March Perl Journal Published03/13/2003 10:16 AM yudel writes "March 4, 2003—The March issue of The Perl Journal is now
available. Here's what's inside: Fractal Images and Music With Perl;
Writing Multilingual Sites With mod_perl and Template Toolkit; Perl in
High Performance Computing Environments; ...
Journal of Webology: An International Electronic Journal
Webology is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the
various fields of Library and Information Science and serves as a
forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new
research in information dissemination and communication processes in
general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular.
Concerns include the production, gathering, recording, processing,
storing, representing, sharing, transmitting, retrieving,
distribution, and dissemination of information, as well as its social
and cultural impacts. There is a strong emphasis on new information
technologies and methodologies. The orientation is toward quantitative
experimental work, but significant qualitative and historical research
is also welcome.
INDC Journal: INDC Journal Interviews Michael Berg
INDC Journal: INDC Journal Interviews Michael Berg06/08/2004 05:47 AM Bill at INDC Journal is at it again, this time, interviewing Mike Berg
.. interview a squirming Michael Berg .. interveiw with Nick Berg's
father .. Checkout this
interview:
indcjournal.com/archives/000485.php track this
site | 6 links
Cultured Perl: Three Essential Perl Books05/19/2004 09:14 AM KLB writes "In this article, the author reviews three Perl coding
books, bringing you summaries of the key information contained in the
books and how the new versions have been updated."
Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 112/16/2003 12:24 PM Ted writes "Every self-respecting computer and music fan needs to be
able to manipulate MP3s -- the defacto standard for recreational
digital music use. In ...
M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - a journal of
media and culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism
analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. As such, it
is fully blind peer-reviewed, but also open to submissions and
responses from anyone on the Internet. They take seriously the need to
move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some
resonance with wider political and cultural interests. Each issue is
organised around a one word theme (see our past issues), and is edited
by one or two editors with a particular interest in that theme. The
editors change for each issue. Each issue has a feature article which
engages with the theme in some detail, followed by several shorter
articles. A major problem with Internet publications is that of usage
and citation of online sources. Without pagination, long articles are
awkward to read and individual quotes and references difficult to
locate. In terms of length, M/C articles are deliberately shorter than
articles in printed academic journals, functioning as interventions
into media and culture. In terms of reference, individual paragraphs
are numbered as "bits", so that instead of guesses like "about three
screens from the end" or a mere "no pagination given", when you cite
M/C articles you can refer directly to the bit you're interested in.
Additionally, at the end of each piece they provide a reference
citation of the article line in MLA and APA styles, which you can copy
and paste into your own list of references. There are still no
universally accepted ways of citing Internet sources, but they hope
this will help. This will be added to Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
Hmm -- it looks as if OS X 10.2.4 supports journaling, and not just on
the Server edition. There's no "enable journal" button in the Info
pane of Disk Utility, but when I opened a terminal window and typed:
sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil enableJournal /
... It created a journal file and enabled journaling on my new
Powerbook G4.
Journal of Neuroinflammation ISSN:
1742-2094 is the latest addition to BioMed Central's constantly
expanding universe of Open Access journals. In the coming weeks, a
mirror site for Journal of Neuroinflammation will be created at PubMed
Central , ensuring long term access to the
material, regardless of the vicissitudes of the economic models of
publishing. Fulltext v1+ (2004+) This will be added to Healthcare Resources
2004 Internet MiniGuide.
Journal of a Schizophrenic
Journal of a Schizophrenic02/13/2004 10:38 AM Schizophrenia is one of the most widely spread psychological disorders
around, and its sufferers show a wide assortment of symptoms,
sometimes easily coped with, sometimes not. Studies have shown that
in any given hospital as many as 1 in 5 patients suffer from some form
of schizophrenia. Nationwide, approximately 1% of the US
population is schizophrenic.
New: The Body Journal
New: The Body Journal06/05/2005 11:11 PM The Body Journal is an application for recording, storing, and sharing
health information for one person or an entire family.
I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent
company behind hosted blogging service TypePad, and Moveable Type is
about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount.
A sample article is on-line: Add Features Fast with AppleScript Studio by Sal Soghoian.
It’s about how you can add features to your application by
running AppleScript scripts.
Times 2, Journal 003/14/2005 05:45 PM Well, it's official: The New York Times, having replaced William
Safire with John Tierney, now has two dedicated
"conservative seats" on its op-ed page. Meanwhile, as I wrote a
month ago, the Wall Street Journal, having lost its sole token
sorta-liberal, has...not replaced him at all.
The Times constantly takes brickbats from the right for its
supposed liberal bias, but it's clearly trying to find room on its
opinion pages for a variety of perspectives. Meanwhile, the Journal,
whose editorial pages list far further to the right than the Times'
lean leftward, doesn't seem to think it need bother expose its readers
to those who disagree with it.
These papers pretty much represent the U.S.'s two most important
national dailies. When I beef about the Journal, I sometimes get
e-mail from people I know (or don't know) who work there, protesting
that I shouldn't hold the editorial pages' neanderthal bias against
the rest of the paper. And it's true: I love the Journal's feature
writing, and a lot of its news coverage is fair and reasonably
non-ideological. I would say exactly the same thing about the Times'
news pages.
Yet on the opinion/editorial side, the distinction couldn't be more
vivid, and it needs to be said, over and over again: One paper has a
hubbub of different points of view, the other has a starkly uniform
party line that is significantly off to the margins of the American
mainstream.
That difference hasn't seemed to filter very far into the
blogosphere's media-criticism memepool. Anti-Times noise is endemic
here, whereas the Journal doesn't seem to warrant more than an
occasional snipe. Maybe that's a sign of the Journal's
subscription-only self-marginalization; but Dow Jones has actually
placed most Journal opinion-writing on the free Opinionjournal.com site, so
I don't think that's it.
Rather, this is one more data point in t
he right's campaign against the Times and other media institutions
that it sees as impediments on the path to total reality control. The
scorched-earth ground rules parallel the CNN/Fox argument.
Conservatives jealously defend their right to own their own partisan
media outlets, while loudly complaining that anyone still foolish
enough to struggle for balance is hopelessly biased to the left.
Ramblings' Journal
Ramblings' Journal05/07/2004 11:31 PM Ramblings' Journal .. Michael King
The Pine Journal12/30/2003 07:37 PM Searching on Google, there are 22,400,000 Web sites containing the
word “peace”; 282,000 web sites containing the words “peace on earth”;
136,000 Web ...
Journal Macro v1.50
Journal Macro v1.5001/24/2004 12:33 PM Journal Macro is an easy-to-use mouse and keyboard macro recorder,
player and editor designed to help you eliminate repetitive
operations. It is the easiest way to make working in Windows faster,
easier, and more productive. You can set up "macros" that simplify
complex or repetitive tasks and operations into a single step. Simply
record anything once and then play it back at any time, at any speed,
with a single keystroke! [Shareware $29.95 30 Days 810 KB]
Joe Conason's Journal
Joe Conason's Journal01/09/2004 10:11 PM There's nothing Middle American about the wealthy ideologues who
financed the attack ad against Howard Dean and his "latte-drinking,
sushi-eating, left-wing freak show."
For consumers, CHJ is a free, monthly
journal dedicated to providing in-depth health information that isn't
swayed by market or advertiser demands. With articles from study
result analysis (pregnancy and alcohol, milk and cancer) to lighter
fare (health insurance for dogs, the geography of fat), CHJ tries to
publish information that is otherwise hard to come by. Mainstream
health reporting is currently dysfunctional. The media that have the
technical information are impossible to read, and the media that are
possible to read omit the technical information. Important health news
is lost in the trivial, the incomprehensible, and the sensational.
Consumer Health Journal is a hybrid: we read the studies for you, and
translate them into readable English. But we tell you where to find
them, too, in case you want to read them for yourself. We also provide
background biology and end-of-article reporter's notes, as well as
mid-article links to our sources. You can take our word on the issues,
but we won't force you to. This will be added to Healthcare Resources
2004 Internet MiniGuide.
Baghdad Journal
Baghdad Journal08/06/2004 08:02 PM Bagh
dad Journal An eyewitness artist's report from the Iraqi capital.
Amazing watercolors.
Are you a software architect? Check out the Architect Journal. Neat
article about Das Blog from Clemens Vasters is in the current issue.
Unfortunately it's a PDF document.
Grok Description matches for Best of The Perl Journal GrokA matches for Best of The Perl Journal
"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent Download, You name it..."
Torrent 0.6101/27/2004 02:58 PM An arcade game with colored tiles.
Torrent Zip
Torrent Zip03/31/2005 11:44 PM The project is live!
Xcode .torrent
Xcode .torrent08/08/2004 02:13 AM Apple just released an update to is Xcode development tools, but
Apple's content distribution network is slow and poky, and as Danny
notes, it "won't let you resume downloads using wget -c." So here's a
.torrent for Xcode.
Link
(via Oblomovka)
Bit Torrent : An Analysis
Bit Torrent : An Analysis12/19/2004 03:10 PM Hardy news site, The Register, recently published a
detailed analysis of the file sharing protocol Bit
Torrent. Bit Torrent has received attention in the main stream
news after reports that it was carrying as much as 50% of all peer 2
peer (p2p) traffic, which in tern amounted to a massive 30% of all the
traffic on the internet. The paper, by Dr. Johan Pouwelse, examines
the protocol and looks especially at one of the largest bit-torrent
hubs, Suprnova.org. He examines how just 20 moderators solve the
problem of fake files, something that plagues the traditional file
sharing networks like Kazaa.
Dr Powelse notes that the major problems facing hubs like suprnova are
fakes and maintaining hub availability. The availability of files on
bit torrent is based on a centralised system; without it, the network
fails as users cannot access the trackers. Decentralising bit torrent
has already begun - Suprnova have started a project called "Exeem" which apparently has 5,000 beta
testers trialling it, and has an ultimate aim of taking the best of
Kazaa (a decentralised network) and merging it with Bit Torrent.
Decentralisation removes the issue of poor availability at the tracker
end, yet0 it also provides more scope for fake files and a reduction
in data integrity at the user end.
The paper concludes that bit-torrent needs to evolve to create
incentives to users to seed files. Bit-torrent as a protocol is a
system that’s here to stay; it enjoys more and more usage from more
main stream content providers. Yes, there is a lot of illegitimate use
of the protocol, but unlike Kazaa, these users should not be allowed
to over shadow the usefulness to legitimate users of the bit torrent
protocol.
[Update] Since this article was published, Suprnova has
shutdown as a hub for torrents. Although this cannot be confirmed, the
shutdown is very likely related to legal action from the Hollywood against tracker
websites; earlier in the week many other sites were taken down.
The effectiveness of the takedowns could be massive; the paper below
notes that when on the Suprnova mirrors went offline during their
monitoring period, they saw a massive reduction in the number of users
downloading files through the site.
It's the torrent, stupid12/22/2004 01:29 AM Xeni Jardin:
Mark Pesce rants about
the recent shutdowns of BitTorrent supersites Suprnova.org and
TorrentBits.com.
Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers?
Do you understand how badly you've screwed up? You took a perfectly
serviceable situation - a nice, centralized system for the
distribution
of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving
birth to a system of digital distribution that you'll never, ever be
able to defeat. In your avarice and arrogance you ignored the obvious:
you should have cut a deal with SuprNova.org. In partnership you could
have found a way to manage the disruptive change that's already well
underway. Instead, you have repeated the mistakes made by the
recording
industry, chapter and verse. And thus you have spelled your own doom.
It's said that the best sequels are just like the original, only
bigger
and louder. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a
crash. This baby is now fully out of control.
Thanks to Dave over at Scripting News for the link. The
already easy process of downloading files via BitTorrent has just
gotten easier. [Downhill
Battle]
Your big article on M.I.A over the weekend reminded me that I had
downloaded a mix mp3 shortly after the Tsunami disaster comprised
exclusivly of Sri Lankan hip-hop. I can't remember where I originally
found the mix (boomselection, maybe?) so I just made a .torrent. 58.4
Meg mp3 mix by Dr. Auratheft.
Used BitTorrent a little bit when it first came out and was a bit
underwhelmed. It didn’t work, there weren’t a lot of
places to find files, etc.
I decided to take another look at it when a designer friend of mine
was telling me that he has the latest version of every single piece of
design software on his Mac compliments of bit torrent (yes, I know
it’s wrong… not the point I’m trying to make, the point
is coming :-).
Part I: I installed bit torrent and immediately
noticed an amazing new trend (prob. not new to all of you) of people
posting dozens of albums in one RAR file for download. Huge file sizes
in the 500 to 4,000 meg size range. The last season of seven seasons
of Southpark, every Nirvanna album and here is another file with every
Howard Stern radio show from March in one file.
In one click you grab one really well organized, clean and deep
sets of files—scary.
Part II: A couple of month ago I got the Gateway
Connected DVD player. For $195 it connects via WiFi to my desktop and
I can hit the My Music or My Videos button on the remote control and
pull up those directories on my hard drive (in the other room).
Part III: Today I moved into my new apartment in
Santa Monica and was faced with the standard $100 month cable/dish
bill and I’m thinking “dang, I only watch less then a half
dozen TV shows and they are all here on bit torrent… maybe I
should save the $1,200 a year and just download the shows and watch
them via my Gateway Connected DVD player?”
The Point/Question: How soon before you’ll be
able-with one click-download every prime-time TV show or last
year’s top 500 CDs in one click?!
(Note: This is not a trick question, I have yet to find a file
containing that much content—however, I did find a file with last
weeks top 100 singles that someone put together in one nice
package).
Download the Windows XP Service Pack
2: The guys who were doing Microsoft a favor by pushing Service
Pack 2 via Bit Torrent got slapped down by Redmond.
Microsoft sent DMCA takedown notices to our two webhosts,
one of which was just linking to a torrent file on another server.
We've stood up to these kinds of legal threats before (see the Grey
Tuesday protests), but we decided not to bother this time, because we
started this site primarily as a demonstration and to that end it's
already been a huge success.
Grokster briefs torrent03/26/2005 05:13 AM Cory Doctorow:
Thad sez, "This is a torrent of all of the briefs submitted re: MGM v.
Grokster, in the zip format provided on the U.S. Copyright Office
site."
Torrent Link for 74 briefs
in 20.7MB
Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent
Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent06/17/2005 03:18 PM Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have
developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes
the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution
protocols such as Bit Torrent.
The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent
faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only
code at the server, and between 200 and 300 per cent faster than
distributing un-encoded information.
Torrent for Windows XP Service Pack 208/09/2004 04:48 PM Microsoft needs to distribute its new Win XP Service Pack 2 to 260
million Windows users at 75MB each. Moving a wodge that big to that
many machines is too much even for the biggest software company on the
planet. So the folks at Downhill Battle have seized upon this as an
opportunity to prove the substantial noninfringing uses of P2P by
releasing a .torrent of SP@ (complete with checksum info so that you
can verify that this isn't some malware-riddled trojan, except to the
extent that it is a typical piece of the Windows XP OS). Join the
mesh, shoulder the load, get your medicine -- the 21st Century way.
Link
(via Waxy)
Eyes on the Screen torrent mirror02/01/2005 08:38 PM Cory Doctorow:
Eyes on the Screen is an amazing Downhill Battle project that we
blogged earlier. The idea is to get people to download the
seminal documentary Eyes on the Prize, which chronicles the American
civil rights movement. It's a Black History Month perrennial, but
because of the prohibitive cost of clearing the copyrights to the
archival footage used in the series. Once the series has been
downloaded, you'd be encouraged to host a screening party for your
friends and neighbors on February 8th, and ensure that the vital
messages of this documentary don't fade away due to outmoded laws.
The Downhill Battle torrents for Eyes on the Prize have gone away, but
there is still a mirror of them available. Please consider using the
mirror to get your own copies and host a party of your own.
At 8pm on February 8th we will celebrate the struggle and triumph of
the civil rights movement with screenings of Eyes on the Prize Part 1:
Awakenings. Eyes on the Prize is the most renowned civil rights
documentary of all time; for many people, it is how they first learned
about the Civil Rights Movement (more about the film). But this film
has not been available on video or television for the past 10 years
simply because of expired copyright licenses. We cannot allow
copyright red tape to keep this film from the public any longer. So
today we are making digital versions of the film available for
download. Join us in building a new mass audience for this film:
organize or attend a screening in your city, town, school or home on
February 8th.
Defense fund for Bit Torrent indexer12/30/2004 02:45 AM Cory Doctorow:
LokiTorrent is a BitTorrent indexing site -- like the lamented
Suprnova -- that has been threatened with legal action by the MPAA for
telling people where to download torrent files that allow them to
download video and other large data-objects. Unlike some of the other
Torrent indexers that shut down last week, LokiTorrent is mounting a
legal defense. They're trying to raise a legal defense fund of
$30,000, and they've made $11,500 in the first 12 hours.
Link
(via /.)
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