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Locutus Preview Released
An anonymous reader writes "FreeNet's Ian Clarke has released the preview version of his latest P2P endeavor Locutus. Aimed at the corporate world, Locutus adds encryption to the mix - new for a P2P client - to secure files traded across the network as well as the ability to scan within text files to improve search results. Locutus Lite is the free version for those who are more concerned with trading movies and tunes. Locutus Enterprise is the pay version that Clarke hopes to lure corporations to shell out money for (for secure trading of research and other documents). Those interested in trying the preview can download it here."
It's tradition. Bend over.
fuck it!!!
shouldn't this be with the microsoft icon?
fuck that cunt.
any suggestions appreciated
I noticed when I was setting it up that it only adds the file extensions of .doc .htm .html .mp3 .ppt and .txt - Does this mean no movies/wares?
Also, Amazing, I just did a search for pr0n (spelt correctly)... and nothing turned up! Jeez slashdotters, you guys arn't what you used to be...
The application is only 400k in size, but many users will notice that the download is over 20MB. This is because Locutus relies on Microsoft's .NET framework, and if a user doesn't have .NET they will automatically download a version of the installer that does.
Go figure - Locutus only works with Windows.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Fuck
I could have done many other things than reading with interest about a potentially useful P2P app, only to get down to the brass tacks and discover that it's engine is in fact .Net
.Net Framework for Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X :)
Sorry, Mike, but will you at least post a Windbox-only disclaimer? I don't have any of those anymore, and am happily phasing them out of existance in my workplace - not a small task when you have to deal with 800 or so computers, with a group of users which frequently points to the monitor when talking about the "computer."
But I digress. My point is, I'd have been much happier to see something like this wrapped around something which doesn't require Windows to use. Unless, of course, someone can point me to Microsoft
political_news.c: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
I know I am not supposed to be replying to my own post, dammit, but the more I think of this, even more I get pissed.
I know this is off topic and we are supposed to be discussing Locutus.. but this thing in the article I read just bugs me to no friggen end. And I will sacrifice karma if necessary to vent in public, but I feel its something I gotta do.
Here we are, facing a world where bandwidth is at a premium, and viral infections are running rampant, and we code some application that takes 20 MEGAbytes of loader to transfer a 400K File? C'mon! Is there any common sense left in programming any more?
If this is one of the wonders the .NET world is bringing us, is there any hope that when things do go wrong, we will have any hope in hell of finding it? Geez, its worse than cars,,, open up the hood and its full of twisty turny little passages that go everywhere, thoroughly obfuscating what is supposed to be a simple elegant function.
What in the hell is going on here?!???!
Let me now turn my PARANOIA MODE = ON.
I am really beginning to wonder, folks, if the "big guys" are coding this stuff in such a manner as to hide "bugs" which are being placed in code *on purpose* so that later the company can commandeer that machine. If somebody finds the bug, then they will release a patch... so they make humongous code so it will be very difficult, if not impossible to find all the "bugs".
It was noted in an earlier story here on slashdot about our government's role in planning "cyber attacks" on other governments. Is this some plan for planting the seeds for cyber-attacks on anyone using these systems? If so, just who knows about it. You know how insecure security through obscurity is... and there is no telling that someone you did not think knew about something did indeed know about it, but just did not use his little "ace up his sleeve" until just the moment he could pull it off and do the most harm.
I mean 20 Megabytes of code just to load something? Just what in God's Green Earth do we need with a 20 MEGABYTE loader?!!?! The more complicated we make something, the more things there is to go bad. Damm, does Microsoft value a coder by his weight?
Forgive the rant, fellas, I am just pissed at what I see happening here, and I only want to run my indignation up the flagpole to see if anyone else is getting as pissed as I over it. I know I am not supposed to use such blunt words as 'pissed', but then I am trying to accurately indicate the position I am in.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
In Soviet Russia, Locutus Preview YOU!
Lower your standards and surrender your mod points. We will add your tautological and non-tautological statements to our own. Your lack of culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is erotic.
Repeal the DMCA!
What better way to promote a P2P program than to choose a name that implies, "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, SO SUCK ON DEEZ NUTS, RIAA!" ;)
Repeal the DMCA!
Natalie Portman pours hot grits down YOUR pants!