Advogato blog for wmf

18 Apr 2003

Fri, 18 Apr 2003 02:43:23 GMT

I think the ideas of a single, globally-replicated Usenet and massive multi-server IRC networks are out of touch with today's Internet. Both Usenet and IRC could be massively simplified if there were a lot of independent servers hosting disjoint groups/channels, just like the Web. (This isn't my idea, but I don't remember where it came from.) Sure you have the occasional slashdottings and outages, but you avoid a lot of complexity and waste.

So what should be done about RSS? The existing Web proxy infrastructure should help, but maybe for some people it isn't helping enough. (Consider this: My RSS channel probably gets about 2x as many hits/day as all the other pages on my weblog combined. Granted, the RSS hits don't use much bandwidth thanks to ETags.) I'm tempted to suggest Astrolabe/NewsWire, but it looks even more complex than NNTP. UserLand defined a notification system for RSS, but it's probably useless for the 99.9999999% of the Internet that's now behind NATs.

I didn't post this as a comment on the article since it's mostly just uninformed ranting. :-)

29 Jun 2002

Sat, 29 Jun 2002 19:35:00 GMT

I am not seeing any interface to rate diaries, but I am logged in. Update: Oh, silly me; it's in the last place I would look fir it.

10 Jan 2002

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 04:24:57 GMT

pkiforum is not a person, or at least doesn't claim to be. It's not even a cat. It seems weird.

17 Aug 2001

Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:54:15 GMT

Thanks for the cert, raph.

16 Aug 2001

Thu, 16 Aug 2001 02:08:10 GMT

I was surprised to read that advogato reads my site. Still no cert lovin', though.

3 Aug 2001

Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:46:07 GMT

Uh oh, the certification problems seem to have hit me. I was an Apprentice until just recently, but now I'm down to an Observer.

In other news, source to the K42 operating system has been released. K42 is a highly scalable 64-bit OS designed for NUMAs and large SMPs. It is binary compatible with Linux (i.e. it runs Linux apps), although only mips64 and ppc64, which are pretty rare. Mind the disclaimer, though: "Please recognize this is still a very early version of the source and much has changed since we constructed this tar file, and much needs to change before it is ready general use."

3 Jul 2001

Tue, 3 Jul 2001 21:39:13 GMT

aaronsw can't get out of his Observer rating, despite being certified by lots of people. There's a "weakest link" joke in here somewhere...

20 Jun 2001

Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:41:56 GMT

I'm glad to see that I goaded raph into helping out us poor P2P hackers. :-)

23 Jan 2001

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 03:30:32 GMT

dwiner is a software Master, but still an Apprentice in terms of contribution to Open Source IMO. It also helps to put some biographical information on your profile page.