Tuesday, October 14, 2003|
Universities Developing Internal, Controlled P2P System
from the life-in-a-fishbowl dept. sukottoX writes "Penn State along with MIT and the University of British Columbia are developing a P2P application (called LionShare in the PSU incarnation) to be used only by students, faculty and staff. According to this article at the Penn State Daily Collegian, the file-sharing program, which wouldn't be completed until 2005 at the earliest, would log each transaction, allowing illegal use of the network to be traced. The purpose of this is to lessen the load on servers for tasks such as professors sending files to students, thereby decreasing the amount of manpower necessary to administer them. Funding will come in part by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, as well as from the students' information technology fee." [Slashdot] More to ponder. What if CALI developed a P2P system for sharing lessons, etc? 8:21:14 PM  comment []
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Universities Developing Internal, Controlled P2P System
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SCO Tries to Use Lineo Case Against Open Source. "SCO spokesman Blake Stowell pointed to the case as evidence that open-source software such as Linux needs to be handled and tracked more carefully. 'Fundamentally, there needs to be some mechanism in place to better police open source,' he said." Evidently the only such case they could find was one where a fellow Canopy Group company was involved as the perp.[GrokLaw] 9:38:08 AM comment []
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Using Mozilla as a Lessonette® Browser Digit: Why Mozilla Matters [Linux Today] Mozilla matters because it is designed to deal with XML, the stuff of web services, advanced db apps, etc. Consider this: using APIs available to Mozilla (and Firebird) it is possible to request an XML document from a service, download the document, then parse, display, and interact with it locally, feeding XML data back to a db. Now remember that CALI® Lessons and Lessonettes® are saved as XML. It becomes a programing exercise to deliver these directly to the browser as XML for local processing. This is the future. Then no more clunky websites. 9:32:53 AM comment []
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