Talks

Planned Talks (Winter 2008)

• February 1st
  • Research In Motion
• February 29th (Confirmed): Overview of Quantum Computing
  • Raymond Laflamme (Director, IQC)
• Week of March 3rd (Proposed)
  • Second IQC talk
• Week of March 10th (Proposed)
  • Kate Larson (Game Theory)

Requested

• Michael Geist
  • Canadian Law and Technologist Blogger
• Wayne Beaton
  • Technical Evangelist for The Eclipse Foundation
• Keith Packard
  • X Windows
  • Holden has contacted him again to ask him to come in October
• Walter Bright
  • D Programming Language
• Hans Peter Anvin
  • Linux kernel hacker
• Cory Doctorow
  • Co-editor of Boing Boing
• CSCF/MFCF/IST Open Forum
  • Dave Gawley [CSCF]
  • Dawn Keenan [IST]
  • Jim Pell [MFCF]
  • Stephen Mann [SCS]
  • Bruce Campbell [IST]
• Jeffrey Shallit

Encoding

We use dvgrab to rip the talks from the camera and ffmpeg to encode.

Mirrors

• taurine (90 Mbps) [It can probably push much more if it were on a gigabit link]
• citric-acid (250 Mbps)

The list of mirrors can be found in caffeine:/var/www/mirrors.txt the web server selects a random mirror from this list at each file request. We now run Net-SNMP on all of our hosts, so we have real-time access to network and cpu load data. We should therefore be able to write a more intelligent mirror selection script. We also use mirror.cs to mirror on-campus.

We are currently looking at QoS tagging to throttle our bandwidth.