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Monthly Archives: February 2006
AIGLX and Xgl
Accelerated X flame wars!—Maybe not in Free Software Magazine gives some background on X graphics and explains the similarities between AIGLX and Xgl.
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Convergence (Saving the Net)
Saving the Net and network neutrality in general have become big topics lately. I have made several posts on the topic over the last few months (1, 2, 3). See Michael Geist‘s The Search for Neutrality for a bit of … Continue reading
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The modernization of X
For those who don’t know, there is a lot of good work happening on X these days. Especially interesting is Xgl, AIGLX and the composite extension. Since Xgl and AIGLX are two different ways to bring GL-accelerated effects to the … Continue reading
Computer science growing into a basic science
Computer science growing into a basic science The talks demonstrated that research in computer science is moving beyond the study of a set of ‘computing machinery.’ Just as mathematics and physics have matured into fundamental sciences, computer science, too, is … Continue reading
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RFC 3028
RFC 3028 – Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language This document describes a language for filtering e-mail messages at time of final delivery. It is designed to be implementable on either a mail client or mail server. It is meant to … Continue reading
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Lessig on Net neutrality
Lessig has made a submission to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee about Net neutrality. If you have read Lessig’s books most of the information is not new. If you haven’t read his books, this submission provides a nice short version.
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Doing HTTP Caching Right
Doing HTTP Caching Right: Introducing httplib2 provides a really nice overview of the HTTP caching model before introducing a new Python HTTP library.
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Net channels: Where is the end in end-to-end?
The key design feature of the Internet is the end-to-end principle. In short, the end-to-end principle says that as much work as possible should be done at the ends of the network. This results in a very simple network core. … Continue reading
Net neutrality
At least one U.S. politician understands why net neutrality is important. Saving the Internet
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