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Inside the Open Source Lab
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."
Google is fucking offline and you post this shit and reject the google story.
/. FUCKING ROCKS
MAN
For the first time ever the mighty search engine is down!
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!
This is what happens when you trust open sores commie shit.
Is google down?
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!
stop yer bitching
here are four (4) words that are never said enough to all the people involved in FOSS, they are free and no licence is required to say them:
Thank You Very Much
best wishes
The Rest Of the World(TM)
Oh wait, it's lame UNIX faggotry
While it sucks google's down, I'll still post ontopic.. I go to said school, and I'm not very impressed with the OSL. It's not open to the public, it's not educating anybody about using linux. It's basically a bunch of alumni from the school who wish they were still college students living in their landlord's basement, writing little PHP programs and getting hardware donated to them because they're affiliated with a University.
For substandard hobby software
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.
GMail doesn't work - can't check my mail
SourceForge is open to the public, and kicks ass. What has this to offer that sf doesn't?
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=1553110&perpage=40&pagenumber=1/
post it then
Like developing a new C library thats secure and fast.
Or how about help developing a java operating system for high security.
can't get to news.google.com, gmail.google.com, etc.... 4:26 PDT
OMFG, the seventh seal has been broken....
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
....mods are having a field day....
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.
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!
I'll guess we'll have to do without a search engine tonight...
Google has been down last year's end.... Nothing new.
MS "donates" 500 PCs with windoze 2003 server professional installed, to Oregorn university, the admins who did that get fired and it becomes a friendly affiliate to the msgeek.net????
BTW: GOOOOOGLE IS DOWN!!!!!!!!!! CAN'T POST EMAIL. ME ASSHOLE I TRUSTED GOOGLE. OMG!!!!
The Open Source Lab is a running joke around Oregon State. The folks at the OSL think very highly of themselves, and yet haven't produced a single FOSS project in nearly two years.
Let's see what their hotter-than-shit programmers have done since January:
* A new layout for osuosl.org, which doesn't exactly count because it's all taken care of by plone. And let's face it, a retarded monkey could install plone.
* An incremental release as part of the OCKHAM project. The press release states that "the OCKHAM project [is] being developed by the Open Source Lab." So does this mean that Emory, Notre Dame, and Virginia Tech are now part of the OSL?
* A list of graphical buttons on the OSUOSL home page. Impressive!
* A blogroll by any other name is still just a blogroll. Yes, PlanetOSL, we're looking at you.
*crickets chirping*
"My" OSU
...is there any way this works to the advantage of keeping fire under the rear ends of the Debian people to move forward at something other than their historical snails' pace?
Also, do we need to have SF vs. OSL flaming? Either way, we have repositories for the OSS world to work with. Most of the stuff I use is over at SF for both Linux and Windows. However, if something is homed at OSL, that's cool too.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)