Videos from linux.conf.au [LWN.net]

For those who were unable to attend linux.conf.au - or who were there but missed an interesting talk - the conference organizers have populated the presentations page with videos (in Theora format) for most of the talks. There is a lot of interesting stuff there; best not to check it out until you have a sizeable block of spare time.

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Some Videos from linux.conf.au @ CZ

Posted Feb 4, 2008 21:32 UTC (Mon) by olecom (guest, #42886) [Link] (6 responses)

In case if download is slow for somebody near

ftp://flower.upol.cz/Linux/linux.conf.au/2008/
(upload is allowed)

Video shooting organization

Posted Feb 5, 2008 0:08 UTC (Tue) by olecom (guest, #42886) [Link] (3 responses)

Didn't see "tape changing" yet, as i frequently do in Google Talks, but not having even mics
for questions, is pretty much uncomfortable.

Also wonder, why uploading isn't done in (semi-)real time to multi-terabyte systems at
Google-Video...

Video shooting organization

Posted Feb 6, 2008 5:54 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link] (1 responses)

Mics for questions almost never works.  Usually someone gets half a question out before the
organiser reaches them with the mic, they repeat about half of it either far too quietly or
far too loud, etc, etc.  All speakers were asked to repeat the question as asked, which I
think is the best model.

Video shooting organization

Posted Feb 6, 2008 6:43 UTC (Wed) by olecom (guest, #42886) [Link]

> Mics for questions almost never works.  Usually someone gets half
> a question out before the organiser reaches them with the mic,
> they repeat about half of it either far too quietly or far too
> loud, etc, etc.  All speakers were asked to repeat the question
> as asked, which I think is the best model.

Hmm... Let's dream about userspace technology, rather than GUI in Plasma, robots, homes or parsers(ANTLR) crap, on Linux (The Kernel) Conf.

I noticed, audience have many laptops there, everyone of which has a mic. Also i'm pretty sure, there are many pocket phones and wireless(BlueTooth) microphones as well.

So, what's the problem to utilize all this hardware for simple human-friendly (as for lecturer as for listeners) manner --

"Q&A in Linux wAY"?

Or Linux is all about inf. compiling, patching paperwork and tar-rolling technology for big irons (yea, userspace suck, but anyway)?

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Video shooting organization

Posted Feb 6, 2008 5:58 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

Also, the uploads were done in semi-realtime (I think the Wednesday keynote was uploaded
within about an hour) to the linux.conf.au site in Theora, which is IMO pretty impressive.

Some Videos from linux.conf.au @ CZ

Posted Feb 5, 2008 17:21 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

Ogg (backwards-)seeking is truly a mess. It works on most files, read, audio files and the videos from FOSDEM mostly get it right, but the LCA2008 video about SMACK for example truly has problems with backseeking.

For some odd reason, your ftp upload seems borked (as usual, I do not think I am the problem :-)):

  8% |**                                   | 16192 KB  539.72 KB/s    05:04 ETA
ftp: netout: Connection reset by peer
  0% |                                     |    -1       0.00 KB/s    --:-- ETA

Some Videos from linux.conf.au @ CZ

Posted Feb 5, 2008 18:00 UTC (Tue) by olecom (guest, #42886) [Link]

> For some odd reason, your ftp upload seems
> borked (as usual, I do not think I am the problem :-)):

Sorry, known problem. It's better to do transfer uniformly in
time with small (less than minute/2) delay. I didn't have
any info on how to *debug* it.

<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.general/11541>
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btrfs

Posted Feb 5, 2008 5:20 UTC (Tue) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link] (4 responses)

So it really is pronounced "butterfs"!

btrfs

Posted Feb 5, 2008 21:04 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

betterfs, if you are going to do wordplays.

btrfs

Posted Feb 6, 2008 1:45 UTC (Wed) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link]

But butter is delicious!

btrfs

Posted Feb 6, 2008 20:03 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

$x = "butterfs";
$x =~ s/[aiueo]//g;
$x =~ tr/t/t/s;
print "We all love $x, but without vowels!\n";

btrfs

Posted Feb 6, 2008 23:24 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

> tr/t/t/s;

Cute.  It's reassuring to see that there are still Perl tricks I haven't seen yet.