You're account is slightly wrong in certain places...let me see:
A few internet cowboys, seeing the demise of Napster, cobble together Kazaa -- a decentralized filesharing network.
Nope, a Dutch software firm set up a daughter firm called FastTrack which set out to make a File-sharing program. They (seemingly from the article) got a few Estonians to make it. The software was targeted at business. To get more intrest from businesses they made a Public version called KaZaA, which they housed in another daughter firm (called KaZaA).
Originally, the software was licensed for distribution under three names, Kazaa, Morpheus, and Grokster, each of which was essentially the same program, with a different skin
correct.
Kazaa was known for making an attempt at placating the record industry by only allowing lower bit-rate songs to be downloaded, whereas Morpheus had no such restrictions.
This move made KaZaA a tad bit less popular, and Morpheus got a few more users out of it.
Now, Kazaa came under legal fire in the Netherlands, but didn't get an official shut down.
They did come under legal fire: They had to pay (i think) a million Euro's a day, for each day the network was still active. KaZaA said that it couldn't be shut down because it was "more p2p than napster" (which is true, but not to the extent of Gnutella for instance)
(inbetween here is correct)
Only one problem -- Kazaa's reputation was so bad, everyone was using Morpheus, who's tagline was something along the lines of "File-sharing without spyware".
Kazaa responded by ejecting Morpheus from their network by poisoning all the Kazaa hosts that upgraded to the new version. Any Morpheus client that touched an infected node was killed -- Kazaa overwrote a part of your registry to ensure you would never be able to use Morpheus again.
Nope...Morpheus was kicked off the FastTrack Network because it hadn't paid it's bills! (In the same move they kicked off giFT, the GPL FastTrack program..) Sharman did this by encripting it's login-servers authencation system.
Though by doing that they actually showed that KaZaA could be stopped, as Morpheus was now left with no central login servers. However, downloads allready begun could be finished & if you had a network of pure Morpheus users around you, you could still search each other.
Around that time, they put up a button on the front of their site offering amnesty for refugees in this file-sharing client war, and Morpheus released Lime-Wire as Morpheus 2.0b.
Basically, the new morpheus was an old fork of the limewire code with an M for a logo, and was just a klunky gnutella client. There was some hullaballoo about open source this, and no source code that, and then Morpheus released the code again. Checking their web page now, they claim to have a final 2.0 out, but I haven't used it and cannot vouch for its quality.
Correct info, wrong name...it was gnucleus. However, this move did have massive impact on the Gnutella network (which gnucleus, limewire, bearshare, shareaza, etc. use). The network just couldn't handle the massive increase in non-sharing bandwidth slurping morpheus users. (Not all, but most of them actually are that)
- the rest is correct -
Well. Now we're up to the current date, with somewhat foggy bits along the way, and probably a few confused details by myself. I would appreciate any clarifications or corrections, as this all came from memory.
You have a good memory, but my part is also from memory, though I actually read a article about it (in the time that KaZaA (the Dutch firm) was under legal fire.
Cheers, and remember: KazaaLite is the answer.
Well, ehm, partly. For now it is, though I would advise you to run giFT (gift.sf.net) under linux. It now has a FastTrack-Network lookalike plugin: OpenFT. Really cool. Scales well & really fast searches.
In the long run w'll probably want to run Freenet, but that isn't going to be done for a very long time.
And again I don't disagree with you there!:P No, really, my point was that the 'CSS + XHTML-cleanness' of the code doesn't hurt the design of the site in any way.
Pinned up next to the GeoDisplay are two charts depicting Google usage in the United States throughout the day. For searches as a whole, there is a single peak at 5 p.m. For sex-related searches, there is a second peak at 11 p.m.
I mean 5pm - Schools out, 11pm - 'Hunny' is off to bed Imagine if the Terrorist got hold of this!
I mean, the children will have won! No wait, what about the Terrorist?
Slashdot Mirror
[..] (ie cheap 2GB broadband anywhere) [..]
Eh? Who's that? the article just states that the sats are re-configurable, so they can be, uhm, upgraded. Ok.
But how does that work out to having cheap 2GB broadband anywhere?
'Anywhere' doesn't imply that it'll have world coverage, right?
I'm confused, please un-confuse me!
Features creap on you!
You're account is slightly wrong in certain places...let me see:
A few internet cowboys, seeing the demise of Napster, cobble together Kazaa -- a decentralized filesharing network.
Nope, a Dutch software firm set up a daughter firm called FastTrack which set out to make a File-sharing program. They (seemingly from the article) got a few Estonians to make it. The software was targeted at business. To get more intrest from businesses they made a Public version called KaZaA, which they housed in another daughter firm (called KaZaA).
Originally, the software was licensed for distribution under three names, Kazaa, Morpheus, and Grokster, each of which was essentially the same program, with a different skin
correct.
Kazaa was known for making an attempt at placating the record industry by only allowing lower bit-rate songs to be downloaded, whereas Morpheus had no such restrictions.
This move made KaZaA a tad bit less popular, and Morpheus got a few more users out of it.
Now, Kazaa came under legal fire in the Netherlands, but didn't get an official shut down.
They did come under legal fire: They had to pay (i think) a million Euro's a day, for each day the network was still active. KaZaA said that it couldn't be shut down because it was "more p2p than napster" (which is true, but not to the extent of Gnutella for instance)
(inbetween here is correct)
Only one problem -- Kazaa's reputation was so bad, everyone was using Morpheus, who's tagline was something along the lines of "File-sharing without spyware".
Kazaa responded by ejecting Morpheus from their network by poisoning all the Kazaa hosts that upgraded to the new version. Any Morpheus client that touched an infected node was killed -- Kazaa overwrote a part of your registry to ensure you would never be able to use Morpheus again.
Nope...Morpheus was kicked off the FastTrack Network because it hadn't paid it's bills! (In the same move they kicked off giFT, the GPL FastTrack program..) Sharman did this by encripting it's login-servers authencation system.
Though by doing that they actually showed that KaZaA could be stopped, as Morpheus was now left with no central login servers. However, downloads allready begun could be finished & if you had a network of pure Morpheus users around you, you could still search each other.
Around that time, they put up a button on the front of their site offering amnesty for refugees in this file-sharing client war, and Morpheus released Lime-Wire as Morpheus 2.0b.
Basically, the new morpheus was an old fork of the limewire code with an M for a logo, and was just a klunky gnutella client. There was some hullaballoo about open source this, and no source code that, and then Morpheus released the code again. Checking their web page now, they claim to have a final 2.0 out, but I haven't used it and cannot vouch for its quality.
Correct info, wrong name...it was gnucleus. However, this move did have massive impact on the Gnutella network (which gnucleus, limewire, bearshare, shareaza, etc. use). The network just couldn't handle the massive increase in non-sharing bandwidth slurping morpheus users. (Not all, but most of them actually are that)
- the rest is correct -
Well. Now we're up to the current date, with somewhat foggy bits along the way, and probably a few confused details by myself. I would appreciate any clarifications or corrections, as this all came from memory.
You have a good memory, but my part is also from memory, though I actually read a article about it (in the time that KaZaA (the Dutch firm) was under legal fire.
Cheers, and remember: KazaaLite is the answer.
Well, ehm, partly. For now it is, though I would advise you to run giFT (gift.sf.net) under linux. It now has a FastTrack-Network lookalike plugin: OpenFT. Really cool. Scales well & really fast searches.
In the long run w'll probably want to run Freenet, but that isn't going to be done for a very long time.
dupe
If you mod the parent up, the terrorist wil have won!
(Cringingly bad attempt at humor..)
Dude, you just said the PC is dying - on slashdot - and got away with it!
:P
Where is this world coming too?
that this is a rather poor implementation.
:P
;)
And again I don't disagree with you there!
No, really, my point was that the 'CSS + XHTML-cleanness' of the code doesn't hurt the design of the site in any way.
Hope I finally cleared that up.
that played like a saxaphone
Sweet! But, ehm, it's Saxophone.
Each of these input methods has different nuances [..]
What are the nuances of the "wind controller" then? Only 1 note a time thus no cords...hmmm
dunno about his point, but my point was (with the phoenix FAQ) that css CAN and often does look really good!
Because
are you're friends! (Use either top or bottom and left & right of course...!
Yes...they should use CSS....
It actually makes a page much prettier, yes you read that correctly, prettier.
Just take a look at the (unoffical) Phoenix FAQ.
It's in strict XHTML & CSS... and it looks wonderfull!
your own desktop cluster
I think 'Beowolf' is the word you're looking for...
Gives a whole new meaning to 'being blown off you feet' !
But I bet he won't stop, the money is too good.
Oh sure he's got tons of money, but couldn't his penis do with a couple of more inches?
I know it's newsworthy to slashdot....
It's just that having an article about you published on slashdot actually makes firms more money!
[..]helped the Russians keep up their part of the ISS bargain
Only problem is that the russians still didn't keep to their end of the bargan...
Yep. Its' offcial:
Slashvertisements work!
Just read this:
[..] and after it was mentioned on Slashdot my company (Elphel Inc.) was flooded with inquiries regarding general purpose network cameras
Dude, you're all wrong....there is no spoon!
even if Mozilla is still running.
:(
Noooooooo! DON'T!!!!
I speak from experience.....
IN SOVIET RUSSIA....
we actually make good jokes!
Ogg? Who wants ogg?
......oh wait...
Now if they had a Palm Tattooing Robot, that'd be really
So is the robot gruff, look like a biker and makes fun of your tattoo choice as well as laugh when you scream?
No, but he does have Ogg/Vorbis support
Oops! tatoo device 1 on fire!
ping localhost | perl -e 'while () { print "\007" if /ttl/; print }'
Dude, get real.
A "echo Is this thing on?" is all you need.
Scary
Yeah, just look at this data:
Pinned up next to the GeoDisplay are two charts depicting Google usage in the United States throughout the day. For searches as a whole, there is a single peak at 5 p.m. For sex-related searches, there is a second peak at 11 p.m.
I mean 5pm - Schools out, 11pm - 'Hunny' is off to bed
Imagine if the Terrorist got hold of this!
I mean, the children will have won!
No wait, what about the Terrorist?
At least you're PVR is cosher.