Tag archive 'Open Formats'

Decentralized chat networks proven better

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-08-20

Skype's recent three day network‐wide failure expose how bad centralized networks are compared to decentralized networks such as XMPP. I'll let BBC News explain what happen:

In a statement posted on its website, Skype said the widespread outage began after Skype's servers around the world re‐started following a software upgrade to user's computers.

The knock‐on effect was that an unusually high number of people tried to log on to the system at once and the Skype network could not cope.

To make matters worse, the scale of the failure exposed a previously unknown bug in the algorithm that should have helped the Skype network recover quickly.

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Digital media is broken

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-17

All the competing multimedia players, formats, and codecs have broken digital multimedia. Is it really necessary to have this many media players, add-ons, and codecs installed to be able to open videos and music? And what about my files in ten years?
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Fixing XMPP in iChat

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-12

Apple's instant messenger application iChat–that comes with Mac OS–supports the XMPP protocol (Jabber).

However iChat does not support XMPP-IM URIs. URIs are how you trigger applications to do things on your computer like triggering a chat sessions by following web links. This is easy to fix.
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Google Desktop Search for Linux available today

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-06-28

Only a day after I complained over no Google precense in desktop search on Linux, Google replied: Google Desktop Search now available for Linux. (As many readers pointed out.)

As I stated only yeasterday Google, I welcome you. Please invade my privacy. Just make your desktop search available for Linux! I felt I had no choice but to give it a fear try:
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