans, since "Mist" means "poo" in German - not "sh*t" or anything like that, just almost exactly the same resonance as "poo". Foreign golfers missing a putt and saying "Poo!" is quite amusing for the Germans (who says they lack a sense of humour?
Grab.
Re:Gymnasium and what it means in German (Score:1)
Python-esque (Score:4)
Re:Python-esque (Score:1)
Slashdot Europe (Score:1)
Slashdot Europe ??
Re:Life imitates art, once again. (Score:1)
Re:Life imitates art, once again. (Score:1)
Re:Staying in a gymnasium! (Score:2)
Peace. Sway
Bad impressions (Score:1)
Folks, we don't have to be that way. It just takes 10 minutes to take a decent shower everyday, and it makes so much more agreeable, especially in a conference or meeting where a lot of hackers/geeks/nerds are gathering.
The whole hygiene thing just gives very bad impression about the hacker community. First, there was that RMS thing (with all respect to RMS), then the attendees at LinuxTag thrown out of the hotel. And maybe attendees at the next-month LinuxWorld Expo at SF will be thrown out too?
Re:Bad impressions (Score:2)
You know what I'm talking about: 70 sweaty adolescents and grown men, packed into a room full of gigantic running monitors, who have been there for the last 12 hours, just sitting in their chairs...
Ugh, the stench was unbearable. No wonder everyone opted to go to a resturant for eating.
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"Homeless?" (Score:5)
"I can sympathize with my brothers on the street, man... one time my hotel suite was double-booked, and I ended up without even a hot tub!"
Re:So your Deutsch (Score:1)
Just in case you couldn't tell, I barely passed that class too. :)
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OT: Re:So your Deutsch (Score:1)
To be honest, I had no trouble passing the class, but that doesn't mean that I can remember any of it now.
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Wish I knew Japanese (Score:1)
I'm brilliant,
Re:good (Score:1)
Re:Python-esque (Score:1)
Re:OT: Re:So your Deutsch (Score:1)
Re:Integrated?!?!?! (Score:1)
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Re:They're letting CmdrTaco... (Score:1)
Re:slashdot japan? (Score:1)
Revenge of the Nerds!! (Score:1)
Who remembers "Revenge of the Nerds," where the homeless nerds were forced to live in the gymnasium? :)
Hotels in the area should be wary of panty raids and people playing with security cameras.
Life imitates art, once again. (Score:5)
"Good night, Gilbert."
"Good night, Louis."
"Good night, Takashi."
"Good night, Lamar."
"Good night, Wormser."
"Good night, Poindexter."
"Good night, Booger."
"BUUUUUURRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!"
Poor Geeks (Score:1)
How many geeks do you know who could recognize and correctly identify a gymnasium?
I won't tell them if you won't.
"Man, the hotel was neat - it had bars ALL OVER THE WALLS!"
Actually... (Score:1)
This is why English, though it is a Germanic language and has a Germanic structure, has a lot of French in it's vocabulary.
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At least you were covered in your sewer (Score:1)
Yes: Deutsch. (Score:1)
In fact: If you can speak german and english you'll have no problems learning dutch ("Netherlandish").
Who remembers "RotN"...? (Score:1)
Re:German (Deutsch) may not be bad.. (Score:1)
invitation from University of Stuttgart (Score:1)
How do you say "FP" in Kanji? (Score:1)
Slashdot Japan?! When did this happen? I did a search here & on google and saw almost nothing about a "slashdot.jp"... To me, the idea is just amazing.. perhaps it's the idea of a whole 'nother "geek culture" out there, in a parallel universe (er, Japan), but really having nothing in common otherwise, except, now... slashdot!
Hah! We did all that and had to use Windows! (Score:1)
Re:Deutsch? (Score:1)
Must have been those all-night sessions with Cowboy Neal, who happens to know every language in the world but French.
eek (Score:1)
Integrated?!?!?! (Score:1)
Re:Bad impressions (Score:1)
I took a buddy to a show, and the first thing he said was "Jesus! What the hell is that smell!" Nothing makes me more sick, than to be leaning in to check out a price, then catching a wiff of some guy who smells like he hasn't showered for days.
If you really want to see geeks/hackers making a bad impression, try going to an E3. I have never seen so many guys who had bad hygene. The "booth babes" were doing their best to aviod the worst of the bunch. One girl I spoke to said she'd been hit on tons of times that day, and not one guy had good hygene! I wrote up a paper on my experience for my Graphics programming class. I'll post it if I find it.
CmdrTaco's Keynote (Score:1)
First, let me say I'm delighted that I'm allowed to give teh keynote speech hear in Deutchland.
Ever sinse we started Chips & Dips we were followin the newest informations in the geek industry. Slashdot was a big step for us, say a milestone, in taht direction.
We hope to continue provinding the geek community with moer informations in teh future.
etc etc ect
Sounds Like me (Score:1)
The Real truth about the Hotel (Score:1)
No Deutsch (Score:1)
to get this all straight (Score:1)
ergo: all those languages have the same root, just as humans and apes have the same ancestors.
They're letting CmdrTaco... (Score:3)
Could you please record this and put it on /. maybe make a comic relief area for it.
German (Deutsch) may not be bad.. (Score:4)
Re:to get this all straight (Score:1)
Online translator (Score:1)
Re:Actually... (Score:1)
Real Issues. (Score:2)