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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?"
pttftp (PD + tftp ) that is where the action is at!
A reliable peer network combined with an unreliable UDP. Pure gold.
Following up to myself... what a day... "Denial-of-normal" -- A term invented on April Fool's Day 2004 by Slashdot member 'LostCluster'. A phenomenon where major news outlets on the web simply don't know when enough is enough and post bogus story after bogus story, in some lame attempt to be funny. Ingrating and ultimately tiresome, denial-of-normal causes many readers to stereotype the Internet as "a bunch of hoo-hah".
For other examples of not knowing when to stop, and when a gag just isn't funny anymore, see all the films of Christopher Guest after 'This is Spinal Tap', up to and including 'A Mighty Wind'.
Seems to me telnet is virtually dead.
Right up there with *BSD, but with less cheerleaders.
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
There's a difference between "dead" and "deprecated".