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28 papers on real-time and embedded Linux (LinuxDevices)

Posted Nov 24, 2007 17:31 UTC (Sat) by chr_reisinger (guest, #41249) [Link]

I will thank god, when one day people can distinguish between Austria and Australia, and I can
forget sentences like: "No in Austria there aro no kangaroos and koala bears, you mean
Australia, Austria is the beautiful little country between Germany and Italy" :) :) :)

28 papers on real-time and embedded Linux (LinuxDevices)

Posted Nov 24, 2007 18:10 UTC (Sat) by cyrus (guest, #36858) [Link]

And lousy football :D

28 papers on real-time and embedded Linux (LinuxDevices)

Posted Nov 24, 2007 20:39 UTC (Sat) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386) [Link]

You try playing football on a mountain. They ski. ;-)

28 papers on real-time and embedded Linux (LinuxDevices)

Posted Nov 25, 2007 20:01 UTC (Sun) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

Can someone please tell me just WHAT !  the darn fascination is about 22 life forms of mostly
questionable gender chasing a sack of stale wind around a patch of muddy grass ?  cus it never
fails to make me wonder just what things are coming to  when football is more important than
real life ..

28 papers on real-time and embedded Linux (LinuxDevices)

Posted Nov 26, 2007 10:15 UTC (Mon) by jonth (subscriber, #4008) [Link]

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly

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Posted Nov 25, 2007 1:30 UTC (Sun) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

Yup. Much like Sweden and Switzerland (just a bit further apart..).

I met some people from Lichtenstein once who had very funny T-shirts (you know who you are):
"a small country between Sweden and Australia". Very true and very funny for those who
understood the joke!

28 papers on real-time and embedded Linux (LinuxDevices)

Posted Nov 25, 2007 14:16 UTC (Sun) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

In Portuguese, Sweden is Suécia (soo - ay - see - ah) and Switzerland, 
Suíça (soo - ee - sah), so it's at least easier to confound then Austria 
and Australia (Áustria and Austrália).

28 papers on real-time and embedded Linux (LinuxDevices)

Posted Nov 25, 2007 2:32 UTC (Sun) by gdt (subscriber, #6284) [Link]

I would like to start this article with an apology to the seven participants from Kenya, D.R. Congo, and Nigeria that were declined a visa by Austrian authorities. This was a disturbing development, and should be a wake-up call to the free-software community. If we fail to keep our minds open, and if xenophobic fears prevent the free exchange of ideas, then it is up to us to correct such developments by not silently accepting them. In response to this, the Real Time Linux Foundation plans to hold RTLWS11 (2009) in Afrika, and we hope that the free-software community as well as commercial open-source users will support this effort.

Anyone know the story here? Perhaps this is this intentional humour which I have missed?

In a FOSS conference I helped organise in Australia (not Austria) we had a similar issue: credit card payments were made, visa requested, visa denied and a credit card refund requested to a newer credit card. When we complained to Foreign Affairs we were told that no visa application had been received. We concluded that the registrations were a credit card scam and referred the decision to refund to our credit card processing provider. They contacted the card holders and learned that all had unauthorised transactions.

For this conference do the Austrian authorities confirm that visa applications were made and that these were denied? Given our experience I would be cautious about accepting claims of visa denial without independent official acknowledgment.