On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 10:15:12AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:44:48PM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > > I just received an email from Novel on the CLE. I followed the link [1] > > and I'm so distracted by the typically dumb corporate imagery [2] used > > on the page that I can't even read the article. > > > > What is that picture saying anyway? > > > > How about... > > "I've earned the CLE and now all the office babes can't keep their eyes > > off me and my teeth are whiter too!" > > More likely this is what happenned: > > * Designed page is put on the web targeted at people running Linux, who > don't like suits, don't wear ties, and usually don't artifically whiten > their teeth.
This segways nicely into the ending comments at the Ottawa Linux Symposium this year. The Linux community has been in a funky transitional phase over the last several years, and the phenomenon is humorous to witness. The OLS crowd seems to polarize into two camps: the hard-core street hackers and the hard-core Fortune 500 engineers. Many of the Fortune 500 engineers tend to be former street hackers who return to their nostalgic ``roots'' when they get into the OLS crowd. Last Saturday, they made a special announcement late in the day to remind everyone who were zoned out due to hangovers about a schedule change. So imagine sitting in a room with hundreds of people, mainly composed of either hard core liberal freelance Linux hackers or conservative clean-cut engineers/managers from AMD, IBM, Intel, EMC, Novell, etc. Dave Jones finishes his comments, and a conference coodinator stands up to give his closing comments for the symposium. They included: - Thanks for nobody getting arrested this year (apparently, an OLS attendee last year managed to get himself picked up by the Ottawa police and the conference coordinators got a phone call at 3:00 a.m. from the authorities asking, ``Does this belong to you?''). - The local hotel would like to underscore their appreciation for the business of the OLS patrons, but ``please keep your clothes on when you are in the hallways.'' - Several attendees have requested that some of Ottawa's more... er, ``exotic''... business establishments be mentioned in the printed venue for next year. The conference coordinators said that they would have to think over that one. - Please don't bring any of your ``special'' friends to the final beer-bash at the end of the conference; conference attendees only are invited. Almost as fun as DefCon! ;-) The audio proceedings should be posted before too long; I'll keep y'all posted. Mike .___________________________________________________________________. Friends don't let friends do Windows.
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