If you want to find out who is sharing files you don't have to monitor the traffic. You can just join the party:)
This is only true for open networks. If you have for instance a closed group openNap server then this would not be possible for them. They could still sneak upon you by sniffing. Thus encypting the traffic would be a goo starting point.
A possible next step would be authentication with pulic keys and a kind of trust metrics. This way I could allow friends of my friends to access my files.
Get used to the thought that ALL water on earth has been consumed at some time in history and that ALL water on earth has simply been purified by the normal ways of nature. (Hmm, I guess there is some really old water deep down under the north and south pole...)
And even all the carbon inside of us has been thru some other living organism sometime before. Yes, your neighbour actually has been shit before (scuse me french) and you too.
Oh my god, we are all made of recycled material and *gasp* even our soul has been reincarnated...
A german news magazine reports that one spam guy behind the scenes is being spammed in real life. Vengance of the spammed.
It was reported that this well known and confessing spammer had a new 740k$ home built. Someone published his address and a lot of people subscribed him to every rl paper snail mail spam available. He is being flooded with real paper.
Read the german article here: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,227395 ,00.htm l
Maybe someone has a source in english.
Looks like the victims are doing the right thing (tm): Beat them with their own weapons.
granted they are a closed platform and suffer less variability in hardware
I would not call this 'suffering'. It is a really big plus. Take a look at the late games which were released for the PS1 like Wipeout III. These games sqeeze almost everything out of the hardware.
Developers can concentrate on optimizing for this one hardware platform and take it to the max instead of having to develop and test on the myriads of different PC hardware combinations.
..can be found at the usual places, and please use a mirror for all your downloads"
Apologies if this has been discussed before and I missed it. (If so, ignore and silently send me the link to the discussion please.)
Why don't the kernel guys distribute the kernel sources over the well established P2P networks to reduce load on their servers and to speed up downloads for everyone?
I mean, why not put it into the donkey and publish the e2k link on the official kernel.org web page and also submit it to the sharereactor?
MD5 or other hashing can guarantee that the official release has not been tampered with.
As soon as these advertising idiots get a clue that MY TIME is more precious than wasting it on stupid tricks to distract my attention, then I'll be a little more forgiving of the websites that advertise.
Exactly. Time is becoming our most precious treasure. You get valuable content by surfing to a web site. Right now you pay with your time wasted for downloading ads and with your attention span.
Ever considered paying the content with another precious treasure directly (money)?
It is a common misconception that ALL the content on the web is for free. A lot is and a lot of good content is but not all. And wait, where does the good free content come from? Some comes from the universities which dedicate resources to the web. You pay for these with your taxes. Other free content comes from volunteers. They actually payed with their valuable precious time to provide it for you. It has been payed for and someone shares it.
Running Debian Linux 2.4.19 on a Shuttle SS40g. There are a couple of pages with instructions on how to set up Linux on these machines (here and here). The biggest prob on this machine regarding Linux seems to be the SIS 740 chip. You have to specify 'pci=bios,biosirq' as a kernel parameter even if the PCI bus seems to initialize fine without. You'll have probs with the modules otherwise. You also need a custom graphic driver from Thomas Winischhofers page and you have to configure X-Windows by hand.
I have graphics, USB, sound, network and firewire running fine for me. Note though that I did not even try to get 3D accel (DRI? DRM?) support configured.
As for Linux performance I have to confess and to display my ignorance towards performance freaks in public by saying: Yes, the performance is fine. For me.;-D
I have a Shuttle SS40g which already has this heatpipe thingie. The original fan has three speed steps of which the first is ok quiet. But it is hard to keep it in first stage with any standard CPU running for a while. The second speed step was too loud for my taste, since I sleep in the same room. Thus I did two things: I exchanged the original fan with a silent Pabst fan and I underclocked the Athlon XP 1600 I have. It is now running at 1050 MHz. This is really quiet! Even when I encode some oggs and watch a movie at the same time while running my small icecast radio station in the background. The two things you can hear is the small fan of the power supply which could also be replaced with a more silent one I guess and the hard drive.
Other things: Linux is running fine on it with all the features enabled I need. I use an external Firewire case for making backups, use the internal net card and a second rtl8139 to make up a router, the sound is connected to my stereo and listening to my ogg vorbis collection has a sound quality which is really good enough for me. I can't hear the difference between a normal CD player and this setup. The built in graphic card is good enough for watching movies with mplayer and running X-Windows. I am not a gamer, but I guess if you are, you can use a good card in the AGP slot of the recent Shuttle models.
When I opened the package and started assembling the machine I was very (VERY!) pleased how clean and well done this case is. Everything fits right, there is no sharp edge, the case has finger screws and even though there is little space in there it is easy to replace stuff, because the outer hull, the drive bay (shuttle bay?) and the fan case can easily be removed.
All in all this is the first machine of the many I have had so far which I really fell in love with. If you need a home entertainment machine, I can surely recommend the shuttle barebone series. Not perfect, but close...
I wonder what y'all are actually doing on the pages that have to be rendered oh so fast. Does anybody read the text on the web pages?
Serious. I guess that I spend (roughly estimated) 3-5 minutes scanning the content and reading the text on the pages I load. Often more.
Lets say it takes three clicks to get to the content, not counting the google page which should render equally fast in both browsers, then mozilla wastes 19.5 seconds of my valuable browsing time (3 x (8 - 1.5) according to measurements given in this thread).
Privoxy blocks all the annoying banner ads and wwwoffle or squid caches all the pretty deco gifs, so hey.
TWIG: I never managed to get it installed properly. First of all I had to recompile PHP to include IMAP-support, which is pretty weird when you use RPMs or SRPMs. Then I ran into a wall, because I patched IMAP, to make use another directory to store the messages. I tried to configure TWIG to use that directory (.imapboxes), but it always returns an empty document. I gave up after several tries.
What I am trying to say is, that setting up TWIG (and maybe w-agora and other useful stuff) is far away from 'setup.exe'. (Don't get me wrong, I am not using MS at all, but fiddling with Linux/PHP/Apache/Whatever configuration can be frustrating and RTFM does not always help.(resulting in 'error: qualified admin expected'))
Slashdot Mirror
Are you taling about the taliban?
*puzzled*
-j
Triesd to do this, but it segfaults for me after I enter the password.
Hmmm...
-j
You're US American, right?
I understand, that ROW (Rest of World) is weird to you.
"I weep for the species."
-r
If you want to find out who is sharing files you don't have to monitor the traffic. You can just join the party :)
This is only true for open networks. If you have for instance a closed group openNap server then this would not be possible for them. They could still sneak upon you by sniffing. Thus encypting the traffic would be a goo starting point.
A possible next step would be authentication with pulic keys and a kind of trust metrics. This way I could allow friends of my friends to access my files.
Next generation filesharing?
-silence
Get used to the thought that ALL water on earth has been consumed at some time in history and that ALL water on earth has simply been purified by the normal ways of nature. (Hmm, I guess there is some really old water deep down under the north and south pole...)
And even all the carbon inside of us has been thru some other living organism sometime before. Yes, your neighbour actually has been shit before (scuse me french) and you too.
Oh my god, we are all made of recycled material and *gasp* even our soul has been reincarnated...
nevermind...
-silence
Dang!
I wonder how I could have missed it.
"But mom! I really read my slashdot today. I swear!"
silence
A german news magazine reports that one spam guy behind the scenes is being spammed in real life. Vengance of the spammed.
5 ,00.htm l
It was reported that this well known and confessing spammer had a new 740k$ home built. Someone published his address and a lot of people subscribed him to every rl paper snail mail spam available. He is being flooded with real paper.
Read the german article here:
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,22739
Maybe someone has a source in english.
Looks like the victims are doing the right thing (tm): Beat them with their own weapons.
silence
granted they are a closed platform and suffer less variability in hardware
I would not call this 'suffering'. It is a really big plus. Take a look at the late games which were released for the PS1 like Wipeout III. These games sqeeze almost everything out of the hardware.
Developers can concentrate on optimizing for this one hardware platform and take it to the max instead of having to develop and test on the myriads of different PC hardware combinations.
silence
... but it's gone with the wind.
*duck*
I would never use more for less. More sucks, thats why they developed less. Tststs...
The Information Anarchy weblog is being enhanced with a wiki centered around peer to peer networks.
There is already a lot of good content and structure. Go, contribute!
silence
Lately I found a reference to Kademila on the Information Anarchy Wiki.
Haven't tried.
Maybe you can find more on IA.
silence
..can be found at the usual places, and please use a mirror for all your downloads"
Apologies if this has been discussed before and I missed it. (If so, ignore and silently send me the link to the discussion please.)
Why don't the kernel guys distribute the kernel sources over the well established P2P networks to reduce load on their servers and to speed up downloads for everyone?
I mean, why not put it into the donkey and publish the e2k link on the official kernel.org web page and also submit it to the sharereactor?
MD5 or other hashing can guarantee that the official release has not been tampered with.
Am I missing something here?
silence
As soon as these advertising idiots get a clue that MY TIME is more precious than wasting it on stupid tricks to distract my attention, then I'll be a little more forgiving of the websites that advertise.
Exactly. Time is becoming our most precious treasure. You get valuable content by surfing to a web site. Right now you pay with your time wasted for downloading ads and with your attention span.
Ever considered paying the content with another precious treasure directly (money)?
It is a common misconception that ALL the content on the web is for free. A lot is and a lot of good content is but not all. And wait, where does the good free content come from?
Some comes from the universities which dedicate resources to the web. You pay for these with your taxes. Other free content comes from volunteers. They actually payed with their valuable precious time to provide it for you. It has been payed for and someone shares it.
-rolf
Running Debian Linux 2.4.19 on a Shuttle SS40g. There are a couple of pages with instructions on how to set up Linux on these machines (here and here). The biggest prob on this machine regarding Linux seems to be the SIS 740 chip. You have to specify 'pci=bios,biosirq' as a kernel parameter even if the PCI bus seems to initialize fine without. You'll have probs with the modules otherwise. You also need a custom graphic driver from Thomas Winischhofers page and you have to configure X-Windows by hand.
;-D
I have graphics, USB, sound, network and firewire running fine for me. Note though that I did not even try to get 3D accel (DRI? DRM?) support configured.
As for Linux performance I have to confess and to display my ignorance towards performance freaks in public by saying: Yes, the performance is fine. For me.
regards,
-rolf
Wrong.
Accidently I built in the main fan in the opposite direction and even though it blew the warm air into the case the CPU did not overheat!
YHL HAND
-rolf
I have a Shuttle SS40g which already has this heatpipe thingie. The original fan has three speed steps of which the first is ok quiet. But it is hard to keep it in first stage with any standard CPU running for a while.
The second speed step was too loud for my taste, since I sleep in the same room. Thus I did two things: I exchanged the original fan with a silent Pabst fan and I underclocked the Athlon XP 1600 I have. It is now running at 1050 MHz.
This is really quiet!
Even when I encode some oggs and watch a movie at the same time while running my small icecast radio station in the background.
The two things you can hear is the small fan of the power supply which could also be replaced with a more silent one I guess and the hard drive.
Other things: Linux is running fine on it with all the features enabled I need. I use an external Firewire case for making backups, use the internal net card and a second rtl8139 to make up a router, the sound is connected to my stereo and listening to my ogg vorbis collection has a sound quality which is really good enough for me. I can't hear the difference between a normal CD player and this setup.
The built in graphic card is good enough for watching movies with mplayer and running X-Windows. I am not a gamer, but I guess if you are, you can use a good card in the AGP slot of the recent Shuttle models.
When I opened the package and started assembling the machine I was very (VERY!) pleased how clean and well done this case is. Everything fits right, there is no sharp edge, the case has finger screws and even though there is little space in there it is easy to replace stuff, because the outer hull, the drive bay (shuttle bay?) and the fan case can easily be removed.
All in all this is the first machine of the many I have had so far which I really fell in love with. If you need a home entertainment machine, I can surely recommend the shuttle barebone series.
Not perfect, but close...
-rolf
-r
I wonder what y'all are actually doing on the pages that have to be rendered oh so fast. Does anybody read the text on the web pages?
Serious. I guess that I spend (roughly estimated) 3-5 minutes scanning the content and reading the text on the pages I load. Often more.
Lets say it takes three clicks to get to the content, not counting the google page which should render equally fast in both browsers, then mozilla wastes 19.5 seconds of my valuable browsing time (3 x (8 - 1.5) according to measurements given in this thread).
Privoxy blocks all the annoying banner ads and wwwoffle or squid caches all the pretty deco gifs, so hey.
What are your browsing habits?
-rolf
TWIG: I never managed to get it installed properly. First of all I had to recompile PHP to include IMAP-support, which is pretty weird when you use RPMs or SRPMs. Then I ran into a wall, because I patched IMAP, to make use another directory to store the messages. I tried to configure TWIG to use that directory (.imapboxes), but it always returns an empty document. I gave up after several tries.
What I am trying to say is, that setting up TWIG (and maybe w-agora and other useful stuff) is far away from 'setup.exe'.
-rolf(Don't get me wrong, I am not using MS at all, but fiddling with Linux/PHP/Apache/Whatever configuration can be frustrating and RTFM does not always help.(resulting in 'error: qualified admin expected'))