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The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down forever

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Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading. Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It's the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well. By moving to a more decentralized system of handling tracking (DHT+PEX) and distributions of torrent files (Magnet Links), BitTorrent will become less vulnerable to downtime and outages: With decentralized peer acquisition, there is no central tracker that can be down. With decentralized fetching of metadata (torrents) we don't need to rely on a

How to setup WIFI networking extending 300KM

If you need to extend internet/network connection for looong distance up to 300KM and you do not have the budget for WiMAX, you can use the experience of guys at WirelessU they succeeded to lay internet using standrard WIFI routers over 300Km reaching bandwidth of 40Mbps using 1.2meter antenna details could be found and documented on Wirelessu site

Reporting from IGF - Egypt extending International Fiber cables -

Presentation by Egypt Telecom CEO (Mohamed Nawawy) shows that Egypt is taking the International fiber cable cut that happened on 2008 , very seriously as they are now extending many International Fiber cables for internet traffic. One of those cables is really unique with a capacity of 1.28Tbps (Tera Bit per Second) which is considered one of the biggest cables to secure un-interrupted to Egypt. These serious efforts will make bandwidth in Egypt even cheaper and will help a lot in breaking the digital divide.

Being at Internet Governance Forum

Attending First day of Internet Governance Forum , details on FOSSFA Site link is h3r3

GPS POI Search Engine

I have been through this site www.whereinme.com which I consider a search engine for a POI (Point of Interests ) with huge number of categories like Resturants, Gaz Station, Shopping Mall, Car Services , Hotels ,...... Whereinme has GPS Point of Interests in Egypt, Qatar , Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. With where in Middle East Services you can find all restaurants near you and User ratings for each one of them, which makes you sure where to go and enjoy your stay. Meanwhile it is an Open Ended system that allows users to add their own Point of interests of any country even this country is not created in whereinme , Admins of the site will add it for you, nevertheless the Community added POI go through extensive Quality assurance and revision from site Admins. I see this Site as a must know for expats in Egypt , United Arab Emirates , Qatar Link is h3r3

Open Source Alternate to Matlab

Below are two great projects that work as Open Source FOSS alternate to the Commercial Software Matlab. 1) Octave Link (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/)