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Archive for October, 2005

A year at Eclipse

Posted in Uncategorized on October 18th, 2005 | 3 Comments »

Eighteen days ago I celebrated one year as webmaster@eclipse.org. What better way to reflect on my experience here at Eclipse than by looking at our bandwidth usage over the last year:
(There’s a picture here. If you don’t see it, click my post)
1. Moving the download servers from the IBM facility to Magma. Within seconds of [...]

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Mirror, mirror on the … list

Posted in Uncategorized on October 7th, 2005 | 5 Comments »

I got a message from one of our mirrors this morning:
I’m disabling I-* and R-* [builds]. September was the 2nd month at over 7TB transfer, which is significantly over my transfer limit. I’ll continue to mirror S-* [builds].
Was fun while it lasted… certainly the biggest webalizer numbers I’ve ever seen.
Seven Terabytes. 7,168 gigabytes. Seven million [...]

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Online help and docs

Posted in Uncategorized on October 5th, 2005 | No Comments »

Eclipse.org currently runs an Infocenter help at http://help.eclipse.org/help31/ but it’s only for the Platform projects (SDK, PDE, etc). Because it’s running Eclipse, I have the ability of dropping in documentation plugins from other eclipse.org projects, such as Birt (which I added to the above Infocenter, just for fun).
Should all eclipse.org projects jump in to host [...]

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