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PDTP - The Best of Both FTP and BitTorrent?
ikewillis writes "For awhile I've been following the development of PDTP (Peer Distributed Transfer Protocol), which is trying to merge the concepts of FTP and BitTorrent. This sounds like it could be useful for apt-get repositories or other high demand FTP sites. It's designed to be used as part of scalable networks which could replace manual selection of FTP mirrors. It also supports a number of other nifty features like cryptographic file signatures. Isn't it about time we ditched FTP for something better?"
Interesting... this could bring piracy back to the ftp world, rather than the emule appz or bittorrent world where it's easier to get caught.
No kidding, today has been ridiculous.
There's a point where it's funny, but then there's a point where it's really just overdone. I haven't even read half the stories posted, but it seems like they're all fake... and if they aren't, Slashdot is really ruining the credibility of some people. Not sure if the BSD on Gameboy is real or not, but if it is, who's gonna believe it?
You don't see CNN taking the day off. "OSAMA BIN LADEN CAPTURED!!", you click the link and read a long drawn out story that COULD be true, but at the bottom: "...April Fools!"
Karma to burn. *shrugs*
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
BitTorrent suffers another problem in that the only usable implementations are currently only available in Python. The primary problem with Python is its excessive resource usage
Really? I'm currently running four throttled BT downloads on a PII-350 w/64MB. Max CPU usage is 8%, load average 0.25. If you're really that bothered see here for an alternative.
but other problems arise such as integration of the Python implementation into a native GUI frontend for a given platform
Ever heard of WxGtk? RPMs for most distros, if it wasn't part of your default install.
as well as the need to bundle the Python runtime with the BitTorrent client on most platforms as few deployed systems have a Python runtime available
Now this is just silly. I dont think there is a linux distro which doesn't include Python libraries and even for Windows it's a single small executable. Besides (correct me if I'm wrong) but isn't one of the reasons for using Python that it has bounds-checking on arrays and is therefore proof against the cause of most exploits - the buffer overrun?