Well, I guess the better question is what’s in it for me? In my case, I
get a book from O’Reilly for each of their banners. Most of their
conferences and their magazines have this deal. So, having a banner for
an event of magazine on the web page for a couple of months in return for
one of their books is very nice.
The other items I may place on the site from time to time are local
events or conferences. I get nothing for that, except satisfaction that
I am promoting local events and proving that there is a real high-tech
environment in Ottawa, no matter how underground it has gotten in the
past few years.
Bruce sent me a reference just after the last meeting to a new
Holographic Storage
media developed by
Maxell. It looks
promising, and it says that it will be available in late 2006. Given
that it’s the end of the first quarter of 2007, I have to wonder. I
haven’t seen it advertised anywhere, but then again, it may be quite
expensive.
The capacity of the first generation media (it looks a lot like standard
magneto-optical) will hold approximately 300GB, a nice hard drive of
today’s capacities. The data transfer rate is also pretty zippy -
160Mbps. That’s hope inducing, as this may be the media of choice for
backups. Expected life is ~50 years.
Highlights
- We had 6 attendees which is pretty good given our recent dry run.
- We have photos (candid shots, need to do better)
- After the usual social session, we got around to talking about the
LPI certification and the training course we are going to be doing
for those who need it.
- Some discussion of directory services ( this would make a good item
for a future meeting)
- Announced our affiliation with
LOPSA
Other
Tim has offered us the use of the training site at
Kuzink to provide the
training platform and to create content. I’ll be creating content as
well as Andrea. Others are welcome to assist, as it can’t hurt to have
at least seen some of this while entering it. We will be using moodle as
the framework, so that should be interesting at the very least. Exposure
to multiple web based systems isn’t gong to hurt and who knows, we may
even have talent for this.
Well, it should help with a lot of them at least. I don’t remember where
I saw this, but here we go:
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
It’s trite, but then again, so am I. I just thought I’d share.
This is a list for the people who actually show up for meetings.