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Real Time Gnutella Visualization

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-pretty-smooth dept.

brett42 writes "Some students at Berkeley wrote a python program that connects to the Gnutella network and maps out connections between nodes in real time. " I gotta say thats pretty smooth. Hopefully future gnutella clients will incorporate something like this just for the time wasting potential of watching the graph wiggle while seeing what porn others are searching for.

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  1. Looks nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This would make a cool screen saver.

  2. Graph Porn? by ldopa1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Keep in mind that pornography literally means "A visual reproduction created solely for pleasure" Wouldn't the enjoyment of watching a graph wiggle be considered porn?

    Similarly, school photos of your kid in your wallet constitutes child pornography.

    Seriously though, I've always like this kind of thing. For example, the performance monitor graph is endlessly interesting to me. The modem lights on my roadrunner is interesting to me. I'd like something more interesting than the hourglass icon. One that fills up as the work is completed would be great. It would tell me how much longer I have to wait.

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    1. Re:Graph Porn? by ldopa1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I'd actually mod you up because you're a dissenting opinion, but I can't moderate.

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  3. Re:Does anybody use Gnutella anymore? by RadioheadKid · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    I believe that Limewire does support some sort of boolean searches. I've noticed that using '+' with a search further limits the results you get e.g 'foo+fighters+everlong' returns almost only that song not anything else. Like you said though, I too cannot find any info. on this feature.

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  4. Re:The power of plain text by Hal-9001 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF is ducktape?

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  5. I don't know about everyone else... by xanadu-xtroot.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but I can't get this to run. Any ideas?

    [root@set gtv]# rpm -qa | grep python | sort
    libpython2.1-2.1.1-5mdk
    libpython2.1-devel-2.1.1-5mdk
    python-2.1.1-5mdk
    python-docs-2.1.1-5mdk
    python-imaging-1.1.2-3mdk
    pythonlib-1.28-1mdk
    python-numeric-20.1.0-2mdk
    python-numeric-devel-20.1.0-2mdk
    rpm-python-4.0.3-0.28mdk


    [root@set gtv]# python gtv.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "gtv.py", line 3, in ?
    import gnut, time, sys, math, host, os
    ImportError: Bad magic number in gnut.pyc


    Any ideas?

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  6. Re:Kazaa/Morpheus by jpostel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It it, but MS put in a bunch of 'safety features' that 'fix problems' caused by software that competes with MS products. ;)

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  7. Re:Which Dictionary are you using? by general_re · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ahh. Now where do I go about getting a pornograph?

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  8. Re:Oh Wonderful... by Skip666Kent · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The only family doctor approved remedy for Dave Mathews fixation syndrom is available here!

    Order now while supplies last!

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