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Peer-to-peer (P2P) Science research?

I just read about the Biblioteca d’Alessandria’s P2P application to share scientific papers. It also allows for communication (text chatting) and searching. I’m downloading it now. Across Internet2 this could be very useful. However….
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Internet Restricted on Faculty Computers

When I first read this article about Pasadena City College blocking staff & faculty machines but not student machines I almost jumped out of my seat. I couldn’t believe it — a College monitoring what websites staff & faculty visit! Shouldn’t they be spending their time fighting spam and viruses? Then I saw ….
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Adobe Acrobat 7 does RSS to PDF

From this article , the new version of Acrobat can aggregate RSS feeds into PDF files. This is just wrong.
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RSS, blogs, and Educause

Educause is really pushing things to the cutting edge! They’ve had community blogs going for a while. now they’ve added an RSS feed to your own blog in your member profile. Read on!
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Why we don’t have a helpdesk

This blog entry illustrates why we don’t have a helpdesk. While there are benefits to tracking everything to the letter, there are also benefits to knowing who you are calling.
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