BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave is referencing his Full Peer again. I like the concept of peers being able to link and serve as each other’s cloud. To me this is true distributed computing. However, a “peer” that’s guaranteed to be up 24 hours a day isn’t a true peer — it becomes a server. […]
Dave’s looking for a definition for a full peer. I’ve never heard of the term “full peer”, and the qualification about being connected 24 hours doesn’t necessarily fit within a P2P (peer-to-peer) environment. In P2P, a peer both provides and consumes services. A group of peers can then provide and consume services to and from each other […]
Title: Smoke: An Infrastructure supporting Distributed Peer Services Length: 60 minutes Focus of Talk: Technical/Tutorial Subject Matter: Infrastructure/Distributed Computation Abstract The sale of large scale control systems — such as those used with mass transit systems or to control multi-national pipelines — often requires a marketing and engineering effort that demands the input of several different people, many of […]
Recovered from Wayback Machine. Australia’s been in the news before about Net censorship legislation, but the South Australian Parliament may have gone a little extreme even for this Net-conservative country. A bill introduced in November would make it illegal for content providers to post material that is considered “objectionable viewing material” for children. What’s objectionable […]
Originally published at O’Reilly Australia’s been in the news before about Net censorship legislation, but the South Australian Parliament may have gone a little extreme even for this Net-conservative country. A bill introduced in November would make it illegal for content providers to post material that is considered “objectionable viewing material” for children. What’s objectionable […]