... The interesting difference is in the tristero analogy. We're all used to open communities on the ultramassive WAN of the internet. Pynchon's secret...
Lucas Gonze
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Jun 1, 2003 9:21 pm
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Dirty Den returns to Albert Square in Spetember The most useful software, mp3 albums, audio books, pc tutorials, manuals &
ebooks - all free for download. ...
I've gotten a bunch of queries about WASTE, generally with a focus on user problems like how to get a connection or FAQ issues like how to build on OS X. To...
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Jun 4, 2003 1:10 pm
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... It's not entirely clear that it was spin, since he may have a 'work for hire' contract, meaning he would not have been authorized to release the code even...
... From reading the statement on the WASTE site, it sounds like Nullsoft didn't want WASTE released. Obviously that's not the case; AOL didn't want WASTE ...
Dear Decentralizers, All the noise about online communities, social software, adhocracy, etc. seems to dance with the Internet-powered fluidity with which...
Nullsoft is part of AOL's dot-com hangover. It has no purpose there....
Lucas Gonze
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Jun 5, 2003 9:57 pm
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Darrin, What sort of evolution do you mean? Do you mean this sort of thing? http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm Does the testable outcome have...
The Rainbow Connection http://www.algroup.co.uk/wpb/rainconn.htm Plus the most useful software, mp3 albums, audio books, pc tutorials,
manuals & ebooks - all...
Cefn, I'm wondering how social software might be tuned to be results oriented. I appreciate your questions. The following is my pass at answering. Where online...
... This is a very interesting thread. Solving "real world" problems with ad hoc or evolved networks sounds beautiful. maybe a first problem could be the...
http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/gupta.html Abstract: Current peer-to-peer lookup algorithms have been designed with the assumption that routing...
This page provides a little application for testing your NAT's compatibility with P2P applications. You can then submit your results to add to a P2P NAT...
Justin Chapweske
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Jun 29, 2003 3:03 pm
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Does anybody know of data on market share between the larger filesharing networks? I'm specifically interested in Gnutella, FastTrack, eDonkey, and...
Lucas Gonze
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Jun 30, 2003 9:10 pm
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Lucas You could try the data at http://www.slyck.com which gives a snapshot of the number of users on the various p2p file-sharing networks. Cefn ...
www.slyck.com (not sure how reliable data is) -Adriana...
Adriana Iamnitchi
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Jul 1, 2003 1:25 pm
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BigChampagne would probably have the data, but they're tainted by commercial needs. Their methods aren't publically documented, which makes them questionable,...
Lucas Gonze
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Jul 1, 2003 2:04 pm
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Dear P2Pers, Apologies if you get this more than once. I thought you may be interested in the launch of the Kendra Catalogue Trial... Just back from...
The P2P2003 List of accepted regular papers is full of wonderful things: http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/p2p/p2p2003/acceptedpapers.shtml Check out the...
Lucas Gonze
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Jul 1, 2003 11:47 pm
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Dear Colleagues: On behalf of the Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, Australia, I am pleased to inform you that we have released the next-version...
Dear Rajkumar, What's always kept me away from formal grids, and I suspect has kept others away as well, is lack of public access to existing grids. It's ...
Lucas Gonze
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Jul 2, 2003 2:30 pm
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Hi Lucas: It is all to do with the way Grid technologies are developed. Although Grid resources (PCs/WSs/Clusters etc.) are accessible via the Internet, but...
Hi Lucas, More p2p reputation related items at AP2PC 2003: http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/ Yao Wang & Julita Vassileva Bayesian Network Trust Model in Peer-to-Peer...
Much interesting stuff, Sam. I notice one item which you didn't forward: "P2P MetaData Search Layers", your own talk. Can you give a preview? As an aside, it...
Lucas Gonze
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Jul 4, 2003 3:25 pm
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Database pioneer Jim Gray explains why all the "distributed computing" startups from 2001 failed: it simply isn't economical. One thing he doesn't address in...