Since XScale uses the ARM ISA and Linux already supports ARM, I would assume only minor changes (drivers and model-specific stuff) are needed. But I can't resist asking anyway.
This article calls it the download failure problem. Basically, whenever I try to download something from Napster or Gnutella, it either times out or it comes in at less than 1 K/s and then times out halfway through. These problems don't happen nearly as often with Mojo Nation.
Even ignoring all the stuff about freeloaders and economics, Mojo Nation solves other problems, too.
The article mentions that Mojo Nation has already solved the largest problem that plagues Gnutella (and Napster in my experience), so why keep Gnutella on life support? Why not just switch to Mojo Nation?
I think Orange still sells them, and Sun makes one for their workstations. ("See, this Sun *does* run Windows!")
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It looks like Quicktime for Linux also doesn't support H.263 and I didn't see anything about watching streams, so it's probably irrelevant to this discussion.
You'll need to re-compress that video into a smaller format (unless you have one heck of a network). I don't know why NetMeeting doesn't support it; do you have a VfW capture driver for it? If so, any stream broadcasting app should work.
If you are lucky, you can get ~ 6 Mbps downstream on ADSL, so I guess you could watch 3 different channels. Better watch out if you have 4 TVs, though.
Yes, there is an included PDF viewer, although it appears to only support a subset of PDF (some files just appear as a bunch of boxes). As for corrupt PDFs, feel free to send me one and I'll let you know what happens.:-)
I agree that "cycle-borrowing" apps are unlikely to be profitable, but there's a lot more out there. In particular, I think P2P content-distribution networks like Freenet and Mojo Nation have the potential to save lots of money.
MusicBrainz aims to be an RDF schema for all kinds of music metadata, complete with unique identifiers for tracks, artists, albums, etc. It solves the "various artists" problem that tends to plague other systems. The main thing I don't like about it is the fact that it uses a custom protocol and query language, which shouldn't really be necessary since RDF is RDF is RDF.
...but it's that last 10% that gets tricky. In particular, I could (theoretically, since OceanStore doesn't exist yet) upload some data into the OceanStore and as long as I keep paying my bill, that data will be available forever. If I upload some data into Mojo Nation, it might be gone tomorrow. One reason why OceanStore is taking longer to develop is because it attempts to provide stronger assurances.
Those "small number of servers with huge bandwidth" are owned by some company with which you would have a contract requiring them to do The Right Thing. So if they screw it up, just sue.
You are right that OceanStore is not fully distributed, but so what? It seems like it can actually provide stonger guarantees than e.g. Freenet.
Sorenson Media, makers of the eponymous proprietary video codec that is included in recent versions of QuickTime. A lot of alternative OS users are annoyed that there's no version of Sorenson for their favorite platform.
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Since XScale uses the ARM ISA and Linux already supports ARM, I would assume only minor changes (drivers and model-specific stuff) are needed. But I can't resist asking anyway.
This article calls it the download failure problem. Basically, whenever I try to download something from Napster or Gnutella, it either times out or it comes in at less than 1 K/s and then times out halfway through. These problems don't happen nearly as often with Mojo Nation.
Even ignoring all the stuff about freeloaders and economics, Mojo Nation solves other problems, too.
The article mentions that Mojo Nation has already solved the largest problem that plagues Gnutella (and Napster in my experience), so why keep Gnutella on life support? Why not just switch to Mojo Nation?
It's probably a better tradeoff to just use a software emulator like FX!32 or Dynamo.
I think Orange still sells them, and Sun makes one for their workstations. ("See, this Sun *does* run Windows!")
It looks like Quicktime for Linux also doesn't support H.263 and I didn't see anything about watching streams, so it's probably irrelevant to this discussion.
Looks like the first part of my post got mangled, I said "It might be possible to use..."
5{o be possible to use vic or the Java Media Framework with the H.263 codec instead of Sorenson Broadcaster.
You'll need to re-compress that video into a smaller format (unless you have one heck of a network). I don't know why NetMeeting doesn't support it; do you have a VfW capture driver for it? If so, any stream broadcasting app should work.
Because Red Hat or Turbolinux won't hold your hand while you install PowerPC Linux.
Because Oracle isn't available for PowerPC Linux. (OK, so I didn't check, but I'm guessing it isn't.)
etc.
The big-business world is extremely conservative.
If you are lucky, you can get ~ 6 Mbps downstream on ADSL, so I guess you could watch 3 different channels. Better watch out if you have 4 TVs, though.
Yes, there is an included PDF viewer, although it appears to only support a subset of PDF (some files just appear as a bunch of boxes). As for corrupt PDFs, feel free to send me one and I'll let you know what happens. :-)
I agree that "cycle-borrowing" apps are unlikely to be profitable, but there's a lot more out there. In particular, I think P2P content-distribution networks like Freenet and Mojo Nation have the potential to save lots of money.
MusicBrainz aims to be an RDF schema for all kinds of music metadata, complete with unique identifiers for tracks, artists, albums, etc. It solves the "various artists" problem that tends to plague other systems. The main thing I don't like about it is the fact that it uses a custom protocol and query language, which shouldn't really be necessary since RDF is RDF is RDF.
You might want to read the story again; the Sun X1 holds 2 drives, and the Cobalt RaQ XTR holds 4 drives.
...but it's that last 10% that gets tricky. In particular, I could (theoretically, since OceanStore doesn't exist yet) upload some data into the OceanStore and as long as I keep paying my bill, that data will be available forever. If I upload some data into Mojo Nation, it might be gone tomorrow. One reason why OceanStore is taking longer to develop is because it attempts to provide stronger assurances.
Those "small number of servers with huge bandwidth" are owned by some company with which you would have a contract requiring them to do The Right Thing. So if they screw it up, just sue.
You are right that OceanStore is not fully distributed, but so what? It seems like it can actually provide stonger guarantees than e.g. Freenet.
Yes there are SDRAM chipsets for the PIII too, but a server would use the highest-end it could go, supposedly.
Exactly right. The highest-end PIII chipset is the ServerWorks ServerSet III, which uses SDRAM.
I imagine that in the future there will be a version that supports the P4 bus and DDR SDRAM.
3ivX is an implementation of MPEG-4, which is covered by more patents than you can shake a stick at.
AFAIK, the important parts of MPEG-4 are final.
A zillion companies have announced that they will be supporting it; the latest set is the Internet Streaming Media Alliance.
Sorenson Media, makers of the eponymous proprietary video codec that is included in recent versions of QuickTime. A lot of alternative OS users are annoyed that there's no version of Sorenson for their favorite platform.
If you were going to write a codec for Mac OS, why not use QuickTime?
That link might be out of date; recently Stux has mentioned that patent royalties on the encoder might prevent it from being distributed gratis.
I'm curious as to what features ... will seperate it from DivX
3ivX is standards-compliant; DivX is not.
3ivX might become open source; DivX will never be.
wouldn't it just make sense to approach the DivX people and see if they are interested in revising the codec?
The DivX people don't even have the source to DivX; how are they supposed to revise it?
Heroine Virtual has an open source MPEG-2 encoder.