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The LinuxCranks recieved one of the previous generation macbooks thanks to a really generous
donation, so we have this macbook that we want to give away as a
development machine or whatever, to any developer who whips up or
maybe who says they will whip up the start of this Blender Video Editor

You can see what we are looking for on klaatu’s blog, there are also pictures below
http://www.binrev.com/forums/blog/xklaatux/index.php?showentry=112

its a 2ghz White Macbook, so comment on the blog or email him at klaatu@linuxcranks.info

I was finally recognised this week for my contribiution to Free Software when Intel decided to give me a signature motherboard after naming the Intel Atom 330.  My Signature board is the D945GCLF2-330 and should be available this Christmas in the US.  A portion of the sales are being donated to the United Bearded College Fund, an organization that gives grants to high school seniors that are planning to enter the programming feild.  It will retail for about $700 USD and should be available worldwide in Q3 of 2009.

For More information and to pre-order go to intel.com

The last time i saw this
it was this time last year.The next time I see it it will be a year from now but I must say that I can’t think of a better reason to be up after 1.5 hours of
sleep and before the ass crack of dawn. The above pic was taken at
about half way through our trip… and thats about the time I went
to bed that night

I started doing some video and taking pictures, but then i realized
that there were better cameras and all that shit so i decided to
aggregate everyone else’s pics so ill stick theirs in as i find them
but i did shoot this stuff.

Here are my tweets during the weekend with some comments and other media:

@abobrien13: dude that sucks, hope you feel better
11:12 PM October 09, 2008 from txt in reply to abobrien13

he decided not to go he was sick.

@Peter64 have fun at work :p
05:31 AM October 10, 2008 from txt in reply to Peter64

he wished us all a good day

On the way to #olf, @pegwole sorry my brother bailed dude… Next year ill try and get this all planned better

At the convention center, fairly bored already anyone at #olf come say hai
08:23 AM October 10, 2008 from txt

@sysnerd was in class and i had nothing to do, i was more that fairly bored

Needs to find me some free wifi I don’t think I’m ready to pay $20 for the whole day
08:38 AM October 10, 2008 from txt

I cant believe that the wifi there is such crap

OMFG i finally found free wifi at the GCCC in the food court there is an AP called “linksys-n” woot!!!!! #olf
10:11 AM October 10, 2008 from web

and thats where it all got interesting

@lorddrachenblut: I just asked @jonobacon and it not been discussed yet but maybe when Ubuntu has another LTS release
10:27 PM October 10, 2008 from txt e

he was about 4 steps from me so I figured id ask him

@chadwollenberg and I just had the most wonderful argumnet with some “hack a mac” guys at #olf
09:33 AM October 11, 2008 from txt

oh and we did

Watching ian robowitz’s talk at #olf called hacking the government. Its awesome!
12:00 PM October 11, 2008 from txt

Check out www.geek-pac.org
12:05 PM October 11, 2008 from txt

this is what Ian was talking about

Watching a talk on robotics at #olf but its not that impersive so far
02:16 PM October 11, 2008 from txt

i ended up walking out of this but i do have a video of one of his robots

maco’s talk was awesome #olf
03:44 PM October 11, 2008 from txt

and it was here is a pic

@danns from TLLTS just showed his ass to #olf
06:55 PM October 11, 2008 from txt

there is alllll kinds of media on this one

Here is some of the other media that was taken there:

Allan’s Slideshow:

Snack Machine B’s Slideshow:
http://snkmchnb.com/photos/main.php?g2_view=slideshow.Slideshow&g2_itemId=14

Russ W’s Slideshow:
http://s417.photobucket.com/albums/pp259/thetechiegeek/?albumview=slideshow

Timbrigg’s Slideshows:

LOL’ Cranks:
http://www.unixporn.com/screenshots/thumbnails.php?album=18

Justin Cole’s slideshow:

Clint Savage’s slideshow:

monsterb’s pics:

http://s261.photobucket.com/albums/ii67/gnu-linux/Ohio%20Linux%20Fest%202008/

So here it is the week of, and here it is the final version of the OLFacebook, i left it as a html so you all can convert to your hearts desire.

http://www.box.net/shared/kbvduygmgf

see you all there!!

Some clever indivdual has made a satire website poking fun at Brian-with-a-y’s Proprietary Comic Book reader. This person must agree with me that the last thing that Linux needs is more non-free software. I have no issue with making a comercial app but I think that it is immoral to create proprietary software. And I have let Bryan know that if he offered it ender a GPL compatable license that I would buy it eventhough I have no use for it. So with out further adeu http://platypuslinux.org/

The LinuxCranks OLFacebook (http://linuxcranks.info/blog/?page_id=13)  is really filling up, and I must say we are an ugly buch :)  I will be dumping the code out to html and pdf files the week before the OLF that is also when I stop taking submissions.

If you are not listed or your info/pic is missing or wrong email me threethirty [at] linuxcranks [dot] info or /msg me on irc.freenode.net (I’m in #linuxcranks)… just send me your name (if you want it known) a plug (podcast/blog/project… something) and a pic if you want people to be able to recognise you.

I’m stil missing a lot of pics of the speakers… if you can find pics of them PLEASE SEND THEM TO ME!!

I’ll see you guys/girls/other there!

This is an age old spat but about 4 months ago I called “Merlyn” a wanker <a href=”http://linuxcranks.info/blog/?p=7″></a> and he has now proved my point.

Dave Yates and some other Linux Podcasters are creating a planet to aggregate all of the Linux Podcasters blogs.  This whole thing has been built in a mailing list. Because of this project I have proof that Merlyn is a wanker.  Here was his one and only reply to the list.

<blockquote>I’m getting a “you have mail” notice from this thread about every five minutes
for the past 4 hours. I don’t think that’s necessary any more. Please remove
me from future postings.

If you want to include FLOSS Weekly in your roll-up, go ahead. That’s really
all you need from me.

–
[REMOVED] - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion</blockquote>

and here we’re some funny replies… I have removed the posters name (if you wrote it and would like to be known let me know)

<blockquote>linuxplanet.org is a totally cool name.  Forget “podcast”

…Oh let me just make sure Randall isn’t in my replyToAll list..i don’t want to bother him, I know he’s a busy guy. -klaatu
</blockquote>

<blockquote>Busy guy is one thing to call Merlyn. I can think of a few others.

I also have some hosting space if needed. And, I’d be happy to set up a Drupal backend.</blockquote>

I know this isnt an elegant post but I thought it was really funny so here it is

There is now a LinuxCranks Facebook group http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26981787404&ref=nf and a Mugshot group
http://mugshot.org/group?who=zzTyDrWtwPmQsj
If anyone can think of anywhere else we can whore ourself out leave it in the comments.

There will be no LinuxCranks tonight monsterb has a cold, Azimuth is away in the mountains and its Father’s Day in AU next show Sept 13th

But we do wanna wish the Free Software Foundation a Happy Birthday.

See you all next week and in the IRC