From jk@ozlabs.org Mon Jan 16 14:18:48 2006 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]) by digital.linux.org.au with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EyNhX-0004lf-VZ for lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:18:48 +0800 Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1023) id C910368A3A; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:48:00 +1100 (EST) To: delegates@lca2006.linux.org.au, lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:47:02 +1100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601161647.02476.jk@ozlabs.org> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.10.76.45 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jk@ozlabs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3-la1 (2005-04-27) on digital.linux.org.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40 autolearn=no version=3.0.3-la1 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on digital.linux.org.au) From: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au Reply-To: lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au Subject: [lca-announce] Prizes for the linux.conf.au 2006 Hackfest Sender: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au Errors-To: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au X-BeenThere: lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Linux.Conf.Au Announcements List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: For all delegates & speakers - Prizes announced for the 2006 Hackfest linux.conf.au is again running a Hackfest during the conference - a chance to test your coding & problem solving skills in competition with other linux.conf.au attendees. This year, the Hackfest will run over a 4-hour period, with questions given at the start. Tasks will vary from making small enhancements to open source projects, to optimising the implementation of algorithms. The linux.conf.au Hackfest Prizes - One Each Third: * Mac Mini - * 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 * 512MB DDR333 SDRAM * ATI Radeon 9200 * 32MB DDR video memory * 80GB Ultra ATA hard drive * SuperDrive (DVD+-RW/CD-RW) * DVI or VGA video output * Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth Second: * 15-inch Powerbook - * 15.2-inch TFT widescreen display with 1440x960 resolution * 1.67GHz PowerPC G4 processor * 512MB memory (DDR2 PC2-4200 SDRAM at 333MHz) * 80GB 5400rpm hard drive * Slot-load 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD+-RW/CD-RW) * ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card with 128MB DDR memory * Full-size, backlit keyboard * Gigabit Ethernet * USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 & 800 First: * Dual 2.3GHz PowerMac G5 - * Dual-core 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 processor * 1.15GHz frontside bus per processor * 1MB L2 cache per core * 512MB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200) * 250GB Serial ATA hard drive * 16x SuperDrive (double-layer) * Three open PCI-Express expansion slots * NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 256MB GDDR SDRAM IBM is proud to have the opportunity to provide prizes to this year's linux.conf.au Hackfest as has been done in years past. This year's prizes provide an opportunity for developers to hack on and find new ways to exploit the increasingly pervasive Power Architecture using their favorite operating system, Linux. For those of you wishing to tinker with even larger POWER5-based systems, please check out the University of Portland (http://egr.up.edu:8080/), Peking University (http://ppclinux.pku.edu.cn/), or University of Augsburg (http://tuxppc.rz.uni-augsburg.de/) sites and register for an account. For more information about the linux.conf.au Hackfest, visit http://linux.conf.au/hackfest/ Regards, The linux.conf.au Hackfest Team From cyeoh@ozlabs.org Tue Jan 17 18:22:09 2006 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]) by digital.linux.org.au with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eynya-000367-1D for lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:22:09 +0800 Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id EC5C56891D; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:01:26 +1100 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17356.48982.972895.288080@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:56:38 +1100 To: delegates@lca2006.linux.org.au, lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au In-Reply-To: <200601161647.02476.jk@ozlabs.org> References: <200601161647.02476.jk@ozlabs.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-Mailrunner-Dest: samba.org X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.10.76.45 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: cyeoh@ozlabs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3-la1 (2005-04-27) on digital.linux.org.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=3.0.3-la1 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on digital.linux.org.au) From: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au Reply-To: lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au Subject: [lca-announce] Re: [LCA2006] Prizes for the linux.conf.au 2006 Hackfest Sender: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au Errors-To: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au X-BeenThere: lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Linux.Conf.Au Announcements List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: At 2006/1/16 16:47+1100 Jeremy Kerr writes: > For all delegates & speakers - Prizes announced for the 2006 Hackfest > > linux.conf.au is again running a Hackfest during the conference - a > chance to test your coding & problem solving skills in competition with > other linux.conf.au attendees. > Just in case its not clear - you have to be a delegate (speakers included) to the conference in order to be eligible to enter the competition. -- The linux.conf.au Hackfest Team From purserj@k-sit.com Fri Jan 27 12:14:31 2006 Received: from 29.124.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.124.29] helo=k-sit.com) by digital.linux.org.au with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1F2L0I-0004zT-BT for lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:14:31 +0800 Received: by k-sit.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 67C5C48B99; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:41:43 +1100 (EST) Received: from k-sit.com (Lister [127.0.0.1]) by k-sit.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B191D48B1E for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:41:42 +1100 (EST) Received: from 202.3.193.130 (SquirrelMail authenticated user purserj) by k-sit.com with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:41:42 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <34715.202.3.193.130.1138333302.squirrel@k-sit.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:41:42 +1100 (EST) To: lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 220.233.124.29 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: purserj@k-sit.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3-la1 (2005-04-27) on digital.linux.org.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,WEIRD_PORT autolearn=no version=3.0.3-la1 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on digital.linux.org.au) From: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au Reply-To: lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au Subject: [lca-announce] Special Linux Australia Update Stream Tonight Sender: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au Errors-To: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au X-BeenThere: lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Linux.Conf.Au Announcements List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Ladies and Gentlemen of linux.conf.au. James and Karin Purser would like to present a special streaming of the Linux Australia Update especially for the conference. It will start at 11:30 New Zealand time and go until we decide no one is listening. Anyone who would like to leave a message for the organisers or speakers drop us a line at purserj@k-sit.com and we'll read out the best ones. So start listening to http://radio.ctd.id.au:88/lalive.ogg from 11:30 onwards. --=20 James Purser Producer/Presenter - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Podcast, Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977 From purserj@k-sit.com Fri Jan 27 18:52:37 2006 Received: from 29.124.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.124.29] helo=k-sit.com) by digital.linux.org.au with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1F2RDR-0002Jd-Fn for lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:52:37 +0800 Received: by k-sit.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 80F1248B99; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:51:56 +1100 (EST) Received: from ksit.com.au (unknown [192.168.0.1]) by k-sit.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E5148B1E; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:51:56 +1100 (EST) To: delegates@lca2006.linux.org.au, lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:52:27 +1100 Message-Id: <1138359147.8243.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 220.233.124.29 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: purserj@k-sit.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3-la1 (2005-04-27) on digital.linux.org.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40 autolearn=no version=3.0.3-la1 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on digital.linux.org.au) From: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au Reply-To: lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au Subject: [lca-announce] Apologies Sender: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au Errors-To: lca-announce-admin@lists.linux.org.au X-BeenThere: lca-announce@lists.linux.org.au X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Linux.Conf.Au Announcements List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Apologies to anyone who was interested in listening to the Special LA Update stream tonight, it appears the server has died. Again sorry about that. -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Podcast,Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977 SIP: 736855@fwd.pulver.com From lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au Mon Jan 16 05:47:02 2006 From: lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au (lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:47:02 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] Prizes for the linux.conf.au 2006 Hackfest Message-ID: <200601161647.02476.jk@ozlabs.org> For all delegates & speakers - Prizes announced for the 2006 Hackfest linux.conf.au is again running a Hackfest during the conference - a chance to test your coding & problem solving skills in competition with other linux.conf.au attendees. This year, the Hackfest will run over a 4-hour period, with questions given at the start. Tasks will vary from making small enhancements to open source projects, to optimising the implementation of algorithms. The linux.conf.au Hackfest Prizes - One Each Third: * Mac Mini - * 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 * 512MB DDR333 SDRAM * ATI Radeon 9200 * 32MB DDR video memory * 80GB Ultra ATA hard drive * SuperDrive (DVD+-RW/CD-RW) * DVI or VGA video output * Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth Second: * 15-inch Powerbook - * 15.2-inch TFT widescreen display with 1440x960 resolution * 1.67GHz PowerPC G4 processor * 512MB memory (DDR2 PC2-4200 SDRAM at 333MHz) * 80GB 5400rpm hard drive * Slot-load 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD+-RW/CD-RW) * ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card with 128MB DDR memory * Full-size, backlit keyboard * Gigabit Ethernet * USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 & 800 First: * Dual 2.3GHz PowerMac G5 - * Dual-core 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 processor * 1.15GHz frontside bus per processor * 1MB L2 cache per core * 512MB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200) * 250GB Serial ATA hard drive * 16x SuperDrive (double-layer) * Three open PCI-Express expansion slots * NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 256MB GDDR SDRAM IBM is proud to have the opportunity to provide prizes to this year's linux.conf.au Hackfest as has been done in years past. This year's prizes provide an opportunity for developers to hack on and find new ways to exploit the increasingly pervasive Power Architecture using their favorite operating system, Linux. For those of you wishing to tinker with even larger POWER5-based systems, please check out the University of Portland (http://egr.up.edu:8080/), Peking University (http://ppclinux.pku.edu.cn/), or University of Augsburg (http://tuxppc.rz.uni-augsburg.de/) sites and register for an account. For more information about the linux.conf.au Hackfest, visit http://linux.conf.au/hackfest/ Regards, The linux.conf.au Hackfest Team From lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au Tue Jan 17 09:56:38 2006 From: lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au (lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:56:38 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] Re: [LCA2006] Prizes for the linux.conf.au 2006 Hackfest In-Reply-To: <200601161647.02476.jk@ozlabs.org> References: <200601161647.02476.jk@ozlabs.org> Message-ID: <17356.48982.972895.288080@localhost.localdomain> At 2006/1/16 16:47+1100 Jeremy Kerr writes: > For all delegates & speakers - Prizes announced for the 2006 Hackfest > > linux.conf.au is again running a Hackfest during the conference - a > chance to test your coding & problem solving skills in competition with > other linux.conf.au attendees. > Just in case its not clear - you have to be a delegate (speakers included) to the conference in order to be eligible to enter the competition. -- The linux.conf.au Hackfest Team From lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au Fri Jan 27 03:41:42 2006 From: lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au (lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:41:42 +1100 (EST) Subject: [lca-announce] Special Linux Australia Update Stream Tonight Message-ID: <34715.202.3.193.130.1138333302.squirrel@k-sit.com> Ladies and Gentlemen of linux.conf.au. James and Karin Purser would like to present a special streaming of the Linux Australia Update especially for the conference. It will start at 11:30 New Zealand time and go until we decide no one is listening. Anyone who would like to leave a message for the organisers or speakers drop us a line at purserj at k-sit.com and we'll read out the best ones. So start listening to http://radio.ctd.id.au:88/lalive.ogg from 11:30 onwards. -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Podcast, Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977 From lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au Fri Jan 27 10:52:27 2006 From: lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au (lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:52:27 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] Apologies Message-ID: <1138359147.8243.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Apologies to anyone who was interested in listening to the Special LA Update stream tonight, it appears the server has died. Again sorry about that. -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Podcast,Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977 SIP: 736855 at fwd.pulver.com