Lightning Talks
These are all quick ten minute talks.
Rat Pack
- kim hawtin (ex-consume was the it manager)
- lots of good tools to speed up compiling (dist-cc, scons, ccache etc), however they didn't solve their particular problem which was linking.
- ram makes things fast. unfortunately it's also expensive ...
- large ram disks suck on linux, use tmpfs instead
- now closed ... pooh.
- still using commodity hardware (looks like desktops ripped out of their cases and stuffed into racks
- more information at http://labs.google.com/papers/
SAGE-NZ
- want to revive it, cool! sounds like the audience might be interested ...
- i want a regular local nz tech conference
neat Linux ssh/iptables trick:
$ ssh -L $LOCALPORT:$REMOTEDEST:$REMOTEPORT $ iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d $REMOTEDEST --dport $RERMOTEPORT -j DNAT --to-desk 127.0.0.1:$LOCALPORT
Weta Digital
- See the full outline
Netdisco
- HP decided that CDP is proprietary and is removing it from all their future code bases.
- They support most other vendor's discovery protocols as well.