Axe Versus Laptop

I presented Tahoe-LAFS ( http://allmyata.org ) at CodeCon last weekend. CodeCon's prime directive is that every presentation has to have a live demo of working code, and that the presenter has to be an author of that code.

For my demo, I leaned an axe against the speaker's podium, strapped safety goggles around my neck, and then I showed three laptops on stage, each running a Tahoe node, and then uploaded a movie file to the Tahoe grid made up of those three nodes. (This means the file gets automatically encrypted, digitally signed, and erasure-coded.) Then I explained that after uploading your movie to the Tahoe grid, you might turn off your Tahoe node and go away. And while you are gone, something BAD might happen...

I've also embedded this video into my blog:

http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm...

(My blog is also hosted on Tahoe, the Axe-Tolerant Storage System.)

Thanks to Jake Appelbaum for the video.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Tahoe-LAFS
• Tahoe
• allmydata
• CodeCon
• Axe
• Laptop

[Nimrod664]

BATTLE CRY!!!

[stockrt]

Well done Zooko!

[gpshead]

yay, glad it was recorded!

[blmurch]

You are one crazy mofo! That's awesome and glad that the software demo worked. Also, so glad Jake filmed this and it's funny to hear Andy's distinctive laugh. Will show to Kragen soon.