Various

Everything that will be perhaps mentioned once in my whole life

Why do they call it JoliCloud?

December 15, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Why do they call it JoliCloud?

I had the some time to finally test JoliCloud, the Netbook OS that promises seamless integration between end-user and… Guess who? The Cloud. Now.. Don’t get me wrong: JoliCloud is a decent attempt to void the space between desktop computing and online applications and it does it pretty efficiently despite   some quirks (but I will...
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DNS + HTTP, intriguing

September 21, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi

Hooking the lizard brain up to the cerebral cortex This is the title Dave Winer (the talkative inventor of RSS) has given to one of his most recent posts, where, thanks to the imaginative idea of one of his friends who wants to be kept anonymous, he manages to de-link DNS from address resolution. No, it...
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Aspera FASP: a solution for huge volume file transfer to the Cloud?

June 28, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Aspera FASP: a solution for huge volume file transfer to the Cloud?

Aspera is a company specialised in providing high speed, low-latency software solutions for data transfer. Their flagship product is FASP, a lightweight,resilient protocol implemented at Application Level that is a replacement technology for TCP-based transfers (the likes of FTP, HTTP). The nice thing is that it actually works! FASP is used mainly in the video industry...
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