I found Startup School this evening off of a blog entry by Eugene Wallingford at the University of Norther Iowa.
Contains a good collection of MP3’s for Entrepreneurs.
Looks like the last one was at Cambridge and the next one is at Standford.
* What: 2006 Startup School
* Where: Kresge Auditorium, Stanford University.
* When: 29 April 2006, 9:00 am.
Xen – http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8909
Microsoft Research
There is a certain comfort in tight coupling.
Getting developers to use loose coupling
Erlang as a message based product
I said that Jamis Buck had told me that all performance problems at 37 signals where database related.
I admit I was speaking in generalities, not all performance problems are database related, but a lot of them are.
Trent corrected me andreferenced Jamis Buck of 37 Signals to talk about scalability of Campfire.
Supposedly IBM has a web site where you can get a virtualized z-series for a month or a two.
Jim Gray article
Scott Lemon mentioned here was some talk that John Smart wanted to start up a FutureConversations Channel over at the Conversations Network.
Phil Windley said that IT Conversations publishes 10 – 12 audio programs a week and that needs to be decreased to about 5 a week. One for each weekday essentially.
Limelight a Content Delivery Network(CDN) provides bandwidth and distribution for itconversations.
Nerd-TV seems to have dropped off the radar lately. Episodes are much less frequent now.
Phil Windley spent much of the week working with MicroID
Accelerating Change Review by Scott Lemon
John Smart – a series of substrate transitions.
Ray Kurzweil – says that if something doesn’t have a log curve it won’t survive, it may be an indicator of future developments, but if it doesn’t double it will be replaced.
Kurzweil calculated Moors law based on electrical mechanical relays since 1900. He has abstracted all the way back to the abacus.
Law of accelerating returns, a network law that we use more powerful systems to implement more powerful systems.
Moore’s law isn’t linear in doubling it is actually
Vernor Vinge – Mathematician by training, coined the term Singularity.
Asked the question, at which point, which he calls the singularity, will changes in the earth and our experience will happen faster than our senses ability to detect change.
Soft take off verses hard take off.
Soft takeoff- will we even notice when changes happen faster
Hard takeoff – we will walk into the office one morning and say wow, the world has changed.
What are the metrics to measure soft verse hard takeoffs.
Does you liver cell even know what it is a part of?
Computers cause humans to do work without any real interaction with humans.
UPS drivers are just actuators at the edge of a computer network.
Similarity to Dells server factory.
The dell server line workers and dell suppliers are driven by dells order system.
Dell’s suppliers have 90 minutes to comply with an order or dell goes with a different supplier.
Dell’s parts room consists of semi trucks from suppliers that backup to the assembly plant to be unloaded.
As one truck becomes depleted, the next truck moves into position.
Walmart consists of over 1% of China’s GNP.
Truck
We create advanced tools and use those tools to create the next generation of advanced tools.
Google has already lost control of the social impact they have on the world, and they will never regain it again.
Jeff Barr came and talked at BYU yesterday, and in the same way as Google, Amazon Web Services has/will loose control of the social impact of it’s web services.
Synthetic blood
In 2010 Intel will have a chip that will support 512 threads. Event driven programming will be the norm.
Utopia – DynamicCities presentation.
Singularity is like magic, and we (the geeks) all have understood how magic works.
In fiber-optics the next bits to come off the fiber will be cheaper than the bits currently coming off.
Government should put fiber in the ground and light it up and get out of the way and let innovation run.
The world would be very different if the AT&T breakup hadn’t require that AT&T allow any device to connect to its telephone network.
Ken Mormon is the architect of Utopia.
The Utopia project is being copied all over the place in all the western states and as far east as Virginia.
In a year to a year in a half Utopia will be joined by other markets such as Seattle.
How did DynamicCities choose where to start construction of Utopia.
I attended the utaug meeting Wednesday Evening
Great group of people showed up. In fact there wasn’t room for everyone in the small conference room in which we met.
Here are my notes from the meeting.
Asterisk Utah Users Group
Meeting
Presenter Jared Smith – Asterisk Evangelist/Hacker
* Business
1st Tuesday of every month.
SLC Public Library – provides free locations for holding meetings, not food allowed though, unless you put down a deposit and cleaning fee.
Dave Pacham in charge of a mailing list.
* Possible Future Meeting format
A 20 minute intro presentation
A 30 minute in depth presentation.
* Quick Ideas For Future Meetings
Echo debugging
Hardware/Gear review FXS, FXO, ATA’s etc
Clustering/HA
VOIP Service Providers
Presence – Dave Pacham
AGI Programming
User interfaces/ web interfaces
GXP speaker functions don’t work
- AstBill on Drupal
- PhoneCall on ??
Terminology
* What is wrong with Asterisk
- Config file channels – SIP channels and objects.
- Multi-tenanting
- call parking
- Dial plan
- Bluetooth channel
- Cheap ATA’s
- DLink, IAX 1402s 2 vs 6 extensions, 8 port devices are needed
Voicemail interface is good, but needs some TLC work.
Voicemail is low hanging fruit.
Voicemail goals -
Under maintenance – listening to the current greeting.
* Presentation
Broadband makes Asterisk.
Business Applications, Apache, Linux have completely changed businesses.
End users understands Features per Price.
Asterisk is flexibility.
Try to set up hunt groups on a via.
Read Mark Spencer’s Asterisk is everything presentation.
Telephony is suddenly something cool.
Linux telephony market in 10 years will be bigger than the Linux market.
Vonage does all it’s voicemail through Asterisk.
Conference bridging – Asterisk is cool. It isn’t perfect, but for the price you can’t beat it.
Everyday it gets better with each CVS and SVN checkin.
15 – 20k subscriptions to the Asterisk mailing list.
IRC channel
Jared’s Goals
1) To share knowledge. Knowledge doesn’t do you any good unless you share it.
Sharing makes it stronger.
2) It is a place where we can all come and grow and learn.
3) Help make Asterisk better.
We want Asterisk to be as ubiquitous as Apache.
What can Asterisk do for me.
Asterisk is a platform, not a product.
Asterisk is a tool not a solution.
How do we use and sharpen that tool, to the point where we know how to use it effectively.
Good GUI’s and documentation and even a O’Reilly book has appeared recently.
The initial learning curve isn’t as
Asterisk is flexible if you need a feature
1 – Scratch your own itch.
2 – Convince a core developer that is his itch also.
What can we do as members of the Asterisk community.
Ask questions in a smart way.
Choose the right forum. Developers are not a proxy for Goggle. Go do your own homework first.
Be quick to say thank you and slow to express anger (flame).
Fill out good bugs reports, add detail and be precise.
Help testing.
Jared’s story of how he became a Asterisk participant.
I got started with a single FXO card and a little USB FXS.
Three call centers
1.5 Mbit T1 line – 23 or 24 analog channels.
Only GSM codecs not G723 G729.
Send packets every 40ms instead of 20ms get up to 29-30 simultaneous calls.
3 to 4 10 hours day looking to increase simultaneous calls.
Plug all concurrent calls inside a single packet.
IAX Trunking.
Hence Jared learned how to work with user groups and developers.
The idea of opensource involvement and participation clicked.
In his NerdTV interview, Dave Winer states that RSS is/will be the media that we receive news.
Dave: I mean people say, “It’s only got 6 percent penetration in terms of like only 6 percent of the populace knows what it is. If that’s true, and I don’t believe it is. That’s just too high a number to believe. It’s just an amazing thing that it’s gotten so far in such a short period of time. I think it’s going to be the way people get news, and I just don’t see that there’s any other way it can work.
Okay, but that’s just news. What about knowledge? You know, have we really done anything to get knowledge onto our networks, and, no, we really haven’t figured that one out yet. The best that we’ve got are search engines, which are pretty good. I mean they’re a lot better than what we had 10 years ago. I mean if you look at the rate of progress, it’s just phenomenal what we’ve accomplished in such short period of time.
But news isn’t knowledge. How do we disseminate and find knowledge as effectively as RSS feeds disseminate news. Search engines are the beginning of this but it doesn’t work well. Sites such as AskJeeves, Answer.com, attempt to do this also but they force people to go to a specific site rather allow people to ask for knowledge to come to them. RSS allows news to come to the user rather than force the user to go to cnn.com or foxnews.com. How do we make it work for knowledge?
I think it’s a good question. What do you think?
Today we talked about Software Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, and Quality Control.
Some quick thoughts.
Employers create the wrong culture by dividing developers and testers and hiring testers with less experience and paying the less.
General Points of Good QA.
You get what you pay for and invest in QA.
In the spirit of Technometria’s motto, Engineering/Management Teams get the QA they deserve.
These are my notes from the CTO Breakfast this morning.
As usually things fly a mile a minute there, but there is a lot of information that get disseminated and a lot of learning that occurs.
Accelerating Change – Review by Scott Lemon
http://www.accelerationwatch.com/
John Smart - a series of substrate transitions.
Ray Kurszweil – says that if something doesn’t have a log curve it won’t survive, it may be an indicator of future developments, but if it doesn’t double it will be replaced.
Calculated Moors law based on electrical mechanical relays since 1900. He has abstracted all the way back to the abacus.
Law of accelerating returns, a network law that we use more powerful systems to implement more powerful systems.
Moore’s law isn’t linear in doubling it is actually
Verner Vinge – Mathematician by training, coined the term Singularity.
Asked the question, at which point, which he calls the singularity, will changes in the earth and our experience will happen faster than our senses ability to detect change.
Soft take off verses hard take off.
Soft takeoff- will we even notice when changes happen faster
Hard takeoff – we will walk into the office one morning and say wow, the world has changed.
What are the metrics to measure soft verse hard takeoffs.
Does you liver cell even know what it is a part of?
Computers cause humans to do work without any real interaction with humans.
UPS drivers are just actuators at the edge of a computer network.
Similarity to Dells server factory.
The dell server line workers and dell suppliers are driven by dells order system.
Dell’s suppliers have 90 minutes to comply with an order or dell goes with a different supplier.
Dell’s parts room consists of semi trucks from suppliers that backup to the assembly plant to be unloaded.
As one truck becomes depleted, the next truck moves into position.
Walmart consists of over 1% of China’s GNP.
We create advanced tools and use those tools to create the next generation of advanced tools.
Google has already lost control of the social impact they have on the world, and they will never regain it again.
Jeff Barr came and talked at BYU yesterday, and in the same way as Google, Amazon Web Services has/will loose control of the social impact of it’s web services.
Synthetic blood supersaturated by Oxygen.
In 2010 Intel will have a chip that will support 512 threads. Event driven programming will be the norm.
Utopia – DynamicCity presentation.
Joel Sybrowsky, Jeff Fishburn, and Ken Mormon
Singularity is like magic, and we (the geeks) all have understood how magic works.
In fiber-optics the next bits to come off the fiber will be cheaper than the bits currently coming off.
Government should put fiber in the ground and light it up and get out of the way and let innovation run.
The world would be very different if the AT&T breakup hadn’t require that AT&T allow any device to connect to its telephone network.
Ken Mormon is the architect of Utopia.
The Utopia project is being copied all over the place in all the western states and as far east as Virginia.
In a year to a year in a half Utopia will be joined by other markets such as Seattle.
How did DynamicCity choose where to start construction of Utopia?
Cities that co-signed the financial loan are the first to get deployed.
What is the governor on how fast Utopia builds out?
It is largely financial.
Competitors such as Qwest and Comcast motivated the legislature to limit the participation of cities in financially backing this deployment.
In urban areas elsewhere, trenching is a million dollars a mile, and there are seven legal negotiations per mile.
In Utah, laying fiber costs $30,000-40,000 miles per mile overhead, $130,000-160,000 per mile underground.
In the heart of Utah cities it may be as much as $300,000 per mile underground.
Manhattan, which has no dirt, pure concrete, it is going to cost at least a million a mile.
All cities and developers should be putting in conduit in all new construction area.
Underground deployment is 3 times the cost of overhead deployment but all new construction areas are deploying utilities underground.
So the cities should lay conduit in
In construction, do you buy it, lease it, or build it.
Fiber is plentiful along I-15, so Utopia leases it for long hauls.
Future topics include the importance of Q&A in projects such as Utopia.
The POTS network was/is “carrier grade”, how do we insure that Utopia is carrier grade.
Especially since the demarcation between the service providers and the “servers” they run on are so insulated and isolated from each other, especially in a network such as Utopia
Jeff Barr from Amazon did a great presentation on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
He showed how developers such as www.tvmojo.com are making a living just off Amazon commissions, by selling amazon indexed products on custom web pages.
Some other cool examples Jeff demoed.
Developers who are interested should read Jeff’s AWS blog at aws.typepad.com.
Jeff continued to explain REST and SOAP and made the interesting observation, that SOAP matches well with statically typed languages such as Java and C# while REST tends to match well with dynamic languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby. 80% of Amazon’s AWS traffic occurs over REST
Amazon also owns the Alexa web engine. If you haven’t heard of Alexa, go take a look.
Good Presentation.
I was at a family reunion last week and found out that one of my cousins has been playing around with Linux lately. It’s nice to know I’m not the only geek in the family. Learning is about sharing. I have many smart friends that have mentored and taught me almost all I know about technology. I love to teach and help others learn. My cousin was having some troubles getting his Linksys WPC11 ver. 4 wireless card to work in linux. I explained to him that ver. 4 had a different chipset than the previous WPC11 cards. I then showed him how to use ndiswrapper to use the windows driver in linux and get on the net using his wireless card. Switching chip sets and not publishing drivers was a stupid move on Linksys’ part.So my words of encouragement today are to adopt an up and coming geek and show him/her the way. There isn’t anything much more rewarding than teaching.
As a side note Damian Conway is speaking in Orem, Utah tomorrow.
Damian is one of the top Perl hackers/gurus/speakers world wide.
Come and learn.
Date: Wednesday Aug. 10, 2005
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: UVSC, Room CS 404
Robert Cringely is where I first heard about “Skype Cell Phones”. IPDrum is the company that Robert talks about. At Phil Windley’s CTO Breakfast last friday, this topic came up again. And then this morning I saw it on slashdot. Start-up slashes cost of international wireless – The Boston Globe – Boston.com – Technology – Business
Steve Gilmor has been calling Skype the next platform/Google for quite some time. This area is going to keep getting hotter. Are the telcos in trouble? Can dumping money into lobbying buy them out of this one? I don’t know.
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