Open Kosmaczewski

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That will change if you get a real job after you graduate. Then you’ll have to earn your keep. And since most of what big companies do is boring, you’re going to have to work on boring stuff. Easy, compared to college, but boring. At first it may seem cool to get paid for doing [...]

Introduction
“P2P” or “peer-to-peer networking” is maybe one of the most controversial and interesting trends in the dawn of the new century; its complete decentralization challenges all definitions of private intellectual property and creates new technological, commercial and juridic challenges.
In this article I will enumerate some companies that provide P2P file-sharing services, after providing a short [...]

Just found this small & free book about Ruby. Enjoy!

Introduction
Five years ago I worked as a Software Engineer for a startup, based in Geneva, Switzerland, which had the goal of creating a web-based systems management console, to control and monitor the status of large computer installations, much like Microsoft SMS (Systems Management Server) does. This tool would eventually benefit from being a web-based application, [...]

My wife Claudia and me (courtesy of South Park Studio)

Je viens d’envoyer cette lettre à Les Brasseurs, une brasserie très connue à Genève, Lausanne et Nyon:
Bonjour,
Je suis depuis longtemps un amateur de vos bières, que je trouve depuis des années simplement formidables, et un client régulier de vos locaux de Lausanne et Genève. Je travaille comme informaticien, et je suis récemment tombé par hasard [...]

Save the Internet | Rock the Vote

How NERDY are You? :)

It all started with the search engine. I think it was sometime back in 2000, while I was working in Argentina.
I was an avid everyday AltaVista user; I found it quite useful since 1996 (when I started browsing using Netscape at the University of Geneva) and I was frankly happy with it; I was not [...]

TCP congestion control tries to bring solutions to the problem of packet loss, which happens in networks for several reasons:

Increasing number of hosts connected to the network;
Increased traffic to and from the hosts;
Limited capacity of routers in between hosts and networks (Kurose & Ross, page 254).

Congestion is an important problem raised by multimedia streaming applications, [...]