[lca-announce] Prizes for the linux.conf.au 2006 Hackfest

[lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au]

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