I emailed the creator of RomNet as soon as I saw that there was no Linux client, asking for either protocol docs or the current source.
He says that he won't distribute docs, though he will "at some point hopefully build that client".
So, my question is, are there any generalized versions of a Napster client-server model? Something with modules for getting info on the given files, perhaps communicating this to the server via XML (easy to do fields)? Don't say GNUtella; GNUtella is a completely different paradigm. It's distributed client-client, not a client-server/client-client model like Napster.
Napster, for me at least, is much much faster than GNUtella, sucks less bandwidth (from me), is easier to find things on, and has more of the MP3s I want. I think it's the right model, performance-wise. ---
Actually, the coffee brewing process is not perfect. You'll get more caffeine out of eating a given bean than you would from brewing coffee from that same bean. The same obviously applies to a group of beans. ---
Re:Caffeine has it'sown MSDS too
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Well, even though 192 mg/kg is technically the lethal dosage, a lot less than that can kill you. A friend of mine, who weighs around 200 pounds or 94 kilograms, once drank 22 shots of espresso in one sitting. That's around 2200 mg of caffeine, which is only 23.4 mg/kg. And yet, the next day his limbs started losing feeling and turning blue (I don't know why it was the next day.. well, he drank it late at night, maybe it happened early in the day), and we had to take him to the hospital. Caffeine poisoning isn't all that hard to clean up, they just gave him some saline and flushed him out, but the doctor in the emergency room told us that he came close to dying of it, and definitely would have if he hadn't run out of aderol the day before.
So even something not that far over the toxicity level can kill you. ---
If I'm in a battle with someone, and some other party kills that someone, does my cause in the battle benefit? You betcha. Do I have to like how it happened? Nope. But I can still be happy I won the battle; I'm also at war with the third party, but I benefited from that party's actions. ---
The main problem with Quicktime 4 on Linux is Sorenson's licensing. Talk to Sorenson, not to Apple. Well, talk to Apple too, and get them to talk to Sorenson. ---
Has anyone actually managed to download those drivers? I've been trying for around an hour now, and the site is still down. Anyone care to post a mirror, or I'll mirror if someone'll get me the drivers.
My email is dyfrgi at otter dot yi dot org, btw. ---
As I've been finding increasingly true with computers lately, eventually it reaches a stage where it is "good enough" for that tech. For instance, my K6-III/400 is good enough for almost everything I want to do. Sure, I can't run OpenGL screenhacks as my background, but it's fast enough for just about everything I want to do. Too bad laptop manufacturers don't seem to realize that..
But that's besides the point. The point is that this is so fast that the limits of it are unlikely to be reached any time soon. Most things that would need more than that kind of bandwidth are video, and that's usually streamed using a specialized protocol (and usually proprietary, too.. maybe even always), thus bypassing the HTTP server. ---
I've set up my/etc/aliases file to redirect all mail to devnull to, well,/dev/null. I find it works quite well to send spam to devnull@mydomain. Thus you prevent the massive load on servers like nowhere.com which, according to the webpage, gets about 80000 (!) pieces of mail a month. ---
Most people seem to have not found the homepage of the project (not surprising, as I saw no link on the CNN story.) The project is at http://www.archive.org. There are 3 archives there; the web, from 1996 to now, taking 13.8 TB. FTP, in 1996, taking.05 TB. And Usenet, from '96 to '98, at 0.592TB. All this space info is from the front page of the site.
There is info on the side on how the archive is accessed, created, who pays for it, everything. Read it before you hit that post button another time. ---
However, people like me who don't trade are still fine. I grab my friends mp3s, they grab mine... some of my friends don't give me any, some are the reverse (though those are rare). ---
In response to the two responses on this thread: I know, I know, it doesn't do it all the time. I am quite certain that it does so, however. I have several friends at a local ISP that have been taking data on the phenomenon for some time now, and they've found that while it doesn't do so all the time, a lot of the time it does. It asks if you want it to be your default route to the internet; if you say yes, it does so (sometimes). If you say no, it can't install. I'm not sure if it always can't install. ---
A better class action suit would be one against AOL for AOL 5.0 for it's blatantly anti-competetive (and also extremely annoying and computer-disabling) acts of removing other TCP/IP stacks, changing network configurations back when you try to change them, making itself very very hard to remove, completely disabling dial-up networking when installed, and a couple other things I can't remember off-hand.
IP addresses and domain names work pretty well for figuring out how many unique page views there were. Most people don't get a page, disconnect, dial-in, get the page again, etc. And for people with more permanent connections and domains (cable, DSL, any DS type connection, so forth), there's little difficulty. The only problem is when a bunch of people who show as a single IP (proxy, firewall, etc.) all view the page; only then are cookies useful.
No, what the cookies are really used for is tracking how often any given person accesses the page, and which pages. Thus the ads can be targeted based on interests, and the company can develop a demographic profile of its userbase through the use of pageviews, surverys, and referrer URLs. ---
Nothing is bug free. Every program has at least one bug in it, and can be reduced by at least one line. Corrollary: Every program can be reduced to one line with a bug in it. ---
I use its speed for streaming video and browsing the web with graphics (yes, I do like the graphics, and yes, I have tried using a text browse, did so for 3 months straight until I got off my ass and got a mouse so I could use X effectively). And I know you can browse the web with a 2400 baud modem, I did that for a long time too, but it's hell, especially with some of the bloat on many websites today.
I also use the speed so that I can do downloads within a reasonable length of time. I definitely transfer more in a day, disregarding web and my ftp server (for friends), than I could do with a 2400 baud modem.
And then I also prefer cable to modems since it costs about 20 bucks more for an always on connnection at many times the speed. 150/80 is pretty damn good for 50 bucks a month; I could probably do better with DSL, but I haven't had time to do the research on it in my area. ---
However, that previous article was about a link that used TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) and had multiple signals multiplexed to reach the 40Gbps mark. This signal is a pure 40Gbps signal, and they are multiplexed together using DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) to reach a full 160Gbps. So yes, it is significant.
press release by KPNQwest, the company of the previous article. ---
This is only the fastest single signal, it isn't the fastest single fiber system. Of course, if they increase the number of signals above the 4 they mention on their press release to the maximum 80 allowable by DWDM, then they can get up to 3.2tbps (terrabits per second) over a single fiber.
Of course, as this part of a tutorial indicates that higher bitrates allow for fewer channels, getting 80 might not be possible, so we may just have to settle for `only' 160gbps. ---
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The only restriction they put upon you is that all work is non-commercial.
It's my code, it'll be commercial if I want it to. ---
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Sure, they can't install Linux,
Let's see them install Windows, even. Windows is, in my experience, harder.
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I emailed the creator of RomNet as soon as I saw that there was no Linux client, asking for either protocol docs or the current source.
He says that he won't distribute docs, though he will "at some point hopefully build that client".
So, my question is, are there any generalized versions of a Napster client-server model? Something with modules for getting info on the given files, perhaps communicating this to the server via XML (easy to do fields)? Don't say GNUtella; GNUtella is a completely different paradigm. It's distributed client-client, not a client-server/client-client model like Napster.
Napster, for me at least, is much much faster than GNUtella, sucks less bandwidth (from me), is easier to find things on, and has more of the MP3s I want. I think it's the right model, performance-wise.
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Actually, the coffee brewing process is not perfect. You'll get more caffeine out of eating a given bean than you would from brewing coffee from that same bean. The same obviously applies to a group of beans.
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Well, even though 192 mg/kg is technically the lethal dosage, a lot less than that can kill you. A friend of mine, who weighs around 200 pounds or 94 kilograms, once drank 22 shots of espresso in one sitting. That's around 2200 mg of caffeine, which is only 23.4 mg/kg. And yet, the next day his limbs started losing feeling and turning blue (I don't know why it was the next day.. well, he drank it late at night, maybe it happened early in the day), and we had to take him to the hospital. Caffeine poisoning isn't all that hard to clean up, they just gave him some saline and flushed him out, but the doctor in the emergency room told us that he came close to dying of it, and definitely would have if he hadn't run out of aderol the day before.
So even something not that far over the toxicity level can kill you.
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If I'm in a battle with someone, and some other party kills that someone, does my cause in the battle benefit? You betcha. Do I have to like how it happened? Nope. But I can still be happy I won the battle; I'm also at war with the third party, but I benefited from that party's actions.
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The main problem with Quicktime 4 on Linux is Sorenson's licensing. Talk to Sorenson, not to Apple. Well, talk to Apple too, and get them to talk to Sorenson.
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Has anyone actually managed to download those drivers? I've been trying for around an hour now, and the site is still down. Anyone care to post a mirror, or I'll mirror if someone'll get me the drivers.
My email is dyfrgi at otter dot yi dot org, btw.
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As I've been finding increasingly true with computers lately, eventually it reaches a stage where it is "good enough" for that tech. For instance, my K6-III/400 is good enough for almost everything I want to do. Sure, I can't run OpenGL screenhacks as my background, but it's fast enough for just about everything I want to do. Too bad laptop manufacturers don't seem to realize that..
But that's besides the point. The point is that this is so fast that the limits of it are unlikely to be reached any time soon. Most things that would need more than that kind of bandwidth are video, and that's usually streamed using a specialized protocol (and usually proprietary, too.. maybe even always), thus bypassing the HTTP server.
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I've set up my /etc/aliases file to redirect all mail to devnull to, well, /dev/null. I find it works quite well to send spam to devnull@mydomain. Thus you prevent the massive load on servers like nowhere.com which, according to the webpage, gets about 80000 (!) pieces of mail a month.
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There is info on the side on how the archive is accessed, created, who pays for it, everything. Read it before you hit that post button another time.
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However, people like me who don't trade are still fine. I grab my friends mp3s, they grab mine... some of my friends don't give me any, some are the reverse (though those are rare).
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One part of Debian that most people seem to miss is the non-free tree. It has non-free apps in it. So if that's what you want, there it is.
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In response to the two responses on this thread: I know, I know, it doesn't do it all the time. I am quite certain that it does so, however. I have several friends at a local ISP that have been taking data on the phenomenon for some time now, and they've found that while it doesn't do so all the time, a lot of the time it does. It asks if you want it to be your default route to the internet; if you say yes, it does so (sometimes). If you say no, it can't install. I'm not sure if it always can't install.
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The source was officially released by Netscape on 31 March 1998.
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A better class action suit would be one against AOL for AOL 5.0 for it's blatantly anti-competetive (and also extremely annoying and computer-disabling) acts of removing other TCP/IP stacks, changing network configurations back when you try to change them, making itself very very hard to remove, completely disabling dial-up networking when installed, and a couple other things I can't remember off-hand.
All of this is, of course, denied by AOL.
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No, the law should be not-respected because it is WRONG.
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Isn't opinion what hypocrisy is all about? If someone claims to have one opinion but that person's actions indicate another opinion...
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IP addresses and domain names work pretty well for figuring out how many unique page views there were. Most people don't get a page, disconnect, dial-in, get the page again, etc. And for people with more permanent connections and domains (cable, DSL, any DS type connection, so forth), there's little difficulty. The only problem is when a bunch of people who show as a single IP (proxy, firewall, etc.) all view the page; only then are cookies useful.
No, what the cookies are really used for is tracking how often any given person accesses the page, and which pages. Thus the ads can be targeted based on interests, and the company can develop a demographic profile of its userbase through the use of pageviews, surverys, and referrer URLs.
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Nothing is bug free. Every program has at least one bug in it, and can be reduced by at least one line. Corrollary: Every program can be reduced to one line with a bug in it.
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I have a cable modem.
I use its speed for streaming video and browsing the web with graphics (yes, I do like the graphics, and yes, I have tried using a text browse, did so for 3 months straight until I got off my ass and got a mouse so I could use X effectively). And I know you can browse the web with a 2400 baud modem, I did that for a long time too, but it's hell, especially with some of the bloat on many websites today.
I also use the speed so that I can do downloads within a reasonable length of time. I definitely transfer more in a day, disregarding web and my ftp server (for friends), than I could do with a 2400 baud modem.
And then I also prefer cable to modems since it costs about 20 bucks more for an always on connnection at many times the speed. 150/80 is pretty damn good for 50 bucks a month; I could probably do better with DSL, but I haven't had time to do the research on it in my area.
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The press release says it was TDM.
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Just because what zie has is better than what you have doesn't mean zie has to be happy with it.
And zie did mention phone.
And, for that matter, zie didn't even claim to have cable.
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However, that previous article was about a link that used TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) and had multiple signals multiplexed to reach the 40Gbps mark. This signal is a pure 40Gbps signal, and they are multiplexed together using DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) to reach a full 160Gbps. So yes, it is significant.
press release by KPNQwest, the company of the previous article.
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It would take 16 minutes and 40 seconds to transfer the entire 20 TB Library of Congress.
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Of course, as this part of a tutorial indicates that higher bitrates allow for fewer channels, getting 80 might not be possible, so we may just have to settle for `only' 160gbps.
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It's my code, it'll be commercial if I want it to.
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