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Andrew Niemantsverdriet from Rocky Mountain College gave a presentation entitled, "Proxmox to Virtualize Infrastructure" at Linuxfest Northwest 2009 in Bellingham, WA. A PDF of his slides has been added as an attachment.

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Jakob Perry from Asemblon, Inc. gave a presentation entitled, "SoGO / Postfix / LDAP / Cyrus / Maia: A real and free Exchange killer" at the Linuxfest Northwest 2009 conference in Bellingham, WA.

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Tom Eastep gave a presentation entitled, "Getting Started with IPv6" at the Linuxfest Northwest 2009 conference in Bellingham, WA. Unfortunately my video camera battery died with about 10 minutes left of his presentation... so the last 10 minutes are missing. Sorry.

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I gave a presentation entitled, "OpenVZ Project Update" at Linuxfest Northwest 2009 in Bellingham, WA. I have added a PDF of my slides as an attachment.

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Keith Lofstrom of Server-sky.com gave a presentation entitled, "Sky Server: Computation and Data Centers in Orbit" at Linuxfest Northwest 2009 in Bellingham, WA.

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Monty Widenius of Monty Program Ab gave a presentation entitled, "Ask Monty and Black Vodka" at Linuxfest Northest 2009.

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Satyen Choudhury from Amazon Web Services gave the following presentation entitled, "Get a server up and running in less than 10 minutes using AWS Management Console" at Linuxfest Northwest 2009 in Bellingham, WA.

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http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1430853

Jon "maddog" Hall gave a presentation entitled, "How Free and Open Source Software will have World Domination" at Linuxfest Northwest 2009 in Bellingham, WA. Please note that they started recording a bit too early and the presentation doesn't actually start until about 8 minutes in.

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Sansa ClipI have always wanted a good quality audio player that works well with Linux and plays Ogg Vorbis files. Even though the Sansa Clip was originally released in 2007, I somehow missed it. The gang on The Linux Link Tech Show mentioned the Sandisk Sansa Clip as being an affordable, quality portable audio player that worked well with Linux so I decided to give it a shot. I did a little bargain hunting online and found a refurbished 1GB unit for $18.95 plus shipping so I thought it was hard to go wrong for that price. The unit arrived three days ago and I spent all weekend using it.

All of the reviews I'd come across (including a few video reviews) gave it high marks. The latest firmware available for it allows for playback of .ogg (Ogg Vorbis) and .flac (Free Loseless Audio Codec) in addition to .mp3, .wav, .wma and Audible.com DRMed audiobooks. It DOES NOT play .m4a (AAC) format. I prefer to use formats that are not patent encumbered so the vast majority of my music is in .ogg/.oga format.

Yeah, this is Microsoft Windows related, but it doesn't hurt the share the info since so many of us work in mixed environments.

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