Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to compete for a contract and I partied with him at LinuxCon: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09p2 That's me in the front row: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/09/22/linuxcon2009/ There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes:

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Stephen
you smelled his chair? interesting :-P On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to compete for a contract and I partied with him at LinuxCon: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09p2 That's me in the front

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: you smelled his chair? were all wondering: what did it smell like? -jmz interesting :-P On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Joshua Zeidner jjzeid...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: you smelled his chair?  were all wondering: what did it smell like? penguins is not an acceptable answer here btw. -jmz  -jmz interesting

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
But we need people to look at it, smell it, and make their suggestions for improvement and feel, genuinely, like they were part of the process. -Eric S. Raymond, OSDL co-founder and president emeritus Of course, Raymond was discussing Open Source Licensing Initiatives, not Linus' chair. The

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua Zeidner
I met someone who lives in Scottsdale (native Finn) that claims to know him. -jmz On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: But we need people to look at it, smell it, and make their suggestions for improvement and feel, genuinely, like they were part of

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
That makes two people you know who knows Linus. On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner jjzeid...@gmail.com wrote: I met someone who lives in Scottsdale (native Finn) that claims to know him. -jmz On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: But we need people to

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
Everyone in PDX became famous I also know: Fyodor nmap.org http://insecure.org/presentations/BHDC08/ Feedle.net Phreaker Presenter at DEFCON 6 Randal Schwartz Perl Stonehenge.com Alan Montgomery 2600.com (and federal prison) John Heasley Shrubbery Networks

OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-28 Thread Mike Schwartz
from http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11 : [quote:] blockquote Linux: http://linux.slashdot.org/tag/linux Happy Birthday, Linushttp://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus Glyn Moody writes*Today is the birthday of Linus. Just

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-28 Thread Mike Schwartz
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Mike Schwartz schwa...@acm.org wrote: from http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11 : [quote:] blockquote Linux: http://linux.slashdot.org/tag/linux Happy Birthday,

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-28 Thread Joshua Zeidner
I saw this on slashdot I think. Long Live Linus. -jmz On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Mike Schwartz schwa...@acm.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Mike Schwartz schwa...@acm.org wrote: from http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11