[plug] LCA - games, streams, kmod_perl, Perth, registrations

[Leon Brooks]

On Tuesday 14 January 2003 02:50 pm, Simon Scott wrote:
> Unreal Tournament Tac Ops (AOT)??? :)

> Now we're getting there :)

Dunno, ask Adrian (http://www.diskworld.com.au/lgmc/).

>>> No, Im not a recent grad. Not at all :) I understand your point, but
>>> with such a scattered set of topics, can anyone really derive much
>>> value from them?

>> You keep using that word `scattered' instead of the much more appropriate
>> word `eclectic'. Perhaps you should get out and about more.

> Or perhaps LCA should run streams of related material like most other
> conferences do :) Webdev stream, kernel geek stream, desktop user stream,
> unix administrator stream etc. Or does that make things too easy? :)

No, too hard. Cross-discipline stuff gets you every time.

> Looking at the topics, in between all the TBAs, I couldnt derive a pattern
> at all - attending the conference will therefore teach you to code a HTML
> kernel module in PERL :) or something.

Uh... you can get khttpd to return HTML from PERL code, is that close enough?

>>> I like the mini-conf idea tho - as I said Id love to attend some, but
>>> the loss of income makes it totally unfeasible.

>> I lose a week's income, modulo the odd bit of moonlighting, which I can
>> ill-afford. I'm still going, happy to have the opportunity.

> I have small child, I have bills - enough said really :)

I'll see you and raise you two children: 2yog, 3.5yob and 12.5yod.

>> It's worth pointing out that for any other Linux conference you would
>> lose at least another two days in travel time on top of everything
>> else you're bemoaning.

> Assuming youd want to go :)

No point in bemoaning it if you don't want it, is there?

> When do registrations close? I must organise to forget that date :)

Friday.

Cheers; Leon