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OSCON: Friday

July 29, 2007 – 12:26

On Friday, I made it to the morning keynotes. None of them were really informative but were entertaining and funny. I attended ZFS: Bringing Terabytes Under Control by Jay Edwards. He mainly talked about using ZFS on Solaris for large storage systems. The biggest advantage of ZFS is the nice management tools for creating pools […]

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OSCON: Thursday

July 29, 2007 – 12:18

After staying up late on Wednesday night, I slept late on Thursday and missed the keynotes. I went to Matt Tucker’s talk on Jingle: Cutting Edge Open Source VoIP describing the Jingle extension to Jabber that allows voice chat and other multimedia. Jingle is the standardization of the Google Talk protocol for voice chat. One […]

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OSCON: Wednesday Afternoon

July 25, 2007 – 20:00

In the afternoon, I went to more OSCON sessions. First, I went to Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell by Simon Peyton-Jones, the same guy who gave the keynote talk I went to. This time, he was talking about extending the Haskell compiler to do data parallelism. Flat data parallelism is when a computation is split […]

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OSCON: Wednesday Morning

July 25, 2007 – 14:46

I am going to the OSCON sessions today and the rest of the week. I missed most of the keynotes this morning. I did Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming by Simon Peyton-Jones and Haskell guy at Microsoft. He described the idea of transaction memory as the alternative to locking for concurrent programming. Transactional memory basically […]

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