Vanderbilt University announced yesterday that three peer-to-peer file sharing programs, namely, Gnutella, E-Donkey, and Direct Connect on Monday Oct 3, at 8 a.m.
The university says they were monitoring the traffic from file sharing programs and they use up more than third of the university’s bandwidth.
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I am used to seeing memory usage of Firefox climbing upto hundreds of megs. I am used to it but I was never happy with it. When I just saw 218 megs of memory being sucked up by Firefox by just two tabs of webmail open, I thought I should publicly complain about it. I am using Firefox Beta 1 and I don’t even have extensions installed. One thing that I want from the new version is definetely a decrease in memory usage. But I am not going to get it from the looks of it.
Strangely, I don’t see any people complaining about that. Is everyone else happy? Is it just me who is not happy with the memory usage of Firefox?
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I wrote about Pandora in this blog before. My fun relationship with Pandora came to an end yesterday since it was the last day of my free period as a beta user. Pandora is now completely out of beta and available as a fee based service. It costs $36 for one year for unlimited listening or $12 for three months. As much as I liked it, I just cannot justify the cost as a grad student even though it is not a very premium price with just $3 a month.
So long to Pandora from me, but I am sure there will be a lot of people who keep enjoying it.
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It just came to my attention that Vanderbilt library’s wiki, which I did not know existed, is giving guidelines to add their feeds to the Google’s personalized homepage.
[Via InsideGoogle]
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Backpack recently announced the availability of recurring reminders. I think this is one important feature that is going to make Backpack even more useful.
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There is an interesting article at Newsforge about the future status of Linux on next generation supercomputers.
There is a big race in the supercomputer arena. I am a bit involved with this through the Darpa HPCS project whose goal is “to provide a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems”. You can also check out this site, and our Eclipse High Productivity Experiment Tool.