BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I popped over to bumr for a minute and came face to face with this Visual C++ code. Whoa! Work! And yes, as noted in the comments, _bstr_t and _variant_t are darn handy. Almost make VC++ palatable at times. The problem with Microsoft’s Visual products isn’t that they aren’t powerful. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I checked out Circle as well as Chord as P2P networks. These are excellent efforts and should be note to anyone who is interested in P2P systems. As with KaZaA, much of the P2P cloud is transient and located on the peers themselves. The folks at Userland should look at how this can be […]
NJ Meryl has been having some interesting challenges accessing a specific web site so she tried accessing it using an older browser – Netscape 3.x to be exact. Well, as she found out, Burningbird breaks with Netscape 3.x. My reaction? No offense to the world, but I could give a flying squirrel (this is a polite […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In reference to the last posting, Julian mentioned that perhaps Kazaa and it’s supernodes have more of an aluminum core because the cloud that supports the Kazaa P2P network is still mallable — the Supernodes that provide the cloud services are fluid and can change as well as go offline with […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A true P2P cloud does not have a core of iron. By this I mean that there can be no static IP or server providing the gateway or facilitating the communication between nodes within a distributed application. You can argue this one with me for years and you won’t convince […]