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Linus Sighted At LCA2004

Posted by timothy on Mon Jan 12, 2004 05:04 AM
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leonbrooks writes "Yes! Third year in a row! The penguinmeister has entered the building! Posting from lecture theatre LG28 at the University of Adelaide, we have confirmed that Linus Torvalds has once more blessed us with his presence. Solid proof that Australia truly is The Lucky Country. (-:" And an anonymous reader adds: "Linus will be here for a week at linux.conf.au but not presenting anything. If you want to see him, maybe you guys should come down to South Australia and register for linux.conf.au 2004."
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  • Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 12 2004, @05:05AM (#7950852)
    Linus is at location X!

    This is news folks, make no doubt about it.
    • Re:Awesome! by mausmalone (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @08:25AM
      • Re:Awesome! by MasterSLATE (Score:1) Monday January 12 2004, @01:54PM
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    • LGPSTH by La_Maudite (Score:1) Monday January 12 2004, @10:57AM
    • Re:Awesome! by Zork the Almighty (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @12:28PM
    • BFD by t0ny (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @02:27PM
    • Re:MOD PARENT UP by Chess_the_cat (Score:1) Monday January 12 2004, @08:18AM
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  • Linus (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 12 2004, @05:06AM (#7950855)
    He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy..
    • Re:Linus by Jacco de Leeuw (Score:3) Monday January 12 2004, @05:21AM

      • Re:Linus (Score:4, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 12 2004, @05:44AM (#7950986)
        that's the first time I've heard Monty Python fandom equated with going out more.

        I have however heard the two used in one sentence.

        as in:

        Stop watching that Monty Python and get some fresh air.
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    • Re:Linus (Score:5, Insightful)

      by JaredOfEuropa (526365) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:51AM (#7951167)
      (Last Journal: Saturday January 31 2004, @05:25PM)
      He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy..
      Modded as Funny, but it's simple truth (the first part anyway). What's the big deal with Linus visiting this or that town or university, if he's not there to hold a lecture or speak at some event? Sure, it might be interesting if you'd be able to sit down at the bar with him and chat... but would you want half the geek population to come running after you if you were Linus? *sigh*

      Now if it was Bill Gates, I would want to know. I'd drive over to the location of his last sighting, and pick up a nice pie on the way ;-)
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      • Re:Linus by shachart (Score:1) Monday January 12 2004, @07:15AM
      • Forget pies by Felinoid (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @09:31AM
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      • Re:Linus by xanadu-xtroot.com (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @09:51AM
        • Re:Linus by MadChicken (Score:1) Monday January 12 2004, @12:20PM
      • Take your pick by sharkey (Score:1) Monday January 12 2004, @11:17AM
      • Re:Linus by HungWeiLo (Score:1) Monday January 12 2004, @02:59PM
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    • Re:Linus by d_i_r_t_y (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @09:13AM
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  • Havoc Pennington will do the keynote (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 12 2004, @05:06AM (#7950860)
    Havoc of Red Hat/Gnome/freedesktop/ex-Debian fame will be there too delivering the keynote AFAIK. He has some interesting things to say, so people listen up. :)

  • Apparently (Score:5, Funny)

    by Xel'Naga (673728) on Monday January 12 2004, @05:07AM (#7950862)
    Even the smilies are upside down in Australia
    • Re:Apparently by deego (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @09:56AM
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  • In other news... (Score:5, Funny)

    by turgid (580780) on Monday January 12 2004, @05:08AM (#7950866)
    (Last Journal: Friday November 30, @03:32PM)
    A decayed and rotten Elvis was seen attempting to enter the same conference without a pass. When questioned by security staff, the King was reportedy upset that such a "square" could become such a celebrity. "What is the world ocming to? Where are my fans?" He reportedly sobbed and he was led away by Australian police officers.

  • I'm in LG28 too (Score:4, Informative)

    by anonymous coword (615639) on Monday January 12 2004, @05:08AM (#7950868)
    (http://www.nero-online.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday September 10 2003, @02:18PM)
    Yes, i seen him too. He is running SuSE linux 9.0 on a Sony VAIO laptop. Me too. He is working on some patches for Kerenel 2.4.25 when I seen him. There are a lot of people here, with all sorts of computers and laptops. Some running Windows, Some running BSD, some even running Mac OS 9, but I didn't see OSX.

    This place is great. I will update you with more details over the next few days here at LCA2004.

  • Just the guys? (Score:5, Funny)

    by agwis (690872) on Monday January 12 2004, @05:14AM (#7950890)

    "If you want to see him, maybe you guys should come down to South Australia and register for linux.conf.au 2004."


    What about the gals? Surely linux.conf.au 2004 is a chick magnet, ain't it?


  • Lucky country?? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 12 2004, @05:15AM (#7950892)
    Solid proof that Australia truly is The Lucky Country.

    I thought it's because of all the topless sheila's on the beaches :)

  • Linus spotting? (Score:5, Funny)

    by illuminata (668963) on Monday January 12 2004, @05:16AM (#7950898)
    (Last Journal: Wednesday June 09 2004, @07:46AM)
    Charles Schultz is dead dammit! Unless you caught a reprint, there's no way you could've seen Linus!

    And what the fuck does this have to do with penguins?
  • But now to be the target of a worldwide real life 'Wheres Waldo' like geek game must be a little too much!

  • ya know (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Illserve (56215) on Monday January 12 2004, @05:28AM (#7950941)
    When people poke fun at /. they make up stories just like this.

    • Re:ya know by Rogerborg (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @08:23AM
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  • OMG (Score:5, Funny)

    by Nightreaver (695006) <lau.l@uritzeCOFFEEn.dk minus caffeine> on Monday January 12 2004, @05:35AM (#7950960)
    (http://www.iola.dk/)
    ...we have confirmed that Linus Torvalds has once more blessed us with his presence.

    Anybody touched him yet? No, of course... nobody could be THAT lucky.
    • Re:OMG by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Monday January 12 2004, @09:14AM
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  • Spooky (Score:4, Funny)

    by laa (457196) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:05AM (#7951046)
    (http://www.polycon.fi/~laa)
    This starts to sound like the Elvis sightings... Linus has published a book already, but when will we see the first album?
    • Re:Spooky by acidtripp101 (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @07:02AM
    • Re:Spooky by adrianbaugh (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @08:04AM
    • Re:Spooky by TeknoHog (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @10:40AM
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  • Big Boost For Adelaide (Score:4, Funny)

    by POds (241854) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:05AM (#7951047)
    (http://pods.-is-a-geek.net/ | Last Journal: Thursday January 08 2004, @11:59PM)
    The shock occurance of linus at Adelaide has made it's popularity amoung other Australians soar through the roof. Its believed all the skits and parody's of Adelaide being Australia's most borring city will stop right here

  • Aww, c'mon! (Score:2, Funny)

    by NemesisStar (619232) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:07AM (#7951052)
    I know you're posting from the land downunder, but there's still no excuse for the backwards smilie!

  • That's my uni! (Score:2, Funny)

    by Joel Carr (693662) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:15AM (#7951076)
    Cool, I'm only 15 minutes away from there!! I'm starting to regret my decision not to attend the conference... WHAT WAS I THINKING!!! Still, it's not too late, just I think it costs more now.

    On a side note, I hope he doesn't happen to wander into our CS department that would be enough to destroy any computer lover's soul...

    ---

  • He announced going to Australia.. (Score:5, Informative)

    by tsager (196659) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:19AM (#7951085)
    (http://toe.ch/ | Last Journal: Friday October 29 2004, @05:11PM)
    Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:49:01 -0800 (PST)
    From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
    To: Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]
    Subject: Linux-2.6.1

    Ok, the diffs from -rc3 are minimal, most noticeably the (very _very_ hard
    to trigger, but nasty if you ever did) fork() race that Ingo found.

    I'm going to be in Australia (and on airplanes) for the week, but we're
    all in the capable hands of Andrew, so why worry? The fact that I'm
    fleeing the country should in no way be construed as anything sinister at
    all, no siree. Nope. I'm innocent, and nobody saw me do it.

    The full changelog is getting uploaded right now along with the release,
    and the BK trees have already been pushed.

    Up up and away,

    Linus

  • But doesn't he live... (Score:2)

    by Zakabog (603757) <zakabog @ e l i tehunters.com> on Monday January 12 2004, @06:20AM (#7951088)
    ...somewhere in Cali? So wouldn't that make the US a lucky country? And wouldn't it be waaaaaaaaay cheaper to get a flight to the US than to australia (unless you're fortunate enough to live near Australia)?
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  • Linux Bangalore/2003 (Score:2, Interesting)

    by hackrobat (467625) <manish.jethani@NoSpAm.gmail.com> on Monday January 12 2004, @06:29AM (#7951111)
    (http://mannu.livejournal.com/)
    Speaking of geek stars turning up for conferences, I was at LB/2003 [linux-bangalore.org] where Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman did presentations on Mono. Excerpt from my blog:
    LB/2003 apparently was a world record. 96 hours of talks in 3 days! It was on Slashdot [slashdot.org] yesterday.

    I got a chance to meet Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman, both of Ximian and Mono fame. I also met Naba Kumar, author of the Anjuta IDE for Linux, and a few other veterans of the Linux community in India. I didn't get the time and opportunity to meet Rasmus Lerdorf (author of PHP) and Jeremy Zawodny (Yahoo's MySQL guru) though.
    I'm posing (red shirt) with Miguel de Icaza [balajin.net] :-D

    Let me tell you, it's great to have guys like Miguel and Nat at conferences. They're natural crowd-pullers, and unlike most geeks who like to avoid contact with humans as much as possible, these guys are very crowd-friendly, willing to take extra time out to answer people's questions, etc. People who were at the conference can tell you how these two monkeys sold Mono to the crowd--effortlessly and in style ;-) Amazing!

  • Linus sighting??!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by kiwioddBall (646813) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:44AM (#7951149)
    (http://www.petesmith.co.nz/)
    Linus sighted?

    This puts Linus right up there with the Yeti, UFO's and Elvis.

    I saw Linus buying hair shampoo at the local 7/11!!!
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  • Get Linus Shitzenfaced! (Score:5, Interesting)

    by shplorb (24647) <da.man@shpl o r b .com> on Monday January 12 2004, @06:52AM (#7951169)
    (http://www.shplorb.com/ | Last Journal: Monday September 15 2003, @02:59AM)
    All you Linux geeks, don't forget that on Friday and Saturday is the annual Schutzenfest! Head west along the River Torrens to Bonython Park (or alternatively, along North Terrace and Port Road... you'll know you're on the right track as the concentration of drunk people increases =]

    For those of you who don't know, schutzenfest is german for "shooting festival". The one held in Adelaide each summer is the largest in the southern hemisphere. Though of course, being aussies, we've turned it into a mostly piss drinking festival, hence why a lot of people (like me) say they're going to get 'shitzenfaced'. Either way, it's a bloody great time... plenty of german culture and food and beer for all!

    Hopefully it'll be stinking hot again - you can get smashed really quickly because you'll be sweating so much and you gotta drink that huge stein of beer before it warms up!

    I was going to volunteer at the conference on Saturday, but then I remembered Schutzenfest was on. Beer and babes: 1 Linux: 0. Though of course, if I happen to see Linus I'll shout him a round, as I'd expect everyone else would.

    =D

  • Adelaide Alive (Score:3, Funny)

    by HSpirit (519997) on Monday January 12 2004, @07:02AM (#7951195)

    (Private Adelaide joke) Wow, as an Adelaidian I can confidently say this Slashdot article is the most exposure our little town has had since Melbourne stole our Grand Prix.

  • It was a simple meal (Score:2)

    by Dante_J (226787) on Monday January 12 2004, @07:51AM (#7951320)
    (http://www.life2thefull.org/blog/)
    Indeed Linus is here, as well as Bdale and others. We got together for a meal at one of Adelaide's fine resturants. Lots of great conversations were had, the ususal stuff. Discussions of dumb vendors, brilliant past innovations and at other end of the table invisible Rabbits were mentioned. See the usual stuff... An image [humbug.org.au] for you gratification... The really interesting thing is that this is being posted from a pub on Rundle street via free wifi! [citilan.com.au] Ahhh yes, this Linux.conf will be good. Oh and it's the Second year in a row that Linus has attended, not the third... But where is Hemos ???

  • "...we have confirmed that Linus Torvalds has once more blessed us with his presence."

    PRAISE THE LORD. What the fuck is wrong with you? He's, only, human.

  • Linus Sighted At LCA2004??? (Score:2)

    by DA-MAN (17442) on Monday January 12 2004, @08:46AM (#7951597)
    (http://www.kabewm.com/)
    So what, we know he exists.

    Come on people, he's not fucking BigFoot or anything. How in the hell is this News For Nerds?

    What's next, Linus sighted at public rest room...it has been confirmed that his shit does NOT stink....
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  • I spotted Linus once (Score:5, Funny)

    by bkocik (17609) on Monday January 12 2004, @10:47AM (#7952533)
    (http://chemicalblog.com/)
    Spotted him at a gas station in Santa Clara when we both worked in that town. Was pulling away when I saw him. My thought process was as follows:

    "That guy looks familiar."
    "Hey, that's Linus!"
    (about 1.3 seconds of staring in disbelief later)
    "Hey, I'm about to run over a gas pump!"
    (heavy braking, Linus glances at me quizzically)

    So yeah, Linus, if you see this, that was me in the white Grand Am that day.

    =)
  • Just left Australia on Friday the 9th and I was there for 3.5 weeks in Adelaide and Whyalla both! DOH! Missed my chance. :(
    • Re:DAMN! by tarsi210 (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @12:43PM
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  • The Aussies beat us again (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Jyms (598745) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:16PM (#7957265)
    Someone sees Linus in Australia and it makes a /. story. We make many attempts to anounce Idlelo, the first OSS conference ever held in Africa and attracting no less than Richard Stallman, but fail to make the cut. For those of you who care, it is currently running at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town/Bellville, South Africa (http://idlelo.uwc.ac.za). And those of you that watch proper sport will know what the heading means.

  • Stardom (Score:1)

    by Gery (13478) <.wolfgang_bauer. .at. .inode.at.> on Tuesday January 13 2004, @03:47AM (#7960951)
    Poor Linus. I understand that Robby Williams is followed by hundreds of reporters every time he leaves his house - but he earns millions.

    I hope Linus earns millions as well for loosing his privacy...

  • ...free icecreams and the beaches someone mentioned above. Could be worth it in the Northern Hemisphere's midwinter. (-:
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  • ...that he has any rights to those images.

    With specificity. (-:
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  • Re:Awesome! (Score:2)

    by ardiri (245358) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:15AM (#7951070)
    > I can go to Australia, meet Linus at a bar, and outdrink a peron of worldwide importance, in the nude! Schweet.

    you know Linus is swedish/finnish dont you? you might have a hard time out drinking him :) ever since i moved to sweden from australia - my alcohol absorbtion abilities has increased ten fold.. i blame it on my buddies.
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  • Errata: (Score:2)

    by Gleng (537516) on Monday January 12 2004, @06:22AM (#7951090)
    Prime Mister


    Just correcting my spelling before some other Nazi does.

    MENTAL NOTE: Use Preview button.
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    • Re:Errata: by Joel Carr (Score:1) Monday January 12 2004, @06:29AM
      • Re:Errata: by Gleng (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @06:37AM
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  • hmm, I wonder how a AC looks in real life? Would (s)he/it wear a scramble suit (A Scanner Darkly)?
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  • Re:*Old Joke Alert* (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Shepard (595554) on Monday January 12 2004, @08:44AM (#7951582)
    1. The Queen is HM, not a lowly HRH. 2. Isn't Australia a kingdom already? After all, why would it else have a queen. (I suppose it could be a queendom, but I don't think that word exists, and, in any case, if there is such a word as "queendom", it sounds more like some kind of sexual preference.)
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  • Re:Awesome! (Score:2)

    by Large Green Mallard (31462) <lgm@theducks.org> on Monday January 12 2004, @10:02AM (#7952141)
    (http://theducks.org/)
    Just don't try out-drinking Hemos. The man can hold his drink against the best of us.

    H. Peter Anvin (SYSLINUX) on the other hand.. ended up in hospital after LCA2003. Heh!
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    • Re:Awesome! by Hemos (Score:2) Monday January 12 2004, @10:25AM

  • Re:*Old Joke Alert* (Score:1)

    by hsoom (680862) on Monday January 12 2004, @10:05AM (#7952153)
    That's an old joke? I can't believe I haven't heard that one before because it's a bloody good one! Gonna pass this one on for sure.
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