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sort of.
if you are talking dial-up, then it's going to take a while for your node to learn the neighborhood; you would probably want to turn it on and run FROST for about an hour; you still are going to have problems getting to some freesites. You will also want to go into your default.ini file and change transient=false to true.

BTW, when people are saying FREENET is not searchable, they are mainly wrong; the Internet isn't searchable, or at least most search engines don't search it the way it would be searchable, by hitting every IP address. It's searchable because search engines go to known sites, index those, and follow the links it just found to other sites, rinse, wash, repeat. You have the same thing going on in freenet, with tools like spider.

If you are expecting freenet to act like emule or gnutella, don't. it's not. If you mainly want to trade files, run frost, it's sort of like using USENET.

Freenet is actually still working pretty well, BTW.
The developers have a nasty tendency to come out with a working build, wait about 2-4 weeks, then come out with a non-working build. the last 6 stable releases have all worked about as well as any have in the past, and we are WAY overdue for the must upgrade non-working build.
Frost is even working pretty good; it has unnecessary libraries (why, exactly, do you need to format the messages in XML? what was wrong with TXT?), and is about 2mb more bloated than the may 9th, 2003 build which worked better, but it DOES work.

sort of.
if you are talking dial-up, then it's going to take a while for your node to learn the neighborhood; you would probably want to turn it on and run FROST for about an hour; you still are going to have problems getting to some freesites. You will also want to go into your default.ini file and change transient=false to true.

BTW, when people are saying FREENET is not searchable, they are mainly wrong; the Internet isn't searchable, or at least most search engines don't search it the way it would be searchable, by hitting every IP address. It's searchable because search engines go to known sites, index those, and follow the links it just found to other sites, rinse, wash, repeat. You have the same thing going on in freenet, with tools like spider.

If you are expecting freenet to act like emule or gnutella, don't. it's not. If you mainly want to trade files, run frost, it's sort of like using USENET.

Freenet is actually still working pretty well, BTW.
The developers have a nasty tendency to come out with a working build, wait about 2-4 weeks, then come out with a non-working build. the last 6 stable releases have all worked about as well as any have in the past, and we are WAY overdue for the must upgrade non-working build.
Frost is even working pretty good; it has unnecessary libraries (why, exactly, do you need to format the messages in XML? what was wrong with TXT?), and is about 2mb more bloated than the may 9th, 2003 build which worked better, but it DOES work.

Freenet is actually still working.
The developers have a nasty tendency to come out with a working build, wait about 2-4 weeks, then come out with a non-working build. the last 6 stable releases have all worked about as well as any have in the past, and we are WAY overdue for the must upgrade non-working build.
Frost is even working pretty good; it has unnecessary libraries (why, exactly, do you need to format the messages in XML? what was wrong with TXT?), and is about 2mb more bloated than the may 9th, 2003 build which worked better, but it DOES work.

Surprisingly enough, I got all the information I needed on CNET (which I've hated since they killed winfiles, BTW).

I did actually look at some of the more pro places, but I was seeing on various message boards strong suspicion that a lot of reviews were just advertisements (No! Say it ain't so!), so I figured a place that allowed user reviews and provided general specs would be the place to go.

I ended up with a JVC GR-D30U, which is a low-end Mini-DV camera. I do semi-pro animation, and I'd been wanting something that would capture video at a decent resolution so I could play with green screening. This one does 520 lines horizontal, has a 680,000 pixel CCD, 16x Optical Zoom, and is better than a military grade starlight scope when you turn on the night alive feature (only about .5fps, though); I have night video of a herd of deer on my property from about 300' where you can count the points on the antlers easily.

A copy of Ulead Media Studio, Firewire, and this camera is all you really need. I fully expect it to either wear out or be hopelessly obsolete with 1.5-2 years, but at less that $500, who cares?

Well freenet is the obvious answer to this problem.

And, it actually is pretty much working again, at least the web-based part; just use a utility like freeweb to insert your list of songs you uploaded with /SSK@CKesZYUJWn2GMvoif1R4SDbujIgPAgM/fuqid/9// FUQID (freenet link, only works when you are running freenet), download to your hearts content.

It used to be easier, you could use FROST to share files and post messages, but someone went insane at the developer end and decided to make it pretty, and CP free and it hasn't worked for sharing files since v050903.

Before that, there were several thousand files available, download times were comparable with Gnutella / E-Donkey, and it was expanding logarithmically.

Yup, yup, yup.

I use Gnutella and Overnet to share some free 3D & Poser files I've created; I also do a lot of animations just for the heck of it that are not really something I want to include in my regular portfolio, so they get shared also.

If I wanted to do any up or downloading of anything illegal, I would surely not use a service that reports exactly who I am to anyone who wants to know, when there are fine packages like Freenet freely available (something I also share on gnutella; I had the thought once or twice that countries that block Freenet installer downloads might NOT be able to block one of the gnutella clients....just doing my part for world freedom).

There are many, many legitimate uses for P2P.

Wow. I really got Link-Happy on this one.

Yup, yup, yup.

I use Gnutella and Overnet to share some free 3D & Poser files I've created; I also do a lot of animations just for the heck of it that are not really something I want to include in my regular portfolio, so they get shared also.

If I wanted to do any up or downloading of anything illegal, I would surely not use a service that reports exactly who I am to anyone who wants to know, when there are fine packages like Freenet freely available (something I also share on gnutella; I had the thought once or twice that countries that block Freenet installer downloads might NOT be able to block one of the gnutella clients....just doing my part for world freedom).

There are many, many legitimate uses for P2P.

Wow. I really got Link-Happy on this one.