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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Tuesday, 27 November 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Working at companies which used Unix fuelled his interest further and when he was laid off by an ISP after the tech wreck, he had six or seven months off from work during which time he started playing around with Red Hat. Both his interest and his knowledge of Linux grew. His present employer has helped him to obtain certification from Red Hat. The network at linux.conf.au will use a conference management system called Zookeepr to grant web access. Attendees will have to use their conference credentials to gain access. The wireless access points which will be used at linux.conf.au have been sent to the Open Source Development Conference which is being held this week; this will serve to test their capacity to take the load in January. The access points are owned by Linux Australia and were purchased by last year's networking team. Walsh said he would be speaking to the relevant people at Melbourne University, which is hosting the conference, about using the university's network to the extent possible; he said he would probably end up with a mix of wired and wireless networking from the university and his own set-up. Internet access for the conference is sponsored by Aarnet, Australia’s research and education network. There is nothing as clinical as debriefing after a conference; Walsh said after each conference there was a session called "ghosts" where the next year's team could select people who had organised that year's conference and pick their brains. It serves more as a means for getting preparation for the next conference underway. Networking problems are common; Walsh recalled one case in 2005 where Windows machines had problems connecting to the conference network. On Tuesday of that week, the second day of the conference, Microsoft released an unrelated patch which fixed the problem. The 2005 conference has unwittingly also served as the motivator for Ubuntu to fix a number of wireless connectivity problems; CDs of the second release, Hoary Hedgehog, had been handed out at the conference and one attendee was moaning about his connectivity problems with the release. Several Ubuntu developers were nearby and overheard what was going on; they later fixed up things. Walsh says the networking team - one member is from Adelaide and the other three from Melbourne - does have disagreements but these are generally limited to whether it is better to use a single hash or a double hash to comment out things in code. With that kind of disagreement, one can't see too many networking problems, both social or technical, emerging at January's conference.
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