Day 3 of OSDI was mostly "all distributed." Ended at around noon, and then continued as HotDep. It had some interesting papers and did put forth many interesting ideas. Chunkfs paper was presented by Val, and was well received. The intention of HotDep was to get the ideas out for discussion and was achieved pretty satisfactorily.

During long lunch, lasting ore than 90 minutes, I managed to wander around the Seattle downtown. The downtown full of steep roads, is nothing but ridiculously expensive. But even though for one shop I had to go beyond window shopping to realize that its sometimes good to skip lunch. It was a grand piano shop.
One (master) piece that I was looking at was made early in the century and was brought from New York. The shop attendant, with the coat and bow attire just like the pianist ready to play in an concert, explained the history of that piano in brief. He, himself, was a great pianist. His fingures just danced on the keys creating pleasant sound echoing throughout the grand shop. I didn't tried to play it myself, respecting the age-old piano and the attendant's piano skills (and his ears too ;)). It was for some $ 84K odd.

OSDI was fun! Operating systems researh is hot as always, and Linux rocks! Its baby of every OS researcher now, its everyone's tools, everyone's testbed. Plenty to takeaway from OSDI and HotDep! Thanks to USENIX.