You do know that the original and still quite popular BT client is written in python, right? And that there are other quite popular bittorrent clients written in python, right? -- see sourceforge TopDownloaded...
As you can see, a python client would be very interesting for the whole BT community.
Before you say 'wah wah bit torrent is faster', etc, it is only like that because it is centralised and so a tracker can make sure everyone is seeding, there are statistics which encourage people to seed, and most importantly, there are far less files, and so the bandwidth isnt spread out as thinly.
For God's sake, please!!! Basically, all the tracker does is distributing a list random list of clients to you and keeping statistics. BitTorrent is fast because your client makes sure it is getting the most it can from the network using it's tit-for-tat logic: if a peers uploads in a nice speed to you, so you will do to him. If a peer is not uploading fast enough you will just stop uploading to him or upload to him slower. It's this selfish behavior that makes BT work - not the tracker!
The more these guys work on decentralising BT, the closer you get to just being a less efficient and less established clone of emule. Whats the point?
eMule is also decentralizing itself (with kad), so, what's your point? By decentralizing all they want is avoiding the only point of failure that BT has: its dependency on a tracker. But, then again, it is not the tracker that makes BT faster then eMule...
ON the other had, a emule server is nothing close to a BT tracker. Basically, the first only is concerned about collection meta-data and handling searches, the later just handle source searches and keeps tracks of who has each piece of the file.:-)
As far as 'warezing' is concerned (99% of traffic), BT is a terrible protocol. The trouble is, these kids see the speed of BT and think thats the way to go. They realise the centralisation is a problem, and so try to fix that. Without realising they are just reinventing the wheel. They think they are going to get the best of both worlds, because they are just warezing kids and don't know any better.
Yeah, right. It just doesn't matter that BT is the result of a PhD thesis and there are lots of papers in ACM and IEEE stating that "Yes, BT supports flash crowds and is able to keep with a almost insane number of users downloading". Those are all warezing folks, for sure!:-P
I own an Asus A7N-266 VM ( nForce chipset ) and spent a hell of a time trying to make this board work properly with linux. But once I've got it to work haven't got what to complain about anymore.
As they say in their driver download page, USB, IDE and basic things work OK out of the box with stock kernel drivers. Audio also work OK with the default intel i810 driver - i810 ALSA driver works well too. The audio driver provided by nVidia's drivers (based on the i810 ) is also GPL and works better then the i810, though.
The problem arised when I tryied to make their proprietary NIC (nvnet.o) driver work. Using the module I built with the sources from their last release (1.0-0261) my system just hanged when I loaded the NIC module. Unloading it made the system behave normally. I followed an advice from the foruns and compiled the nvnet driver from the previuous release (1.0-0256) - works like a charm;-) For the audio driver, I sticked to the one from the latest release since it works perfectly.
CDex was the first OS project for windows (besides mozilla) that popped into mind. But if the idea is to make a CD to "educate" people into using OSS, then it would be a good idea to advocate the use of OGG/Vorbis - with CDex in this case.
WHAT? Since when Startacs are simpler to use then Nokias 5100 and 6100 series?
Just compare:
nokia phones got that simple and easy to use menu system. Shotcuts are just a matter of pressing sequence of numbers that would lead you to that specific submenu ( ok.. this is not a "shotcut" really, but at least this is a consistent and quite intuitive system)
StarTac got an almost flat menu system, where you can barelly read menu names and theres no "help" screens. Shotcuts are non intuitive.
Ok, nokia phones are not as small as a startac - thats a fact - but they are not as easy to use as nokias...
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We are trying to implement a single-login -- ie, NIS + NFS + etc -- procedure here in the lab and to add this facility to the windows users, what would be really apreciatted by those ( users would be able to mount their home dir everywhere, even in the windows boxes, avoding lost of data in the computers jungle and would need to remember one single password only ) and by the adm. ( that would have fewer places to take care of... )
Samba would be the perfect tool to this particular problem IFF it could use the system's password authentication scheme ( in our case, the NIS passwd DB ) instead of its own. I thought that there was an smb.conf option that would make it use the sys's passwd but it seems that there ins't such option!
Now, would any of the fine slashdotters help me out with this problem?
--- "I may be drunk, but in the morning I will be sober, while you will still be stupid and ugly." -Winston Churchill
I'm doubtful... Why creating a new word or using complementary adjectives if everybody likes the plain and old "Hacker" term?
Things like "I am a good-guy hacker" , rather than helping to purify the original feeling of "Hacker" that everybody wants to rescue , are givin' the impression that every hacker is a cracker ( according to the Slashdoters Dic. of Defs. )
If you really wants to use hacker and not be understood as a system-invader, why not giving this information and teaching people something, saying something like:
I'm a hacker but I'm not a cracker
Ok... it also sounds silly, but is far better than "I am a Ethical Hacker"
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This is not about plain language adovocating and flamebait, but about interoperability which, IMHO, is Good Thind ©. ;-)
You do know that the original and still quite popular BT client is written in python, right? And that there are other quite popular bittorrent clients written in python, right? -- see sourceforge TopDownloaded...
As you can see, a python client would be very interesting for the whole BT community.
Anyway, these are the papers I mentioned:
For God's sake, please!!! Basically, all the tracker does is distributing a list random list of clients to you and keeping statistics.
BitTorrent is fast because your client makes sure it is getting the most it can from the network using it's tit-for-tat logic: if a peers uploads in a nice speed to you, so you will do to him. If a peer is not uploading fast enough you will just stop uploading to him or upload to him slower. It's this selfish behavior that makes BT work - not the tracker!
eMule is also decentralizing itself (with kad), so, what's your point? By decentralizing all they want is avoiding the only point of failure that BT has: its dependency on a tracker. But, then again, it is not the tracker that makes BT faster then eMule...
ON the other had, a emule server is nothing close to a BT tracker. Basically, the first only is concerned about collection meta-data and handling searches, the later just handle source searches and keeps tracks of who has each piece of the file.
Yeah, right. It just doesn't matter that BT is the result of a PhD thesis and there are lots of papers in ACM and IEEE stating that "Yes, BT supports flash crowds and is able to keep with a almost insane number of users downloading". Those are all warezing folks, for sure!
I own an Asus A7N-266 VM ( nForce chipset ) and spent a hell of a time trying to make this board work properly with linux. But once I've got it to work haven't got what to complain about anymore.
;-) For the audio driver, I sticked to the one from the latest release since it works perfectly.
As they say in their driver download page, USB, IDE and basic things work OK out of the box with stock kernel drivers. Audio also work OK with the default intel i810 driver - i810 ALSA driver works well too. The audio driver provided by nVidia's drivers (based on the i810 ) is also GPL and works better then the i810, though.
The problem arised when I tryied to make their proprietary NIC (nvnet.o) driver work. Using the module I built with the sources from their last release (1.0-0261) my system just hanged when I loaded the NIC module. Unloading it made the system behave normally. I followed an advice from the foruns and compiled the nvnet driver from the previuous release (1.0-0256) - works like a charm
I've set up a page describing what I've done.
Aonther excelent example of good OSS for windows is TortoiseCVS. From its site:
I wish Konqueror/Nautilus had something similar.... really a shame that such a god CVS client has no similar in the linux world.
CDex was the first OS project for windows (besides mozilla) that popped into mind. But if the idea is to make a CD to "educate" people into using OSS, then it would be a good idea to advocate the use of OGG/Vorbis - with CDex in this case.
Just compare:
Ok, nokia phones are not as small as a startac - thats a fact - but they are not as easy to use as nokias...
We are trying to implement a single-login -- ie, NIS + NFS + etc -- procedure here in the lab and to add this facility to the windows users, what would be really apreciatted by those ( users would be able to mount their home dir everywhere, even in the windows boxes, avoding lost of data in the computers jungle and would need to remember one single password only ) and by the adm. ( that would have fewer places to take care of... )
Samba would be the perfect tool to this particular problem IFF it could use the system's password authentication scheme ( in our case, the NIS passwd DB ) instead of its own. I thought that there was an smb.conf option that would make it use the sys's passwd but it seems that there ins't such option!
Now, would any of the fine slashdotters help me out with this problem?
--- "I may be drunk, but in the morning I will be sober, while you will still be stupid and ugly." -Winston Churchill
Alien 4 was better then Alien 3, that was better then Alien 2, that was better then the original! :)
Scream 2 was exellent ( IMHO and if you had seen Scream 1 before.... )
etc etc etc
Things like "I am a good-guy hacker" , rather than helping to purify the original feeling of "Hacker" that everybody wants to rescue , are givin' the impression that every hacker is a cracker ( according to the Slashdoters Dic. of Defs. )
If you really wants to use hacker and not be understood as a system-invader, why not giving this information and teaching people something, saying something like:
I'm a hacker but I'm not a cracker
Ok... it also sounds silly, but is far better than "I am a Ethical Hacker"