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The good folks at Downhill Battle have released Blog Torrent, a PHP project that simplifies offering Bit Torrent downloads from your PHP enabled website.
[W]hat blogtorrent does is give users "easy download" links in addition to links to the torrent files. The "easy download" link gives them the torrent file they want wrapped in an executable installer. The installer just installs Bittorrent, asks them where to save the file, and starts getting the torrent they want.This isn't brain surgery. It's just installing the Bit Torrent client invisibly when (windows users, for now) click on the download link. But even though that isn't much (can't people install the client themselves? Well, sometimes not...) it should help. And it makes uploading Torrents easier too. Something to watch for sure.
Internal IBM interview with John McCalpin: On the POWER7, Simultaneous Multi-Threading - and the true origins of AIX. (via HTP)
POWER7? Good God these guys plan ahead (POWER5 is the cutting edge at the moment, while Apple's G5 is a simplified version of the POWER4.) Super geeky, but interesting if you are into such things. I love the "Level: Introductory" label applied to the article. Yeah, "introductory" if you are a hardware engineer working for IBM.
Also liked this exchange:
dW: That is a shame. I have one more on the subject of OSes -- was AIX really designed by space aliens?Hmmm. Classic non-denial denial? The truth is out there.
McCalpin: I hadn't heard that one....