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May 29, 2005

Ethymonics on Plurn

I was listening to Ethymonics on Plurn and I think I had an out of body experience (or maybe it was the jamba juice). It kind of puts you in a different world, they have an eastern feel with well produced sound.

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Trackbacks: Bye-Bye

This is dedicated to all the spammers out there. Trackbacks have been disabled. I'm not sure trackbacks are really used that much anyway anymore. They seem a bit outdated. If someone wants to continue an article or comments on another blog, go right ahead! Cheers mate...

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May 08, 2005

NYU Coral Network

Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a $50/month cable modem.

Publishing through Coral is as simple as appending a short string to the hostname of objects' URLs; a peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating caching proxies, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server. These volunteer sites that run Coral automatically replicate content as a side effect of users accessing it, improving its availability. Using modern peer-to-peer indexing techniques, Coral will efficiently find a cached object if it exists anywhere in the network, requiring that it use the origin server only to initially fetch the object once.

One of Coral's key goals is to avoid ever creating hot spots that might dissuade volunteers from running the software for fear of load spikes. It achieves this through a novel indexing abstraction we introduce called a distributed sloppy hash table (DSHT), and it creates self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information from each other to avoid communicating with more distant or heavily-loaded servers.

Coral receives funding as part of the IRIS peer-to-peer research and development project, sponsored by NSF.

A preliminary deployment of CoralCDN has been online since March 2004.

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Been Playing with PearPC

Man, was I disappointed after purchasing Apple Tiger OS X and found out PearPC will not be running Tiger in the very near future. The next best thing would be to purchase Panther and run that. I beliveve that CD is also in dmg format. Son-of-a!


 Does anyone know if the SDL.dll has to be regsrv32'd? Looks like the device drivers dont seem to load on pearpc bootup. 
 You don't need to register the DLL, no. 
 well thats good news 
 hey alex, you didn't find it! 
 the guest found it ! 
 I keep getting 'Still waiting for root device' 
 give proper credits! 
 Hmmmmmm. 
 What are you booting off of? 
 cdrom 
 I'm doing a fresh tiger install, booting off cd, with a 3gb blank hd. 
*** mmu_man has joined #PearPC 
*** blkhawk has quit (Read error: 145 (Connection timed out)) 
*** blkhawk[zzz] is now known as blkhawk 
 You can't install Tiger directly from CD/DVD. 
 its an iso 
 The only way is from a running copy of Panther. 
 You installing from Panther? 
*** prasys has joined #PearPC 
 ej are you uploading something 
 ohh, no I only have tiger.  
*** icebalm has quit (Read error: 60 (Operation timed out)) 
 Yah. That's the problem. 
 bummer.  
 Your ISO is a CD/DVD. Doesn't matter. Not directly installable. 
 no wonder

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May 06, 2005

Plurn, del.icio.us for Streaming Playlists

I came across Plurn, an excellent site for editing, categorizing and listening to playlists. The tags are fairly straightforward; create your own playlist and or tag to go with it. It also features the ability to import a webpage as a playlist.

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