The tracker does indeed determine which sources to send out, but this model could be much improved. I believe that each client should advertise Country, ISP, and a user-configurable string.. and trackers should try to match up people who are close to one another, or people who specifically want to be matched up. This would help at places like universities.. I'm currently working on a client that will have this support (currently it's based on the experimental client, with the adition of a Win32 GUI and console mode Win32 status windows.. it's called burst!).
A tracker could theoretically handle a very large amount of people, as it's all based on stateless HTTP. It does not take a lot of traffic at all, and most communication is already gzipped.
Multiple trackers for the same file have been discussed, but the idea was shot down. It would be too difficult to properly synchronize between the two of them, to make sure both know of all peers.
No, the trackers a central point of failure. If they're down, the.torrent is useless. It has been discussed that putting in backup trackers (so make announce url a list instead of just a string), but Bram doesn't want to implement it because he wants to encourage fast, stable trackers.
A tracker is much like an index server, but it also knows about the status of the transer of each peer (they periodically "check in"), so it's more like a hive mind:)..
Re:ed2k and overnet
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eMule uses a 9mb piece size, BT uses a 256kb - 1024kb piece size.. this means partials go out quicker. Also, ed2k links only store a hash for the whole file, whereas BT stores a hash of each block inside the.torrent files.. this makes it impossible to effectively poison a torrent with bad data.
eMule is designed for sharing lots of different files, whereas BT is designed for sharing a few, specific files.
BT also favours people who upload (not only that, but people who upload faster), it's just transparent to the user.
Anyone can run a BT tracker, and when these operate properly, they take care of all source propagation in a central manner, which can then be optimized.
No, burst keeps one icon, with a constantly updated pop-up menu to show transfer progress and state. You may wish to enable "Start Transfers Hidden" under options if you don't want to see the console downloader windows (they're for advanced users and seeders, but they let you adjust upload rate and number of unchoked uploads at will, using up/down/left/right).
To re-open a file for sharing, follow the procedure for downloading it again, and choose the same destination file. It will go through a checking phase, and will then stay at 100%, and you will begin seeding.
Re:short term - new clients are too configurable
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As many have pointed out, if you have an asynchornous connection where you can download way faster then uploading, then uploading too much blocks TCP ACKs and kills your download speed. This is why clients that let you adjust the upload rate "sprang up".
This does not give people an excuse to leech. I'm currently co-ordinating with a number of other developers to create an anti-leech tracker (it keeps track of how much you've uploaded and how much you've downloaded, and will begin to warn and/or deny you at a certain ratio after a certain ammount of time).
The reason BT's speed is dropping is not becuase people are limiting uploads, but becuase popularity is growing. There aren't 100 people on a file anymore, there's 2000.
Do a little test. Grab BT Availability Checker from that page, and run it on a torrent that's got lots of people (new simpsons episode, matrix reloaded, whatever).
If you're lucky, half of the 50 or so peers you're sent (out of 2000!) will be actually alive. There is currently no way to "match up" people who should be sending things to one another (one the same ISP or LAN), but again, we're working on it.
BT is still in it's infancy, but the future looks good.
The torrent creation guide relies on the stock completedir; bleh... a much better replacement is MakeTorrent. Currently it's an enhanced/modified completedir (sources are available, so you can use it under *nix), but I'm working on a complete rewrite. There are guides here and here.
I'm also developing an alternative client, and many people prefer the interface to the stock one.. it's called burst! (front-end is released GPL, back-end currently still relies on the python code which is MIT).
What about a refundable deposit? 50 cents.. maybe a buck. That would encourage people to recycle the disks.. Rent movies as usual, and when you have a buildup of these expired disks (enough for a rental of another movie), bring them back, and let your deposit pay for another movie! Rinse, Lather, and Repeat..
"We're interested in mythology, theology, and, to a certain extent, higher-level mathematics," Larry told Time in 1999. In a Warner Bros. Web chat that year, they were asked to what extent their allusions to myths and philosophy were intentional. "All of it," they said.
If you want to completely miss out on the deeper meaning of the movie, then go right ahead, stare at the pretty pictures that flash by your eyes when you're at the movie theater... the rest of us like to do some thinking now and again about what it is we're looking at, and what we can learn from it.
I took an introductory Philosophy course, which was basically consisted of studying the Republic.
It's gruelling. It's very, very difficult to read, and even more difficult to UNDERSTAND. If not for hours of the professor talking about it and explaning it, and then many more hours of my TA explaining and answering questions arising from me and my peers while trying to understand what the hell he was talking about, I don't think I would have gotta very much out of it at all!
You can't just "read" it. You have to read it in context with the time in which it was written.. and that being oh, ~ 2400 years ago, a LOT of things were different then. Plato assumes you "know" things that we no longer do, and that are no longer common practice (comments on ancient Greek homosexuallity, anyone?).
Re:Probably not allowed
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RTFA.
a) This has already been approved by two networks (AT&T and some other one)
b) It does not send continuous pictures. you send it a blank message, and it responds back with the latest picture it's snapped..
PCs with no upgrade slots? Compaq is way ahead of you.. qouth the article:
"For example, consider the Compaq Evo D510 e-PC (below). It's a largely legacy-free, extremely compact (4 inches by 10 inches by 12 inches, 10 pounds) sealed box that's small and light enough to hang on a wall instead of occupying floor or desk space. Its primary connectivity is provided by no fewer than six USB ports. There's no floppy, no legacy parallel or serial ports, and no slots inside the box; indeed, there's no real reason to open the box at all. "
I wouldn't touch it with a 60 foot pole.. they can have my PCI slots when they pry them from my cold dead fingers, ditto for my PS/2 ports.
Re:No need to run Windows as an Administrator
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Why?
Because you never know what will want you to be an administrator. Stupid installers for all kinds of software demand administrative priviledges.
All versions of windows are still single-user systems at heart, there isn't much point.. a well written trojan could fuck you up just as bad under a user account (especially if that's the only OTHER user on the system) as it could under an administrator account..
Personally, I just excersise a little caution.. run a monitoring anti-virus program, make sure linux/*bsd is firewalling you, don't open e-mail attachments, etc, etc...
What's all this bullshit about shielding the children anyways? The children don't need, nor want your shielding.
I'm not saying we should starting selling pr0n in all elementary schools world wide, but kids are going to have sex. They're going to look at other, naked, kids or adults or whatever. They're going to be curious; this is what kids do.
So instead of shielding your [proverbial] kids from the "horrors" of porn, how about educating them instead?
There is such a thing as tasteful porn (that doesn't involve anal sex followed by the guy blowing his load all over the girl's face.. that should be saved for their mid-late teens, but if they really want it, how the hell are we going to stop them?).
STOP LYING TO YOUR KIDS.
Don't make them grow up in an imaginary world you've built for them.. They will be totally unprepared for the real horrors, or the real world. Your job as a parent is to educate your kids as to what is [relatively] right and [relatively] wrong. Don't be afraid of sex, it's not wrong, and it doesn't have to be dirty (I still remember the first pr0n pic I downloaded from a local BBS, it was a girl who had a sweater on, the kind with lots of holes in it, and you could ALMOST SEE A NIPPLE! me and my friends were amazed. This was more then enough for us.)
Kids get curious around the age of 12.. waiting until they're 21, 18, or even 15, is FAR TOO LATE. If you don't educate your kids, the world will, and the world isn't a very caring, nor loving teacher.
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The tracker does indeed determine which sources to send out, but this model could be much improved. I believe that each client should advertise Country, ISP, and a user-configurable string.. and trackers should try to match up people who are close to one another, or people who specifically want to be matched up. This would help at places like universities.. I'm currently working on a client that will have this support (currently it's based on the experimental client, with the adition of a Win32 GUI and console mode Win32 status windows.. it's called burst!).
.torrent is useless. It has been discussed that putting in backup trackers (so make announce url a list instead of just a string), but Bram doesn't want to implement it because he wants to encourage fast, stable trackers.
:)..
A tracker could theoretically handle a very large amount of people, as it's all based on stateless HTTP. It does not take a lot of traffic at all, and most communication is already gzipped.
Multiple trackers for the same file have been discussed, but the idea was shot down. It would be too difficult to properly synchronize between the two of them, to make sure both know of all peers.
No, the trackers a central point of failure. If they're down, the
A tracker is much like an index server, but it also knows about the status of the transer of each peer (they periodically "check in"), so it's more like a hive mind
eMule uses a 9mb piece size, BT uses a 256kb - 1024kb piece size.. this means partials go out quicker. Also, ed2k links only store a hash for the whole file, whereas BT stores a hash of each block inside the .torrent files .. this makes it impossible to effectively poison a torrent with bad data.
eMule is designed for sharing lots of different files, whereas BT is designed for sharing a few, specific files.
BT also favours people who upload (not only that, but people who upload faster), it's just transparent to the user.
Anyone can run a BT tracker, and when these operate properly, they take care of all source propagation in a central manner, which can then be optimized.
No, burst keeps one icon, with a constantly updated pop-up menu to show transfer progress and state. You may wish to enable "Start Transfers Hidden" under options if you don't want to see the console downloader windows (they're for advanced users and seeders, but they let you adjust upload rate and number of unchoked uploads at will, using up/down/left/right).
To re-open a file for sharing, follow the procedure for downloading it again, and choose the same destination file. It will go through a checking phase, and will then stay at 100%, and you will begin seeding.
As many have pointed out, if you have an asynchornous connection where you can download way faster then uploading, then uploading too much blocks TCP ACKs and kills your download speed. This is why clients that let you adjust the upload rate "sprang up".
This does not give people an excuse to leech. I'm currently co-ordinating with a number of other developers to create an anti-leech tracker (it keeps track of how much you've uploaded and how much you've downloaded, and will begin to warn and/or deny you at a certain ratio after a certain ammount of time).
The reason BT's speed is dropping is not becuase people are limiting uploads, but becuase popularity is growing. There aren't 100 people on a file anymore, there's 2000.
Do a little test. Grab BT Availability Checker from that page, and run it on a torrent that's got lots of people (new simpsons episode, matrix reloaded, whatever).
If you're lucky, half of the 50 or so peers you're sent (out of 2000!) will be actually alive.
There is currently no way to "match up" people who should be sending things to one another (one the same ISP or LAN), but again, we're working on it.
BT is still in it's infancy, but the future looks good.
The torrent creation guide relies on the stock completedir; bleh... a much better replacement is MakeTorrent. Currently it's an enhanced/modified completedir (sources are available, so you can use it under *nix), but I'm working on a complete rewrite. There are guides here and here.
I'm also developing an alternative client, and many people prefer the interface to the stock one.. it's called burst! (front-end is released GPL, back-end currently still relies on the python code which is MIT).
What about a refundable deposit? 50 cents.. maybe a buck. That would encourage people to recycle the disks.. Rent movies as usual, and when you have a buildup of these expired disks (enough for a rental of another movie), bring them back, and let your deposit pay for another movie! Rinse, Lather, and Repeat..
The idea is you keep it sealed until you want to watch it.. It probably reacts with air.
The website claims it's recyclable.. although it doesn't mention any specifics. How the hell do you recycle an unreadable DVD anyway?
.. console like loading (stick the CD in, turn PC on, quick boot and run).
Except that you can't open a PC CDROM drive while the PC is turned off...
If you want to completely miss out on the deeper meaning of the movie, then go right ahead, stare at the pretty pictures that flash by your eyes when you're at the movie theater... the rest of us like to do some thinking now and again about what it is we're looking at, and what we can learn from it.
Xazzon BT link .. it's on my cable ISP's webspace, so it should hold up. The tracker is another story..
I didn't get the other files in time, so I cannot torrent them.
I took an introductory Philosophy course, which was basically consisted of studying the Republic.
.. and that being oh, ~ 2400 years ago, a LOT of things were different then. Plato assumes you "know" things that we no longer do, and that are no longer common practice (comments on ancient Greek homosexuallity, anyone?).
It's gruelling. It's very, very difficult to read, and even more difficult to UNDERSTAND. If not for hours of the professor talking about it and explaning it, and then many more hours of my TA explaining and answering questions arising from me and my peers while trying to understand what the hell he was talking about, I don't think I would have gotta very much out of it at all!
You can't just "read" it. You have to read it in context with the time in which it was written
RTFA.
a) This has already been approved by two networks (AT&T and some other one)
b) It does not send continuous pictures. you send it a blank message, and it responds back with the latest picture it's snapped..
Most "consumer OSs" don't support SMP,
and your mom dosn't have an ATA raid array (which almost always requires drivers)..
This doesn't mean as much as you think...
3 posts and the website is dead already...ugh..
PCs with no upgrade slots? Compaq is way ahead of you.. qouth the article:
"For example, consider the Compaq Evo D510 e-PC (below). It's a largely legacy-free, extremely compact (4 inches by 10 inches by 12 inches, 10 pounds) sealed box that's small and light enough to hang on a wall instead of occupying floor or desk space. Its primary connectivity is provided by no fewer than six USB ports. There's no floppy, no legacy parallel or serial ports, and no slots inside the box; indeed, there's no real reason to open the box at all. "
I wouldn't touch it with a 60 foot pole.. they can have my PCI slots when they pry them from my cold dead fingers, ditto for my PS/2 ports.
I think step 3 is "Sell bandwidth to businesses that need it" ..
Have you tried VDMSound? It's a soundblaster emulator for Win2k.
Both are a gateway into massive ammounts of information on just about anything and anywhere.
Both give a strongly biased view (sometimes, many conflicting biased views) on just about every topic
Both are misleading most of the time, and most importantly:
Both are just plain wrong the rest of the time.
Draw your own conclusions...
Bittorrent would be even better suited.. *Sigh* when will people who have enormous files to give away learn about the wonders of file swarming..
Your DivX player hooks up to your TV.
VCDs look good on a TV.
If your DivX player played VCDs, you could watch them.. on a TV!
What's this about converting something?
Consider yourself lucky.
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Why?
.. a well written trojan could fuck you up just as bad under a user account (especially if that's the only OTHER user on the system) as it could under an administrator account..
Because you never know what will want you to be an administrator. Stupid installers for all kinds of software demand administrative priviledges.
All versions of windows are still single-user systems at heart, there isn't much point
Personally, I just excersise a little caution.. run a monitoring anti-virus program, make sure linux/*bsd is firewalling you, don't open e-mail attachments, etc, etc...
No, it's not wrong.
.. that should be saved for their mid-late teens, but if they really want it, how the hell are we going to stop them?).
.. waiting until they're 21, 18, or even 15, is FAR TOO LATE. If you don't educate your kids, the world will, and the world isn't a very caring, nor loving teacher.
What's all this bullshit about shielding the children anyways? The children don't need, nor want your shielding.
I'm not saying we should starting selling pr0n in all elementary schools world wide, but kids are going to have sex. They're going to look at other, naked, kids or adults or whatever. They're going to be curious; this is what kids do.
So instead of shielding your [proverbial] kids from the "horrors" of porn, how about educating them instead?
There is such a thing as tasteful porn (that doesn't involve anal sex followed by the guy blowing his load all over the girl's face
STOP LYING TO YOUR KIDS.
Don't make them grow up in an imaginary world you've built for them.. They will be totally unprepared for the real horrors, or the real world. Your job as a parent is to educate your kids as to what is [relatively] right and [relatively] wrong. Don't be afraid of sex, it's not wrong, and it doesn't have to be dirty (I still remember the first pr0n pic I downloaded from a local BBS, it was a girl who had a sweater on, the kind with lots of holes in it, and you could ALMOST SEE A NIPPLE! me and my friends were amazed. This was more then enough for us.)
Kids get curious around the age of 12