For a youngster like myself - it's all an issue of time. This past semester I was, believe it or not, taking a course which overlapped with Haifux, so I really didn't have much time. And this SAN lecture was just a problem to get to for me, that's all. I don't recall any lecture that didn't interest me. Even if I am hacking away on my laptop - I don't know, Haifux is the LUG. It's Happy Hacking time. It's having lecturer talk about the wonders of IPv6 and having Orr find a truckload of holes in it as the lecture goes on. It's giving a VIM lecture, which I'm sure you've all heard 2000 times already, hoping to get some Matam student to use a real text editor (they mostly use pico). It's going for dinner with Haggai afterwards, explaining some kind of issue I've been having with Linux on my laptop, and usually finding out he has an excellent fix for it. I guess it's a sense of community.
On 3/14/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:53:32PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > > > Your opinions are mostly welcome. And if possible, please talk about why > > *you* don't show up. I believe it's more interesting than general > > theories about what happens. > > Thank you for raising this subject. Here are my reasons for not > showing up any more except on very special occasions: > > - about half of the talks aren't interesting enough. Those include > roughly anything which deals with "how to use Linux" as opposed to > "how to hack Linux". Linux is mainstream. > > - I no longer feel the great sense of community we used to > have. If you've been reading hamakr-discussions, you know all about > this. > > - I'm just too busy working on Linux. Compared to working on it, > talking about it holds very little appeal. I miss the days when we had > Haifux *projects* - although if we had such a project today, I > probably wouldn't have time or energy to work on it. > > Thanks for the trip down memory lane, > Muli > -- > Muli Ben-Yehuda > http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To necessity... and beyond! Ohad Lutzky
