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Dave mentioned we had an outage tonight — went pretty well. Just wanted to point out this particular part of the event:

justdave> those boxes only have 512 MB of RAM?
chase> the machine has 512 MB of RAM
justdave> woof.
polvi> meow
myk> sss

Collaboration! :D

We are looking for a reasonable way to come up with 4TB of disk. Everyone claims that disk is sooooooo cheap, however when trying to spec out 4TB of SATA, 2U, raid controller, head server and all, the numbers came out to around $20,000. Does not seem very cheap to me (guess it is possible I am just a penny-pincher). Thought I would just throw this out on the blog and see if any one had any ideas. So yeah, anyone?

Update: The number of U does not matter… just needs to be rack mountable.

Today was the Linux Picnic… and it was a riot. Took a few photos, this one is my favorite:

Josh: the model

The funniest event happened while waiting for a raffle. The raffle was for a small 1U server, and you had to write a short essay in order to win. I wrote an essay talking about the OSLUG, and how we can always use more power while promoting open source software. However, while waiting, a man walked by us with what appeared to be a 1U server. Thinking we had missed the raffle, I called him on it. He said that he had taken it off of the “free table” and the winner of the essay contest did not want it. Confused, but tired of waiting, we got up and left. On the way out, just to double check, I asked one of the picnic staff if the drawing had taken place… and they said in an irritated voice, “no no, we are about to, just wait.” Then I said, “But where is the server?” “Right over… uhhh…. uhhh… ” then I responded “A man just told me that the server was put on the free table, so he took it.” At that point the volunteer picked up her loud speaker and shouted, “PLEASE RETURN THE SERVER!!” The guy was just confused, but it still made for an entertaining time watching the staff hunt the guy down in the park.

Alas, the LUG did not win the server. However, the guy who originally donated the 1U took my email address and said he would probably be able to help. LUG BOX!! He also noted that he uses the OSL slackware mirror!

Then Josh and I visited Stanford, because we can.

O!!!

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U!!!

Fight fight fight!

I had an entertaining time at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference. Went mainly to network with people, help at the booth and attend conference sessions. One of the sessions showed off Bacula and it looks like a good fit for the Mozilla infra (proposal pending further research/alternatives).

We thought we would get a lot more questions at the booth about the Corporation, but we barely had any. In fact, some people felt pretty pumped about it. I mean, the product is going to be better as a result of this, so they had plenty of reason to get excited.

Took a few photos of the event…. By far my favorite is this one of Asa:

It was great to see the OSL guys again. They threw an awesome party… so awesome it got some press.

Also had a chance to visit the friends back at OSU during the LUG BBQ.

So yeah, very fun times, and now I shall get back to work at MoCo (at least until LinuxWorld :).