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There is clearly a conflict with public interest, but people agree to follow the rules, as there were no other way to stimulate creation and distribution of work of art. Only if we would have alternative "exclusive Right" to be secured by "Authors and Inventors" and/or other ways "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", than there will be no need for old restrictive mechanisms...

But why, there are alternatives:

• "exclusive Right" to sell copies; this way author still can benefit by selling "author's" issue of his creation, but copying for non-commercial use will be unrestricted (and welcomed as it "promote the Progress...");
• author can benefit from supporting his product;
• artist can benefit from performing his work of art;
• people can tip author (feel free to laugh if it sounds funny to you)...

... i just did a note on this here

It lets me know something's happening. Blinking lights on the panel.

Yeah, I missed this too. But then, I took hard drive out of the SilentDrive enclosure, and boy, that was terrible! How could you guys stand this din? I put it back in a minute.

Also, there is neat utility Diskmon that can act as disk activity LED in your system tray... Yeah, it's for Windows. I believe there should be something similar for your favorite OS.

Add your best "Noise busters" link here

Here is a link list for computer noise busters that I found most useful

P2P is nothing by itself but it's very important sign of how internet is changing social environment.

Never before data could be found as easy as it is now if the data is indexed. Never before one can share his knowledge as easy as it is now if the knowledge is useful and fits in some index. Ultimately never before so many people could communicate with each other so that everybody can be heard and no one is deafen. Communication is a keyword. New communication media has emerged. Internet is actually getting closer to what was initial intention of its developers: "critical mass" of intellectual resources.

There is interesting tendency:
Napser has central server, keep information on client side, and it works.
Gnutella does not have central server but still keep information on client side, and it barely works.
Freenet does not have central server, and does not keep information on client side, and it is not practically usable (yeah, I know it's the most promising technology, but still...).

Also all of them call themselves peer-to-peer but napster actually has central server, and freenet do not have second peer to connect to at all. Did somebody can tell me what is it - P2P?

but it will have be divided into smaller networks...
It'll be divided, not distributed then...
However an idea of distribution still can be applied to file-sharing. As Napster works fine with the server, all Gnutella needs to do is to create distributed server to handle database and requests.

Well, actually it's the problem with all server-less architectures. Is you have to have searches you've got to have server. If you want to make it P2P classic -- make the server invisible. One way is to create distributed server. More on this here.