A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!I’ve talked about Freenet here occasionally and while I think it’s easy enough to understand I still get occasional questions about just exactly what it is. That, combined with the recent fork of Freenet Classic OpenNet from the original Freenet 0.5 project has prompted me to create this video that gives a basic [...]

I saw something on slashdot recently called Why TV Lost that talks about the effect that computers and the Internet are having on TV.

What I found odd is that it talks about TV as if computers and video sharing & such have already killed TV. Like we should all just pack it in and put our TV’s in storage and use the old tv mount as a place to put a pot of begonias or something.

A team of Microsoft engineers consisting of Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman set out to “investigate the darknet – a collection of networks and technologies used to share digital content”. their conclusions were published in the report known as “Darknet Assumptions”.

Those assumptions boil down to three basic points.

I’ve been interested in p2p file sharing for some time. I quickly grew tired of things like Kazaa, gnutella, emule and bittorrent file sharing systems for a number of reasons. The biggest complaint was that just about anytime I wanted to download something, suddenly all of the sources would dry up and disappear, leaving me with an unfinished download.

Lawrence Roberts is one of those names that most people using the Internet have probably never heard or read before. He’s one of the people that were involved in developing what has come to be the Internet that we all use today. Specifically, He did a lot of the groundbreaking work in “networking through data packets”