Archive for February, 2007

A Better Time Machine

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I just realized what would make OS X Leopard’s Time Machine really useful. More useful than it’s supposed to be. Right now, it archives and allows you to go back in time for files and data in applications that decide to use their API. For some people this might be useful, but for most I […]

Open source web services

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Lately I’ve been trying to figure how we can have open source web services. Not just the software code, but the running of a service built with the software. How can we get the same benefits at the service level?
The reason I’ve been thinking about this is now that we’re starting to have the interconnective […]

Radio Broadcatching

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Today I was at the house of colleague and co-conspirator Adam Smith and we were talking about using distributed hash tables for something interesting, like as a decentralized storage host for a giant rainbow table. I’m not sure how (because I was busy thinking about money and signing up for Google Adsense), but the idea […]