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Brock University has created a comparison document of all Learning Management Systems (LMSs – like WebCT) that are available for use in higher education. This document was created by a committee (OK, 99% me) in response to the recent merger of Blackboard and WebCT, and the recent growth of projects like Sakai. This document has been published on the web in a format in which any can read or contribute to, and that’s why I’m making this post.

I’m asking anyone to share this resource with those who could make use of it and that you contribute whatever information or comments that you can. The more contributions the better.

A question for the comments: Is there interest in video conferencing?

ctlet.brocku.ca/webct/LMS_Options_and_Comparisons

Windows Vista is the next version of the Windows operating system.

Someone took the audio from a recent product demo and added screen shots of Apple’s OSX doing the exact same thing. Vista will come out a about a year from now, OSX Tiger came out about a year ago. (One company is a huge quasi-legal monopoly, one almost went out of business a decade ago).

Video 1

Video 2

On Rogers? Using their Cable Modem to connect to the internet? Did your Bit Torrent traffic suddenly die? Rogers Cable is no longer a good service for downloading files from the internet.

This is because Rogers has blocked/restricted/lowered the priority of Bit Torrent transfers in the last week or so, as a welcome home for the holidays for people like me who’s parents’ use Rogers. This is too bad as I just discovered DTV for internet TV and it downloads most of it’s files via Bit Torrent.

Based on other’s experience posted at BroadBandReports.com’s forums Rogers has restricted Torrent traffic so they can reserve more bandwidth for their new home phone service. A search on Roger’s High Speed Internet Page yielded no results.

What should you do if you are looking to purchase High Speed Internet for your new computer or you have something like Vonage or need to send file to or from work? Simple, contact your phone company about high speed internet. Rogers can no longer adequately provide this service.

UPDATE: In some Torrent applications turning on encryption will get around this, but you must turn off non-encrypted connections. An ISP (maybe Rogers does this, maybe they don’t) can just restrict traffic to places like mininova.org.

Here is a list of ISPs that punish Torrent traffic and the ammount of workyou need to do to get around it: azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Bad_ISPs

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