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OSCON 2011, Portland

Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was held in parallel at the Oregon Convention Center with the O’Reilly OSdata and OSjava Conferences at the beginning of the week, and then later a … Continue reading

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SVLUG: ATA over Ethernet Technology

At SVLUG tonite Rob Przykucki (sha-koo-ski) and Alan Weisenburger from Coraid talked tonite about ATA over Ethernet Technology and Coraid’s products based on that protocol. “ATA over Ethernet (AoE) is a network protocol designed for simple, high-performance access of SATA … Continue reading

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IMUG: The Power of Plain Text with Ken Lunde

Dr. Ken Lunde of Adobe did a talk on “The Power of Plain Text” at IMUG tonite. “This presentation will cover the basics of “plain text” and its importance in providing meaningful content, and will explore some recent developments in … Continue reading

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ACCU Meeting: A Tour of a Modern Search Engine with Hugh Williams

Tonite at ACCU in Mountain View, Hugh Williams talked about “A Tour of a Modern Search Engine.” Dr. Hugh Williams has spent the past sixteen years researching and developing search engines and web services. He is presently the Vice President … Continue reading

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IMUG: Translation Tools in the Cloud: TermWiki & ReviewIT

Uwe Muegge and Matt Arney from CSOFT gave a talk on their TermWiki & ReviewIT localization tools at IMUG tonite. I watched the lecture via Adobe Connect webcast, which worked fairly smoothly. Thanks again to Adobe for hosting the meeting.

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