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SCALE Talks Now Online

Posted by michael on from the yadda-yadda dept.

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."

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  1. Really nice /. by vreeker · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    So we beat the fscking shit out of thier servers and rack up their bandwidth bills... how nice.

    1. Re:Really nice /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Hmm... it seems like this happens 8 times out of 10. Can someone please tell me what it would take for us to be able to do a mirror of this stuff when it's posted? With all of the freakin geeks on this board, I'm sure we have the combined intelligence to build nuclear weapons... making something similar to google cache shouldn't take more than a week or two a the most.

      Just think.. when an article is posted, we could actually read it! But then we wouldn't have anything to bitch about.

    2. Re:Really nice /. by mandolin · · Score: 2
      Well as I clicked, I innocently thought that any site going by the moniker Low Ping Bastard Network would have the bandwidth nescessary to satisfy my curiosity.

      Then I actually found out what LPBN stood for.

    3. Re:Really nice /. by geekd · · Score: 3, Informative

      Can someone please tell me what it would take for us to be able to do a mirror of this stuff when it's posted?

      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.

    4. Re:Really nice /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Read the FAQ on caching.

    5. Re:Really nice /. by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 2

      "I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone? "

      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 /. effect (bbc, nytimes, etc)

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  2. Yeah we got Linux at our University.... by Dareth · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... and people get excited when they see LILO when it boots. Then they start asking questions, like what is this? Where can I get it? Is Di$ney's Stitch hiding in the blue background somewhere?

    Somedays it just pays to wear a RedHat.

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  3. Linux in Universities by locarecords.com · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I think the is an inescable argument for LINUX to be used in Universities. At my Uni we are looked into Microsoft campus agreements that are *impossible* to get out of without an exceedingly shocking leave clause. Now whoever signed that shouldn't have but now getting out is harder and people get used to their software and then Microsoft becomes a very expensive *need*

    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!!!

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    1. Re:Linux in Universities by whereiswaldo · · Score: 2

      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.

      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.

    2. Re:Linux in Universities by whereiswaldo · · Score: 2
      From http://www.nyfairuse.org/analysis/trech.comp.xhtml

      Word processors such as Microsoft Word could use treacherous computing when they save your documents, to make sure no competing word processors can read them. Today we must figure out the secrets of Word format by laborious experiments in order to make free word processors read Word documents. If Word encrypts documents using treacherous computing when saving them, the free software community won't have a chance of developing software to read them -- and if we could, such programs might even be forbidden by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
  4. Slashdotted already? by kasperd · · Score: 2

    Is the site slashdotted already or did somebody finally DoS the DNS system? The host www.socallinuxexpo.com in the link cannot be resolved.

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  5. Is the google cache /.'d as well? by Blimey85 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Here is the link to the google cache:

    http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:i4tXkfSa-3sC: www.socallinuxexpo.com/presentations.php+&hl=en&lr =lang_en&ie=UTF-8

    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.

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    1. Re:Is the google cache /.'d as well? by Blimey85 · · Score: 5, Funny
      Damn we're good.

      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:

      • 1. Link to the site.
      • 2. Nuke the site.
      • 3. Nuke the google cache.
      • 4. ???
      • 5. Profit
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  6. *Sigh* Another site slashdotted by jpetts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it true that people pay /. money not to be mentioned here?

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    1. Re:*Sigh* Another site slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · 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!

  7. EXCELLENT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is AWESOME news! Now I don't have to rent a DVD, check HBO 1-6, go to the opera, or interact with other human beings in any way! This makes my Friday night! YESSSSS!!! I only wish I could decide which one to watch first! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

  8. I've finally had an original idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Slashdot is selling subscriptions but what do you really get for paying money? Not that much. What if Slashdot offered a cached copy of any articles/sites/etc. that it links to, but only to subscribing customers?

    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.

  9. It's SCAGLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Southern California GNU/Linux Expo". Get it right.

  10. Re:Cache... by RudeDude · · Score: 2, Informative

    WOH! Sorry, wrong paste nugget. That was meant for those interested in GhostZilla.
    correct link

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  11. huh? by djupedal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why not just use the net and find things that interest you on your own? Beats having someone else decide what you should look at, me thinks....you risk missing more than you might find with a /. IV in your arm if you just hang here 24/7.

  12. Their names by McFly69 · · Score: 2

    "..Robert Love and Patrick Mochel."

    Is it just me or those names belong in a bad, gay nuddie movie?

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  13. What's the URL of the slides? by 10Ghz · · Score: 2

    They mentioned in the end of the Robert Love's presentation that the slides are available online. What's the URL, I missed it.

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    1. Re:What's the URL of the slides? by irabinovitch · · Score: 3, Informative

      They are linked off the same page you found the video on . But heres the direct link Slides

  14. No you saved $70 by ToasterTester · · Score: 2

    Instead of having to pay $70 to hear the speakers now you get them free. Because didn't miss anything with the exhibits.

    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.

    1. Re:No you saved $70 by ToasterTester · · Score: 2

      I went to UCLA in the early '80's and got what I thought was a good basic CS education. Though my years of working in the industry I talk to all the people still in school or recently out and I'm surprised by how watered down the CS programs in general have become. Things that were requirement for us are electives now.

      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.