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July 2007 - Posts

Saturday, July 28, 2007 4:30 PM

Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution and download speeds

When I talk to people about P2P content distribution, there's a common misperception. They assume that the more people there are downloading that file, the faster download goes. This isn't usually true, as I'll explain below. What is true is that a peer-to-peer
Posted by John L. Miller | 1 Comments
Friday, July 27, 2007 5:02 PM

'Managed Prototypes'

MSCD has a front-page story on research.microsoft.com . A friend of mine asked me about a quote in the article which could perhaps be misunderstood: “It is as much as eight times faster than our original managed prototype, and it’s great that customers
Posted by John L. Miller | 0 Comments
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:45 PM

MSCD links to download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

If you're interested in using Microsoft Secure Content Distribution to download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, just click here , install and run the downloader, and you'll be off and running! This version of MSCD will be available for four weeks, so you have
Posted by John L. Miller | 4 Comments
Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:06 PM

Microsoft Secure Content Distribution

A few years ago, Pablo Rodriguez and Christos Gkantsidis applied Network Coding to Peer-to-Peer file swarming, calling their system 'Avalanche' . I was lucky enough to be involved in their project. Over time, Cambridge Incubation at Microsoft Research
Posted by John L. Miller | 2 Comments
Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:46 AM

Second Life - Reality sets in?

Earlier I commented about the disparity in numbers quoted for Second Life's population. It's not that any of the numbers are wrong - for what's being expressed, they're no doubt correct. Rather, it's a question of what's being measured. For my money,
Posted by John L. Miller | 1 Comments
 
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