Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-07 Thread dave kempe
Scott Sinclair wrote: SSH on port 443 for the win! :-) Openvpn on port 443 with proxy mode for the ultimate in proxy bypass lovin! dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Sinclair
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Whats the networking like. Will we be able to surf, cvs, ssh and irc onto the internet? Besides the mentioned proxy, probably might be restricted to certain ports. IRC from inside UTS' network apparently is blocked now, or is in the process of being blocked, but thi

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 18:00 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > Whats the networking like. Will we be able to surf, cvs, ssh and > irc onto the internet? It might be good, it might be terrible. Expect an intercepting proxy at minimum. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-07 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Mary Gardiner wrote: > > SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking > > about coding. Whats the networking like. Will we be able to surf, cvs, ssh and irc onto the internet? Anyway, I'll be hacking on secret rabbit code, so

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-07 Thread Robert Collins
I have a tentative title for my talk now "on achieving Fast, Small AND Robust in version control storage." I'm going to talk about the current challenges facing bzr in its history storage, the factors that are providing the most shape to those challenges, and a bit of a retrospective about how we

[SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
On 2006-04-07, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you fix the way it doesn't failover properly as well? [snip] Well, possibly, but at the moment I'm completely unfamiliar with the codebase, so it's unlikely that we can do more than a couple of bigger changes in a day. -Mary -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Mary" == Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mary> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Mary Gardiner wrote: >> SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and >> talking about coding. Mary> Andrew Bennetts and I will probably be poking at apt-proxy (the Mary> Twisted version) trying

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I might also poke at Planet, especially if Jeff can be persuaded to press > the buzzer (bzr) so I don't have to even think about remembering how to > use Arch. Oh, I should totally put the converted repos up! - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org

[SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Mary Gardiner wrote: > SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking > about coding. Andrew Bennetts and I will probably be poking at apt-proxy (the Twisted version) trying to work out things like "why does it use 200MB of memory?" I might also poke a

Re: [SLUG] SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-06 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
SLUG's front page is now updated I'll be there doing stuff with the new SLUG website. On 4/6/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There will be short talks given by Ben Leslie, Robert Collins and Andrew > > Bennetts. Some people will head off for a yum cha lunch at Golden Harbour > >

Re: [SLUG] SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
> There will be short talks given by Ben Leslie, Robert Collins and Andrew > Bennetts. Some people will head off for a yum cha lunch at Golden Harbour > in Chinatown and attendees are welcome to come. Approximate cost will be > $25. Justin Randell and I will be mucking around in the shallow end

[SLUG] SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

2006-04-05 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi all, A reminder about the codefest this coming Sunday. (If you have any questions for me personally, please make sure to Cc me, I am not subscribed to slug@slug.org.au). --- Event details --- SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking about coding. Date: Sun

Re: [SLUG] SLUG codefest: 9th April

2006-03-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 14:38 +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Hi all, > > SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking > about coding. > > Date: Sunday April 9 2006 > Location: TBA, likely UTS Broadway > Time: Unfortunately this depends on the room booking, but

Re: [SLUG] SLUG codefest: 9th April

2006-03-29 Thread telford
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:38:59PM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Hi all, > > SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking > about coding. > > Date: Sunday April 9 2006 > Location: TBA, likely UTS Broadway > Time: Unfortunately this depends on the room booki

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG codefest: 9th April

2006-03-28 Thread nornagon
On 3/29/06, Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking > about coding. > > [snip] Expression of interest! -- - nornagon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and F

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG codefest: 9th April

2006-03-28 Thread ray
Hi all ,I'm no geek and don't understand half the gargon, but run a debian platfrom and love it .Yet I get problems which i can't solve and My Techy mate Matt Davidson, who use to help me out has moved to Coffs. Slug meeting usually coincide with work so is there some were i can get a little help.R

[SLUG] SLUG codefest: 9th April

2006-03-28 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi all, SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking about coding. Date: Sunday April 9 2006 Location: TBA, likely UTS Broadway Time: Unfortunately this depends on the room booking, but let's say loosely 10am-6pm There will be short talks give

[SLUG] Codefest : anyone use Eclipse with languages other than java?

2005-02-21 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, As you may or may not know, there's a code fest this Saturday (yeee h)! http://www.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=176 Anyway, I was wonder if anybody who is going to this and uses the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment would be interested in demoing it for a long time

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Codefest (and Debian RC bug squish): Sat 29th May, University of Sydney

2004-05-25 Thread Jan Schmidt
> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:20:59PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > > -- Where -- > > > > Lab 108, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of > > Sydney (Camperdown/Darlington campus -- the main one). > > That's the same room we were in last time, isn't it? I believe so, ye

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Codefest (and Debian RC bug squish): Sat 29th May, University of Sydney

2004-05-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:20:59PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > -- Where -- > > Lab 108, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of > Sydney (Camperdown/Darlington campus -- the main one). That's the same room we were in last time, isn't it? - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

[SLUG] SLUG Codefest (and Debian RC bug squish): Sat 29th May, University of Sydney

2004-05-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
SLUG and SLUG's Debian Special Interest Group are having a codefest this Saturday 29th May: -- What -- SLUG Codefests are informal hacking days. Bring yourself, a computer and some ideas for things to hack on. The day will feature: - Hacking talks (Ben Leslie, Jamie Wilkinson, Del...) - Hackin

[SLUG] Codefest / Debian bug squish [29th May]: Call for speakers and bugs

2004-05-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi SLUG, There's a Codefest / Debian bugsquish being held on Saturday 29th May, as per http://debian.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=131 We're looking for two things: speakers to give talks on a variety of coding topics, and bugs from bugs.debian.org to close. Some possible topics for talks:

Re: [SLUG] Codefest debugathon

2003-11-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ken Caldwell wrote: >There must have been a dozen other people hacking away all day on >various projects but I have not seen any reports either here or on slug >chat. What did anyone else achieve? (I know it may be hard to write >about programming but not impossible ;

Re: [SLUG] Codefest debugathon

2003-11-10 Thread Benno
On Mon Nov 10, 2003 at 23:21:57 +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > >There must have been a dozen other people hacking away all day on >various projects but I have not seen any reports either here or on slug >chat. What did anyone else achieve? (I know it may be hard to write >about programming but not

Re: [SLUG] Codefest debugathon

2003-11-10 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:21:57 +1100 Ken Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations Erik! Thanks Ken. > Two bugs submitted, two bugs resolved. Actually the jury is still out on the first one. Although I did get xemacs running on Itanium (all that was required was a recompile) Peter

Re: [SLUG] Codefest debugathon

2003-11-10 Thread Ken Caldwell
> People, > > The following offer is open till 8am tomorrow: > > I hereby offer to try and find/fix any bug in any piece of software that > mets the following conditions: > > 0) Software is released under any of the standard Open Source or Free > Software licenses. > 1) Is available

[SLUG] Codefest debugathon

2003-11-06 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
People, The following offer is open till 8am tomorrow: I hereby offer to try and find/fix any bug in any piece of software that mets the following conditions: 0) Software is released under any of the standard Open Source or Free Software licenses. 1) Is available as an official Debian

[SLUG] Codefest!

2003-11-05 Thread Benno
Hi all, Last reminder about codefest, which is on this Saturday from 9am->10pm at the University of NSW. The codefest will take place in the CSE seminar room, 1st floor of the K17 building. Come along and enjoy a day of hacking with others. For those coming, please bring any networking equipment

[SLUG] Codefest!

2003-10-28 Thread Benno
When: Saturday, November 8, 9:00am - 10:00pm Where: UNSW Kensington - K17 Seminar Room Come along to enjoy an action packed day of full-on coding. Power an limited bandwidth will be supplied; bring your own hardware. This codefest has no specific theme, so you just start hacking on your

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest, Xscreensaver Style: February 22nd, 2003

2003-02-08 Thread Anthony Rumble
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > where coding and common sense part ways... I throw down the gauntlet.. I challenge you to write a screen saver in say php-gtk and get it included in xscreensaver :) -- Anthony Rumble -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slu

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest, Xscreensaver Style: February 22nd, 2003 (fwd)

2003-02-07 Thread Anthony Rumble
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > where coding and common sense part ways... I throw down the gauntlet.. I challenge you to write a screen saver in say php-gtk and get it included in xscreensaver :) -- Anthony Rumble -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slu

[SLUG] CodeFest, Xscreensaver Style: February 22nd, 2003

2003-02-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
where coding and common sense part ways... CodeFest: Xscreensaver Style SLUG and CSE are proud to announce the latest CodeFest, this time with a twist

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

2001-10-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Steve C McConnell, "Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction" > Steve Maguire, "Writing Solid Code : Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free >C Programs" > Steve C McConnell, "Rapid Development : Taming Wild Software Schedules" > Ste

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

2001-10-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Steve C McConnell, "Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software > Construction" Steve Maguire, "Writing Solid Code : Microsoft's > Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs" Steve C McConnell, "Rapid > Development : Taming Wild Software Schedules" > > Don't spend money on the

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

2001-10-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
It really blew my mind when Paul Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I had volunteered (emailed festies list) a talk on "Designing and Writing Robust > > Software. Making Debugging Easier". I learned Magic Point and have a small > > collection of slides ready to go. > > [SNIP] > > Sounds int

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

2001-10-19 Thread Paul Cameron
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:37:57PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > It really blew my mind when Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Hi all, > > > > Unfortunately the CodeFest will not be on this weekend. > > Bummer! > > > There were very few > > people interested in coming or sp

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

2001-10-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
It really blew my mind when Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Please do! I'll add these to the list of offered talks so we can catch you > out later. ;) Some of these could make good general SLUG talks too, btw > (and we'll need another talk for this month, as it happens). I'm a bit conc

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

2001-10-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > Unfortunately the CodeFest will not be on this weekend. > > Bummer! Yeah. :( > > Perhaps after the pressure of Uni end-of-term exams and such. ;) ^ Turns out this was a major thing - I've got a few thank you emails for putting it off so people could be involved. (Thank yous? For can

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

2001-10-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
It really blew my mind when Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > > Unfortunately the CodeFest will not be on this weekend. Bummer! > There were very few > people interested in coming or speaking, so it seems best to hold off until > everyone's back in the mood for hackery. >

[SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

2001-10-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, Unfortunately the CodeFest will not be on this weekend. There were very few people interested in coming or speaking, so it seems best to hold off until everyone's back in the mood for hackery. Perhaps after the pressure of Uni end-of-term exams and such. ;) [ If you are a keen bean to h

Re: [SLUG] Codefest?

2001-10-18 Thread Matt Hope
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... : The Codefest is this weekend isn't it? : : Is there a reason I haven't seen any announcement with times, : locations etc? I think so - the rooms are booked at the University, but we haven't heard anything else about it late

[SLUG] Codefest?

2001-10-18 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
The Codefest is this weekend isn't it? Is there a reason I haven't seen any announcement with times, locations etc? Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +--

Re: [SLUG] codefest reminder (this weekend)

2001-03-21 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > there are talks organised for saturday. unfortunately jeff has the > > list we made up and he hasn't let anyone else know whats on it, so its > > going to be a surprise ;) > > Up on the website: http://slug.org.au/ Sorry, for being a party pooper people but you've

Re: [SLUG] codefest reminder (this weekend)

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
> there are talks organised for saturday. unfortunately jeff has the > list we made up and he hasn't let anyone else know whats on it, so its > going to be a surprise ;) Up on the website: http://slug.org.au/ - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://lwn.net/daily/ -

[SLUG] codefest reminder (this weekend)

2001-03-21 Thread Angus Lees
just a reminder to everyone that SLUG is running a "CodeFest" * this weekend * at UNSW in building K17. we start 9am saturday and finish 5pm sunday. yes, that means (most?) of us will be there all night. there are talks organised for saturday. unfortunately jeff has t