You: I'd like to buy the latest... err.. Eminem single, please. Erm. As a present, you know. For my little brother. Sales assistant: Certainly, if I can just take your fingerprint... You: Fingerprint? I didn't know it was a crime to buy Eminem records. Yet. Although I'm sure somebody's working on it. Sales assistant: No, no, it's just to stop other people from using it. You: No, no, you don't understand. It isn't for me. It's a present. Sales assistant: Sorry, we need a fingerprint. You: He lives five hundred miles away. Sales assistant: We can sell you a voucher? Or maybe you could get him to send his finger to you?
As I understand it, refresh frequencies are normally chosen to be harmonic with the power supply frequency in order to simplify noise suppression circuitry I believe... that's how come NTSC has 30fps (or 29.9whatever) and PAL has 25, because those are half the power supply frequencies in the respective countries of origin.
I'm not sure if going up to a multiple of the frequency (e.g. 120Hz on a 60Hz supply or 100Hz on 50Hz) would give the same benefits?
I see this happen approximately once per week. Mostly, I haven't changed a system setting. It often happens while applications are starting up (particularly photoshop, but others as well). No actions are guaranteed to make it happen though, it seems fairly random.
The linked article discusses MacOSX's "prebinding". Prelinking is an implementation of the same concept for linux. It needs a recent libc version, though, so if your distribution doesn't support it the easiest way is to install a new one.
The title of the story is "Microsoft Receives Patent for Double-Click". The patent isn't on double-clicking. It's on (1) double-pressing of a button on a "limited resource computing device" in order to open an application and create a new blank document, and (2) pressing for a long period in order to open an application and re-open the last edited document.
Admittedly the idea is still an obvious extension of previous similar ideas and as such shouldn't be patentable, but it isn't quite as bad as patenting "double-click".
I don't think you're right. The statement from him when he released it doesn't suggest this. In fact, he said:
Of course I still have some strong views on which direction Shareaza should be going, and what kind of features I want to add - but now that can be part of a bigger picture, rather than the only picture. [emphasis mine]
Because it's free software, rather than an illegally hacked version of a spyware infested POS that uses a network where only the start of a file is hashed therefore downloads can become corrupted or hijacked easily.
Bram Cohen has complained that Shareaza's BitTorrent implementation is terrible
Do you have a source for that? I'd actually heard the opposite, that he was pleased to see support being integrated into other software.
Gnutella developers have complained that Shareaza's Gnutella implementation is outdated
I think that's one of the primary reasons for the open sourcing -- the original developer doesn't have time to work on Gnutella support and hopes somebody else will step in to maintain this aspect.
& that it wrongly sends tons of "Gnutella2" packets to clients that don't want them.
I believe that is related to a bug that was fixed a while back, when version 2 GWebCache servers became commonly available.
Would you prefer a client that picks a goal and makes it work amazingly well, or a client that tries to do lots of things so-so
I've never actually found a client that works better than shareaza, for me. I switched to it from limewire a while back, and was definitely impressed with the improvement in quality I saw. The UI is more intuitive, the application is more responsive and uses less memory (a critical feature for an app you leave running in the background all the time, as I do). While it seems that Gnutella has improved since I switched (it now returns results a lot faster than it used to), the support for the edonkey and G2 networks is very useful... G2 does provide a wider choice when searching for rare files, I find, and edonkey is very useful for downloading larger files that few gnutella users seem to have.
The original Gnutella's source is still available and I would think this would be simpler to follow (was more of a simplistic implementation)...
And it wouldn't connect to anything if you tried to run it today. Gnutella has moved on. The protocol has been refined, extended and revised. Modern Gnutella clients only accept connections from clients that understand the Ultrapeer/leaf node distinction, and prefer connections from clients that implement newer search strategies.
There are open source implementations, but I doubt any are significantly simpler than shareaza's.
Also, shareaza has an excellent user interface, superior in my opinion to every other P2P app I've tried.
In this case, though, I don't see too much benefit if the goal is to create spinoffs. If the goal is to have community recommendations, that might be a little more beneficial...
I think the idea was that the sole original developer was snowed under with feature requests, and he's hoping some other people might step in and take some of the work off him.
I might be trying my hand myself, I have a few ideas on how it can be improved, but there are issues that need to be resolved (e.g. it requires a more recent version of Visual C++ than I have to compile it).
I only looked at the default one. I'll admit I had forgotten that others were available.
hile it supports more networks than Shareaza, it generally doesn't support them as well. Not in my experience with mldonkey 2.5.16...
I can't remember what version I tried, it would have been up-to-date about 9 months ago, but the problems I had with it were that it wouldn't upload files on the G2 network, and didn't seem to be capable of downloading the same file from multiple networks.
Their software sucks so they need help from outsiders.
Have you actually used it? I find the user interface about the best of all the available non-spyware systems. It uses less CPU and memory time than most others (which _is_ important for a network server app). It works well on 4 different networks, each of which represents a different philosophy of how a P2P network should work.
I really don't see what people have against it, other than political issues dating back to a bad choice the developer made when he chose the name 'Gnutella 2' for his own improved network, a system that is (at least partially) backward compatible with Gnutella.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this. I also use drag-highlight modes to scroll text windows, you get much better control than a scroll wheel, or even than internet exploder's fancy scroll-wheel click and move the mouse around thing.
I find mozilla has a nasty bug where if you do too many selections in quick succession it hangs for about half a second. No idea what causes it...
Don't be ridiculous. The domain wasn't "hijacked". Nobody owns gnutella, therefore there isn't anybody who had any more right to it than he did.
OK, so he should have been more open with what he was doing. I think he likes to surprise people. That one just didn't work out quite as well as this one should do:)
mlDonkey is, I'm afraid to say, practically useless. It's hard to install, has a very poor user interface, and while it supports more networks than Shareaza, it generally doesn't support them as well.
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Never known to fail) [...]
Actually, what's worst is that the results of my search came up with 73 sites where this has been published (presumably by people hoping it works), and not one taking the piss out of it, or even complaining that it didn't work when they prayed for a huge lottery prize. [Yeah, I know that one. "Meet me halfway, buy a ticket."]
On the subject of chain mail, I've noticed a chain advert in my local newspapers. I just googled for a bit of the text of it, and here it is:
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Never known to fail)
Oh most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this necessity. Oh star of the sea, help me and show me herein, you are my mother. Oh holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this my necessity (make request) There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me here that you are my Mother. Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3 times) Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3 times) Thank you for your mercy on me and mine. Amen. (This prayer must be prayed for 3 consecutive days. Then publish this prayer and your request will be granted.
Yeah, right. Never known to fail because the person publishing it has never tried it before. I doubt anyone tries it twice, not at newspaper advert rates.
That's the general understanding of contract law, yes.
Note that copyright law may also apply here, and some actions (e.g. forwarding a message, printing it) create an additional copy and therefore aren't actually permitted by default.
You could argue that there is an implicit license in the fact that you were sent the message. But if there was a legal statement on it that you claimed not to have read, you'd be on dodgy grounds.
Actually, that analog hole is simpler to use than most computer based solutions. You buy: 1 CD player, 1 CD recorder, stick wires between the two, press play & record.
OK, so you don't get track divisions, which is annoying, but anyone who can set up a VCR could do it.
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You walk into the music shop.
You: I'd like to buy the latest... err.. Eminem single, please. Erm. As a present, you know. For my little brother.
Sales assistant: Certainly, if I can just take your fingerprint...
You: Fingerprint? I didn't know it was a crime to buy Eminem records. Yet. Although I'm sure somebody's working on it.
Sales assistant: No, no, it's just to stop other people from using it.
You: No, no, you don't understand. It isn't for me. It's a present.
Sales assistant: Sorry, we need a fingerprint.
You: He lives five hundred miles away.
Sales assistant: We can sell you a voucher? Or maybe you could get him to send his finger to you?
Dammit I'm out of mod points. That was just too funny :)
As I understand it, refresh frequencies are normally chosen to be harmonic with the power supply frequency in order to simplify noise suppression circuitry I believe... that's how come NTSC has 30fps (or 29.9whatever) and PAL has 25, because those are half the power supply frequencies in the respective countries of origin.
I'm not sure if going up to a multiple of the frequency (e.g. 120Hz on a 60Hz supply or 100Hz on 50Hz) would give the same benefits?
The shell isn't a service.
I see this happen approximately once per week. Mostly, I haven't changed a system setting. It often happens while applications are starting up (particularly photoshop, but others as well). No actions are guaranteed to make it happen though, it seems fairly random.
The linked article discusses MacOSX's "prebinding". Prelinking is an implementation of the same concept for linux. It needs a recent libc version, though, so if your distribution doesn't support it the easiest way is to install a new one.
1. Most of MS's OSs install version 6 by default. This includes 98 and 2000, which are still the two most commonly used versions, I believe.
2. The auto-install-codecs never works for me. I think you have to be administrator.
Neither of these programs run under windows.
Or, come to mention it, are installed on the version of Linux I use.
The title of the story is "Microsoft Receives Patent for Double-Click". The patent isn't on double-clicking. It's on (1) double-pressing of a button on a "limited resource computing device" in order to open an application and create a new blank document, and (2) pressing for a long period in order to open an application and re-open the last edited document.
Admittedly the idea is still an obvious extension of previous similar ideas and as such shouldn't be patentable, but it isn't quite as bad as patenting "double-click".
I don't think you're right. The statement from him when he released it doesn't suggest this. In fact, he said:
Of course I still have some strong views on which direction Shareaza should be going, and what kind of features I want to add - but now that can be part of a bigger picture, rather than the only picture. [emphasis mine]
Because it's free software, rather than an illegally hacked version of a spyware infested POS that uses a network where only the start of a file is hashed therefore downloads can become corrupted or hijacked easily.
I've been using shareaza for two years and have never had spyware installed by it. You must be confusing it with something else.
Bram Cohen has complained that Shareaza's BitTorrent implementation is terrible
Do you have a source for that? I'd actually heard the opposite, that he was pleased to see support being integrated into other software.
Gnutella developers have complained that Shareaza's Gnutella implementation is outdated
I think that's one of the primary reasons for the open sourcing -- the original developer doesn't have time to work on Gnutella support and hopes somebody else will step in to maintain this aspect.
& that it wrongly sends tons of "Gnutella2" packets to clients that don't want them.
I believe that is related to a bug that was fixed a while back, when version 2 GWebCache servers became commonly available.
Would you prefer a client that picks a goal and makes it work amazingly well, or a client that tries to do lots of things so-so
I've never actually found a client that works better than shareaza, for me. I switched to it from limewire a while back, and was definitely impressed with the improvement in quality I saw. The UI is more intuitive, the application is more responsive and uses less memory (a critical feature for an app you leave running in the background all the time, as I do). While it seems that Gnutella has improved since I switched (it now returns results a lot faster than it used to), the support for the edonkey and G2 networks is very useful... G2 does provide a wider choice when searching for rare files, I find, and edonkey is very useful for downloading larger files that few gnutella users seem to have.
The original Gnutella's source is still available and I would think this would be simpler to follow (was more of a simplistic implementation)...
And it wouldn't connect to anything if you tried to run it today. Gnutella has moved on. The protocol has been refined, extended and revised. Modern Gnutella clients only accept connections from clients that understand the Ultrapeer/leaf node distinction, and prefer connections from clients that implement newer search strategies.
There are open source implementations, but I doubt any are significantly simpler than shareaza's.
Also, shareaza has an excellent user interface, superior in my opinion to every other P2P app I've tried.
In this case, though, I don't see too much benefit if the goal is to create spinoffs. If the goal is to have community recommendations, that might be a little more beneficial...
I think the idea was that the sole original developer was snowed under with feature requests, and he's hoping some other people might step in and take some of the work off him.
I might be trying my hand myself, I have a few ideas on how it can be improved, but there are issues that need to be resolved (e.g. it requires a more recent version of Visual C++ than I have to compile it).
Which user interface? I think Sancho is great.
...
I only looked at the default one. I'll admit I had forgotten that others were available.
hile it supports more networks than Shareaza, it generally doesn't support them as well.
Not in my experience with mldonkey 2.5.16
I can't remember what version I tried, it would have been up-to-date about 9 months ago, but the problems I had with it were that it wouldn't upload files on the G2 network, and didn't seem to be capable of downloading the same file from multiple networks.
Their software sucks so they need help from outsiders.
Have you actually used it? I find the user interface about the best of all the available non-spyware systems. It uses less CPU and memory time than most others (which _is_ important for a network server app). It works well on 4 different networks, each of which represents a different philosophy of how a P2P network should work.
I really don't see what people have against it, other than political issues dating back to a bad choice the developer made when he chose the name 'Gnutella 2' for his own improved network, a system that is (at least partially) backward compatible with Gnutella.
i have a habit of highlighting as i read
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this. I also use drag-highlight modes to scroll text windows, you get much better control than a scroll wheel, or even than internet exploder's fancy scroll-wheel click and move the mouse around thing.
I find mozilla has a nasty bug where if you do too many selections in quick succession it hangs for about half a second. No idea what causes it...
There are uses of P2P networks that the RIAA can't complain about, you know.
I, for one, share free & shareware software and public domain fonts.
Plus the networks are used by pron sites to advertise their content.
Don't be ridiculous. The domain wasn't "hijacked". Nobody owns gnutella, therefore there isn't anybody who had any more right to it than he did.
:)
OK, so he should have been more open with what he was doing. I think he likes to surprise people. That one just didn't work out quite as well as this one should do
mlDonkey is, I'm afraid to say, practically useless. It's hard to install, has a very poor user interface, and while it supports more networks than Shareaza, it generally doesn't support them as well.
Replying to myself again. This one's amusing:
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http://www.laguna.net/board_dir/viewboard.cgi?c
This is a collection of prayers to St. Jude, who is of course the patron saint of hopeless causes. And computer programmers.
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Never known to fail) [...]
Actually, what's worst is that the results of my search came up with 73 sites where this has been published (presumably by people hoping it works), and not one taking the piss out of it, or even complaining that it didn't work when they prayed for a huge lottery prize. [Yeah, I know that one. "Meet me halfway, buy a ticket."]
My faith in the Internet has been wrecked.
On the subject of chain mail, I've noticed a chain advert in my local newspapers. I just googled for a bit of the text of it, and here it is:
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Never known to fail)
Oh most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this necessity. Oh star of the sea, help me and show me herein, you are my mother. Oh holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this my necessity (make request) There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me here that you are my Mother. Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3 times) Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3 times) Thank you for your mercy on me and mine. Amen. (This prayer must be prayed for 3 consecutive days. Then publish this prayer and your request will be granted.
Yeah, right. Never known to fail because the person publishing it has never tried it before. I doubt anyone tries it twice, not at newspaper advert rates.
That's the general understanding of contract law, yes.
Note that copyright law may also apply here, and some actions (e.g. forwarding a message, printing it) create an additional copy and therefore aren't actually permitted by default.
You could argue that there is an implicit license in the fact that you were sent the message. But if there was a legal statement on it that you claimed not to have read, you'd be on dodgy grounds.
Actually, that analog hole is simpler to use than most computer based solutions. You buy: 1 CD player, 1 CD recorder, stick wires between the two, press play & record.
OK, so you don't get track divisions, which is annoying, but anyone who can set up a VCR could do it.
Oh, wait...