-cough- If you know a Sysadmin who is NOT reading their boss' email.....perhaps you should nominate them for Sysadmin of the year. It's a contest sponsored by Slashdot/SourceForge.net/Digg/Splunk/Usenix.
The first 2500 sysadmins nominated receive a free thinkgeek tshirt.
There are a lot of people who find Splunk very impressive.
Take Corey Shields who runs OSL (Open Source Labs). OSL hosts many of the world's largest Open Source Projects: Linux Kernel, Firefox, Open Office, debian, etc. http://staff.osuosl.org/~cshields/?p=139
If you happen to know a great Sysadmin, nominate them as Sysadmin of the year 2006. They can win great prizes including an Apple MacBook, Trip to LISA (conference) in Washington DC, Splunk Professional server and cases of Bawls. The first 2500 nominees receive a free ThinkGeek Tshirt.
As crazy as it sounds, today I power my Apple 30" monitor with my 15" powerbook. Full Resolution (dual head). New powerbooks that have 128megs of VRAM can do it. It's a great setup....and actually almost too much screen real estate, not that I'm complaining.;-)
I wonder if this new Dell 30" monitor will work with a powerbook (though the DVI port) as well.. Apple must support dual link in the Powerbook's DVI port, otherwise it wouldn't work in the current setup.
Splunk has a new search engine which allows you to examine your log files for either security or troubleshooting related issues. The server (free) uses GoogleSuggest-like type-ahead and dynamic graphs to allow you (a sysadmin) to view all the different logs that are in your system (or datacenter) occuring in real time. It uses Ajax and a lot of javascript to make the experience of flipping through log files and finding specific events very fluid. While it won't prevent security issues, it will certainly help make them more detectable.
(somewhat off topic) I have a 15" powerbook that drives my 30" monitor. So you don't need an expensive card to drive a 30" screen although it helps (yes at 2560x1600). You do however need 128megs of RAM in the PB (build to order). The cool thing is the PB can dual head the 30" monitor with the 15" Powerbook screen. Mmmmmmmmm....screen real estate....
Until recently? I think you should check your facts. SF.NET runs on close to 80 servers. The site has never run on one server. I'm not aware of any OSS project that has more hardware then SF.NET. In fact SF.NET has one of the largest CVS repositories in the world....with many 100's of gigabytes in the tree. The site currently serves over 13,000,000 milllion a day. SF.NET would have no problem hosting Gentoo, but it decided to get out of hosting distros three years ago. (I ran the site for 5 years).
This article reminded me to mention that SourceForge.net's February 2005 Project of the Month is ClamWin an Open Source antivirus application for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP.
Interview with the developers can be read here: here.
Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net Pat@sf.net
Ummmm...IDG hasn't published dummies books for three years (they sold the book line). I'm not sure why you contacted them. This book is published by Wiley.
If we (SourceForge.net) receive a DMCA request, which doesn't happen often, we begin a process outlined in our Terms of Service. We don't remove the project forever, only for a length of 10 days after the project admin has submitted a DMCA counter-claim.
With the project 'PlayFair', the project admin never submitted a counter-claim...and hence the project was never restored. BTW: We host many p2p projects on SF.NET today.
This paragraph (#6) is intended for text entered in tracker items, mailng lists archives and other posts you, the user, might enter onto SourceForge.net.
(Most sites have similar paragraphs to protect themselves from liability issues)
A project's code on SourceForge.net is different. The OSI license you use to release the code is the license that stands. If we, OSDN, ever decided to fork a project, we would have to follow the same rules and regulations that are governed in the project's OSI license. (no different then anyone else wishing to fork the code)
I hope this clears things up a bit.
Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net pat@sf.net
SourceForge.net does indeed have a 100MB limit per project for project web server disk usage.
We do, however, encourage people to use our File Release System (FRS) which does not have this 100MB limitation.
The File Release System is recommended for a number of reasons; one of which is
to allow us to balance the traffic load among many download servers on our high-capacity download network.
Before we removed the file, Simply GNUstep had two thousand downloads at 110MB each, during the course of the day (totalling over 200 GB of data).
Obviously we need to distribute this kind of load, which our file release system allows us to do; otherwise this kind of download traffic will impact the other 30,000 projects we host.
If you have any other questions about this, please feel free to email me at pat (at) sourceforge.net
PayPal charges 2.2% for a merchant account if the total receipts are greater then $1000/month.
There is also a 30cent per transaction charge.
Certainly a lot less then the 5% you mention above.
Pat-
From the Site Director of SourceForge.net
on
SourceForge Drifting
·
· Score: 5, Informative
My name is Patrick McGovern and I manage SourceForge.net. I wanted
to take a moment to address the issues that Loic raised in his
recent article.
As a background: SourceForge.net is a website within the
Open Source Developers Network (OSDN), owned by VA Linux Systems.
SourceForge.net provides free hosting for Open Source software
development projects via its web site at http://sourceforge.net
and http://sf.net
SourceForge.net, OSDN and VA Linux systems are committed to the
Open Source community. Two years ago (almost to the day)
SourceForge.net was started to provide a way for Open Source
developers to collaborate with each other and make great software.
This mission has not changed. Today VA spends a tremendous amount
of money and resources to provide excellent service to 30,000 projects.
Loic brings up a number of points that are simply not accurate.
* SourceForge (not SourceForge.net) is a collaborative software
development platform. The SourceForge software originated as the
foundation of the SourceForge.net service, and is now the basis of
a number of products offered by VA Linux Systems. SourceForge
Enterprise Edition is the commercial product released by
VA Linux Systems last week. SourceForge is a software platform.
* SourceForge.net is a service provided freely to Open Source
software development projects. SourceForge.net is not running
the SourceForge Enterprise Edition software. SourceForge.net is
a web site, which provides a service to the Open Source community.
* SourceForge.net provides free hosting for Open Source Software
development projects. SourceForge.net is not now, or nor has it
ever been, exclusive to free software -- we accept hosting requests
from projects licensed under any OSI-approved Open Source License,
and projects whose licenses have not been directly approved,
but comply with the OSI Open Source Definition.
* Data Export: The ability to export data from SourceForge.net
has not changed. There is no conspiracy to 'lock projects in'
to SourceForge.net. Every project has the ability to download
a nightly tarball of their CVS code. If people have any concerns
about their code, we recommend they set up a cron job to download
the latest version. Eight months ago we did have a XML API that
allowed project admins to download bug report data. The API broke
earlier in the year when we enhanced the SF.NET code (version 2.5)
to include the tracker (a tool that unifies all 'ticket-related'
systems). Until recently, we didn't receive a lot of interest from
the community to re-introduce the feature... so we have been focusing
on other aspects of the site. We are now re-examining the issue.
In the mean time, there are third-party programs which will collect
the content directly from the site and extract that data.
* Mailing Lists: One area we concentrating on, which Loic alludes to,
is mailing list archives. This, historically, has been one of the
weakest areas of SourceForge.net. We are currently working on a new
solution, which directly integrates the mailing lists with
SourceForge.net, as opposed to Geocrawler. We have just entered the
initial beta phase for this project. It is still being worked on,
but you can see it here in action:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=27464 (look at the last
four forums). We are essentially using the SourceForge Forum code;
the same code base that has been available to the community for
some time.
--
Developers are choosing SourceForge.net because of the excellent
resources and service we give the community. The site is currently
growing at over 60 new projects and 700 developers a day. We just
added new personnel and purchased 70 new servers to make sure we
retain our excellent quality of service. We have added new download
servers to make sure the community can get Source code as fast
as possible. We have been adding additional hardware to
the compile farm. (OS X systems were added last month).
Finally, SourceForge.net is a free service. It's a service I believe
greatly enhances the Open Source Developer's ability to write and
release great software; and have it seen by a lot of people. If you
feel that SourceForge.net is not for you, that is okay too. There are
alternatives out there, and it's better to host your code where you
think you will be the most productive.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to write me:
pat at sourceforge.net
Thank you,
Pat-
Patrick McGovern
email: Pat at SourceForge.net
Director, SourceForge.net
SourceForge makes money three different ways: Banner Ads, Corporate Sponsorships (such HP in the printing Foundry) and SourceForge Onsite where we install SourceForge Technology behind a companies Firewall.
We see SourceForge as a way to both accelerate the growth and development of Open Source Software in the community and also generate revenue for VA by deploying the collabortive technology inside Fortune 100 companies.
If you have questions...please feel free to contact me at "Pat AT sourceforge.net"
I'm in Fremont, CA...and we haven't lost our power this evening. According to an article in the New York Times.....we squeaked by....barely. No rolling brown/black outs tonight.
VA Linux is currently opening up offices and setting up partnerships all over Europe -- including Southern Europe. Yes, we do have a representative in Spain/Portugal that can be of assistance. Please send a message to snaarding@valinux.com and we will help you out.
Well...the opening prices was really 22 and not 139. The first trade was 139. Folks who had the advantage of getting in at 22 (institutional investors and people close to the brokers) did very well...better then redhat.
Slashdot Mirror
Well it -was- two weeks when I submitted the story. Now that it's posted (which is great btw)...it's only two days.
Pat-
-cough- If you know a Sysadmin who is NOT reading their boss' email.....perhaps you should nominate them for Sysadmin of the year. It's a contest sponsored by Slashdot/SourceForge.net/Digg/Splunk/Usenix.
The first 2500 sysadmins nominated receive a free thinkgeek tshirt.
Tell your Sysadmin that you appreciate them not reading your email.....nominate them for Sysadmin of the year 2006.
There are a lot of people who find Splunk very impressive.
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Take Corey Shields who runs OSL (Open Source Labs). OSL hosts many of the world's largest Open Source Projects: Linux Kernel, Firefox, Open Office, debian, etc.
http://staff.osuosl.org/~cshields/?p=139
or perhaps Ben Rockwood sysadmin extraordinaire as well as OpenSolaris advocate:
http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id
Not sure why your browser is slow on your laptop. Take a look at demo.splunk.com . Zippy on every browser I've tried.
If you happen to know a great Sysadmin, nominate them as Sysadmin of the year 2006. They can win great prizes including an Apple MacBook, Trip to LISA (conference) in Washington DC, Splunk Professional server and cases of Bawls. The first 2500 nominees receive a free ThinkGeek Tshirt.
Sponsored by OSTG (owner of Slashdot.org).
http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/
As crazy as it sounds, today I power my Apple 30" monitor with my 15" powerbook. Full Resolution (dual head). New powerbooks that have 128megs of VRAM can do it. It's a great setup....and actually almost too much screen real estate, not that I'm complaining. ;-)
I wonder if this new Dell 30" monitor will work with a powerbook (though the DVI port) as well.. Apple must support dual link in the Powerbook's DVI port, otherwise it wouldn't work in the current setup.
Pat-
Splunk has a new search engine which allows you to examine your log files for either security or troubleshooting related issues. The server (free) uses GoogleSuggest-like type-ahead and dynamic graphs to allow you (a sysadmin) to view all the different logs that are in your system (or datacenter) occuring in real time. It uses Ajax and a lot of javascript to make the experience of flipping through log files and finding specific events very fluid. While it won't prevent security issues, it will certainly help make them more detectable.
(somewhat off topic) I have a 15" powerbook that drives my 30" monitor. So you don't need an expensive card to drive a 30" screen although it helps (yes at 2560x1600). You do however need 128megs of RAM in the PB (build to order). The cool thing is the PB can dual head the 30" monitor with the 15" Powerbook screen. Mmmmmmmmm....screen real estate....
Until recently? I think you should check your facts. SF.NET runs on close to 80 servers. The site has never run on one server. I'm not aware of any OSS project that has more hardware then SF.NET. In fact SF.NET has one of the largest CVS repositories in the world....with many 100's of gigabytes in the tree. The site currently serves over 13,000,000 milllion a day. SF.NET would have no problem hosting Gentoo, but it decided to get out of hosting distros three years ago. (I ran the site for 5 years).
This article reminded me to mention that SourceForge.net's February 2005 Project of the Month is ClamWin an Open Source antivirus application for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP.
Interview with the developers can be read here:
here.
Patrick McGovern
Director, SourceForge.net
Pat@sf.net
Ummmm...IDG hasn't published dummies books for three years (they sold the book line). I'm not sure why you contacted them. This book is published by Wiley.
If we (SourceForge.net) receive a DMCA request, which doesn't happen often, we begin a process outlined in our Terms of Service. We don't remove the project forever, only for a length of 10 days after the project admin has submitted a DMCA counter-claim.
With the project 'PlayFair', the project admin never submitted a counter-claim...and hence the project was never restored.
BTW: We host many p2p projects on SF.NET today.
Pat-
Pat@sf.net
SourceForge.net
To see it in action, go to their site. and click on 'My Model' in the upper left corner.
IDG no longer publishes Dummies books. They sold the division to Wiley a few years ago.
FYI.
This paragraph (#6) is intended for text entered in tracker items, mailng lists archives and other posts you, the user, might enter onto SourceForge.net.
(Most sites have similar paragraphs to protect themselves from liability issues)
A project's code on SourceForge.net is different. The OSI license you use to release the code is the license that stands. If we, OSDN, ever decided to fork a project, we would have to follow the same rules and regulations that are governed in the project's OSI license. (no different then anyone else wishing to fork the code)
I hope this clears things up a bit.
Patrick McGovern
Director, SourceForge.net
pat@sf.net
Assuming the registration was properly described, we will certainly approve it.
You should note however, there already is a way to export your content from SF.NET.
www.sourceforge.net/export
Pat-
No need to create a tool. It's already available on SF.NET and you can use it at any time.
Information can be found here:
http://www.sf.net/export
Pat-
You can actually backup your forum and tracking data as well. Go to www.sourceforge.net/export for information.
(This includes mailing list archives)
Pat-
SourceForge.net does indeed have a 100MB limit per project for project web server disk usage.
We do, however, encourage people to use our File Release System (FRS) which does not have this 100MB limitation.
The File Release System is recommended for a number of reasons; one of which is
to allow us to balance the traffic load among many download servers on our high-capacity download network.
Before we removed the file, Simply GNUstep had two thousand downloads at 110MB each, during the course of the day (totalling over 200 GB of data).
Obviously we need to distribute this kind of load, which our file release system allows us to do; otherwise this kind of download traffic will impact the other 30,000 projects we host.
If you have any other questions about this, please feel free to email me at pat (at) sourceforge.net
PayPal charges 2.2% for a merchant account if the total receipts are greater then $1000/month.
There is also a 30cent per transaction charge.
Certainly a lot less then the 5% you mention above.
Pat-
My name is Patrick McGovern and I manage SourceForge.net. I wanted
to take a moment to address the issues that Loic raised in his
recent article.
As a background: SourceForge.net is a website within the
Open Source Developers Network (OSDN), owned by VA Linux Systems.
SourceForge.net provides free hosting for Open Source software
development projects via its web site at http://sourceforge.net
and http://sf.net
SourceForge.net, OSDN and VA Linux systems are committed to the
Open Source community. Two years ago (almost to the day)
SourceForge.net was started to provide a way for Open Source
developers to collaborate with each other and make great software.
This mission has not changed. Today VA spends a tremendous amount
of money and resources to provide excellent service to 30,000 projects.
Loic brings up a number of points that are simply not accurate.
* SourceForge (not SourceForge.net) is a collaborative software
development platform. The SourceForge software originated as the
foundation of the SourceForge.net service, and is now the basis of
a number of products offered by VA Linux Systems. SourceForge
Enterprise Edition is the commercial product released by
VA Linux Systems last week. SourceForge is a software platform.
* SourceForge.net is a service provided freely to Open Source
software development projects. SourceForge.net is not running
the SourceForge Enterprise Edition software. SourceForge.net is
a web site, which provides a service to the Open Source community.
* SourceForge.net provides free hosting for Open Source Software
development projects. SourceForge.net is not now, or nor has it
ever been, exclusive to free software -- we accept hosting requests
from projects licensed under any OSI-approved Open Source License,
and projects whose licenses have not been directly approved,
but comply with the OSI Open Source Definition.
* Data Export: The ability to export data from SourceForge.net
has not changed. There is no conspiracy to 'lock projects in'
to SourceForge.net. Every project has the ability to download
a nightly tarball of their CVS code. If people have any concerns
about their code, we recommend they set up a cron job to download
the latest version. Eight months ago we did have a XML API that
allowed project admins to download bug report data. The API broke
earlier in the year when we enhanced the SF.NET code (version 2.5)
to include the tracker (a tool that unifies all 'ticket-related'
systems). Until recently, we didn't receive a lot of interest from
the community to re-introduce the feature... so we have been focusing
on other aspects of the site. We are now re-examining the issue.
In the mean time, there are third-party programs which will collect
the content directly from the site and extract that data.
* Mailing Lists: One area we concentrating on, which Loic alludes to,
is mailing list archives. This, historically, has been one of the
weakest areas of SourceForge.net. We are currently working on a new
solution, which directly integrates the mailing lists with
SourceForge.net, as opposed to Geocrawler. We have just entered the
initial beta phase for this project. It is still being worked on,
but you can see it here in action:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=27464 (look at the last
four forums). We are essentially using the SourceForge Forum code;
the same code base that has been available to the community for
some time.
--
Developers are choosing SourceForge.net because of the excellent
resources and service we give the community. The site is currently
growing at over 60 new projects and 700 developers a day. We just
added new personnel and purchased 70 new servers to make sure we
retain our excellent quality of service. We have added new download
servers to make sure the community can get Source code as fast
as possible. We have been adding additional hardware to
the compile farm. (OS X systems were added last month).
Finally, SourceForge.net is a free service. It's a service I believe
greatly enhances the Open Source Developer's ability to write and
release great software; and have it seen by a lot of people. If you
feel that SourceForge.net is not for you, that is okay too. There are
alternatives out there, and it's better to host your code where you
think you will be the most productive.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to write me:
pat at sourceforge.net
Thank you,
Pat-
Patrick McGovern
email: Pat at SourceForge.net
Director, SourceForge.net
Hi, I'm the Site Director for SourceForge.net
SourceForge makes money three different ways: Banner Ads, Corporate Sponsorships (such HP in the printing Foundry) and SourceForge Onsite where we install SourceForge Technology behind a companies Firewall.
We see SourceForge as a way to both accelerate the growth and development of Open Source Software in the community and also generate revenue for VA by deploying the collabortive technology inside Fortune 100 companies.
If you have questions...please feel free to contact me at "Pat AT sourceforge.net"
Thanks.
Pat-
Here's the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/12/national/12CALI. html
VA Linux is currently opening up offices and setting up partnerships all over Europe -- including Southern Europe. Yes, we do have a representative in Spain/Portugal that can be of assistance. Please send a message to snaarding@valinux.com and we will help you out.
Well...the opening prices was really 22 and not 139. The first trade was 139. Folks who had the advantage of getting in at 22 (institutional investors and people close to the brokers) did very well...better then redhat.
Pat-
The WHO played at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit concert over the weekend in Mountain View, CA. They rocked. Here's a review.