The German government has established a P2P searchengine, S2S, which will decentralise searches and bring all of the above under one search/p2p engine.

Fundamentally it is like Kazaa however Kazaa ony uses the info in the Metafile for info searches. This new search engine/P2P engine creates an index file of the whole file. Through the "provider peers" people can share this info in a folder. The "Consumer Peer" then can search all of the providers for a certain info (in the larger, more detailed index file) and download it (just like DC).

Benefits include: Decentralised search info files resulting in realtime searches and no "Page not found" 's + immediate search updates (not have to whait for googles robots to spot and catalogue it) + unbiased, unlogged searches (google STORES your searches and ip numbers for 30 years so that all your dirty little secrets are logged). It is like DC but DC has a limitation as you can only search on file name or folder.

Drawback (actually a benefit as it eliminates some internet junk): No easy backup of files.

Sign up to be a beta-tester here:
http://s2s.neofonie.de/anmeldung.jsp

NerdNews reports
Posted: 24/06/2003 at 15:53 GMT
www.theregister.co.uk

since some of our blankers would be be bored to death by this article I suggest you see the register for a full scoop.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31405.html

http://news.com.com/2100-1042_3-1020015.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed

SAN FRANCISCO--Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs rolled out on Monday a new crop of Power Macs that he says can outperform any Windows-based PC on the market.

Dubbed the G5, the new chip is the successor to the G4 that's now used in the Power Mac lineup. Aside from the new chip, the new Power Macs will feature other architectural changes, including the addition of 1GHz front-side buses, USB 2.0 ports and serial ATA drives.

The new clock speeds and other changes mean that Apple will be offering "the world's fastest personal computer," Jobs said. Jobs showed both benchmarks and Photoshop tests that illustrate the new dual 2GHz PowerMac outperforming a dual 3GHz Xeon machine.