SCALE Talks Now Online 59
irabinovitch writes "LPBN caught all the SCALE talks on video and has them available online. Everything from the case for Linux in the University, to the latest 2.5 updates from Robert Love and Patrick Mochel."
Re:Slahsdotted? (Score:1, Insightful)
Present company excluded of course... I'm illiterate so I post before I read the article.
Really nice /. (Score:5, Funny)
So we beat the fscking shit out of thier servers and rack up their bandwidth bills... how nice.
Re:Really nice /. (Score:3, Interesting)
Just think.. when an article is posted, we could actually read it! But then we wouldn't have anything to bitch about.
Re:Really nice /. (Score:3, Informative)
Money.
Bandwidth costs money.
So they are thrashed the day they get posted. They will recover. Many many more of thier target audience now knows they exist. This is a net gain for the postee, whatever harm they get that first day.
Re:Really nice /. (Score:1)
So its ok to save you money on bandwidth, but its not ok to save them money on bandwidth. Cute.
Is it a net gain if their bandwidth usage jumps 200% over their normal contractual amount, and they redline their pipe for hours on end? Do you have any idea how much that costs?
Re:Really nice /. (Score:5, Informative)
Read the FAQ on caching [slashdot.org].
Re:Really nice /. (Score:2)
This argument would hold some relevance if it wasnt for the fact that the sites that get hit hardest are the "Joe user adds window to his case" stories.
Not everything that gets posted is late breakign news, most of it is just cool stuff that could wait a few hours/days without anyone noticing.
Infact, I'd wager that the majority of the late breaking news comes from sites that can withstand the
Re:Really nice /. (Score:2)
Then I actually found out what LPBN stood for.
Yeah we got Linux at our University.... (Score:3, Funny)
Somedays it just pays to wear a RedHat.
Linux in Universities (Score:5, Interesting)
On the contrary if they had moved in an Open Source direction at least they would be spared this restrictive contract and they could have bought Office for those that were really keen rather than EVERYONE even *if they don't use M$ products!!!
Re:Linux in Universities (Score:1)
Problem with Open source alternatives is simply that it's more expensive to administer them, it's fairly easy to find someone qualified to keep a Windows or Mac lab running fairly well, but *nix systems require a tad more expertise to run properly.
Re:Linux in Universities (Score:1)
I have yet to see a almost functional windows machine in a public lab, or if they did have a functional setup they would be broken by idoits inside of a week. Multi-user secruity in windows prety much dosen't exist, so it's quite annoying to be forced to use a public windows terminal.
Re:Linux in Universities (Score:2)
These days it's not hard to find someone who knows Linux or UNIX. With the current economy, you wouldn't have to pay them (much) more either.
Is it really more expensive to administer? I think that really depends on the skills of the administrator and the software you're talking about. As for an office suite running on Linux, it's no harder to use than MS Office. Try a recent distro! It's very easy to install and use.
One benefit you've overlooked is that once a Linux system is setup, you can let it run for years problem free: that's where you can save some money. Windows installations need reformatting every 6 months to a year in most cases.
Re:Linux in Universities (Score:2)
Re:Linux in Universities (Score:1)
Setup is not really all that much of an issue since short of locking absolutely everything down which is more of a pain than it's worth with all the random courseware(also not linux compliant) which has to be installed at various points, it's not uncommon for a machine to not last very long before it needs to be redone(or at least restored to an original standing) so we have software to do that.
Except for certain specific applications(Major specific labs particularly in the Comp Sci and Enginnering fields), most open source systems just aren't terribly viable. In most universities these labs already use some sort of *nix system as much as possible anyway, so it's really a moot point.
Slashdotted already? (Score:2)
Is the google cache /.'d as well? (Score:3, Informative)
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:i4tXkfSa-3sC: www.socallinuxexpo.com/presentations.php+&hl=en&lr =lang_en&ie=UTF-8 [216.239.53.100]
It's coming up real slow for me though... still hasn't loaded so I don't know if it will help anyone or not.
But it's worth a try.
Re:Is the google cache /.'d as well? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Is the google cache /.'d as well? (Score:5, Funny)
In the beginning we could take down servers with a mere few clicks.
But that wasn't good enough. We didn't want to just crash the servers, we wanted to truly stop anyone from viewing the data so next we attacked the cache.
Now we:
Re:Is the google cache /.'d as well? (Score:1)
*Sigh* Another site slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
Re:*Sigh* Another site slashdotted (Score:2, Funny)
So how could you tell the site was down? Did you click on the link to see if the site was slashdotted?
D'oh!
Re:*Sigh* Another site slashdotted (Score:1, Funny)
EXCELLENT! (Score:5, Funny)
I've finally had an original idea! (Score:3, Insightful)
Gets Slashdot more money, offers yet another reason to subscribe, and it allows the more frustrated users a way to see the linked articles the same hour they are posted. I for one would cough up quite a bit to be able to see the articles right away every time. I think this could work great.
huh? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:huh? (Score:1)
I think some sort of Slashdot cache would greatly improve Slashdot in terms of usefulness. As someone pointed out in a post above, the main thing stoping this is the money for the extra bandwidth a cache would require. I think having the cache only for those who subscribe to the service solves that problem. If you use the bandwidth, you need to pay for it. Those who don't mind waiting for a slow site, or waiting a few hours to read the article don't have to pay.
Maybe that would be an idea for a future poll. List a few options to solve this problem and allow the Slashdot community to vote on what option they would prefer. If there is sufficient interest in a pay-for-cache approach, maybe that could be implemented.
And I do apologize for this being off-topic but seeing as how I can get to the article to read it before posting anything on-topic, I figured I would comment on this.
It's SCAGLE (Score:4, Funny)
Cache... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Cache... (Score:2, Informative)
correct link [mrhostbot.com]
Their names (Score:2)
Is it just me or those names belong in a bad, gay nuddie movie?
I'm pissed I missed it (Score:1)
I'm pissed I actually missed the conference, cause I used to work for one of the speakers and I think his talk would have been interesting.
I'll have to watch the videos later...its cool they got all of them.
No you saved $70 (Score:2)
Most were a couple people who dragged their 'puters down and sat in a chair to hang out. The LinuxChix were only ones who appeared to take some time and put a booth together. IBM and Sharp brought a machines, booth personal and brochures. Sun dropped a few Sun Blades off running Linux and left. MSC had lots of posters and lit', but couldn't get their demo cluster to work (well at least by the time I left.) Tollis was there with Bru lit'. FSF got bored talking to themselves and left. Debian sold t-shirts. The Darwin guys were too busy talking to each other than to talk to anyone else. Best was FreeBSD was there giving out full copies of the BSDMall distro. Sony was there and a couple other small companies I don't remember the name of.
So for a Expo to promote use of Linux by coporations it was a major failure. As a place for a bunch of user groups to get together and hang and shoot the shit it was fun. But not $70 worth of fun, especially not that the speakers videos are available over the net.
Re:No you saved $70 (Score:2)
Also it felt like such a pain back then to have to work the over crowed terminal rooms, but I look back now and miss it. we had a lot of good times waiting for terminal to get our homework done. We talked out ideas and helped each other. Weekends were great, We were stuck there trying to get more terminal time, but being the weekend we made it fun. All the pizza delivery place knew where the terminal rooms were and peole would bring in boom boxes, Even the occasional dogs were hanging out. We were brothers in arms writing code and partying. Now people all people work on PC's or online and miss out on that community of thought and keystokes.
The only thing I don't miss was the sadistic print queues. You'd submit a print job and 90% of the time it would get routed to a printer on the other side of campus.
from the yadda-yadda dept. (Score:1, Offtopic)
What's the URL of the slides? (Score:2)
Re:What's the URL of the slides? (Score:3, Informative)
Last Post! (Score:1)
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standard OS on all machines from mainframe to PC
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