Linux.Conf.Au 2004
Linux.Conf.Au 2004 was held in Adelaide, and was one of the more formative experiences of my career. I was later privileged to speak at Linux.COnf.Au 2018.
January 18, 2004
The Dunking and Conference Close
At lunchtime I wandered down to the lawns to watch Linus being dunked, which was all good fun. Linus was a good sport about the whole thing. After Linus, the other significant members of the...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
apt and getupdates
After the keynote I saw Marc Merlin's "apt-get and getupdates" talk. Debian's apt tool allows you to keep packages up to date on a system, but doesn't really handle configuration files. That's where...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
Linux.Conf.Au Day 4 - Havoc Pennington;s Keynote
After a slightly late start Saturday morning, Havoc Pennington gave the final keynote on Desktop Linux. In contrast to the other keynotes this week, the Havoc was neat and well presented, short hair,...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
Penguin Dinner
After all of the days sessions it was off to the Linux.Conf.Au Penguin Dinner at the Festival Theatre. Dinner was excellent and the charity auctions were a good laugh. All in all, I think we raised...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
Spam FixIt
The second Linux.Conf.Au fixit that I want to was the Spam fixit. This was hosted by Tridge and Rusty, although somehow Rusty managed not to be there. There was a lot of lively discussion, as...
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DotGNU FIXIT
Linux.Conf.Au this year introduced the FIXITs which were BOF (Birds Of a Feather) sessions with a purpose, e.g. to produce a list of critical bugs in a piece of software. The first one I went to was...
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A tour of my junk code directory
The last talk I went to on day 3 of Linux.Conf.Au was Andrew Tridgel's "A tour of my junkcode directory". Essentially Tridge is advocating that we keep all of the little bits of code that we write...
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Perl 6 in a Nutshell
After Lunch Damian Conway addressed Linux.Conf.Au presenting "Perl 6 in a nutshell". Essentially, although Perl 5 is great, the source code is becoming very difficult to work with, and the language...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
Controlling Home Lighting with Clipsal C-Bus
The last talk before lunch was LinuxSA and Linux.Conf.Au organiser Geoffrey Bennet's talk on "Controlling your home lighting with C-Bus". Geoffrey is a very bright guy who I've known since school,...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
Linux.Conf.Au Day 3 - Bdale Garbe's Keynote
Day 3 of Linux.Conf.Au got underway with Bdale Garbe's "where would you like 100,000 users to do today?" keynote. Bdale looked at a couple of large scale Linux deployments around the world and...
ReadJanuary 15, 2004
Corporate Linux Evangelism
Con Zymeris gave a talk after lunch on "Corporate Linux Evangelism". The first stage in any Linux deployment is evangelism. That is, raising awareness of Linux and its strengths (and weaknesses)....
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Free Software: The AOL7 Story
The last talk before lunch was Graeme Merral's "Free Software: The AOL|7 Story". AOL|7 is a joint venture between AAPT, AOL and Channel Seven. Its sort of a hybrid company, part ISP, and part content...
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Could SCO vs IBM happen to you?
Next up was "Could SCO vs IBM happen to you?" presented by Jeremy Malcolm from iLaw. After starting out with a general overview of the SCO vs IBM case, Jeremy then covered the current state of...
ReadJanuary 15, 2004
Linux.Conf.Au Day 2 - Mad Dog's Keynote
The day started out with a keynote from John "Maddog" Hall, "Programers are from Mars, Users/Managers/Companies are from Uranus". This was a brilliantly executed talk which carried a useful message,...
ReadJanuary 14, 2004
PHP Tips and Tricks with Rasmus Lerdorf
After lunch, the next thing on the Linux.Conf.Au agenda for me was Rasmus Lerdorf's "PHP Tips & Tricks" presentation. Rasmus started off with an introduction to where PHP fits in the...
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PostgreSQL 7.4 and Advanced SQL
The real business part of the Linux.Conf.Au started off with a tutorial from Gavin Sherry (Alcove Systems Engineering) covering "PostgreSQL 7.4 and advanced SQL features". I'd done a little bit of...
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Linux.Conf.au Opening
The first "real" day of Linux.Conf.Au started out with some opening remarks from Linux.Conf.Au organiser (one of many) Michael Davies. The winner of the national Sun Regional Delegate price was...
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IPv6 MiniConf - Day 2
Today was a more hands on introduction to IPv6. John Barlow the Advanced Communications Services Coordinator for AARnet gave all of today's presentations and started out the day with "IPv6 101 Hands...
ReadJanuary 12, 2004
IPv6 MiniConf - Day 1
Just finished up at the first day of Linux.Conf.Au 2004… Well, the first day of the mini-conferences anyway. The real conference gets under way on Wednesday morning. I spent today in the IPv6...
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