January 18, 2004

Perl 6 in a Nutshell

After Lunch Damian Conway addressed Linux.Conf.Au presenting "Perl 6 in a nutshell". Essentially, although Perl 5 is great, the source code is becoming very difficult to work with, and the language...

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January 18, 2004

Controlling Home Lighting with Clipsal C-Bus

The last talk before lunch was LinuxSA and Linux.Conf.Au organiser Geoffrey Bennet's talk on "Controlling your home lighting with C-Bus". Geoffrey is a very bright guy who I've known since school,...

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January 18, 2004

Linux.Conf.Au Day 3 - Bdale Garbe's Keynote

Day 3 of Linux.Conf.Au got underway with Bdale Garbe's "where would you like 100,000 users to do today?" keynote. Bdale looked at a couple of large scale Linux deployments around the world and...

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January 15, 2004

Corporate Linux Evangelism

Con Zymeris gave a talk after lunch on "Corporate Linux Evangelism". The first stage in any Linux deployment is evangelism. That is, raising awareness of Linux and its strengths (and weaknesses)....

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