If you have a tab open, double-click on the area between the right side of the tab and the right side of the window. This should open a new tab.
Like so:
|[ tab1 ][ tab2 ]*********************X|
Double-click in the area where the asterisks are.
HTH.
(Alright, Slashdot wants me to use fewer junk characters so I'll describe what I'm drinking. It's a rather cheap imported German beer that I got at an Anderson's general store in Ohio. It came in a 6-pack of 16oz cans for ~$5, so it was pretty cheap. I wouldn't have bought it except that the name (Henninger) is rediculously close to my own last name. Unfortunately, it's nothing like the Bass and Newcastle I've been drinking lately. Only one more can to go!
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Well, shit. I'm also partaking in some salted in-shell peanuts, which I've been eating whole. Normally, this wouldn't be recommended, since the shells don't really get digested. However, I chew the hell out of them so they're a little easier on me as they exit. Plus, it's pretty good fiber.
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what the fuck! i wanted to type this section in all caps, but i'm sure slashcode would get me again. so i'll just type random characters.
Okay, I would have had a bigger ascii browser window, but Slashcode just wouldn't accept it. So, I had to crop my "image". I'm leaving this random rant here just for shits and giggles. Enjoy.
Also, posting this under my actual account. The above was a mistaken post as AC.)
And yes, it is a waste. Turn off your monitor, unmount unneeded hard drives and 'hdparm -y' them. I just use my 5-year-old laptop with a nice new 40GB hard drive and I turn off the display (xset dpms force off).
It's not quite as bad as people here had made it out to be. I still don't mind the Qute (sp?) theme. The new throbber is much better looking, though I wonder why they didn't make it a spinning fox, or a running fox?
3 years of stability. By stability, I mean they have been using the same software... for 3 years! That's pretty cool, especially for people who don't want to mess with things.
If you have a TV, is it standard NTSC? WTF?! My PARENTS are over 50 years old and they remember getting their FIRST color TV. Actually, I think it's pretty cool that something could last that long and still works pretty well. I still watch NTSC television, rabbit ears and all!
While the IE users have had the same version for 3 years (+ updates), the Mozilla users (myself being one of them) have had Mozilla, Phoenix, Firebird, and now Firefox. Lots of flux. If they keep this name and maybe stay at version 1 for a while with minimal updates, it will be a great help to people trying to get others to use Mozilla.
Strange as it may seem, you will meet a generally more intelligent person here. I spent a while away (at sharingthegroove.org) and I soon became fed up with the way the boards worked and the people that posted there. Bump, bump, bump, *graphical smiley*, *graphical WTF*, *wacky picture*, HAHAHAHAAHHA.
I still use the site, just not as much as I once did.
Now, when I was first reading this story, I was rather saddened to see the newbies that were posting. I suppose this is the same sort of sadness that the less-than-5-digit-UID people felt when people like me first joined. Oh well, hopefully the dumb newbies won't last long.
Well, yeah, the changed color (meh, colour) is the pits in the disc. If the colour was important, then the drives would have to be made to handle the dark blue discs, the "silver" CD-Rs, the aluminum pressed CDs, etc.
Look up how CDs work. Writeable optical media works similarly, but the dye is burned away in order to create a pit.
Now, I'm not exactly clear on how rewriteable optical media works, but supposedly, it's possible for the laser to make a pit in the dye and then to "unburn" the pit in the dye. Someone else can clear this up, I'm sure.
Slowing down the burn speed made a disc usable by the older drive.
I know I'm contradicting my post above, but I'm seeing where this might not be completely false. Perhaps the slower burn speed results in deeper pits which the older drives are able to distinguish better?
Though, I'd think that maybe the drives could change the strength of the laser in proportion to the speed of the drive, so that a faster drive would require a stronger laser?
I have absolutely no idea how things work in reality*, so I could be completely wrong.
[*Not that this has ever stopped anyone from posting to Slashdot before, but I thought I'd just mention this anyway.]
Heh. Things have progressed a bit since the 2x CD-R days. What probably happened was that your drive just wasn't able to distinguish the pits in the CD your friend burned.
I have an older (5-6 years old) laptop whose CD-ROM drive can't read all the discs I burn. It can read most any silver that I give it, though. I'm guessing it's just that the laser isn't able to "see" the pits my CDRW burns (it's an 8x4x32, so it's rather old, too.)
BTW, if you burn audio discs at 16x, do they play at that speed?;-)
Your junk and pron isn't that important to anybody but yourself!!!!
And your porn-buddy.
Porn buddy: When you've died, a friend of yours has a key to your apartment/flat and they get to your place before your family and clean out all of the pornography. You're sad that your friend is gone, but there's a bright side.
Just to clarify, when I say "return", I mean "sell them back to a college bookstore." This was some advice that was given to me when touring the campus where I currently attend classes before I was a freshman. Your textbooks are some of the most valuable things you have on a college campus. Very easy to sell, very hard to track. So, you put some cryptic mark on a wierd page and tell that to the cops when they are stolen.
I always thought it was more like: backup old files, format, install new version with new package, get used to new machine.
Either that or compile from source.
Both are time-consuming and tedious, but nice once you're done. They aren't that helpful, though, when - for instance - Thunderbird requires a newer version of glibc than that against which everything else on your system was compiled. This is one of the reasons why I'm still using Mozilla 1.3.1 and Netscape 4.7 for web and mail.
Pisses me off. And then BitTorrent works almost regardless as long as I have python available. Stable APIs are nice.
I could recompile Thunderbird for my system, but then we're back to tedious and time-consuming.
I personally have not found the tit-for-tat algorithm supposedly used in BT to be very effective. All I have to do is limit my upload to 5K/s and I can still get >300K/s download. Here's a recent download:
sharing: 0.022 (32.8 MB up / 1489.9 MB down)
I have my upload limited to 5K/s. I will seed my 1:1, but I could just disconnect. That would be as good as leeching.
It could be that I was mostly downloading from seeds, and so they didn't need any upload from me, so they were able to upload to me at top speed. However, I've had similar speeds on torrents with maybe 1 seed and a bunch of leeches.
As someone else mentioned, you'll need to forward at least ports 6881 to 6889 (or 6999 if you feel the need) from your router to your PC. Each window you open needs its own port.
You may also need to figure out how to get through your firewall, if you have one.
Regarding your question: BitTorrent does work through routers even if your ports are "closed", but in order for you to download anything, someone else's ports must be open. You are uploading at such a high rate because someone else has their ports open.
If everyone's ports are closed, no one will be able to connect to each other and nothing will happen. If the seeder's ports are open and all of the leecher's ports are closed, the leechers will not share with each other and you'll be back to having a very slow FTP site (basically).
If you open your ports, you will see drastically higher speeds. You may also want to limit your uploads a bit since you need some upload bandwidth to be able to download. Your PC needs to be able to tell the other peers that it got the pieces that they sent.
Pearl Jam shows are easy to find at pearljamtour.no-ip.org in both FLAC, SHN, and MP3. They are often sourced from the original silvers, too, so the quality is really really nice.
I didn't listen to that episode (check ftp.2600.com), but Off The Hook is on WBAI, and it's Off The Wall (Goldstein's other show) that's on WUSB. WUSB is from the University of Stony Brook on Long Island.
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Like so:Double-click in the area where the asterisks are.
HTH.
(Alright, Slashdot wants me to use fewer junk characters so I'll describe what I'm drinking. It's a rather cheap imported German beer that I got at an Anderson's general store in Ohio. It came in a 6-pack of 16oz cans for ~$5, so it was pretty cheap. I wouldn't have bought it except that the name (Henninger) is rediculously close to my own last name. Unfortunately, it's nothing like the Bass and Newcastle I've been drinking lately. Only one more can to go!
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Well, shit. I'm also partaking in some salted in-shell peanuts, which I've been eating whole. Normally, this wouldn't be recommended, since the shells don't really get digested. However, I chew the hell out of them so they're a little easier on me as they exit. Plus, it's pretty good fiber.
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what the fuck! i wanted to type this section in all caps, but i'm sure slashcode would get me again. so i'll just type random characters.
Okay, I would have had a bigger ascii browser window, but Slashcode just wouldn't accept it. So, I had to crop my "image". I'm leaving this random rant here just for shits and giggles. Enjoy.
Also, posting this under my actual account. The above was a mistaken post as AC.)
Don't forget BitTorrent. Gotta get your 1:1.
And yes, it is a waste. Turn off your monitor, unmount unneeded hard drives and 'hdparm -y' them. I just use my 5-year-old laptop with a nice new 40GB hard drive and I turn off the display (xset dpms force off).
...I'll be here all week.
Luckily for us, it's Friday.
I know. I downloaded .9rc .
It's not quite as bad as people here had made it out to be. I still don't mind the Qute (sp?) theme. The new throbber is much better looking, though I wonder why they didn't make it a spinning fox, or a running fox?
3 years of stability. By stability, I mean they have been using the same software ... for 3 years! That's pretty cool, especially for people who don't want to mess with things.
If you have a TV, is it standard NTSC? WTF?! My PARENTS are over 50 years old and they remember getting their FIRST color TV. Actually, I think it's pretty cool that something could last that long and still works pretty well. I still watch NTSC television, rabbit ears and all!
While the IE users have had the same version for 3 years (+ updates), the Mozilla users (myself being one of them) have had Mozilla, Phoenix, Firebird, and now Firefox. Lots of flux. If they keep this name and maybe stay at version 1 for a while with minimal updates, it will be a great help to people trying to get others to use Mozilla.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question287.htm
According to HSW, the laser changes the reflectivity of the dye layer, which I would think of as being different from changing the color.
Maybe we're both thinking the same thing, but just getting mixed up in the terms.
Strange as it may seem, you will meet a generally more intelligent person here. I spent a while away (at sharingthegroove.org) and I soon became fed up with the way the boards worked and the people that posted there. Bump, bump, bump, *graphical smiley*, *graphical WTF*, *wacky picture*, HAHAHAHAAHHA.
I still use the site, just not as much as I once did.
Now, when I was first reading this story, I was rather saddened to see the newbies that were posting. I suppose this is the same sort of sadness that the less-than-5-digit-UID people felt when people like me first joined. Oh well, hopefully the dumb newbies won't last long.
Well, yeah, the changed color (meh, colour) is the pits in the disc. If the colour was important, then the drives would have to be made to handle the dark blue discs, the "silver" CD-Rs, the aluminum pressed CDs, etc.
Look up how CDs work. Writeable optical media works similarly, but the dye is burned away in order to create a pit.
Now, I'm not exactly clear on how rewriteable optical media works, but supposedly, it's possible for the laser to make a pit in the dye and then to "unburn" the pit in the dye. Someone else can clear this up, I'm sure.
Slowing down the burn speed made a disc usable by the older drive.
I know I'm contradicting my post above, but I'm seeing where this might not be completely false. Perhaps the slower burn speed results in deeper pits which the older drives are able to distinguish better?
Though, I'd think that maybe the drives could change the strength of the laser in proportion to the speed of the drive, so that a faster drive would require a stronger laser?
I have absolutely no idea how things work in reality*, so I could be completely wrong.
[*Not that this has ever stopped anyone from posting to Slashdot before, but I thought I'd just mention this anyway.]
Heh. Things have progressed a bit since the 2x CD-R days. What probably happened was that your drive just wasn't able to distinguish the pits in the CD your friend burned.
;-)
I have an older (5-6 years old) laptop whose CD-ROM drive can't read all the discs I burn. It can read most any silver that I give it, though. I'm guessing it's just that the laser isn't able to "see" the pits my CDRW burns (it's an 8x4x32, so it's rather old, too.)
BTW, if you burn audio discs at 16x, do they play at that speed?
Your junk and pron isn't that important to anybody but yourself!!!!
And your porn-buddy.
Porn buddy: When you've died, a friend of yours has a key to your apartment/flat and they get to your place before your family and clean out all of the pornography. You're sad that your friend is gone, but there's a bright side.
(Stolen from the first episode of Coupling.)
Mmmm... Aass.
Return stolen books...
Just to clarify, when I say "return", I mean "sell them back to a college bookstore." This was some advice that was given to me when touring the campus where I currently attend classes before I was a freshman. Your textbooks are some of the most valuable things you have on a college campus. Very easy to sell, very hard to track. So, you put some cryptic mark on a wierd page and tell that to the cops when they are stolen.
Slackware has an upgrade system?
I always thought it was more like: backup old files, format, install new version with new package, get used to new machine.
Either that or compile from source.
Both are time-consuming and tedious, but nice once you're done. They aren't that helpful, though, when - for instance - Thunderbird requires a newer version of glibc than that against which everything else on your system was compiled. This is one of the reasons why I'm still using Mozilla 1.3.1 and Netscape 4.7 for web and mail.
Pisses me off. And then BitTorrent works almost regardless as long as I have python available. Stable APIs are nice.
I could recompile Thunderbird for my system, but then we're back to tedious and time-consuming.
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Who wants to steal my books anyway?
Me. That's some really easy money. Return stolen books, get cash. No questions.
Sorry, we use real HTML tags here: < >
To make them show up in your post, you need to use:And to make that show up rather than < and >, use the <ecode> tag.
Of course, you could also use the "Extrans" mode, but using wacky HTML is much cooler.
HopeThisHelps
They're not reading from que cards
;-)
Uhm. Que?
(Hrm. Seems Slashdot doesn't like my Spanish question mark, or I don't know how to enter it.)
I personally have not found the tit-for-tat algorithm supposedly used in BT to be very effective. All I have to do is limit my upload to 5K/s and I can still get >300K/s download. Here's a recent download:
sharing: 0.022 (32.8 MB up / 1489.9 MB down)
I have my upload limited to 5K/s. I will seed my 1:1, but I could just disconnect. That would be as good as leeching.
It could be that I was mostly downloading from seeds, and so they didn't need any upload from me, so they were able to upload to me at top speed. However, I've had similar speeds on torrents with maybe 1 seed and a bunch of leeches.
Any client will work, really. Maybe ABC has better features.
Whatever works for you. JUST KEEP YOUR WINDOW OPEN WHEN YOU FINISH!
(Sorry about the caps. Lots of people leech torrents.)
As someone else mentioned, you'll need to forward at least ports 6881 to 6889 (or 6999 if you feel the need) from your router to your PC. Each window you open needs its own port.
You may also need to figure out how to get through your firewall, if you have one.
This site might prove helpful, if it is up.
Regarding your question: BitTorrent does work through routers even if your ports are "closed", but in order for you to download anything, someone else's ports must be open. You are uploading at such a high rate because someone else has their ports open.
If everyone's ports are closed, no one will be able to connect to each other and nothing will happen. If the seeder's ports are open and all of the leecher's ports are closed, the leechers will not share with each other and you'll be back to having a very slow FTP site (basically).
If you open your ports, you will see drastically higher speeds. You may also want to limit your uploads a bit since you need some upload bandwidth to be able to download. Your PC needs to be able to tell the other peers that it got the pieces that they sent.
HTH.
That hole in the wall is where the fraggles live.
Don't worry, they're really quite harmless. They only do that bleeding-wall thing to scare you.
Pearl Jam shows are easy to find at pearljamtour.no-ip.org in both FLAC, SHN, and MP3. They are often sourced from the original silvers, too, so the quality is really really nice.
HTH
Wayback Machine / Karma-Whoring link.
I didn't listen to that episode (check ftp.2600.com), but Off The Hook is on WBAI, and it's Off The Wall (Goldstein's other show) that's on WUSB. WUSB is from the University of Stony Brook on Long Island.
HTH
Yep. Immediately, I thought "dupe!"
I don't think I got to ride it, but it was pretty nifty to watch, anyway.