WMP9 introduced a feature that lets you speed up a video presentation. I just noticed today that mste (one of the sources of internal training) has deployed this feature.
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Better Bandwidth Utilization. jtorin writes "Daniel Hartmeier (of OpenBSD fame) has written a short but interesting article which explains how to better utilize available bandwidth. In ... [Slashdot]
This is sounds like a different way to solve a problem we worked on for Windows XP. Part of the problem is the big buffers that fill up on the modem that don't allow new connections to get to the stable state fast enough. We solved this with DRR Fair Queing. These folks are doing it via the acks. I think the Windows XP technique is more general, but I wonder which works better. UPDATE: They are somewhat unrelated in that the bsd work is for faster asymetrical links, while the xp stuff is for 56K and lower.
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Bush Offers Taxpayers Another $300 If We Go To War [The Onion] The onion does a brillent job tying together three major political threads in to a really funny article.
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