- can tell that everyone is waking up because my network connection keeps dropping 🙂 #lca2010 #
- current #lca2010 keynote: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/_mfc_128 #
- really enjoying @BiellaColeman's keynote. great storytelling, inspiring. #lca2010 #
- in the scaling the weta datacenter talk #sysadmin #lca2010 #
- RT @newsycombinator: Java, Postgres developer job. Location? The South Pole http://bit.ly/6soLaV (cc: @gorthx, @dlangille) #
- weta datacenters run at 25C (suggested was 20C) #lca2010 #sysadmin #
- considering increasing temp to 28C (82F), using water cooling for storage, using DC power #lca2010 #
- enjoying that i actually learned how to convert C -> F yesterday #arduinorules #
- chris king looked at implementing a large-scale cooling system using water. nice to see data centers using it #lca2010 #
- details: a luke-warm water stream would be created for all hvac systems to use & machines to reject heat into #
- details: giant cooling tower located on top of the building for hot water to go into, and cooled water to flow out of (HVAC chiller-style) #
- in data storage miniconf listening to talk on sheepdog, a distributed storage pool system from NTT #lca2010 #
- now showing a video of the UI, node configuration, data distribution map. sheepdog is an adorable name for an EBS replacement. #lca2010 #
- sheepdog is GPLv2, project page http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/ #lca2010 #
- watching @FallenPegasus present on memcached #lca2010 #
- why not rely on mysql query cache? "it's a hack." heavy write load? "mysql query cache will fail." #memcached #lca2010 #
- @jdub yeah, this in the context of "why not just use query cache and never memcached" in reply to jdub #
- gonna hang out for @fuzzychef's relational vs non-relational talk (includes some categorization I'll talk about tomorrow) #lca2010 #
- just heard a #redis shout-out from @FallenPegasus #lca2010 #nosql #
- no new database design. but we have lots of new implementations, some of which are better! sez @fuzzychef #lca2010 #nosql #databases #
- RT @stewartsmith: @selenamarie, @jdub: the mysql query cache is also single threaded. giant mutex. fail with > 1 core. #
- re:mysql query cache @joshwaihi this seems like a balanced overview: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/07/27/mysql-query-cache/ in reply to joshwaihi #
- just saw @br3nda walk in! #lca2010 #
- "a lot of people don't want to use SQL." sez @fuzzychef. me: but you know what's worse? SPARQL: http://tr.im/KOZ7 #lca2010 #
- @brainsilopdx might be talking with other hackerspace folks here at #lca2010 – anything in particular I should ask them? wellington has one! in reply to brainsilopdx #
- @brainsilopdx ah great! Thanks. in reply to brainsilopdx #
- Lovely lunch with @br3nda, @jarichaust, @emmajanedotnet, @pjf and james 🙂 #
- Gorgeous day! #lca2010 http://twitgoo.com/bymm9 #
- @pjf maybe more general so that we can include more services 🙂 some ideas: "boredom stream" (ppl yr bored with), "drama" (self explanitory) in reply to pjf #
- @pjf AH. hmmm. then your first option is the best 🙂 in reply to pjf #
- @obra @pjf then: WWW::Facebook::Friends::JSON will be sufficient. 🙂 in reply to obra #
- RT @lhawthorn: case study from World Bank on use of #FOSS in Brazil. Slides & summary available from webinar. http://bit.ly/4ovigk #
- headed to data storage for @devdas' talk on refactoring a large postgresql database #lca2010 #
- PT @sigurdmagnusson: #lca2010 tip: nice evening to attend Wellington's free botanic gardens music. Bus/cable car/walk. http://is.gd/6yCy4 #
- kicking it off with a warning about the foot-gun of rules, but they are also awesome. #postgres #lca2010 #
- (also caught the tail end of Arjen Lentz's OQGRAPH talk: https://launchpad.net/oqgraph) #lca2010 #
- @kartar awww. Are you at lca? in reply to kartar #
- "anyone storing IP addresses in VARCHAR fields?" (no hands) Audience member: "liars!" #lca2010 #
- @pjf I feel like we're some kind of hugs delta force. #
- showing the use of rules to respond with an error to INSERTs to perform maintenance (and acquire locks) #lca2010 #postgres #
- love expressed for transactional DDL inside of #postgres http://tr.im/KPKu #lca2010 #
- RT @jonjensen0: Good notes on self-improvement, lack of self-confidence. Why I Feel Like a Fraud:
http://j.mp/7wniNe via @newsycombinator # - trying that again: @lhawthorn +1 how about we try the malaysian place then? http://www.kayumanis.co.nz/Kayu_Manis/Selamat_Datang.html #
- here for cucumber-nagios "behavior driven infrastructure" #lca2010 #
- talking about Mechanize and Webrat (ruby) in relation to http://cukes.info/ #lca2010 #
- @kartar yes! maybe livecasts as well? http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/ video probably not up for a few weeks i hear. in reply to kartar #
- showing email from martin england about using cucumber in relation to puppet. Puppet == build, cucumber == testing. #lca2010 #
- (talk is by @auxesis btw #cucumber #nagios #lca2010) #
- shout out for those still "hand rolling" (vs cfengine, chef, puppet) 🙂 it's ok. #lca2010 #
- why do we need these complex tests? traditional monitors (ping/tcp) don't verify the right things. ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS! AMEN. #lca2010 #
- @Ycros heh. context: you can still start using better tools to test your stuff 🙂 in reply to Ycros #
- nice prequel of this talk from @kartar: http://bit.ly/5ODKf2 #lca2010 #cucumber-nagios #cucumber #ci #monitoring #
- @Mettadore aww #blush in reply to Mettadore #
- last link: behavior driven systems monitoring for telephony: http://tr.im/KPZ5 #lca2010 #cucumber-nagios #
- cc: @e_monty RT @emmajanedotnet: Monty srsly looks like Steve Buscemi. I keep looking around wondering if I'm in a Tarantino movie. #lca2010 #
- devdas bhagat talking about the theory of constraints (where's the bottleneck?) in relation to statistics #lca2010 #
- @justindhunter the cucumber-nagios.org site actually has tons of good info. in reply to justindhunter #
- getting ready to give a #bucardo replication lighting talk in the data storage track #lca2010 #
- Make your own dropbox #lca2010 http://twitgoo.com/bzcck #
- project is http://github.com/benbalbo/iiz #lca2010 #dropbox-replacement #
- @TulayFe had to present without slides 😀 in reply to TulayFe #
- oops -> correct link! RT @dukeleto: @selenamarie broken link! did you mean http://github.com/benbalbo/iizip ? #lca2010 #
- DRDB + mysql on the whiteboard! #lca2010 #
- Drbd architecture in progress http://twitgoo.com/bzcxd #
- Guess who thinks we should just have the conference ouside? 🙂 #lca2010 #
- @gnat so, by exactly how many do sheep outnumber people in your fair county? Ps I have a question about a billboard. #
- yeah. guess what rules? flying foxes. #
- @nigelmcnie awwww. 🙂 i did enjoy the weather today. in reply to nigelmcnie #
- getting ready for my talk (11:30 NZ time). but breakfast first! #lca2010 #
- @dukeleto FTW 🙂 in reply to dukeleto #
- OH: "are you insane?" "yes! he works in government" #lca2010 #
- benjamin mako hill on the stage for keynote livestream: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/mfc #lca2010 #
- think about empowerment + autonomy, who controls the technology mediating our experiences? via @mako #lca2010 #
- "open source" created to distance from the principles of "free software", focus on the practical benefits of the dev methodology #lca2010 #
- freedom itself (apart from dev methodology) has inherent practical benefits sez @mako #lca2010 #
- median # of contrib to sourceforge projects is ONE, median # of commits: ZERO. can't really have mass collaboration with yourself #lca2010 #
- antifeatures: a world where user rights & desires come after developers'. result: software with features users hate. #lca2010 #
- antifeatures are an inextricable part of proprietary software development. key advantage of open source software. via @mako #lca2010 #
- Market Segmentation – NT Workstation vs. Server: only difference: one bit in the registry (tcp connection limit switch) #lca2010 #
- "that was 1996, things are much better now, right?" (shows list of Vista products. arbitrary limits on memory/disk this time.) #lca2010 #
- @dukeleto pics will be in the livestream 😉 in reply to dukeleto #
- "there are no dongle facebook fanclubs." #lca2010 #
- "I have yet to meet a free software DVD player that respects the unskippable DVD track." #lca2010 #
- freedom to modify software is the freedom to remove features we don't want. #lca2010 #
- @sabik heh.OF COURSE! in reply to sabik #
- Q: "if we live in a utopia, is there any room for antifeatures?" A: there's room (and people like perverse things). #lca2010 #
- "if a company murders a baby & the worst thing they did was violate trademark law, we have a bigger problem." sez @mako #lca2010 #
- Q: "How do we test manufacturing promises?" A: already have lots of laws that cover this, don't need new ones #lca2010 #
- last minute cramming for #lca2010 talk (t-minus 27 minutes) #
- most of ext4 work has been cleanup and bugfix 😀 -ted ts'o #lca2010 #
- my preferred term for dbench is "random number generator" #lca2010 #tedtso-troll #
- handling running out of disk space is hard. -ted ts'o (2.6.28-29 era had panic-if-out-of-disk issues) #lca2010 #
- on-line defrag had a security issue (could as a regular user write root-owned files). but fixed now! #lca2010 #ext4 #
- had great lunch with Oracle DBAs about how we can use PostgreSQL as a front end, other ways to link OS DBs together #licensecost #lca2010 #
- samba writes in parallel, so found a parallelization bug when early adopter ran backups. testers, FTW! #lca2010 #ext4 #
- @lin_nah thanks so much! I picked it up after lunch. <3 efficient lost and found 🙂 in reply to lin_nah #
- @gnat hah. "advanced banter" looks interesting. in reply to gnat #
- hard to justify business expense for creating a new production-ready general purpose file system #lca2010 #ext4 #
- estimate 100 engineer years have been put into ZFS. did they get a return on that investment for shareholders? -ted ts'o #lca2010 #
- posted slides for #lca2010 talk: a survey of open source databases -> http://tr.im/KWMn #
- Q: where is linux going irt solid-state drive? A: using flash translation layer? probably just have to turn off optimizations. #lca2010 #
- in matthew garrett's "social success" talk #lca2010 #
- linux communities: "it's like the Koreas." -matthew garrett #lca2010 #
- linux community is those who care, and bother to turn up. -matthew garrett #lca2010 #
- "In summary: ***** on my ****" #lca2010 #
- @HybridDBA ideas included stored procs or middleware to have Postgres pass queries it doesn't understand to Oracle (or others…) in reply to HybridDBA #
- slippery slope of eliminating all behavior that might alienate any community members. no consensus on this yet. #lca2010 #
- #protip: search for orson wells outtakes for entertainment -ted ts'o #
- AMEN: "A code of conduct is nothing without enforcement." -matthew garrett #lca2010 #
- fun & code of conducts are not mutually exclusive. the goal is to point out opportunities for positive change (my interpretation) #lca2010 #
- Q: what practical things can we do? A: Point out behavior that's antisocial. Leaders need to do this. #lca2010 #
- OH: 'We /could/ get into an argument about cultural relativism…' #lca2010 #
- @FallenPegasus omg, pls take good notes 🙂 in reply to FallenPegasus #
- inspired by @pjf's talk, sharing the jibba jabber toy with @mjollnir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jibba_Jabber #
- In search of food #lca2010 #
- awake! debating going to yoga. #lca2010 #
- @BoscoWoo my mind is so not in reality – thought you meant a plane ride at first 🙂 in reply to BoscoWoo #
- @jchris & @amysue: +1 🙂 #
- most thought-provoking talk yesterday was matthew garrett's – 'hostility' is a good word for what we should not want to do. #lca2010 #
- @hdp heh. Made me do a double take on my screen. #
- wandering out of the ustay for breakfast. #lca2010 #
- glynn moody about to take the stage at #lca2010 http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/mfc #
- Puzzle from the badges http://flic.kr/p/7xdG27 #
- hackers do recursive sharing – @glynmoody #lca2010 #
- aw. forgot advanced trolling supply. gonna have to stop by ustay before social activities #lca2010 #
- RT @br3nda: This year's lca keynotes have a definite theme of Freedom, rather than high tech. A sign of the state of our world. #lca2010 #
- (inspired by keynote) OH: I need to know a bit more history of projects I really like, clearly. (cc: @glynmoody) #lca2010 #
- "michael hart [accidentally] invented spam." (project gutenburg) – @glynmoody #lca2010 #
- twitter/identi.ca: release early, release often applied to sharing – @glynmoody (applause) #lca2010 #
- we don't have open government, we have "shared source" government a la microsoft: look but don't touch – @glynmoody #lca2010 #
- AMEN! "convey the sense of fun" "you're joyful people" – @glynmoody #lca2010 #
- RT @br3nda: looking fwd 2 #sahana talk by @timclicks, incl the work him & project have done for Haiti this week. http://ur1.ca/kbf6 #lca2010 #
- had fun playing chess with @slyall and @mako at ustay giant chess board last night. #
- live stream about Sahana, Haiti-relief and open source by @timClicks http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/illott #lca2010 #
- sms person in haiti sent, asking for help while trapped under a building: http://tr.im/L3JZ #sahana #haiti #lca2010 #
- other humanitarian apps: ubuntu-ngo, openmrs, H_FOSS, inSTEDD, Ushahidi (lots based on cell phone interaction) #sahana #lca2010 #
- #foss is really helpful for disaster mgmt because free as in beer, probably & don't have to worry about licenses #sahana #lca2010 #
- "we can have humanitarian sleeper cells." #sahana #lca2010 #
- yes, @samv #sahana could use olpc machines and they have worked on making the app run on them. #
- had lunch with 10+ hackers from AU and NZ who participate in hackerspaces. making mailing list and will blog soon. #lca2010 #
- meh. twitter <-> identi.ca is failing for me today. #
- watching @fuzzychef announcing NINE POINT OH version of #postgres #lca2010 #
- @emmajanedotnet lolz. it's better than GPS coords in a crowded room! in reply to emmajanedotnet #
- lolz picture of me, tom lane and suzanne in slide deck deck, drinking. #postgres #lca2010 #
- so @fuzzychef is going over the #postgres commitfest: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest #
- had mind blown by scriptable window manager stuff for fvwm from @samv: http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/docs/using.html #
- @timClicks great talk! 🙂 in reply to timClicks #
- Watching @fuzzychef give hot standby demo #postgres http://twitgoo.com/c239h #
- @jenred there is a module for it, but not full support. in reply to jenred #
- Shout outs to @robertmhaas and @turnstep coming up #postgres #lca2010 #
- Feature is EXPLAIN ANALYZE machine readable. May 1000 analysis tools bloom! #postgres #lca2010 #
- @timClicks postgres is written in C. in reply to timClicks #
- RT @sigurdmagnusson with postgres 9 all abuzz at #lca2010, any takers to take SilverStripe on a test drive on it and raise bugs over at open #
- Attending an unexpected and awesome advanced trolling analysis session given by @BiellaColeman #
- Listening to the history of alt.religion.scientology from @BiellaColeman's research. Just had a CotDC reference. #
- Sad I'm missing @pdxpug tomorrow (although its already thurs here) #
- Lulz vs. Moral certitude. Lulz are more effective from a practical perspective. #trolling-research #
- 4chan explanation http://flic.kr/p/7xfvfi #
- Definition of trolls http://flic.kr/p/7xjixQ #
- The politics of spectacle. Stephen duncombe. #trolling-research #
- @joshwaihi sorry i missed your tweet! will be out and about tomorrow night. i'll DM you where we end up tomorrow eve. in reply to joshwaihi #
- On my way to #lca2010 #
- @BiellaColeman sorta sad we won't be having an all-nighter in reply to BiellaColeman #
- @BiellaColeman mid-afternoon would be a good idea… I may require a restorative nap for lunch. in reply to BiellaColeman #
- About to get on stage for a lightning talk about how to fix rigged elections #lca2010 #
- @joshwaihi likely! Will consult sched after my talk in reply to joshwaihi #
- @joshwaihi @webchick awesome! I'm down.. in reply to joshwaihi #
- Sept 13, 2010 pacinet conf in port, vanuatu http://www.picisoc.org, no fee, very close to AU, NZ. #lca2010 #
- RT @sarahsharp I'm up against Tridge, who's a very popular speaker. If you come to my usb3 talk instead, there will be a live demo! #lca2010 #
- Flossmanuals.net in lightning talk. Awesome software and people doing this. #lca2010 #
- @lizhenry he was a bit nervous 🙂 in reply to lizhenry #
- Emergency substitution on origami talk complete with stunt microphone #lca2010 #
- Notmuch email client. It doesn't send or receive email. Inspired by Sup. #lca2010 #
- Mark osbourne, principal. Open source school, 450 students. Can't be free with proprietary software. #lca2010 #
- Now? @pjf and antisocial networking!! #lca2010 #
- "Even though it was gratis we chose to be libre." #lca2010 #
- A small note about that last photo http://flic.kr/p/7xrSbo #
- @BiellaColeman ill try to find u to pick a good time. in reply to BiellaColeman #
- @kattekrab yay! Chess++ in reply to kattekrab #
- Watching sarah sharp take questions about link power management and usb3 #lca2010 #
- Basking in the database trolling from rails guy. 🙂 postgres users DO use rails. #lca2010 #
- 'I'll use your software iff…' can be legit. interested more in how the critical mass was achieved. #lca2010 #
- @sabik indeed. With pointers to docs or psudocode, yeah! in reply to sabik #
- @Mettadore heh ;)RT @justinsheehy Basho is now hiring a developer advocate. Love using Riak & love helping other developers? You know how to in reply to Mettadore #
- RT @justinsheehy Basho is now hiring a developer advocate. Love using Riak & love helping other developers? You know how to get in touch. #
- RT @BiellaColeman: prosthetic arm w/ plastic bottle and blow torch, complex hack. Brilliant part, the screw on at the top of bottle #lca2010 #
- created http://groups.google.com/group/hackerspace-discuss to talk about hacker spaces. pre-populated with #lca2010 lunch attendees #
- recent news about poll fraud discovery in Osun, and one of the IT people I met in Ondo State: http://tr.im/Lawr #nigeria #
- now hearing about accessibility antifeatures from @lizhenry #lca2010 #
- Facebook url http://flic.kr/p/7xrRVD #
- did you know? "the australian government plans to impose a secret censorship blacklist on every Aussie inet connection" -jdub #lca2010 #
- sad to be missing patch review. RT @pdxpug: OH at the PRP: "This is the octothorpe of power." #
- RT @timClicks: #sahana's response to #haiti in the news http://su.pr/1KZXMk – thanks to our volunteers for being so fantastic! #
- woo! @jamey_sharp won the ray gun! #lca2010 #
- rewarding both entertaining poetic email about vegetarianism and excessively exact corrections about power #lca2010 #
- where will LCA2011 be? now we will watch a video. IT WILL BE IN BRISBANE. 🙂 #lca2010 #
- see http://followtheflow.org for #lca2011 #
- decided to chill on couches on the 1st floor of ustay. refactoring pg_standby to have nicer logging. #
- just got trolled by fsf dude. #
- @timClicks its cool. 🙂 maybe i'll kick his ass at chess in a bit. in reply to timClicks #
- @timClicks hah. yeah c'mon over. they have a giant chess board. i don't know how to finish games, but can start them. in reply to timClicks #
- At the postgres booth at open day for #lca2010 #
- @stewartsmith hey! I'm going over there in 15 min! in reply to stewartsmith #
- @lizhenry is he around ? Would love a booklet in reply to lizhenry #
- had a great time at the PostgreSQL booth today for open day. #lca2010 #
- hey @jdub, check out this search for a great list of new version 9 features: http://tr.im/Lhq5 #
- +1000 RT @glynnfoster: What a wonderful week. Wonderful conference. Wonderful people and most of all, wonderful team. #LCA2010! #
- hey @BiellaColeman, check out @lulasweet for some delish ice cream. in reply to lulasweet #
Weekly tweet digest for 2010-01-24
- can tell that everyone is waking up because my network connection keeps dropping 🙂 #lca2010 #
- current #lca2010 keynote: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/_mfc_128 #
- really enjoying @BiellaColeman's keynote. great storytelling, inspiring. #lca2010 #
- in the scaling the weta datacenter talk #sysadmin #lca2010 #
- RT @newsycombinator: Java, Postgres developer job. Location? The South Pole http://bit.ly/6soLaV (cc: @gorthx, @dlangille) #
- weta datacenters run at 25C (suggested was 20C) #lca2010 #sysadmin #
- considering increasing temp to 28C (82F), using water cooling for storage, using DC power #lca2010 #
- enjoying that i actually learned how to convert C -> F yesterday #arduinorules #
- chris king looked at implementing a large-scale cooling system using water. nice to see data centers using it #lca2010 #
- details: a luke-warm water stream would be created for all hvac systems to use & machines to reject heat into #
- details: giant cooling tower located on top of the building for hot water to go into, and cooled water to flow out of (HVAC chiller-style) #
- in data storage miniconf listening to talk on sheepdog, a distributed storage pool system from NTT #lca2010 #
- now showing a video of the UI, node configuration, data distribution map. sheepdog is an adorable name for an EBS replacement. #lca2010 #
- sheepdog is GPLv2, project page http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/ #lca2010 #
- watching @FallenPegasus present on memcached #lca2010 #
- why not rely on mysql query cache? "it's a hack." heavy write load? "mysql query cache will fail." #memcached #lca2010 #
- @jdub yeah, this in the context of "why not just use query cache and never memcached" in reply to jdub #
- gonna hang out for @fuzzychef's relational vs non-relational talk (includes some categorization I'll talk about tomorrow) #lca2010 #
- just heard a #redis shout-out from @FallenPegasus #lca2010 #nosql #
- no new database design. but we have lots of new implementations, some of which are better! sez @fuzzychef #lca2010 #nosql #databases #
- RT @stewartsmith: @selenamarie, @jdub: the mysql query cache is also single threaded. giant mutex. fail with > 1 core. #
- re:mysql query cache @joshwaihi this seems like a balanced overview: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/07/27/mysql-query-cache/ in reply to joshwaihi #
- just saw @br3nda walk in! #lca2010 #
- "a lot of people don't want to use SQL." sez @fuzzychef. me: but you know what's worse? SPARQL: http://tr.im/KOZ7 #lca2010 #
- @brainsilopdx might be talking with other hackerspace folks here at #lca2010 – anything in particular I should ask them? wellington has one! in reply to brainsilopdx #
- @brainsilopdx ah great! Thanks. in reply to brainsilopdx #
- Lovely lunch with @br3nda, @jarichaust, @emmajanedotnet, @pjf and james 🙂 #
- Gorgeous day! #lca2010 http://twitgoo.com/bymm9 #
- @pjf maybe more general so that we can include more services 🙂 some ideas: "boredom stream" (ppl yr bored with), "drama" (self explanitory) in reply to pjf #
- @pjf AH. hmmm. then your first option is the best 🙂 in reply to pjf #
- @obra @pjf then: WWW::Facebook::Friends::JSON will be sufficient. 🙂 in reply to obra #
- RT @lhawthorn: case study from World Bank on use of #FOSS in Brazil. Slides & summary available from webinar. http://bit.ly/4ovigk #
- headed to data storage for @devdas' talk on refactoring a large postgresql database #lca2010 #
- PT @sigurdmagnusson: #lca2010 tip: nice evening to attend Wellington's free botanic gardens music. Bus/cable car/walk. http://is.gd/6yCy4 #
- kicking it off with a warning about the foot-gun of rules, but they are also awesome. #postgres #lca2010 #
- (also caught the tail end of Arjen Lentz's OQGRAPH talk: https://launchpad.net/oqgraph) #lca2010 #
- @kartar awww. Are you at lca? in reply to kartar #
- "anyone storing IP addresses in VARCHAR fields?" (no hands) Audience member: "liars!" #lca2010 #
- @pjf I feel like we're some kind of hugs delta force. #
- showing the use of rules to respond with an error to INSERTs to perform maintenance (and acquire locks) #lca2010 #postgres #
- love expressed for transactional DDL inside of #postgres http://tr.im/KPKu #lca2010 #
- RT @jonjensen0: Good notes on self-improvement, lack of self-confidence. Why I Feel Like a Fraud:
http://j.mp/7wniNe via @newsycombinator # - trying that again: @lhawthorn +1 how about we try the malaysian place then? http://www.kayumanis.co.nz/Kayu_Manis/Selamat_Datang.html #
- here for cucumber-nagios "behavior driven infrastructure" #lca2010 #
- talking about Mechanize and Webrat (ruby) in relation to http://cukes.info/ #lca2010 #
- @kartar yes! maybe livecasts as well? http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/ video probably not up for a few weeks i hear. in reply to kartar #
- showing email from martin england about using cucumber in relation to puppet. Puppet == build, cucumber == testing. #lca2010 #
- (talk is by @auxesis btw #cucumber #nagios #lca2010) #
- shout out for those still "hand rolling" (vs cfengine, chef, puppet) 🙂 it's ok. #lca2010 #
- why do we need these complex tests? traditional monitors (ping/tcp) don't verify the right things. ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS! AMEN. #lca2010 #
- @Ycros heh. context: you can still start using better tools to test your stuff 🙂 in reply to Ycros #
- nice prequel of this talk from @kartar: http://bit.ly/5ODKf2 #lca2010 #cucumber-nagios #cucumber #ci #monitoring #
- @Mettadore aww #blush in reply to Mettadore #
- last link: behavior driven systems monitoring for telephony: http://tr.im/KPZ5 #lca2010 #cucumber-nagios #
- cc: @e_monty RT @emmajanedotnet: Monty srsly looks like Steve Buscemi. I keep looking around wondering if I'm in a Tarantino movie. #lca2010 #
- devdas bhagat talking about the theory of constraints (where's the bottleneck?) in relation to statistics #lca2010 #
- @justindhunter the cucumber-nagios.org site actually has tons of good info. in reply to justindhunter #
- getting ready to give a #bucardo replication lighting talk in the data storage track #lca2010 #
- Make your own dropbox #lca2010 http://twitgoo.com/bzcck #
- project is http://github.com/benbalbo/iiz #lca2010 #dropbox-replacement #
- @TulayFe had to present without slides 😀 in reply to TulayFe #
- oops -> correct link! RT @dukeleto: @selenamarie broken link! did you mean http://github.com/benbalbo/iizip ? #lca2010 #
- DRDB + mysql on the whiteboard! #lca2010 #
- Drbd architecture in progress http://twitgoo.com/bzcxd #
- Guess who thinks we should just have the conference ouside? 🙂 #lca2010 #
- @gnat so, by exactly how many do sheep outnumber people in your fair county? Ps I have a question about a billboard. #
- yeah. guess what rules? flying foxes. #
- @nigelmcnie awwww. 🙂 i did enjoy the weather today. in reply to nigelmcnie #
- getting ready for my talk (11:30 NZ time). but breakfast first! #lca2010 #
- @dukeleto FTW 🙂 in reply to dukeleto #
- OH: "are you insane?" "yes! he works in government" #lca2010 #
- benjamin mako hill on the stage for keynote livestream: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/mfc #lca2010 #
- think about empowerment + autonomy, who controls the technology mediating our experiences? via @mako #lca2010 #
- "open source" created to distance from the principles of "free software", focus on the practical benefits of the dev methodology #lca2010 #
- freedom itself (apart from dev methodology) has inherent practical benefits sez @mako #lca2010 #
- median # of contrib to sourceforge projects is ONE, median # of commits: ZERO. can't really have mass collaboration with yourself #lca2010 #
- antifeatures: a world where user rights & desires come after developers'. result: software with features users hate. #lca2010 #
- antifeatures are an inextricable part of proprietary software development. key advantage of open source software. via @mako #lca2010 #
- Market Segmentation – NT Workstation vs. Server: only difference: one bit in the registry (tcp connection limit switch) #lca2010 #
- "that was 1996, things are much better now, right?" (shows list of Vista products. arbitrary limits on memory/disk this time.) #lca2010 #
- @dukeleto pics will be in the livestream 😉 in reply to dukeleto #
- "there are no dongle facebook fanclubs." #lca2010 #
- "I have yet to meet a free software DVD player that respects the unskippable DVD track." #lca2010 #
- freedom to modify software is the freedom to remove features we don't want. #lca2010 #
- @sabik heh.OF COURSE! in reply to sabik #
- Q: "if we live in a utopia, is there any room for antifeatures?" A: there's room (and people like perverse things). #lca2010 #
- "if a company murders a baby & the worst thing they did was violate trademark law, we have a bigger problem." sez @mako #lca2010 #
- Q: "How do we test manufacturing promises?" A: already have lots of laws that cover this, don't need new ones #lca2010 #
- last minute cramming for #lca2010 talk (t-minus 27 minutes) #
- most of ext4 work has been cleanup and bugfix 😀 -ted ts'o #lca2010 #
- my preferred term for dbench is "random number generator" #lca2010 #tedtso-troll #
- handling running out of disk space is hard. -ted ts'o (2.6.28-29 era had panic-if-out-of-disk issues) #lca2010 #
- on-line defrag had a security issue (could as a regular user write root-owned files). but fixed now! #lca2010 #ext4 #
- had great lunch with Oracle DBAs about how we can use PostgreSQL as a front end, other ways to link OS DBs together #licensecost #lca2010 #
- samba writes in parallel, so found a parallelization bug when early adopter ran backups. testers, FTW! #lca2010 #ext4 #
- @lin_nah thanks so much! I picked it up after lunch. <3 efficient lost and found 🙂 in reply to lin_nah #
- @gnat hah. "advanced banter" looks interesting. in reply to gnat #
- hard to justify business expense for creating a new production-ready general purpose file system #lca2010 #ext4 #
- estimate 100 engineer years have been put into ZFS. did they get a return on that investment for shareholders? -ted ts'o #lca2010 #
- posted slides for #lca2010 talk: a survey of open source databases -> http://tr.im/KWMn #
- Q: where is linux going irt solid-state drive? A: using flash translation layer? probably just have to turn off optimizations. #lca2010 #
- in matthew garrett's "social success" talk #lca2010 #
- linux communities: "it's like the Koreas." -matthew garrett #lca2010 #
- linux community is those who care, and bother to turn up. -matthew garrett #lca2010 #
- "In summary: ***** on my ****" #lca2010 #
- @HybridDBA ideas included stored procs or middleware to have Postgres pass queries it doesn't understand to Oracle (or others…) in reply to HybridDBA #
- slippery slope of eliminating all behavior that might alienate any community members. no consensus on this yet. #lca2010 #
- #protip: search for orson wells outtakes for entertainment -ted ts'o #
- AMEN: "A code of conduct is nothing without enforcement." -matthew garrett #lca2010 #
- fun & code of conducts are not mutually exclusive. the goal is to point out opportunities for positive change (my interpretation) #lca2010 #
- Q: what practical things can we do? A: Point out behavior that's antisocial. Leaders need to do this. #lca2010 #
- OH: 'We /could/ get into an argument about cultural relativism…' #lca2010 #
- @FallenPegasus omg, pls take good notes 🙂 in reply to FallenPegasus #
- inspired by @pjf's talk, sharing the jibba jabber toy with @mjollnir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jibba_Jabber #
- In search of food #lca2010 #
- awake! debating going to yoga. #lca2010 #
- @BoscoWoo my mind is so not in reality – thought you meant a plane ride at first 🙂 in reply to BoscoWoo #
- @jchris & @amysue: +1 🙂 #
- most thought-provoking talk yesterday was matthew garrett's – 'hostility' is a good word for what we should not want to do. #lca2010 #
- @hdp heh. Made me do a double take on my screen. #
- wandering out of the ustay for breakfast. #lca2010 #
- glynn moody about to take the stage at #lca2010 http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/mfc #
- Puzzle from the badges http://flic.kr/p/7xdG27 #
- hackers do recursive sharing – @glynmoody #lca2010 #
- aw. forgot advanced trolling supply. gonna have to stop by ustay before social activities #lca2010 #
- RT @br3nda: This year's lca keynotes have a definite theme of Freedom, rather than high tech. A sign of the state of our world. #lca2010 #
- (inspired by keynote) OH: I need to know a bit more history of projects I really like, clearly. (cc: @glynmoody) #lca2010 #
- "michael hart [accidentally] invented spam." (project gutenburg) – @glynmoody #lca2010 #
- twitter/identi.ca: release early, release often applied to sharing – @glynmoody (applause) #lca2010 #
- we don't have open government, we have "shared source" government a la microsoft: look but don't touch – @glynmoody #lca2010 #
- AMEN! "convey the sense of fun" "you're joyful people" – @glynmoody #lca2010 #
- RT @br3nda: looking fwd 2 #sahana talk by @timclicks, incl the work him & project have done for Haiti this week. http://ur1.ca/kbf6 #lca2010 #
- had fun playing chess with @slyall and @mako at ustay giant chess board last night. #
- live stream about Sahana, Haiti-relief and open source by @timClicks http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/video/illott #lca2010 #
- sms person in haiti sent, asking for help while trapped under a building: http://tr.im/L3JZ #sahana #haiti #lca2010 #
- other humanitarian apps: ubuntu-ngo, openmrs, H_FOSS, inSTEDD, Ushahidi (lots based on cell phone interaction) #sahana #lca2010 #
- #foss is really helpful for disaster mgmt because free as in beer, probably & don't have to worry about licenses #sahana #lca2010 #
- "we can have humanitarian sleeper cells." #sahana #lca2010 #
- yes, @samv #sahana could use olpc machines and they have worked on making the app run on them. #
- had lunch with 10+ hackers from AU and NZ who participate in hackerspaces. making mailing list and will blog soon. #lca2010 #
- meh. twitter <-> identi.ca is failing for me today. #
- watching @fuzzychef announcing NINE POINT OH version of #postgres #lca2010 #
- @emmajanedotnet lolz. it's better than GPS coords in a crowded room! in reply to emmajanedotnet #
- lolz picture of me, tom lane and suzanne in slide deck deck, drinking. #postgres #lca2010 #
- so @fuzzychef is going over the #postgres commitfest: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest #
- had mind blown by scriptable window manager stuff for fvwm from @samv: http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/docs/using.html #
- @timClicks great talk! 🙂 in reply to timClicks #
- Watching @fuzzychef give hot standby demo #postgres http://twitgoo.com/c239h #
- @jenred there is a module for it, but not full support. in reply to jenred #
- Shout outs to @robertmhaas and @turnstep coming up #postgres #lca2010 #
- Feature is EXPLAIN ANALYZE machine readable. May 1000 analysis tools bloom! #postgres #lca2010 #
- @timClicks postgres is written in C. in reply to timClicks #
- RT @sigurdmagnusson with postgres 9 all abuzz at #lca2010, any takers to take SilverStripe on a test drive on it and raise bugs over at open #
- Attending an unexpected and awesome advanced trolling analysis session given by @BiellaColeman #
- Listening to the history of alt.religion.scientology from @BiellaColeman's research. Just had a CotDC reference. #
- Sad I'm missing @pdxpug tomorrow (although its already thurs here) #
- Lulz vs. Moral certitude. Lulz are more effective from a practical perspective. #trolling-research #
- 4chan explanation http://flic.kr/p/7xfvfi #
- Definition of trolls http://flic.kr/p/7xjixQ #
- The politics of spectacle. Stephen duncombe. #trolling-research #
- @joshwaihi sorry i missed your tweet! will be out and about tomorrow night. i'll DM you where we end up tomorrow eve. in reply to joshwaihi #
- On my way to #lca2010 #
- @BiellaColeman sorta sad we won't be having an all-nighter in reply to BiellaColeman #
- @BiellaColeman mid-afternoon would be a good idea… I may require a restorative nap for lunch. in reply to BiellaColeman #
- About to get on stage for a lightning talk about how to fix rigged elections #lca2010 #
- @joshwaihi likely! Will consult sched after my talk in reply to joshwaihi #
- @joshwaihi @webchick awesome! I'm down.. in reply to joshwaihi #
- Sept 13, 2010 pacinet conf in port, vanuatu http://www.picisoc.org, no fee, very close to AU, NZ. #lca2010 #
- RT @sarahsharp I'm up against Tridge, who's a very popular speaker. If you come to my usb3 talk instead, there will be a live demo! #lca2010 #
- Flossmanuals.net in lightning talk. Awesome software and people doing this. #lca2010 #
- @lizhenry he was a bit nervous 🙂 in reply to lizhenry #
- Emergency substitution on origami talk complete with stunt microphone #lca2010 #
- Notmuch email client. It doesn't send or receive email. Inspired by Sup. #lca2010 #
- Mark osbourne, principal. Open source school, 450 students. Can't be free with proprietary software. #lca2010 #
- Now? @pjf and antisocial networking!! #lca2010 #
- "Even though it was gratis we chose to be libre." #lca2010 #
- A small note about that last photo http://flic.kr/p/7xrSbo #
- @BiellaColeman ill try to find u to pick a good time. in reply to BiellaColeman #
- @kattekrab yay! Chess++ in reply to kattekrab #
- Watching sarah sharp take questions about link power management and usb3 #lca2010 #
- Basking in the database trolling from rails guy. 🙂 postgres users DO use rails. #lca2010 #
- 'I'll use your software iff…' can be legit. interested more in how the critical mass was achieved. #lca2010 #
- @sabik indeed. With pointers to docs or psudocode, yeah! in reply to sabik #
- @Mettadore heh ;)RT @justinsheehy Basho is now hiring a developer advocate. Love using Riak & love helping other developers? You know how to in reply to Mettadore #
- RT @justinsheehy Basho is now hiring a developer advocate. Love using Riak & love helping other developers? You know how to get in touch. #
- RT @BiellaColeman: prosthetic arm w/ plastic bottle and blow torch, complex hack. Brilliant part, the screw on at the top of bottle #lca2010 #
- created http://groups.google.com/group/hackerspace-discuss to talk about hacker spaces. pre-populated with #lca2010 lunch attendees #
- recent news about poll fraud discovery in Osun, and one of the IT people I met in Ondo State: http://tr.im/Lawr #nigeria #
- now hearing about accessibility antifeatures from @lizhenry #lca2010 #
- Facebook url http://flic.kr/p/7xrRVD #
- did you know? "the australian government plans to impose a secret censorship blacklist on every Aussie inet connection" -jdub #lca2010 #
- sad to be missing patch review. RT @pdxpug: OH at the PRP: "This is the octothorpe of power." #
- RT @timClicks: #sahana's response to #haiti in the news http://su.pr/1KZXMk – thanks to our volunteers for being so fantastic! #
- woo! @jamey_sharp won the ray gun! #lca2010 #
- rewarding both entertaining poetic email about vegetarianism and excessively exact corrections about power #lca2010 #
- where will LCA2011 be? now we will watch a video. IT WILL BE IN BRISBANE. 🙂 #lca2010 #
- see http://followtheflow.org for #lca2011 #
- decided to chill on couches on the 1st floor of ustay. refactoring pg_standby to have nicer logging. #
- just got trolled by fsf dude. #
- @timClicks its cool. 🙂 maybe i'll kick his ass at chess in a bit. in reply to timClicks #
- @timClicks hah. yeah c'mon over. they have a giant chess board. i don't know how to finish games, but can start them. in reply to timClicks #
- At the postgres booth at open day for #lca2010 #
- @stewartsmith hey! I'm going over there in 15 min! in reply to stewartsmith #
- @lizhenry is he around ? Would love a booklet in reply to lizhenry #
- had a great time at the PostgreSQL booth today for open day. #lca2010 #
- hey @jdub, check out this search for a great list of new version 9 features: http://tr.im/Lhq5 #
- +1000 RT @glynnfoster: What a wonderful week. Wonderful conference. Wonderful people and most of all, wonderful team. #LCA2010! #
- hey @BiellaColeman, check out @lulasweet for some delish ice cream. in reply to lulasweet #