Wickham's musings from Chalke

 

I haven't been so lucky yet when out over the hills on farm tracks and footpaths.

 
I checked my website statistics to find that overnight and this morning the following three organisations had downloaded pages from my online tutorial.

128.30.52.49
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Room W92-190
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
MA
PostalCode: 02139-4307
US

150.125.32.94
Space and Naval Warfare Command
5 Crystal Park
2451 Crystal Drive
Arlington
VA
PostalCode: 22245-5200
US

74.6.20.214
Inktomi Corporation
701 First Ave
Sunnyvale
CA
PostalCode: 94089
US

"Inktomi developed and marketed scalable software applications designed to enhance the performance and intelligence of large-scale networks."

I can't believe that any of the above large corporations would need help from my tutorial; perhaps it was just an employee wanting help for his own personal web page or some kind of snooping, though these corporations aren't known for trawling the net as far as I know.

 
The Videobox of May 2007 has now become a program which can be used for conference calls between eight people and also for playing back the calls or leaving messages if the room name chosen by the callers includes a $ prefix so that anyone who knows the room name can view the videos later as a continuous discussion involving all callers and it skips on to the next call if there are several calls using the same room name.

The program has an inbuilt facility for eighteen callers which may be activated later. At present the bandwidth is limited by showing the video images in different size windows depending on the number of callers; two videos are large, three slightly smaller, four half the size of the original two in one row across the top, another row across the bottom if there are eight callers. I presume eighteen callers would be three rows of six.

See MeBeam Multivideo and MeBeam - my recorded room

The original WigiWigi programs started about two years ago were P2P and callers needed to know the IP address of their contacts to call them. The MeBeam version is coded in Flash and server-based.