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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: August 23, 2002 CycleTraders -- "CycleTraders is a cooperative network of users that gather critical information about the status of each other's website. By running the client on your machine, you donate some of your computing time to measure the response time of other user's web pages. In return, your site is also timed by all the other users on the network, from a variety of locations and connections."
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Ah yes. Distributed computing. Been doing this for years. Right now, I'm trying to make my own computer cluster (making progress). If you're into distributed computer, take a look at this site: http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/distrib-projects.html http://www.morriscox.com/projects/index.html has the projects I've joined that have linkable stats. Posted by: Morris Cox on August 23, 2002 01:11 AM
I got very confused, and thought this item was related to the one about cycle lanes on Wednesday. I thought that Project Dolphin from MorrisCox's links is an interesting experiment and got me thinking. (whirr, whirr, click, click, schmoosh) Then we could actually find out how many (and what) features are actually used in Word. You would have to keep the results anonymous and not allow people to re-produce typed text, but it's something I would love to see. And if Microsoft wasn't involved people would be much more likely to get involved. We'd finally know if people used 5%, 20% or whatever of the 'features' or Word. Posted by: Mac on August 23, 2002 04:16 AM
Mac, what you are writing about reminds me very much of my DarWindow project (first item in newsletter). It failed. Can't say why exactly, but it just didn't work out. Fortunately, the experiment didn't cost me much money. Posted by: John S. Rhodes on August 23, 2002 07:06 AM
Read a little part the DarWindow section of that newsletter and noticed you said "cut and paste" to describe transferring (copying?) content from Frontpage into Listbot. I've noticed that many people say "cut and paste" when they actually mean "copy and paste". A copy-and-paste is the only way to have content in more than one place, except for retyping it. Imagine my thoughts when someone tells me that they cut and pasted something from a webpage into an email. Btw, does anyone have any experience with computer clusters or distributed computing? I'm trying to build a computer cluster, but it's fighting me.
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