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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. GREAT STORY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Google is fucking offline and you post this shit and reject the google story.

    MAN /. FUCKING ROCKS

  2. Google is down!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For the first time ever the mighty search engine is down!

    1. Re:Google is down!!! by thejanimal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      google seems to be working fine, it's gmail that's down!

  3. Google down - Rejected Story by salmonz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I submitted a Google story and it was rejected. Shit man, this is breaking news.. I though Google was supposed to be up live 24/7 with redundancy? Common Slashdot, get with it, TELL THE NEWS!

    1. 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...

    2. Re:Google down - Rejected Story by TechnologyX · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      yeah, my google story was rejected too, nah, this story about the open source lab is so much more interesting than the biggest search engine with 3bazillion webservers GOES OFFLINE FOR TWENTY FUCKING MINUTES.

      Oh wait, hahaha there for a minute I thought I was reading a real news site, this is /.

      --
      Slashdot sucks
    3. Re:Google down - Rejected Story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Seriously, Google is funked up right now. Only search is working. News, groups, images, and froggle are all DOWN.

  4. OMFG lol GOOGLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is what happens when you trust open sores commie shit.

    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.

  5. WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is google down?

  6. Google.com Down by SteelV · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My homepage didn't work. I thought my internet was down. That's the first thought that comes to me, rather than "google" is down--that seems impossible!

    But a ping on google.com works. My gmail doesn't work. Google.com doesn't work.

    Is the world coming to an end, or is the Gates plan mentioned on slashdot a week or two ago about operation Underdog underway?

    Who cares about the open source lab, tell us about google!

    1. 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?

    2. Re:Google.com Down by casuist99 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Google.co.uk works fine. Stop yer whinin'.

  7. Google is back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    stop yer bitching

  8. 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.

  9. GMail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GMail doesn't work - can't check my mail

  10. where is your story ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    post it then

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. google down? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can't get to news.google.com, gmail.google.com, etc.... 4:26 PDT

  15. GMail and most of Google Down?!??!?!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMFG, the seventh seal has been broken....

  16. Google down by lappy512 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I checked on why google was down, and made a semi-formal study on how google was down. Sorry that I posted this twice, but I never knew that so many people had this problem, i thought this was local to the Pac northwest.

    --
    Student Research and Development
  17. offtopic by Pretendstocare · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ....mods are having a field day....

  18. It's a shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that this story is over shadowed by the Google problem. It kind of reminds me of how the OJ Simpson freeway chase ruined David Hasselhoff's singing career.

  19. 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!

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

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

  21. 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?