Marcelo Toledo

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If you can’t beat P2P, join P2P!

“MTV Networks, the biggest division of Viacom Inc. has announced plans to make every South Park episode available online for free as part of a plan to make the show available to a larger audience.” This is hapenning everytime more, imagine the amount of content that has been published in the past that you would to see again. How many content become obsolete in one day? The fact companies will share this specific content will not hurt their business, actually I see this as a healthy new business.

What every programmer should know about memory

Ulrich Drepper works for Red Hat, is the lead contributor and maintainer of glibc, telling you this I don’t need to comment how talented he is. Last year he gave a talk in Red Hat Summit in Nashville about CPU Caches, in his opinion the time for the talk was not enough to transfer all his thoughts about the subject, after this he worked around six months on a document titled What every programmer should know about memory, 100 pages of pure high quality knowledge, Drepper released it in PDF for free.

Microsoft aplies for mind reading patent

Microsoft has just applied for a mind reading patent, two engineers are responsible for this patent, they are specialists in Human-Computer Interaction and Brain-Computer Interfaces. Asking people to execute specific tasks in the computer, video recording and asking questions later might not produce reliable answers. “Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” Microsoft says. The patent application details how this interface would work. Secret sources points that Google is writing a plugin to search your brain.

Hotspot Simulator

One of the systems I work on is VexBox, a multi-architecture Linux distribution for hotspots, it comes with all the softwares needed to serve a user, dhcp server, legitimate ARP Spoof, web server, radius client, etc. For simple testing purposes it’s ok to open up a notebook, find the SSID, connect and do all your tests. But some times you need more then this, you need more users, more time connected and you might not have all the resources you need. That’s when I came up with the idea of creating a hotspot simulator. For each client we use an…

Network Manager with WISPr support

I’ve sent this message to the NetworkManager List, if the idea is well accepted I’ll implement it: “I would like to add WISPr support to NetworkManager, I would like to hear your comments if it’s an acceptable feature, before I start working on it. First of all, what is WISPr? From wikipedia: WISPr or Wireless Internet Service Provider roaming – Pronounced “whisper,” WISPr is A protocol from the Wi-Fi Alliance that allows users to roam between wireless internet service providers in similar fashion to cellphones. A RADIUS server is used to authenticate the subscriber’s credentials. Clearly speaking, when you have…

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