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Speaking @ Fla. Linux Show on FOSS vs. SaaS

Gavin Baker — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:06:09 +0000

I’m giving a presentation at the Florida Linux Show in Jacksonville on Monday, Feb. 11. My presentation is on Software as a Service: Implications of Web Apps for Software Freedom (a topic I previously ranted about at GatorLUG); it’s at 9:30 am. I’ll post the slides here when they’re available.

Update: Slides are here. Thanks to a great audience!

Upcoming presentation in Gainesville, Fla.: software as a service

Gavin Baker — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:17:24 +0000

On Wednesday, 16 17 October 2007, I am giving a presentation on “Software as a Service (or, Why I Hate Facebook)”. The presentation is at the GatorLUG meeting at 6 pm at Virtually Cuban (2409 SW 13th St.).

I’ll post the presentation here when I have a chance.

wget logs are big

Gavin Baker — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:42:47 +0000

I had reason to download a large number of Web pages recursively, for reasons I’ll explain later. To make it work correctly required a lot of trial and error, and so to better understand what was happening, I started running:

wget --debug -o log

which operates wget in verbose mode and logs the output to a file (in this case, named log).

Eventually (with some help), I hit upon the right command to execute. It ran for a very long time (more than 24 hours) and eventually finished.

Size of all files downloaded: 551M
Size of the wget log: 528M

In other words, for every 1 bit downloaded, wget wrote (almost) 1 bit of log.

When they say “verbose”, they’re not fooling.