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…
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,…
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…
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…
The panelists reiterated the relevant discoveries that were new in 2004: growing organs in another location of recipient’s own body (whether human or animal)…
October 1, 2003 Neal Stephenson was at Book People in Austin, TX, where he signed copies of his latest book “Quicksilver”, the first book in…