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  1. You define science... ? by xiphoris · · Score: 1 · on Computer Science as a Major and as a Career

    Science: Big-O analysis, graph theory, computability evaluation
    Not Science: Distributed systems design, system architecture

    Tell that to this guy getting his PhD in it; his distributed project FeedTree has been previously featured on Slashdot.

    Something doesn't stop being science just because you say so. Have you forgotten Google's roots?

  2. Re:Does the client work on FreeBSD? by dsandler · · Score: 1 · on Faster Feeds Using FeedTree Peer-To-Peer

    The client and publisher both run on any system with the Sun Java runtime, 1.4.2 or newer. (The networking code in Pastry requires Sun's NIO implementation.) As for the publisher helper scripts, the configurator is Python, and the run control scripts are Bourne shell.

    In other words, It Ought To Work(TM) out of the box on FBSD. If not, file a ticket.

  3. Re:License Terms? by 187807 · · Score: 0 · on Faster Feeds Using FeedTree Peer-To-Peer

    This?

  4. Re:Feed Reader by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Faster Feeds Using FeedTree Peer-To-Peer

    NewsFire has a slick, uncluttered interface, and can be configured to poll FeedTree very frequently. NetNewsWire has been around a bit longer and is quite popular, but its minimum refresh interval is 30 min.

  5. Ask, and ye shall receive (by multicast) by dsandler · · Score: 3, Interesting · on The Importance of RSS
    RSS is pretty crappy, as it is a point-to-point protocol. What would be good would be if websites sent out multicasts when an update occured, as then all interested parties could monitor for that and we wouldn't get system overloads.
    Right on.

    We're working on exactly that here at Rice. FeedTree (paper) is a newsfeed distribution system, built atop the self-organizing Pastry overlay and the Scribe multicast algorithm. Scribe is self-organizing and low-maintenance; everyone shares the load of distributing new bits of news (i.e. no polling stress at the publisher), and it all happens in a timely fashion (i.e. no polling delay at the client).

    We're working on a public (open-source) beta. Check back soon.