Bram Cohen (Bittorrent creator) has written a piece on his blog in which he publishes his thoughts to Microsofts supposed bittorrent replacement, Avalanche. As you can probably guess, he’s less than enthousiastic: One thing badly missing from this paper is back-of-the-envelope calculations about all of the work necessary to implement error correction. Potential problems are [...]
Entries from June 21st, 2005
Microsoft Developing Alternative To Bittorrent
June 21st, 2005 · 1 Comment · Bittorrent, Microsoft
Once again Microsoft shows that it can’t keep it’s fat grubby fingers off something good and pure: Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, UK, are developing their own peer-to-peer file-sharing software. Codenamed Avalanche, the program makes it easy to share content by dividing files such as software, audio or video, into chunks, much like BitTorrent. Using “network [...]
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Tuesdays With Saddam
June 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Middle East
The BBC has an interesting article on a GQ Magazine interview with one of Saddam Husseins guards: He described the former leader’s daily routine of toilet visits, mealtimes, recreation and regular medical check-ups. In his cell there was a bed, a toilet, a chair, a towel, some books and a prayer rug. The former leader [...]
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Convert That Laptop Into A Walltop!
June 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, Mobiles & Gadgets
GRYNX has written a howto on making good use of that old disfunctional laptop that’s just lying around: Welcome to my guide on how to convert a laptop into a walltop (that is what is hanging in the middle frame). First, let’s clear out the expression walltop. It’s comes simply from a laptop that is [...]
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Why Is Retro Computing Coming Back?
June 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Computers In General, Cool Geeky Stuff
The new Scientist has an interesting article on why retro computing is becoming so popular these days: REMEMBER your first time, when you sat in front of a keyboard and monochrome screen and joined a brave new world? You may have been playing Pong or Manic Miner, or carefully crafting your first lines of code. [...]
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Google Up – How Google Ranks Your Site
June 16th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Google
Buzzle.com has written a greate article on how google ranks pages submitted to it. How do they come by this information you may ask? It’s all in a recent patent Google filed: How many years did you register your domain name for? If it’s only one then that’s a point against you in Googles eyes. [...]
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DivX 6 Released
June 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Computers In General
BetaNews reports that DIVX 6 has just been released: DivX on Wednesday unleashed version 6 of its digital video platform, which enables the creation and playback of highly compressed media files. The company also introduced the DivX Media Format, which standardizes DivX content using the .divx extension and adds the same interactive capabilities found in [...]
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Who Could Be Next On Googles Shopping List?
June 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Google
Kuro5hin has written a cool article on who they think Google may acquire next: Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google’s growing subsidiary menagerie? To help predict, I will first take a look at [...]
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Build Your Own $30 Air Conditioner
June 14th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
I’m sure this little hack will come in very handy for all the people trying to keep cool on a budget this summer. Some guy has figured out how to make an air conditioner on the cheap, and has written a simple HOWTO on how to do it: Here’s the basic setup. The garbage can [...]
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Transmit TV With Your VGA Card!
June 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, TV
In what must be one of the coolest hacks I’ve seen so far this year, someone has written a howto on transmitting TV with your VGA card: How does it work ? Every VGA card contains high speed Digital to Analog Converters (DACs), one for each Red, Blue and Green component. Here we use only [...]
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