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Posted onApril 4, 2021April 4, 20212006

ArmadilloCon 2006: various pictures

by Elze

A con-goer named Melissa in the dealers’ room ArmadilloCon 2006 Fan guest Grant Kruger in the dealer room, in an outfit whose colors match the…

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Posted onSeptember 20, 2020September 22, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Pros and cons of the GNU General Public License

by Elze

Synopsis from Linucon program book: “The most popular open source license, the GPL, inspires controversy to this day. Eric Raymond recently expressed some ambivalence about…

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Posted onSeptember 19, 2020September 19, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Steve Jackson’s Chaos Machine

by Elze

Steve Jackson’s Chaos Machine is, to quote the convention program book, “a giant communal build-it-yourself project that’s a cross between an erector set, model trains,…

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Posted onSeptember 18, 2020September 18, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Robots

by Elze

  Austin’s own Robot Group — an organization of robotics enthusiasts — had a display of their robots at Linucon. Some robot enthusiasts also brought…

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Posted onSeptember 12, 2020September 12, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Customers Do The Craziest Things

by Elze

The title suggests this panel should have been stories from tech support front lines. It was a bit more general than that. The panelists and…

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Posted onAugust 22, 2020August 22, 20202005

Larval Mode: a Linucon 2005 panel

by Elze

The name Larval Mode comes from the Hacker’s Dictionary, where it means the state of being a novice programmer or techie. The panelists were Eric…

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Posted onJuly 5, 2020July 9, 2020programming

The mysterious Angular couple, base-href and deploy-url

by Elze

This post talks about an ASP.NET Core web application with Angular 8 frontend. The application I use as an example was based on a skeleton…

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Posted onJune 27, 2020June 30, 20202005

ArmadilloCon 2005: When and How Will the 21st Century Get More Interesting?

by Elze

What this panel was supposed to be about, according to the ArmadilloCon program book: “The 20th Century saw great advancements in technology and many cultural…

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Posted onJune 23, 2020June 23, 20202005

ArmadilloCon 2005: What’s Happening in Outer Space

by Elze

Panelists: David Lee Anderson, Ctein (moderator), John Gibbons, Wil McCarthy What this panel was supposed to be about, according to the ArmadilloCon program book: “Our…

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Posted onJune 20, 2020June 20, 20202005

Where did all good hard science fiction go? An ArmadilloCon 2005 panel

by Elze

Panelists: David Lee Anderson, Kurt Baty, Tom Becker, Alexis Glynn Latner, Wil McCarthy At least one of the usual suspects’ opinion on the topic of…

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