From the article, the section on P2P market share, it shows that the majority of Singaporeans use BitTorrent for their P2P filesharing needs. One of the reasons for this may be that the ISPs in Singapore throttles down the eDonkey traffic significantly more than the BitTorrent traffic. It's a pity, as eD2k is a great P2P network. The recent versions of eMule supports Kademlia, which makes the client even more efficient in message passing between the P2P nodes.
While eD2k users are suffering from poor performance, the BitTorrent users seem to be fine. Thus, many eD2k users have switched over to the BitTorrent network for their files.
In the past before the P2P proliferation in Singapore, my eMule could download at ~40KB/s easily. Now, it is crawling at 10KB/s. Sometimes even the upstream capacity gets capped.
I wonder why the BitTorrent network does not suffer from bandwidth throttling as much as the eD2k network.
...I'm not talking about all that far distances either, just 200-300 feet inside an office building with many sheetrock walls and twisty hallways.
Well, MIMO may turn out to be useful in your office. Like what you have described, your office has several walls and twisty hallways. This causes multipath radio signals that degrade the main wireless signal, mainly through of fading and interference. However with MIMO, the reflected signals are put to good use as they are recombined by the MIMO algorithm.
The third is the use of cryptographic file systems.
Hmmm... wouldn't it be better to use a steganographic file system like StegFS? In the case of encrypted data, authorities may have the legal power to force you to surrender your decryption keys to the encrypted data. Now, if had used a steganographic file system, they wouldn't even know that your data is there on your disk!
I'm particularly interested in the mesh mode of 802.16a, where each 802.16a node is able to operate as both the subscriber and base station. This forms a wireless mesh network, and this is largely different from the usual point-to-multipoint mode. A wireless mesh enables wireless coverage to areas not reached by the base station but can be reached by the other client nodes.
There are a lot of publications on 802.16a at the IEEE 802.16 Task Group A. I find the tutorial presentation slides particularly helpful in explaining the 802.16a mesh mode, although it gets really technical towards the end.
I am doing performance studies on the WiMAX network. Please contact me if you are interested in sharing your views, tips and experiences of deploying a WiMAX network.
I watched this DVD and it gave me a really good introduction to Relativity, String Theory and Quantum Mechanics. I'm no physicist, but I am able to understand the key ideas through the video.
I used RTC in some of my projects and I am impressed by it. Unfortunately, the RTC support for Windows CE devices is not yet ready. Once that is done, we might be seeing this "Skype Killer" on our Windows computers, WinCE PDAs and embedded devices.
And I use the NT Loader as my boot manager to switch between Windows XP and Gentoo Linux. This makes my life much easier when I format and install Windows every few months, to keep it clean and slim. Well, I do not need to do this to my Gentoo Linux!:)
A laptop computer was run over by an aeroplane. Even Ontrack's recovery engineers don't understand how it happened, but that was the customer's explanation.
Oh well, check out this link, in particular, take a look at the Top 5 Piracy List. At a rate of 92%, I certainly don't think the doctor's Windows is legitimate.
"...quality comparable to Skype..."
I'm not too sure how Yahoo is going to achieve this. to improve audio quality I suppose it involves the use of "better" audio codecs?
If that is the case, then I suspect the codecs wouldn't be proprietary since they intend to use SIP as the signaling protocol.
Any guesses on the codecs implemented by this service? Perhaps G.711, G.723, G.729? Thanks:)
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Of course, there's no other distribution more appropriately named than the Java Desktop System for Java, Indonesia. :)
From the article, the section on P2P market share, it shows that the majority of Singaporeans use BitTorrent for their P2P filesharing needs. One of the reasons for this may be that the ISPs in Singapore throttles down the eDonkey traffic significantly more than the BitTorrent traffic. It's a pity, as eD2k is a great P2P network. The recent versions of eMule supports Kademlia, which makes the client even more efficient in message passing between the P2P nodes.
While eD2k users are suffering from poor performance, the BitTorrent users seem to be fine. Thus, many eD2k users have switched over to the BitTorrent network for their files.
In the past before the P2P proliferation in Singapore, my eMule could download at ~40KB/s easily. Now, it is crawling at 10KB/s. Sometimes even the upstream capacity gets capped.
I wonder why the BitTorrent network does not suffer from bandwidth throttling as much as the eD2k network.
Well, MIMO may turn out to be useful in your office. Like what you have described, your office has several walls and twisty hallways. This causes multipath radio signals that degrade the main wireless signal, mainly through of fading and interference. However with MIMO, the reflected signals are put to good use as they are recombined by the MIMO algorithm.
Hmmm... wouldn't it be better to use a steganographic file system like StegFS? In the case of encrypted data, authorities may have the legal power to force you to surrender your decryption keys to the encrypted data. Now, if had used a steganographic file system, they wouldn't even know that your data is there on your disk!
I'm particularly interested in the mesh mode of 802.16a, where each 802.16a node is able to operate as both the subscriber and base station. This forms a wireless mesh network, and this is largely different from the usual point-to-multipoint mode. A wireless mesh enables wireless coverage to areas not reached by the base station but can be reached by the other client nodes.
There are a lot of publications on 802.16a at the IEEE 802.16 Task Group A. I find the tutorial presentation slides particularly helpful in explaining the 802.16a mesh mode, although it gets really technical towards the end.
Here's a good technical introduction to WiMAX.
I am doing performance studies on the WiMAX network. Please contact me if you are interested in sharing your views, tips and experiences of deploying a WiMAX network.
Seriously, all that geeky and funny stuff on Slashdot would certainly make it a great show. :)
... groggy after I drank wine and beer, and ate honey apple pies.
I find this quote very meaningful. It has more punch when it is pictorially represented, like this one.
I watched this DVD and it gave me a really good introduction to Relativity, String Theory and Quantum Mechanics. I'm no physicist, but I am able to understand the key ideas through the video.
Or you may prefer to visit their homepage here.
This article refered to a virus, while the previous "dupe" refered to a worm. Maybe the guy thought that the 2 cases are different? Heh.
I suppose Microsoft would use their Real-Time Communications to develop this "Skype Killer"?
I used RTC in some of my projects and I am impressed by it. Unfortunately, the RTC support for Windows CE devices is not yet ready. Once that is done, we might be seeing this "Skype Killer" on our Windows computers, WinCE PDAs and embedded devices.
The newer eMule clients that work with the eDonkey network, also work with the Kademlia (Kad) network. Decentralization is achieved through Kad. ;)
And it doesn't ship with a virus. :)
And I use the NT Loader as my boot manager to switch between Windows XP and Gentoo Linux. This makes my life much easier when I format and install Windows every few months, to keep it clean and slim. Well, I do not need to do this to my Gentoo Linux! :)
Any geek bloggers around? Please drop me a comment at my blog. Thanks! :)
A laptop computer was run over by an aeroplane. Even Ontrack's recovery engineers don't understand how it happened, but that was the customer's explanation.
Could it be the laptop that contained the plans of Japan's arrow-shaped airplane that is capable of flying at twice the speed of sound?
Oh well, check out this link, in particular, take a look at the Top 5 Piracy List. At a rate of 92%, I certainly don't think the doctor's Windows is legitimate.
I hope the sidebar could allow me to change the skin.
"...quality comparable to Skype..." I'm not too sure how Yahoo is going to achieve this. to improve audio quality I suppose it involves the use of "better" audio codecs? If that is the case, then I suspect the codecs wouldn't be proprietary since they intend to use SIP as the signaling protocol. Any guesses on the codecs implemented by this service? Perhaps G.711, G.723, G.729? Thanks :)
Way cool! We're on Slashdot!