Submitted by daisylinbluez
from Google Reader:
文件共享应用程序是网络应用程序的一种,Napster是最早的P2P文件共享系统,参与系统的是大量个人计算机用户,每个用户将自己愿意共享的文件提供出来,同时可以下载其他用户共享的文件。这类程序需要解决的核心问题是必须知道哪些机器上有哪些文件,这样当用户提出文件搜索请求时才可以得到正确的匹配结果。在Napster关闭之后,更多的P2P文件共享系统迅速崛起。WIKI上有人做了一个包含了几十种文件共享应用程序的对比,它们有的今天已经不存在,有的依然流行。 (Read More)
Submitted by sfoskett
from Google Reader:
Lots of folks have switched to Mac, its the most commonly used laptop in the Bay Area now. Sometimes people give me flack for using it, but I'll tell you why I use a Mac laptop:It just works! When going to a client site, a (Read More)
Lifehacker:
You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time. Sinc (Read More)
Submitted by farrider
from Google Reader:
Google just released a new open source programming language called Go. Go is intended to offer built-in support for concurrent processes, make the most of modern hardware and deliver a super-fast coding experience. Google (Read More)
Submitted by revo
from Google Reader:
In the first post of this series I outlined some of VisualCron’s general advantages over the Windows Task Scheduler. When you read today’s post, you will notice that the tool has quite a few additional interesting features.Be (Read More)
SearchDataCenter: IT infrastructure news:
After migrating off the mainframe, applications don't always run the same on Linux, Unix or Windows as they did on z/OS. In this tip, an expert talks about how to tune migrated apps for performance and security.
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Submitted by coreburn
from Google Reader:
A Dutch hacker took a number of unsuspecting iPhones hostage (so to speak) and created some panic in the iPhone universe. Users running jailbroken iPhones on the T-mobile Netherlands were greeted with a SMS alert which spel (Read More)
dive into mark:
On February 25, 1993, Marc Andreessen wrote:I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:IMGRequired argument is SRC="url". This names a bitmap or pixmap file for the browser to attempt to pull over the network and interpret (Read More)
TwitLinks:
As we rush to purchase Apple products and services on Cupertino’s monochrome treadmill of shiny shiny I can’t help thinking the open web community is losing something vital - a commitment to net neutrality and platform openne (Read More)
Simon Willison's Weblog:
Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we’ve made in order to bring you a speedier, more scalable GitHub.In my first draft of this ar (Read More)
Submitted by sfoskett
from Google Reader:
Apparently, a fellow by the name of Mitchell Prust has sued Apple and SoftLayer for infringement of patents in the area of online storage.Prust’s patents discuss basic storage principles commonly associated today with Cloud S (Read More)
CNN:
Grand Central Dispatch, originally introduced with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, has been ported to its first third-party operating system, says the team behind FreeBSD. When it is released, FreeBSD 8.1 is expected to support Grand (Read More)
Ryan Tomayko's Writings:
Programming in a higher-level language, it’s often easy to forget about using lower-level Unix facilities in tricky situations. Here are a few examples to give you an idea of what you might be missing.
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Submitted by hoffmann
from Twitter:
* is Unix - a mini-meme of folks writing simple forking network servers in their language of choice. http://ff.im/-9oSqU. (Read More)
Google Blog Search: "social media":
Social media has become an integral part of modern society.There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries.There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there.Th (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
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The above comes from a great 38-page overview essay by Kevin Carson where he reviews current trends to more distributed manufacturing, often based on open source design, as well as a new type of machinery.* Essay: The Homebre (Read More)