>>>>> "U" == Udhay Shankar N <Udhay> writes:
U> At 12:32 PM 12/28/00 -0600, Adam Rifkin wrote:
>> I repeat, IBM 76.8Gb ultra dma/100 hard drive at Fry's for
>> $375...  "home of fast, friendly courteous service! (R)"
U> less than two years later, we have 320 GB for the same price:
So then why does my webhost _still_ only give me 200MB?
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RE: Microsoft buys XDegress - more of a p2p/distributed data thing...
From fork-admin@xent.com  Wed Sep 11 19:42:11 2002

XDegrees was at the WebDAV Interoperability Testing Event last year, so
there may be some DAV under the hood there someplace.
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Microsoft buys XDegress - more of a p2p/distributed data
> > "Files can be cached on multiple systems randomly scattered around the
> > Internet, as with Napster or Freenet. In fact, the caching in
> > more sophisticated than it is on those systems: users with high
> > connections can download portions, or "stripes," of a file from several
> > cached locations simultaneously. The XDegrees software then reassembles
> > these stripes into the whole file and uses digital signatures
> > the downloaded file is the same as the original. A key component of this
> > digital signature is a digest of the file, which is stored as
> This "more sophisticated than [Napster or Freenet]" part seems
> to be the same behavior implemented in many other P2P CDNs,
> ...though the quality of the "digest" used by each system varies