BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. As you can deduce from my postings, I am very fond of people. I believe that every person has a unique story to tell, and I want to hear all of them. I am also a true blue dyed in the wool Greenpeace card carrying environmentalist who happens to believe […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In a quiet moment of sharing, Jonathon said the following in a post today: Though I don’t believe in regrets, I have just one: that I don’t have a child. All my closest friends have children and every time they invite me to their homes, I feel a sense of gratitude that […]
Julian started a Usenet thread at comp.distributed (viewable at Google) about the Golden Gateway — how do you find the first node in a P2P network? Without any reliance on any centralized service? Viewing the responses, there is an assumption that entry points have to be known at some point — through a friend or a server or some other […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting doings today with the release of the new Gnutella-based Morpheus preview. For instance, check out the MeFi thread discussing the results. Seems that Gnutella might be feeling the strain just a tad. Still, if Gnutella can handle the load, good on it.
What is going to be the future of connectivity? What is the Brave New World of the Internet going to be? Is it going to be a system of services linked together through one centralized (but benevolent) agency? Need a service? Want to sell a service? Check into the Agency, the Agency will take care […]