ApacheCon Europe'08 Live Video Streaming

os2man writes "ApacheCon Europe 2008, the official user conference of the Apache Software Foundation will be held 7 April through 11 April in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Some of the tracks will be broadcast via live streaming: System Administration (Wednesday), Web Security (Thursday) and Web Services and Web 2.0 (Friday). There's a 99 euro registration fee for the tracks, although all keynote sessions and the opening plenary are available free of charge."

Comments

Bittorrent

[electrosoccertux]

We need to start coming up with more legitimate uses of Bittorrent, because "My favorite Linux Distribution" isn't going to be enough to keep legislation/judges ruling Bittorrent illegal because it's "filesharing"

This is a great way to do it, offer all the keynote sessions on bittorrent.

Until now we've had a few bands release their album on bittorrent, and that's about it.

Re:Bittorrent

[SimHacker]

Here's a practical, legal use of BitTorrent:

I'm developing a system for TomTom to distribute digital maps (on the order of 1 or 2 gigabytes each) via BitTorrent. It will save a lot in bandwidth costs, because we distribute millions of maps over the internet. By their very nature, digital maps work well with BitTorrent because people in the same geographical regions all want to download the latest map of their region at the same time.

I was very happy to hear the announcement from BitTorrent and Comcast, that Comcast wouldn't be fucking with BitTorrent streams any more, because that would interfere with our customers' legitimate use of the internet services and content they're paying for.

-Don

Re:Bittorrent

[Adambomb]

You mean like the World of Warcraft Patch system or, more recently, CBC Television's release of a show using bit torrent? Its happening slowly but surely, and the more who do so and see the benefits the more that will.

Plus i'm sure your first responder there is not alone in making use of bit torrent for legitimate commercial applications.

Evidence of the underlying point in your argument?

[jbn-o]

Please don't impose your ignorance of what BitTorrent is used for on all of us. Some of us know that the protocol is used for plenty of legal distribution. Also, about this notion that the protocol will prevent "legislation/judges ruling Bittorrent illegal", can you name instances where this has happened?

last game I bought I got through Bittorrent ...

[Lazy Jones]

You can already purchase software (yes, legally - from dlgamer) and download it through Bittorrent, as long as the client supports the necessary authentication method. Bittorrent has long grown up and has many legal uses, it just takes a while for people to realize (even slashdot users it seems).

Re:Firefox Plugin?

[SimHacker]

Both BitTorrent DNA and Red Swoosh have JavaScript APIs for starting, monitoring and controlling BitTorrent downloads. The actual BitTorrent client runs in a service process, which you talk to through "http://127.0.0.1:port#".

The JS libraries just rewrite the URL of the file you want to torrent so it goes through the proxy. They also allow you to monitor and control the progress of the downloads via a ReST interface to the proxy that returns json or xml.

The JS libraries both support putting links into the page that are automatically rewritten to download via BitTorrent. You can use the status monitoring interfaces to display a progress bar and give the user feedback about the download process.

Another approach is to develop an XPCOM plug-in that wraps one of the bittorrent libraries like libtorrent. That gives you a lot more direct control over the library from JavaScript. But I think it's safer to have all that complex code and volumous data running in its own separate process, and not bloating up and slowing down Firefox.

Talking to the BitTorrent client in a separate process via http makes it very easy to use from JavaScript, and that does not bloat or slow down Firefox itself.

-Don