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Inside the Open Source Lab

Posted by timothy on from the their-only-begotten-oc48s dept.

FreeFooOpenFighter writes "KernelTrap has an interesting article about Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. They currently provide hosting for an impressive list of projects including, among many others, the Mozilla Foundation, Debian GNU/Linux, and Gentoo Linux. According to the informative article, they plan to continue to donate hosting with their two OC48s to FOSS projects meeting their criteria."

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  1. Re:OMFG lol GOOGLE by SteelV · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks for the post. I didn't realize you were a member of Slashdot, Mr. Gates.

  2. Re:Google.com Down by MoOsEb0y · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Holy shit! God^Hogle is down! I was wondering why my gmail notifier on firefox was blank. OMGWTFBBQLOL! Seriously though.. doesn't akamai handle their dynamic server redirection?

  3. Re:Google down - Rejected Story by ScytheBlade1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I blame DNS. Seeing as you can still access it via IP, and the DNS doesn't enjoy resolving at the current point in time...

  4. google problems ISP specific? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm in Boston, and when I access through a Verizon DSL connection, it seems to be down. When I SSH to a university computer, google.com loads up fine in lynx.

    1. Re:google problems ISP specific? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      google.com pings just fine. www.google.com was made a CNAME pointing to www.l.google.com, which didn't exist as a host.

      The same problem is happening with Gmail right now. Even if the Google webservers are up and running, nobody can reach them because the DNS is returning a broken host reference.

  5. Re:Being ontopic.. by MoOsEb0y · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Downloads from OSL are the same speed as the rest of the Internet from the school. (100 mbit) The limiting factor is the server. Anyone with a decent host these days has 100mbit, so there's no huge advantage. Oh, and their Gentoo mirror sucks. I get about 40kb/sec off of it. I switched to datapipe.net.

  6. How about some security projects by zymano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Like developing a new C library thats secure and fast.

    Or how about help developing a java operating system for high security.

  7. Re:Being ontopic.. by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Google itself is back up, but some peripheral services, such as gmail and adSense are still down...

    If you go to a page that's supposed to have ads, you'll see that sometimes the ad banner is completely absent, while at other times, it is there, but clicking on the ad links leads to nowhere. And very rarely (about once in 10 times), you do get forwarded to the correct place. Weird...

  8. There's one in every crowd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All of the staff look like pretty normal joes, until you get down to Lars, who looks like he stepped out of the LOTR set (or maybe MIT). I feel like I should have to crawl up the side of a mountain to ask him a question. (And not "Are you *really* the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?")

    Then again, maybe you do: the guy lives in a yurt.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that!

  9. Already happened by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Google has been down last year's end.... Nothing new.

  10. Re:Being ontopic.. by MoOsEb0y · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have MySQL, I'm not sure why I'd ever want Access. And what's this about flatscreen monitors?