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Sorry for very late reply..
Something relevant I found googling..

http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002646. html

You can probably find more by googling..

Remember they were included in Cairo in some form in 1995. Vaporware as usually described, is announcing something that don't exist in the hope of warding off the opposition from entering the market and also with the full knowlege that such feetures are not implementable in a realistic timeframe. Else why haven't we seen the pre-announced features even now in late 2006.

"The top level will .. [be] the Cairo desktop itself .. Cairo's Object File System (OFS) makes the whole hard disk a single huge docfile that exposes its internal objects to the user"

"In Daytona's successor, Cairo, OLE structured storage will be able to attach to, and extend, the file system",

"Microsoft's future object-oriented file system for Windows NT (see the sidebar "A Peek at OFS"). Ultimately, we could be looking at a distributed file system based on this technology .. Almost all this technology is expected to converge in Cairo"

"Object File System Lets you create a pseudodirectory that unifies local, network, and Internet files"

http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002430. html

was Re:Better Windows history here...

... while he himself was 'stealing' other people's code listings by dumpster diving for BASIC listings. His entire empire (and any moral highground he claims to have) is built on sand.

http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002646. html

The research i've been doing in P2P networks (due to my involvement in the okopipi project) has shocked me. In file sharing, we're living in the STONE AGE. Yes, even with bittorrent (which depends on centralized servers, and there's practically no privacy. And anonymous bittorrent like mutorrent is closed source, who knows if they got a backdoor in there).

EDonkey uses MD4 for hashing, it depends on central servers, and has no anonymity at all. And without mentioning queue # 4892 for a popular file.

Unfortunately for filesharers, file sharing networks based on modern P2P architectures is very scarse. The supernodes / ultrapeers approach is obsolete, easy to disrupt both denial of service and eavesdropping attacks.

The future of P2P is Overlay Networks.

From an architectural point of view, I would recommend the KAD p2p network, which bases its architecture on the relatively-new kadelmia network (See Technical paper on Kadlemia, 2002).

Even then, Kadelmia could be improved because it's based on a Pastry network topology - compared to other topologies like De Bruijn Graphs, proposed by a recent paper in 2003.

And more research is being done dealing with load balancing, anonymity, trust, reputation, etc.

As I said, current peer to peer networks are in the stone age. Someone needs to design a file sharing network based on the latest research, and publish it.

a rewritten script. of course i wouldn't want to see that made necessarily :)

Why do people bitch and complain that the Matrix was too much gobbledygook (translation: they didn't understand, and hate movies that challenge them to think about it anywhere beyond the concession stand on their way out), then act like LotR is this untouchable masterpiece?

That's because the two Matrix sequels had most of us thinking about all the gigantic plot holes that the LotR books and movies didn't have.

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