Re:C++ as a teaching language/programming obscure?
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For me (as a programmer), "the computer" refers to all the levels of abstraction below the one I'm working at. For example, when I work in Java, "the computer" is the virtual machine, which does think in objects. At the other end, when hacking around with assembler, "the computer" is the processor and a set of registers, which doesn't. If you want to know how to program the computer, first be clear about the context of "the computer".
Well, next time you use Napster, start downloading a file from somewhere. Pop open a DOS box and type "netstat -a". You'll get a list of all active TCP connections on your machine - with IP numbers. If it can, it'll resolve them to hostnames so it's pretty easy to figure out which connection's which. You'll have at minimum a connection to the Napster server, which will read as something.napster.com, and the IP number of the machine you're downloading from.
Ever tried the netstat command while running Napster?
Re:"underground" napster servers?
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Ahhh - I didn't know it had got to this level yet. Well, then - there's really no stopping it. Workable, known protocol (haven't really looked at it enough to see if it's a *good* protocol), decent Windoze client even at Beta 6 and server software already about. Napster as a company, as a central server core, may fall, but now there's such a large potential for strong infrastructure this is one p2p filesharing system that AIN'T going away.
"underground" napster servers?
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Course all that can really be done is to stop the central servers... If Napster felt *really* nihilistic they could just open source the server code or release the server software so that anyone could run a Napster server. With the protocol being well-known, I expect that writing one's own wouldn't that challenging anyway. And surely this is exactly what'll happen if the core gets pulled?
Re:When will they get it?
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What, and they could stop it if it wasn't ported to Windows? How that work? Anyways, it was *written* for Windows.
Almost identical. Post-UK-Amiga-scene I really lost the fire; the community and "scene" aspect of it didn't seem to be present anywhere else, and the coldness of the PC scene and even the PC magazines at the time just put me off completely. Then, two years ago, I found Linux =)
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Oh well... at least they still allow VPLs ;)
... a beowulf cluster of these?
For me (as a programmer), "the computer" refers to all the levels of abstraction below the one I'm working at. For example, when I work in Java, "the computer" is the virtual machine, which does think in objects. At the other end, when hacking around with assembler, "the computer" is the processor and a set of registers, which doesn't. If you want to know how to program the computer, first be clear about the context of "the computer".
Well, next time you use Napster, start downloading a file from somewhere. Pop open a DOS box and type "netstat -a". You'll get a list of all active TCP connections on your machine - with IP numbers. If it can, it'll resolve them to hostnames so it's pretty easy to figure out which connection's which. You'll have at minimum a connection to the Napster server, which will read as something.napster.com, and the IP number of the machine you're downloading from.
Ever tried the netstat command while running Napster?
Ahhh - I didn't know it had got to this level yet. Well, then - there's really no stopping it. Workable, known protocol (haven't really looked at it enough to see if it's a *good* protocol), decent Windoze client even at Beta 6 and server software already about. Napster as a company, as a central server core, may fall, but now there's such a large potential for strong infrastructure this is one p2p filesharing system that AIN'T going away.
Course all that can really be done is to stop the central servers... If Napster felt *really* nihilistic they could just open source the server code or release the server software so that anyone could run a Napster server. With the protocol being well-known, I expect that writing one's own wouldn't that challenging anyway. And surely this is exactly what'll happen if the core gets pulled?
What, and they could stop it if it wasn't ported to Windows? How that work? Anyways, it was *written* for Windows.
Checked out gentoo - hey - nice!
Almost identical. Post-UK-Amiga-scene I really lost the fire; the community and "scene" aspect of it didn't seem to be present anywhere else, and the coldness of the PC scene and even the PC magazines at the time just put me off completely. Then, two years ago, I found Linux =)