Jonathan Oxer - Australia's Geekiest Geek.

Nice article. Glad you got a respectful title ;)

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/meet-australias-geekiest-geek/2008/03/03/1204402351058.html

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Re: Jonathan Oxer - Australia's Geekiest Geek.

Hi all,

<quote who="gareth">

> Nice article. Glad you got a respectful title ;)
> 
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/meet-australias-geekiest-geek/2008/03/03/1204402351058.html

Just wanted to say a big congratulations to Jon :) And a nice pimp for Open
Source too!

Cheers,
Pia

Re: Jonathan Oxer - Australia's Geekiest Geek.

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, gareth <gareth@...> wrote:
> Nice article. Glad you got a respectful title ;)
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/meet-australias-geekiest-geek/2008
>/03/03/1204402351058.html

I just caught Jon on Channel 7's Sunrise programme.

That's what you do when your presidential term is up - hit the speaking 
circuit :)

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Re: Jonathan Oxer - Australia's Geekiest Geek.

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, gareth <gareth@...> wrote:
>> Nice article. Glad you got a respectful title ;)
>>
>> http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/meet-australias-geekiest-geek/2008
>> /03/03/1204402351058.html
> 
> I just caught Jon on Channel 7's Sunrise programme.

I have a 70MB export from myth, which I can share, provided I won't get
sued by Ch7 (or Jon 

Cheers,
- P.
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Re: Jonathan Oxer - Australia's Geekiest Geek.

http://www.cc.com.au/torrent/jonoxer-on-sunrise

- P.

James Polley wrote:
> torrent? I'm happy to track/seed..
> 
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Peter Lieverdink <me@...> wrote:
>> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>>  > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, gareth <gareth@...> wrote:
>>  >> Nice article. Glad you got a respectful title ;)
>>  >>
>>  >> http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/meet-australias-geekiest-geek/2008
>>  >> /03/03/1204402351058.html
>>  >
>>  > I just caught Jon on Channel 7's Sunrise programme.
>>
>>  I have a 70MB export from myth, which I can share, provided I won't get
>>  sued by Ch7 (or Jon 
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>  - P.
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>>  Peter Lieverdink   counter.li.org #108200   -37.807478, 144.94465
>>  0x969F3F57   9662 1CB5 8E54 450D 2E12 9D7E 580E 2519 969F 3F57
>>  2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>>
>>  _______________________________________________

Re: Jonathan Oxer - Australia's Geekiest Geek.

Peter Lieverdink wrote:
> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, gareth <gareth@...> wrote:
>>> Nice article. Glad you got a respectful title ;)
>>>
>>> http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/meet-australias-geekiest-geek/2008
>>> /03/03/1204402351058.html
>> I just caught Jon on Channel 7's Sunrise programme.
> 
> I have a 70MB export from myth, which I can share, provided I won't get
> sued by Ch7 (or Jon 
> 
> Cheers,
> - P.

Let's assume that's 'fair use' as long as we are critiquing it.

I'm happy to host said file, if so shoot me a link.

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Re: Jonathan Oxer - Australia's Geekiest Geek.

Hey Peter,

<quote who="Peter Lieverdink">

> http://www.cc.com.au/torrent/jonoxer-on-sunrise

Awesome, thank you!

Cheers,
Pia

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Re: Jonathan Oxer - Australia's Geekiest Geek.

gareth wrote:
> Nice article. Glad you got a respectful title ;)
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/meet-australias-geekiest-geek/2008/03/03/1204402351058.html
>
>   
Also world famous in NZ...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4425132a28.html

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Microsoft Offer to Australian University Students

Hi everyone,

I'm a student at Monash university, today I received an email from the
University, regarding an offer made by Microsoft to all Australian Uni
students for it's MSOffice 2007 suite.
The main gist of the email is as follows:

"
Microsoft is offering the top of the range Ultimate 2007 version of 
Microsoft Office to all Australian university students at a low price
for 
a limited time.

This offer is available until 15 May 2008.

What are the options and how much is it?
There are three options. You can:
*       buy the product outright for $75.00
*       buy the product for 12 months for $25.00. At the end of 12
months 
you can pay an additional $50 to purchase the product outright
*       download a free trial.

The recommended retail price for this product is $1150.

Conditions of purchase
*       You must use your Monash email address when ordering a copy.
*       A password is needed to place an order -- DO NOT use your
Monash 
password.

Re: Microsoft Offer to Australian University Students

James Collier wrote:

> 
> Other than the dirty looking man in the website, and the suspicious
> method of payment, it annoys me that Microsoft is once again using it's
> marketing power to lure people who might otherwise use FOSS office
> suites to a cheap version of the "standard" office suite.
> 
> Being very new, I wondered whether, we as individuals or Linux Australia
> as a whole could do anything to perhaps better inform students.
> 

James this is a standard offer.  Adelaide Uni students have been offered 
MS Office whatever for the past 2 or 3 years and I am sure most of the 
38 Australian universities students have the same deal.

In the scheme of things i dont think it makes much difference to be 
honest and yes you're right it is a reflection of the marketing power of 
the organisation.  It would be nice to think that one day, Monash might 
at the same time send out another email as a follow up which points out 
the existence of the FOSS offerings and/or encourages even those 
commercial versions of otherwise FOSS offerings viz StarOffice and Lotus 
Notes/IBM's version of OpenOffice.

But it'll be a while before that happens I suspect.

I would think that the Student Council reps on the University Council 
ought to be made aware of your reaction and others, if you can find 
them, and suggest to them that they might like to bring it up in a 
University Council meeting.