I know someone who works as an accountant in BMG NZ (or rather did, before they laid off most of their staff). I can confirm Elvis is one of their biggest sellers, and certainly most profitable. it costs the label almost nothing to put out a new compilation/greatest hits. I'm not even talking about remixes! She often joked that all their biggest earners are dead. Mind you, this could also be something to do with why BMG were having problems..
you can start downloading with nothing shared and as soon as you complete one chunk your download becomes an upload to anyone else who needs that piece - in fact because you're only uploading that one file you'll get a better rating with the people who have it than you would if you were sharing many files, and this your download will complete faster.
the credit system has now been secured, you can see the docs for details. hash stealing (credit theft) was a problem for a while, no longer.
eMule is not an elitist network at all, it's the opposite. unlike DC++ etc. it requires very little user knowledge or share material. it does however take some time in some cases. it is fine for people who only want one album every other week. start it up, get your album, quit the app. in the time between the download finishing and you noticiing, on average you've done your bit for the network.
this is all based on real experience using eMule. you should try it, it's got so popular for a reason.
I was referring to the RIAA/MPAA et al who might want to shut it down. more users are always welcome:) I'm not "elitist" at all, i set as many people up with eMule as i can, i've found everyone regardless of age/gender/geekiness quickly falls in love with it:)
the point is eMule is on the way up, and FT is on the way down. the article was anticipating what was going to happen in the near future, and/. jumped the gun.
you sir, know not of what you speak. anyone actually running eMule can see detailed stats on the clients they have connected to. typically 70-90% are eMule users, and it's been this way as long as i remember.
if you've never completed a download on the eDonkey network, and it's the most popular network or close - you might wonder if *you* did something wrong. RTFM next time.
eDonkey started it all. eMule took the eDonkey idea and made a better compatible open source client. the eDonkey devs (MetaMachine?) got upset that they could no longer make money from the ads in their old closed source client, or sell an ad-free version as they're still offering. at some point MM came out with "hybrid" which added a serverless network and various other things, including Horde, which is like swarming with smaller chunks IIRC. this was after eMule go popular i think. anyway, the two sides have pretty much been at war, although most of its on the ed2k side, and i think the eDonkey devs have been trying to break compatibility with eMule, favour their own clients, etc. this fails because eMule has over ~90% of the "market" and many many developers. there are also other clients which can connect to the network, including mods of eMule, but they can't do much damage as few people use them. I may have got some details wrong but i think this is roughly right.
Someone actually involved will probably see this and explain in much more detail, i haven't really cared too much.
Suggest you start using eMule, it's great and the developers are good honest folk who seem to be interested only in technical excellence (just read the changelog!).
I don't want to see this story reported. it'll only bring the twits in suits' attention to the lovely, stable and diverse ed2k network. At least the eMule devs saw this coming and have already built the lovely, stable and diverse Kad network. (both available in recent eMule clients).
btw, i run eMule 24/7 serving freeware files. no I actually do, i don't share copyright stuff, got caught doing that already (watch out Movie fans! don't share those files for months on end). i'm always uploading freeware aswell so i know it's a popular distribution mechanism for that.
i think the big change will happen if/when the source material (music for your own encoding) has a much higher datarate than CD - something like SACD or whatever it's called. that could be 10 or 20 years off mainstream.
air has several advantages, one is comfort, but also it has a very low density, this means in bike speak low rolling resistance - weight around the edge of the wheel is probably the single most important factor in performance of a human powered bike... although it may have a market in chinese road cycles i wouldn't want to swap my mtb inner tubes for solid rubber, or even some "light" web that would add plenty of weight. the same physics would hold true for cars and anything else but i don't know how significant extra weight is if you have an engine. i haven't rtfa'd.
yes i think goatse.cx would work particularly well on a gay-hater. only wish i had a webcam to capture said troll's face:) just a shame the site's down at the moment (allegedly, i'm not checking!). seriously though, i can't recommend pointing people to obscene material, your other tips are good though. i'd make it longer than 24 hours, a week even.
ok, i don't know shit about American politics apart from my half-arsed following of newspapers but isn't this going to take votes away from Kerry? i.e. it's a move to hurt democrats not help democracy. this is bad, i want Kerry to win and save the world see. i could well be talking from my rear here, as i'm sure i'll soon find out. (ignore my sig, it's out of place on this thread).
not true afaik. it limits only half open connections. the latest version of eMule, for example, understands this and works perfectly well with SP2. So that patch is not necessary, and if your machine ever decides to become a spam relay the recipients won't be thanking you for giving out that tip..
installed it on 2 out of 3 machines at home, no problems so far. actually haven't noticed any difference really. make a restore point and if something goes wrong you can roll back - apparently, i've never done or needed to do this.
one thing i will say, the 'security centre' (another tray icon) seems like a token gesture of security, i pretty quickly realised that was fluff & best turned off, as is for me the firewall (i'm on NAT.. i'm not going round opening up ports everytime someone wants to play a LAN game for chrissakes, someone will hopefully tell me an easy way to tell it to ignore LAN stuff? even then i can't be bothered to set permissions for every app) - if i want a firewall e.g. to block outgoing connections i'll start a proper firewall. I keep my virus checkers up to date myself, well AVG keeps itself up to date, although the security centre was apparently not understanding that. What's the other thing it does? oh yeah, remind you to turn Windows Update on. well great, it's on.
other than yet, yeah, pretty uneventful. it does say to backup important data before installing it, so if you're nervous or have anything important i'd advise to take that advice.
I was thinking of Hard Talk aswell. It can be entertaining and revealing (sometimes both), but i actually find Tim Sebastian irritating when he seems to be trying to antagonise his guest for the sake of it. A typical Hard Talk will end something like "(Tim:) that's not true, but didn't you say, stop lying, (sudden change of expression) thanks very much for coming on Hard Talk!". So it's an act, but irritating your guest and trying to get them to say something stupid isn't always the best idea imho. i think you'd never see a democratic head of state on that program, they'd have to be insane.
We'll need some way to heat the Thames first. Global Warming isn't going quite fast enough. It's brass monkeys in there - and non too clean neither, after they dumped 1/2 million tons of raw sewage in the floods last month..
there is a patch for this as long as you are running Windows 5+ (i think). I can tell you it fixed my BSODs a treat (Abit KT7a, SBLive). Seems to be beta and discontinued unfortunately, but like I said it works. I figure if/when i change OSes, I'll change the sound card. I only post this here because it might help someone else who recognises this problem (I didn't even realise it was the sound card, that was the last thing i thought to check. i thought i had a cracked mainboard!). Shame the necessary adjustments aren't built into the mainboard BIOS, or like you say, people kept to the spec.. this was a real arsehole to track down. I knew about the infamous VIA/Live! issue, but it only affected me after i changed from a UDMA66 to UDMA hard drive. So like i said, real arsehole that one.
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Natwest UK specifically support Mozilla (FF or suite). but not Opera..
I know someone who works as an accountant in BMG NZ (or rather did, before they laid off most of their staff). I can confirm Elvis is one of their biggest sellers, and certainly most profitable. it costs the label almost nothing to put out a new compilation/greatest hits. I'm not even talking about remixes! She often joked that all their biggest earners are dead. Mind you, this could also be something to do with why BMG were having problems..
the credit system has now been secured, you can see the docs for details. hash stealing (credit theft) was a problem for a while, no longer.
eMule is not an elitist network at all, it's the opposite. unlike DC++ etc. it requires very little user knowledge or share material. it does however take some time in some cases. it is fine for people who only want one album every other week. start it up, get your album, quit the app. in the time between the download finishing and you noticiing, on average you've done your bit for the network.
this is all based on real experience using eMule. you should try it, it's got so popular for a reason.
I was referring to the RIAA/MPAA et al who might want to shut it down. more users are always welcome :) I'm not "elitist" at all, i set as many people up with eMule as i can, i've found everyone regardless of age/gender/geekiness quickly falls in love with it :)
the point is eMule is on the way up, and FT is on the way down. the article was anticipating what was going to happen in the near future, and /. jumped the gun.
if you've never completed a download on the eDonkey network, and it's the most popular network or close - you might wonder if *you* did something wrong. RTFM next time.
eDonkey started it all. eMule took the eDonkey idea and made a better compatible open source client. the eDonkey devs (MetaMachine?) got upset that they could no longer make money from the ads in their old closed source client, or sell an ad-free version as they're still offering. at some point MM came out with "hybrid" which added a serverless network and various other things, including Horde, which is like swarming with smaller chunks IIRC. this was after eMule go popular i think. anyway, the two sides have pretty much been at war, although most of its on the ed2k side, and i think the eDonkey devs have been trying to break compatibility with eMule, favour their own clients, etc. this fails because eMule has over ~90% of the "market" and many many developers. there are also other clients which can connect to the network, including mods of eMule, but they can't do much damage as few people use them. I may have got some details wrong but i think this is roughly right.
Someone actually involved will probably see this and explain in much more detail, i haven't really cared too much.
Suggest you start using eMule, it's great and the developers are good honest folk who seem to be interested only in technical excellence (just read the changelog!).
btw, i run eMule 24/7 serving freeware files. no I actually do, i don't share copyright stuff, got caught doing that already (watch out Movie fans! don't share those files for months on end). i'm always uploading freeware aswell so i know it's a popular distribution mechanism for that.
i think the big change will happen if/when the source material (music for your own encoding) has a much higher datarate than CD - something like SACD or whatever it's called. that could be 10 or 20 years off mainstream.
air has several advantages, one is comfort, but also it has a very low density, this means in bike speak low rolling resistance - weight around the edge of the wheel is probably the single most important factor in performance of a human powered bike... although it may have a market in chinese road cycles i wouldn't want to swap my mtb inner tubes for solid rubber, or even some "light" web that would add plenty of weight. the same physics would hold true for cars and anything else but i don't know how significant extra weight is if you have an engine. i haven't rtfa'd.
yes i think goatse.cx would work particularly well on a gay-hater. only wish i had a webcam to capture said troll's face :) just a shame the site's down at the moment (allegedly, i'm not checking!). seriously though, i can't recommend pointing people to obscene material, your other tips are good though. i'd make it longer than 24 hours, a week even.
ok, i don't know shit about American politics apart from my half-arsed following of newspapers but isn't this going to take votes away from Kerry? i.e. it's a move to hurt democrats not help democracy. this is bad, i want Kerry to win and save the world see. i could well be talking from my rear here, as i'm sure i'll soon find out. (ignore my sig, it's out of place on this thread).
Ah yes. It's like all those Windows messages that tell me to contact my network administrator.
Me, meet me.
not true afaik. it limits only half open connections. the latest version of eMule, for example, understands this and works perfectly well with SP2. So that patch is not necessary, and if your machine ever decides to become a spam relay the recipients won't be thanking you for giving out that tip..
one thing i will say, the 'security centre' (another tray icon) seems like a token gesture of security, i pretty quickly realised that was fluff & best turned off, as is for me the firewall (i'm on NAT.. i'm not going round opening up ports everytime someone wants to play a LAN game for chrissakes, someone will hopefully tell me an easy way to tell it to ignore LAN stuff? even then i can't be bothered to set permissions for every app) - if i want a firewall e.g. to block outgoing connections i'll start a proper firewall. I keep my virus checkers up to date myself, well AVG keeps itself up to date, although the security centre was apparently not understanding that. What's the other thing it does? oh yeah, remind you to turn Windows Update on. well great, it's on.
other than yet, yeah, pretty uneventful. it does say to backup important data before installing it, so if you're nervous or have anything important i'd advise to take that advice.
I was thinking of Hard Talk aswell. It can be entertaining and revealing (sometimes both), but i actually find Tim Sebastian irritating when he seems to be trying to antagonise his guest for the sake of it. A typical Hard Talk will end something like "(Tim:) that's not true, but didn't you say, stop lying, (sudden change of expression) thanks very much for coming on Hard Talk!". So it's an act, but irritating your guest and trying to get them to say something stupid isn't always the best idea imho. i think you'd never see a democratic head of state on that program, they'd have to be insane.
no English, expensive public school education. but too much slashdot reading since. ironic eh?
Aw comeon, I thought it was alWright.
We'll need some way to heat the Thames first. Global Warming isn't going quite fast enough. It's brass monkeys in there - and non too clean neither, after they dumped 1/2 million tons of raw sewage in the floods last month..
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yeah it's three extensions instead of 1 but seems to work better for me.. anyway.
i need a text file of addresses just to keep track of all the latest download sites for these extensions! arg.
TBE was good, but it got really bloated IMHO. i use Session Saver and miniT at the mo'. (both working in the new release). does what i need alright.
there is a patch for this as long as you are running Windows 5+ (i think). I can tell you it fixed my BSODs a treat (Abit KT7a, SBLive). Seems to be beta and discontinued unfortunately, but like I said it works. I figure if/when i change OSes, I'll change the sound card. I only post this here because it might help someone else who recognises this problem (I didn't even realise it was the sound card, that was the last thing i thought to check. i thought i had a cracked mainboard!). Shame the necessary adjustments aren't built into the mainboard BIOS, or like you say, people kept to the spec.. this was a real arsehole to track down. I knew about the infamous VIA/Live! issue, but it only affected me after i changed from a UDMA66 to UDMA hard drive. So like i said, real arsehole that one.
you pay for porn? caveat emptor, amigo. the first thing a geek learns is you don't have to pay for it (in the virtual world anyway).
yep.. if 35 gangsters come into your house (assuming they don't have assault weapons), you can have a gatling gun and you're still fucked.
what do those "ONE"s mean?