[luau] Gov Tech Magazine Article
Article is on Open Source in Government. The State of Hawaii's eGov Team member Todd Ogasawara is quoted in the article. link to article http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.phtml?id=48258 aloha john __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
Re: [luau] Gov Tech Magazine Article
I found this article highly informative, including the right-hand sidebar and its collections of links. The key issue for software developers was touched in the following excerpt: A lot of open source usage is happening at the federal level and at the international level, said the Center of Open Source Government's Stanco, adding that the Department of Defense is the clear open source leader at the federal level. This gives open source a certain credibility, he said. The perception problem was, 'How can this possibly work?' 'How can this be better than proprietary?' 'Where does the support come from?' 'How do these people get paid?' There were a lot of misconceptions and skepticism about how this all works, he continued. Nobody really knows how it works yet, but people are getting much more comfortable that it is working. Having the military endorse open source in a big way says open source is something real. I'm a little surprised states are still not completely on board. It was interesting that nobody really knows how it works yet, but it is working... --Dennis - Original Message - From: John Pescador [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 10:22 AM Subject: [luau] Gov Tech Magazine Article Article is on Open Source in Government. The State of Hawaii's eGov Team member Todd Ogasawara is quoted in the article. link to article http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.phtml?id=48258 aloha john __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] Gov Tech Magazine Article
--- Dennis T. Ching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was interesting that nobody really knows how it works yet, but it is working... --Dennis I think its is a case of the people at the ground level have a good grasp on it, and the upper management just taking the techies' word that it is a Good Thing [TM] . since they rarely interview the people doing the real work in DoD, the impression is that *nobody* knows how it works, when its maingly the upper ecehlon that is in the dark or at least that is my guess based on my time in the service Aloha, Rob __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
[luau] A good network filesystem
I have a dillemma here that I'd really like to resolve. Here's the situation: I have my desktop and a server, both running Linux. The server speaks SMB via Samba to my Windows machines and NFS to my other UNIX-like boxen. When I'm on a windows machine, I access my home directory off the server using Samba, but when I'm on my local desktop, I use my local filesystem. NFS mounting my homedir on my desktop from the fileserver is not feasable due to bandwidth concerns (only 100Mbit ethernet connects the two of us) and the fact that my PC is slightly mobile (I like to keep my data with me if I go to the trouble of moving my desktop). What I'd like is a way to have my hoem directories be the same on both my Linux desktop and my server. That way, I can access my home directories from all my other systems off the server as normal, even if my Linux desktop is not on (which is occassional). Basically, I need a filesystem that will keep a local copy of the entire directory on both my desktop and my Linux server, while replicating immediately all changes made to it. I'd really rather not run Samba on my desktop, and that would not really accomplish what I desire anyway as I want my network, including my hoemdir, to continue to function as normal even if my Linux desktop machine is not available. I've thought of kludging off something like rsyncing between the two every minute or so, but that's a) a horrible, horrible kludge requiring something to be run every minute to sync up, and b) only provides per-minute consistency with considerable overhead. I'd like for local I/O to occur as fast as possible (limited only by local resources such as HDD) with full caching while updates to the filesystem proceed immediately as fast as the network can handle. Does such a thing exist in the Linux world? Or for that matter, does such a thing exist? --MonMotha
Re: [luau] A good network filesystem
Look at OpenAFS or Intermezzo. I read through the documentation of one of them before, and it appeared that one of them was effective not only cross platform but also in caching to reduce network utilization. I could be wrong though... Warren
[luau] RE:open source article
Okay, I'm pretty new at this and I am impressed at what open source can do for the public schools. Then why is the state pushing MS Office? Just on Tuesday I was a visitor at UH Engineering college, they too have so much to offer the state, I'm saying why not use the college to develop open source programs, other equiptment (servers, computers)for the state and keep the money and the knowledge base in the state. They already do major research projects that can mean $$$ for the state. I think there is major politics going on. The more I seem to know I understand why the state is in major financial crisis. Just my opinion--might not be suitable for this forum.
Re: [luau] RE:open source article
On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 20:48, Robin wrote: Okay, I'm pretty new at this and I am impressed at what open source can do for the public schools. Then why is the state pushing MS Office? Just on Tuesday I was a visitor at UH Engineering college, they too have so much to offer the state, I'm saying why not use the college to develop open source programs, other equiptment (servers, computers) for the state and keep the money and the knowledge base in the state. They already do major research projects that can mean $$$ for the state. I think there is major politics going on. The more I seem to know I understand why the state is in major financial crisis. Just my opinion--might not be suitable for this forum. Very suitable for this forum. Please read my earlier post about Open Source in government and how it can benefit Hawaii's economy. http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/luau/2003-February/012477.html The only trick is convincing people about the economic, functional and social benefits of Open Source Software. That is a difficult thing, but we are making slow but steady progress on that. Thanks, Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED]
