Posts with keyword: uosc07

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User Centric Identity Tutorial

Fri Sep 7 17:34:00 2007

Here's the slides from the user centric identity tutorial that I gave this afternoon. The PDF won't show the embedded screencasts. I've included them separately. Here's one on using CardSpace and one on using OpenID. If you're interested in getting my Perl wrappers for using the JanRain OpenID libraries and the guestbook application, contact me.
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Lamont Peterson on XEN and Virtualization

Fri Sep 7 12:20:00 2007

Lamont Peterson, co-founder of NeverBlock is talking about XEN and virtualization. The talk is an intro to virtualization technology and a discussion of why use virtualization. Here are some pros: Resource consolidation: fewer systems to buy, own, manage, power, cool, etc. Unification: all VMs have the same "hardware" even if they're running on different hardware. Access and management tools allow VMs to be managed over the network. Utilization: most bare metal systems are under utilized. VMs allow that resource to be recovered. Fewer physical machines can improve reliability since there's less Of course, there are some cons: It can
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Brad Nicholes on Apache 2.2 Configuration

Fri Sep 7 11:40:00 2007

I'm in Brad Nicholes' session on configuring Apache 2.2. First up he starts talking about MPM (multi-processor modules). MPMs control the multi-processing that happens on in Apache (servers and threads). If you install Apache, the default is the pre-fork MPM that doesn't include threads. You have to install the Worker MPM to get threads. the pre-fork MPM is more stable, but slower. The Worker MPM won't play well with mod_perl and other modules that aren't thread friendly. Brad recommends using include files to modularize configuration. I've never done this (habit) preferring to have everything in one place so I
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Longtails and Software Keynote

Fri Sep 7 10:01:00 2007

Several people asked for a copy of my slides from keynote this morning. Here they are: Longtails and Software.
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Bruce Perens: Innovation Goes Public

Thu Sep 6 19:54:00 2007

Bruce Perens speaks to UOSC(click to enlarge) Bruce Perens is here for the second keynote of the evening. I spoke to Bruce on IT Conversations last March when he was last in Utah to protest the Novell/Microsoft deal. Bruce is not only interesting to listen to, but entertaining as well. Bruce gives an intro about why he got excited about open source. As I mentioned, Bruce has criticized Novell in the past (and will today). The conference is being held at Novell, but the security folks haven't thrown him out yet. How can "innovation" go public? It's not a
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Matt Asay: Making Utah a Center for Open-Source Innovation

Thu Sep 6 18:44:00 2007

Matt Asay is something of a fixture here in Utah and clearly a big booster of open source (he founded the Open Source Business Conference). He's giving the first keynote of the evening on bring open-source home (to Utah). He uses Plato's Allegory of the Cave to talk about how many people aren't prepared to understand that FOSS is better and works. The prisoners, in this case, are traditional IT folks. This is changing; he points to a Gartner study showing people believe FOSS software is better. FOSS achieves ubiquity through exceptional software, focus on the product to drive
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Utah Open Source Conference

Thu Sep 6 17:48:00 2007

A string quartet entertains us while we eat and chat(click to enlarge) I'm sitting in Novell's Open Source Business Center waiting for the Utah Open Source Conference to begin. There's about 250 people registered, so a pretty good sized event as far as regional conferences go. Tonight is the open reception/dinner (there's a four piece string quartet playing in the corner) and keynotes by Matt Away and Bruce Perens. I'm giving a keynote tomorrow morning and then giving a tutorial on user centric identity and OpenID tomorrow afternoon. There are a large number of sessions in the breakouts tomorrow
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