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Steven S. Wallace, the chief network architect for Indiana University, said most efforts to block Napster would not work if students connected to "mirror" servers other than the central Napster server...
Programs like Gnutella allow file-sharing without a central server that houses information about who its users are, making it very difficult to block access to the program...
Rasiej recalls an Internet server going down just before a high school was scheduled to go online in a critical demonstration for the board of education. "No one knew how to fix it," he says, "so we went back to our database and sent out a message for help." An hour and a half later, there was a knock on the door. A computer engineer walked in and said, "I got your e-mail. Where do I start...
...student project over the summer of 1998. His key innovation was the element of anonymity. PCs hooked up to Freenet (the software can be downloaded from freenet.sourceforge.net become "nodes," meaning they are host to data files deposited on them for varying amounts of time. There's no central server, as with Napster. And there's no need for users to sign on or identify themselves...
...this House master's arsenal: an Olympus Camedia C-2020-Z digital camera, a Linux web server and a database of information about each of his Leverittes. Students who bump into Georgi at a monkey-bread open house or the '80s dance often end up in pictures--digital photos posted within 15 minutes after events on the House website, which averages about 250 visitors per day. The some 450 Leverittes also regularly find Georgi popping up in their inboxes. "I know I send too many e-mails," he grins...