Finalmente, sembra che qualcuno (in questo caso la Apple) si stia muovendo nella giusta direzione per quanto riguarda il download di brani musicali (da mettere sul proprio PC o sul lettore portatile come l’iPod): si tratterebbe di una sorta di tariffa forfait (o di un abbonamento flat) che permetta ai sottoscrittori di accedere in modo illimitato al catalogo musicale offerto dalle librerie digitali online (come iTunes). Personalmente, la ritengo una buona notizia anche se è necessario attendere un’offerta concreta per poter valutare ogni aspetto. Ad esempio, che ne sarà dei DRM e/o della possibilità di trasferire i files su vari dispositivi in possesso al sottoscrittore (per uso personale, ovviamente)? Read it all..
Quick Tips – Installing JINI on Gentoo with NPTL
Just a quick tips for all folks out there that are getting mad on this 
Problem: if you are trying to install JINI in Gentoo Linux, after you downloaded the installer starter kit you may start it and find errors like this:
grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This seems to happen if you have compiled your glibc libraries with nptl and nptlonly USE flags. You will be unable to install JINI (and I have read that this problem could happen to other java installers. But there is an easy solution for this! Read it all..
Peer to Peer: what next?
In these days one of the major peer-to-peer networks (Edonkey-Emule) has recieved a severe blow, when one of its major servers (RazorBack 2) had been shut down by the belgian police. This causes some concern by people utilizing those technologies: the majority of people using peer-to-peer technologies and software doesn’t really know how they work, neither they do know what kind of information and data they are REALLY sharing over the network.
In this short article, I will show you some of the “technologies” involved in those project: where are you connecting? What are you sharing? What kind of info do you broadcast over the network? Are you anonymous? Are you allowing third-party content (illegal, copyrighted, whatever!) to be dropped on your PC? We are going to know a little more what is the application logic of two big known p2p clients (Emule and Bittorrent), and two less known clients (Freenet and Waste).


