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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. Why don't they make it easier to get stuff? by Captain+Pedantic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Given the enourmous scaling problems that gnutella has (plus the fact that 9 times out of ten if you download you get something from goatse.cx instead), shouldn't these people concentrate on improving the protocol rather than bogging it down even more?

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  2. hmm by fault0 · · Score: 1, Troll

    why would anyone use gnutella when they could use kazaa/morpheus (or kza and giFT on linux). The only users I can think of are Mac users with no kazaa clients. But then again, you could probably use giFT in MacOSX. Anyone wanna clue me in?