Word: centralization
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This past spring, staffers across the university expressed concern that what was then called Project ADAPT was not user-friendly--and even more concern at what they thought was a lack of communication between the central administration and the faculty...
...Tough to ban because Gnutella files look like ordinary Web traffic --Truly decentralized; Gnutella doesn't rely on any central server --Works for all kinds of files; Gnutella isn't restricted to MP3s...
Calling on his skills as a military historian, Ambrose excels at moving from individual engagements to the big picture. He casts the 19th century's most ambitious undertaking as a war fought on two fronts. Building from opposite directions, men of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific threw themselves at seemingly impregnable obstacles and rewrote the engineering textbook. In one feat, two teams boring toward each other through the Summit Tunnel in Nevada were off only two inches when they met. Adjusting for some patriotic windage and unedited repetitions, Ambrose's latest rouser is also on the mark...
Napster and Gnutella let users swap data from one PC--or "peer"--to another, without going through a central server. Here's how they work...
...directory is stored on a central server. If the server is slow, so is the service --It works only for MP3s, not other files --Too successful for its own good. Banned at 40% of U.S. colleges...