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Peer-to-Peer for Academia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gnutella-ate-my-homework dept.

Andy Oram has a good speech online about peer-to-peer and universities. He discusses a variety of possible research topics under the p2p umbrella and urges university administrators to promote this instead of squashing it.

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. FT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First toast

    -DFW (not logged in, damnit, sorry...)

  3. damn it by neal+n+bob · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    2 minute posting ban screwed me out of a first post.

    shouldn't this article be called queer-to-queer since it is on /.

    first dead penis bird

    1. Re:damn it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Neal'n'Bob?

      Are you like a queer or something?

      Must be because you've linked to Hillary's Senate page. Goddamn Liberals.

  4. Mexicans really suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stupid beaners need to learn some manners man. Damn welfare losers.

    1. Re:Mexicans really suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Yeah.

      Too bad you have to deal with Mexicans themselves to get some. Having to buy one's pot from a crazy Mexican pot pusher jacked up on meth can be... well, a scary experience.

    2. Re:Mexicans really suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ahhhh, diddums, did the nasty Mexican fwighten you? Poor sweetie, go suck your thumb and cry.

  5. Re:Article mentions Bandwidth issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please, please, please tell me that was a troll. If it wasn't, I am very sorry for you.

  6. University of Miami by Sase · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For your information, here at UM, It's not discouraged. However, I've noticed a few things while here.

    This year @ UM, they dropped each port down to 10mbps in the dorm rooms. They also put a cap on the lines at 5mbps

    Interestingly enough, this year they have put everything behind a NAT/Proxy. This has prooved to be somewhat of a problem.
    Supposedly the reason behind this move was as follows:
    1. Someone set up a server and leased multiple IP's in their dorm room, and hosted porn sites. I have yet to figure out how this person got an authority on DNS, but that information we don't know.
    2. Many people were setting up FTP's to serve multiple clients.

    It wasn't the peertopeer programs that did it, it was those who actually took advantage of our non locked down network. It was nice then, those who knew the possibilities, could use it as they felt necessary, while not taking advantage of it. But, they decided to take advantage of the system and flood the line with unnecessary bandwidth. Thus ruining it for all of us.

    Thus, everything was put behind a proxy/NAT. Now, the connection in the dorms *suck* because they aren't doing it properly. I'm loosing like 30-50% of all packets sent out, within the campus network. Their servers pipe'ing all the traffic must be bogged down here at the U.

    I did notice however (when performance wasn't varying from 0kbps to 3mbps, mostly towards the lower end..) that in the beginning of the year ports that Napster, and other programs use were blocked, and that wasn't too nice. I wound up using my own Proxy on one of my servers, off site.

    The point is, that I think they won't be banning these things all together, but many providers will be implimenting strategies to imply discouragement of these services. IE. The implimentation of QoS and limiting everyone. Or, you will see more active flaging of people who use lots of bandwidth quite frequently.

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    Sase
    "It's the opposite of that."
  7. Re:Article mentions Bandwidth issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The net is like a brain

    All you ever find on the net is pron

    All I ever think about is pron

    !!!

  8. dropouts my ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Sounds a lot like whining by an envious IT blue-collar worker drone who thinks it's unfair that smarter and more educated people who even know how to socialise and take care of their personal hygiene get paid more.

    I'm sick of this "education means nothing" bullshit. If it makes you feel better to brag about how little education you have, do it somewhere else.

    1. Re:dropouts my ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No you're not, you're a 15-year-old thinking he's cooler than all his friends trolling on daddy's computer. Shouldn't you get outside or something? The weather's nice, but not for much longer, I'm sure you have reports or something you could be working on.

  9. mod parent to the moon by sporkulum · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's commentary like this that makes slashdot helpful rather than a waste of time.

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    semper ubi sub ubi
  10. Re:Article mentions Bandwidth issues by underpaidISPtech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gotta love that moderation system. Just how the hell did that get modded as troll?!?

    OTOH Thank you to those who pointed out my silly pop science reference to the "10% of our brains" thing, I'm obviously only using 10% of mine for bothering to post here at all. I swear it seems like some kiddie has /. by the balls and unlimited mod points at times.

    NOW you can mod me down you slimey fuck.