Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here


		User name	Password

		Not registered yet? Register here. Lost your password? Click here.

Browse by topic

News

A Napster clone from Microsoft?

10 January 2001 15:56 by Jari Ketola

Rumour has it that Microsoft is working on a peer-to-peer sharing project code-named Farsite.

The concept behind Farsite is a serverless file system - files are stored on a distributed network of clients with no centralized server or hierarchy.

"We know that (PC) disks aren't full today and machines are idle most of the time. Disks are getting bigger faster than files are. If you could build a centralized file server, it would be more reliable and it wouldn't require centralized administration," Bolosky explained.

Napster and other peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software are built on a similar premise, but with one key difference, Bolosky said.

"Napster does have a central directory. Only its file store is peer-to-peer," he said.

Source:
ZDNet: News

Permalink to this article

« Previous news article
A colorful digital music conference coming up

Next news article »
MP3.com head calls for common sense

Discuss this article!

Post your comment

Subscribe to our newsfeed

Get the latest headlines delivered directly to your favourite RSS reader or content aggregation service by using the links below.

Latest news

Search for headlines

Search through our news archive.

Latest threads

Last week's most popular software downloads

1CLICK DVD COPY PRO v3.2.8.0
Software category: DVD-R tools
DVD Shrink v3.2.0.15
Software category: DVD rippers
1CLICK DVD COPY 5 v5.5.6.0
Software category: DVD-R tools
Media Player Classic v6.4.9.1 (20081005)
Software category: Video players
Nero Burning ROM v9.0.9.4c
Software category: CD-R applications

Latest software updates

xpy v0.10.9
Software category: Desktop security
Vispa v0.2.9
Software category: Desktop security
UltraISO v9.3.2.2656
Software category: CD-R applications
GPU-Z v0.3.0
Software category: Other tools
Opera for Linux v10 Alpha 1
Software category: Linux software

More software updates...

Top links

Most popular links

Blasteroids.com
Download game trailers, demos and more
TorrentReactor.Net
The most active torrents on the web
Digital-Digest
Latest DivX, XviD, DVD, Blu-Ray, HD DVD News
OpenSubtitles.org
download DivX subtitles from the biggest open database
CDRInfo.com
The Hardware Authority
DVDHelp.us
DVD help, tutorials, FAQ, and very popular free help forum!
Torrentreactor.TO
The most active torrents on the web
Ease Audio Converter.
Convert files from MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, APE, FLAC, and MP4 to WAV and backwards.

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums | DVD X Copy Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | download.fi | fin.MP3Lizard.com
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team

© 1999-2008 by AfterDawn Ltd.