Posted by michael on Thursday June 12, @09:04PM
from the always-on-always-online dept.
obiwan2u writes "ACM's Queue magazine has a moderately dense article describing how new intelligent radios may free up under-utilized spectrum bandwidth, possibly providing solutions to the last mile bottleneck."

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1823257&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=193

An anonymous reader writes BitTorrent is the new latest/greatest P2P app to come and one of the MP3 rags has published a guide to it. Shareaza has already started to implement support for it, though support is in the early stages. The ruling is blazing fast downloads, but the difficulty of finding .tor files and other issues shows it is still a work in progress with strong niche potential. Information to host files on BT can be found here. It remains to be seen if Bit Torrent can outlive P2Ps bad rep since it is a really useful application.

What a developer needs to know to get started

Level: Introductory

Thomas Myer (tom@tripledogdaremedia.com)
Information Architect, Triple Dog Dare Media
May 2003

        Grid computing is the "next big thing," and this article's goal is to provide a "10,000-foot view" of key concepts. This article relates many Grid computing concepts to known quantities for developers, such as object-oriented programming, XML, and Web services. The author offers a reading list of white papers, articles, and books where you can find out more about Grid computing.

First came the mainframes: huge hulking computational devices that lived in the rarefied atmospheres of big corporate and university labs, attended to by a secluded priesthood of engineers. Later came the desktop machines, mini- and microcomputers that gave computing power to an ever-expanding group of people at work and home.

Then came the client-server and networking technologies and protocols to hook all these machines together and allow them to communicate. Fast on the heels of all that came the Internet, which expanded our ability to communicate and share files and data with any networked machine on the planet.

Now we're turning the corner on the next big thing: Grid computing, and it has as much potential for changing the way we do business as the Internet did. You're probably already familiar with technologies such as Web services, XML, and object-oriented programming. Grid computing is a lot like these, if only conceptually.

This article shows you how this emerging technology borrows from past technical concepts -- it won't take much for you to see the parallels between the development of Grid computing with that of Web services, XML, and other technical arenas. You'll also see how Grid services and the very framework it all rests on is very much like object-oriented programming.

OSCOM is an international, not-for-profit organization dedicated to Open Source Content Management.

The goal is to bring together as many great brains as possible to build a network and grow the community of open source content management.

We want to show the world that there are already great and easy-to-use open source content management solutions out there.

oscom

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NARA Goes Online Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday April 05, @10:27AM
from the easily-browsable-pasts dept.
TeachingMachines writes "NARA, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, has gone online. NARA's self-described mission is 'to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience.' A very relevant site for the times, with transcripts and images of the most politically important documents of the United States. Included are the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. Check out the list of available documents. The site is pretty large, with some incredible exhibits, and even an image of the original Magna Carta. Definitely worth a look."

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Self-Assembling Networks Posted by michael on Thursday March 27, @08:04AM
from the sysadmins-out-of-a-job dept.
prostoalex writes "Researchers from Humboldt University found a way to build self-assembling networks. By emulating the behavior of ants and insects the team, which is led by Frank Schweitzer, demonstrated a simulation where agent-based architecture was able to quickly assemble itself into a network and quickly react to a broken link or damages. Schweitzer's research papers are available off his personal Web site. The scientific paper referred in the original article, Self-Assembling of Networks in an Agent-Based Model is available off Cornell server."

8.6 GB Internet? Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday March 22, @06:48PM
from the sure-why-not dept.
prostoalex writes "Caltech computer scientists announced the protocol, capable of delivering 8,609 Mbps over the Internet, using 10 simultaneous flows of data. The research project was conducted in partnership with CERN, DataTAG, StarLight, Cisco, and Level 3. The practical applications, according to the press release, is ability 'to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds'. There is a number of papers and scientific publications available."

Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor
The InternetPosted by timothy on Thursday February 13, @02:24PM
from the at-once-separate-and-the-same dept.
infractor writes "Wired has an article about a wireless project delivering free broadband to a rural community. Using Linux based devices called meshboxes from Locustworld, they've created a local mesh network. More detail in this article. With Wi-Fi friendly ISPs talking about micro-ISP deals for wireless sharers this could be the accelerator UK broadband has been waiting for." Last year we mentioned the MeshAP-05, a bootable CD which "turns a single board computer or laptop into a mesh node and access point," since updated to MeshAP-06. Update: 02/13 19:52 GMT by T: I see from comments that -08 is actually the current version of MeshAP, with -09 soon. Thanks.

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday January 25, @11:28AM
from the stuff-to-read dept.
Sky Lemon writes "An interview with Jaron Lanier on Sun's java site site discusses phenotropic' development versus our existing set of software paradigms. According to Jaron, the 'real difference between the current idea of software, which is protocol adherence, and the idea [he is] discussing, pattern recognition, has to do with the kinds of errors we're creating' and if 'we don't find a different way of thinking about and creating software, we will not be writing programs bigger than about 10 million lines of code no matter how fast our processors become.'"

Slashdot.org link

An un-named reader asks: "For various reasons, I've been out of the workforce and IT industry since 2000, before which I was employed as an NT-based sysadmin at a large Canadian company. After moving to NYC I found the market flat and got into other work for a while. Now I find myself wanting to get back into IT professionally, but my resume is getting no nibbles at all (over 800 resumes submitted in the last year or so). As a result, I decided to take some training courses to get me back up to speed not just in the W-Intel world, but give me some usable knowledge of Solaris, a CCNA and Checkpoint. Here's where things bogged down. Are there any decent schools out there who have good facilities, good instructors and do more than 'teach-to-the-exams?"

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/2123243&mode=thread&tid=163