Not to mention the fact that you can glean basically anything you need to know from the manuals/FAQs/Google. For nearly anything you want to do, you never need to post and wait for responses.
Can someone please comment on how bittorrent differs from other protocols, say kazaa. Is it just that there is no one company to sue, or are the individual users harder to track and sue?
I guess another way to ask this is this: is it safe to use bittorrent to swap copyright protected material?
With bittorrent, you're both uploading and downloading files in the torrent. The client can both accept connections and connect to other clients. Once you get a piece of the torrent, you share that piece with other clients that request it from you. After you have all the pieces, you're considered a seed, and clients can connect to you to finish getting any pieces no one else has, if you're the only seed.
If you're behind a firewall or a NAT, your client might not be able to accept connections. Thus, you will have to connect to clients that are not firewalled to participate in the network. This may reduce your chances of being "caught" by **AA -- they may only be focusing on people that they can connect to.
However, the torrent tracker keeps track of all the clients that are participating in the network. This information can be freely obtained as the tracker must give it out for the protocol to work properly. Therefore, anyone who wants to can make a complete list of all the people who are participating in the torrent, and because of this, no, Bittorrent is not a "safe" way to transfer copyrighted material without a license-- unless, of course, nobody knows about the tracker and the torrent but you and your friends. Thus the private, invite-only trackers that the **AA can't get to.
The only public and fairly safe way to swap copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder would be an anonymizing service-- such as FreeNET, or perhaps TOR, etc.
open source is all about releasing early and often.
the linux kernel, for example, didn't start out by being perfectly written, immaculately maintained code. but lots of people use it now.
trust me, there is no doubt plenty of open source code that is much crappier than yours. if yours works, its already better than lots of half-completed open source projects:)
I say, release your code and see if anybody sends in patches. at the absolute worst, no one will care.
In windows, mouse handling is extremely difficult. I suspect it has something to do with the "boost" feature windows has. Once you get the mouse moving it will keep moving in that direction even when you're trying to move to a different direction. The solution is to counter the movement by moving to the opposite direction. It's sort of like trying to push the mouse the other way in order to stop it.
Wow, this sounds like a fun game in and of itself!:)
I have Vonage, not Time Warner's VoIP, but I know when the power to my apartment goes out, my cable modem doesn't shift packets. I've got all my equipment hooked up to a UPS (cable modem, router, computers, etc), but it seems whatever's on the other end of the coax to my house isn't hooked up to one.
Except, more often than not, if you're without power, your cable companies' local systems are without power as well; therefore no packets, and no phone.
You only have to be just below your max. If the QoS is accurate enough, you can keep it at 1k or 2k below the max. As long as the buffering remains on your side of the link, you could theoretically use all of your max.
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Why are you not a christian anymore? You stopped believing.. what?:-) That God exists, or that He wants to save us.. or? Also, what denomination, if any, were you? Thanks
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You left California to get away from shirts with unicorn penises?
Not to mention the fact that you can glean basically anything you need to know from the manuals/FAQs/Google. For nearly anything you want to do, you never need to post and wait for responses.
yay
cuz you're comparing NULL (usually defined as 0) to 48
If you're behind a firewall or a NAT, your client might not be able to accept connections. Thus, you will have to connect to clients that are not firewalled to participate in the network. This may reduce your chances of being "caught" by **AA -- they may only be focusing on people that they can connect to.
However, the torrent tracker keeps track of all the clients that are participating in the network. This information can be freely obtained as the tracker must give it out for the protocol to work properly. Therefore, anyone who wants to can make a complete list of all the people who are participating in the torrent, and because of this, no, Bittorrent is not a "safe" way to transfer copyrighted material without a license-- unless, of course, nobody knows about the tracker and the torrent but you and your friends. Thus the private, invite-only trackers that the **AA can't get to.
The only public and fairly safe way to swap copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder would be an anonymizing service-- such as FreeNET, or perhaps TOR, etc.
because that scales with traffic so much better..
if you're allowing people to autorun CDs as root at work, you're the security risk
Windows 512 megs of RAM; see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;253912 for more information
I'm already there too.. got my vonage box routed thru to use my apartment's free wifi.. *and* I have a 900Mhz wireless phone :)
vonage box (ethernet) -> linux box -> (wifi card) -> apartment's wifi
standard proc? hehee
open source is all about releasing early and often.
:)
the linux kernel, for example, didn't start out by being perfectly written, immaculately maintained code. but lots of people use it now.
trust me, there is no doubt plenty of open source code that is much crappier than yours. if yours works, its already better than lots of half-completed open source projects
I say, release your code and see if anybody sends in patches. at the absolute worst, no one will care.
it might be a badly written flash app that's killing your fox
From http://www.hacker.co.il/psp/bochs/:
:)
In windows, mouse handling is extremely difficult. I suspect it has something to do with the "boost" feature windows has. Once you get the mouse moving it will keep moving in that direction even when you're trying to move to a different direction. The solution is to counter the movement by moving to the opposite direction. It's sort of like trying to push the mouse the other way in order to stop it.
Wow, this sounds like a fun game in and of itself!
it doesn't.
:)
in fact, I would think that not having a single point of failure would be a good design decision.
of course, any time you have something that would make sense, you can count on the military not doing it that way
interesting.
I have Vonage, not Time Warner's VoIP, but I know when the power to my apartment goes out, my cable modem doesn't shift packets. I've got all my equipment hooked up to a UPS (cable modem, router, computers, etc), but it seems whatever's on the other end of the coax to my house isn't hooked up to one.
Except, more often than not, if you're without power, your cable companies' local systems are without power as well; therefore no packets, and no phone.
You only have to be just below your max. If the QoS is accurate enough, you can keep it at 1k or 2k below the max. As long as the buffering remains on your side of the link, you could theoretically use all of your max.
...strike as much of a cord with...
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You mean chord
You keep three months of traffic logs? Seriously? Do you work for the NSA?
Don't underestimate yourself.
You're smart and gifted; use your talents and speak up.
Learn soon that speaking up is not bad or wrong; that is a lesson better learned sooner rather than later. But, also, be hubmle. There is always someone smarter and more knowledgeable-- but, reciprocally, that statement may currently apply to you!
Most important: try to know what it is that you don't know. If you think you know everything, you know nothing.
-- Dan
To highlight the location bar without copying it into the middle click buffer, hit CTRL+L in Firefox (or Mozilla).
Why are you not a christian anymore? You stopped believing.. what? :-) That God exists, or that He wants to save us.. or? Also, what denomination, if any, were you? Thanks
mmm going to a public place to do something private mm
So.. what brands do you recommend for being reputable? :-)
Kinda apropos, dremel has a Case Modding Project on their website. They cut the word DREMEL into a case. Looks nifty.