From the report: 'The system monitors the number of external connections being made and if a higher network activity is detected, the computer is disconnected to prevent the infection of further machines on the network.'
Please. Slashdot has had the same effect on websites for years.
mod_torrent would be WONDERFUL if "Development on mod_torrent [wasnt] currently suspended indefinitely due to lack of time."
as for the grandparent:
that exactly the idea I am talking about, to go alongside the browser mods.
a few implementation idea are: for slow computers, limit the connection to 1 download 1 upload, 1 download from the orginal seed - so it acts (almost) exactly as a direct connection and saves the cpu utilization.
also, as you said about removing files with many seeds, that is already a popular function of clients like azureus where torrents have ignore rules for uploads.
since Apache/IIS?... would be the tracker / web server / torrent client, all the parts are already there!
another idea that dawned on me, as far as clients downloading, would it be feasable for torrent funtionality to be build into the OS kernel? how long before linux has a module (does it?). Http is handled by OS calls right? BitTorrent would be spend up both in popularity, and efficiency if it was optomized at that level.
consider this. the average torrent (i assume a movie or something) is being initially uploaded by one seed with, being generous, a max of 80 kBps. The person still manages to send all that information to everyone rather quickly (given a slower start to send 1-2 full copies out into the swarm).
Microsoft Pipes have like, what, 1000000 times the bandwidth? So yes, you usually download as fast as your connection can handle. So yes, you WILL download faster than a popular torrent at the beginning of it distribution cycle.. if the person hosting originally had a small pipe.
If Microsoft used torrents, their overall bandwidth would increase - they just dont need to.
But let dream of the day that every single dedicated 'fat pipe', 'home user', and business used torrents instead of http / ftp / other p2p: we would see a HUGE increase in bandwidth across the internet.
The reason you beleive torrents are slower has nothing to do with the protocol, but rather the people who use it.
The only issue I have is that torrents die after some time, because people do not seed to 1:1, or people loose interest files that arent 'fresh'.
If Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera embeded bittorrent, forced 1:1 seed ratios, and seeded every file in your download folder out to whoever needed it most.. well..
1.) Lets not be ignorant of the fact that a gaming computer will also be used as an office computer, a web terminal, a media center...
2.) If you need to spend 1500$ on a gaming computer than you are a n00b.
DO NOT throw in the cost of a monitor and good speaker system to the price of a gamign computer, because I argue that for the cost of a TV and Speaker set is far higher than that of a computer.
And dont tell me you need crazy case, neon lights, a laser mouse, wireless internet, and water cooling... because you dont.
Its nice. But a concole doesnt have any of that either.
You can make a beauty of a computer for a lot less than 1000$ so long as you dont get the NVidia 7800 SLI or an Athlon FX processor.
Beleive me.. it will still be a wonderful experience.
And as far as consoles being 'prettier' read the slashdot article released today about the poor underwhelming performance of next-gen gaming consoles.
If you read the other slashdot articles lately, A new greatly improved (from an already great IDE) has been released.
So it may take a while for Eclipse to be available to download since you, the entire slashdot java crowd, and half the java developement world, are downloading it right now (..trying to..).
On the one hand I agree with that Oracle Installer being one of the worst, ugliest commertial peices of software I have ever seen, but on the other I know you are overdoing the effects (or installing on a 486).
Either way, Oracle is to blame not Java. Just look at the UI feal, it is clearly not standard, mainstream stuff. I dont know what they were thinking. Makes me wonder about Oracle sometimes.. Too bad I love it so.
Sure, the instalation software is crap, but I dont think you can blame java directly. If I wasn't at work I would do a little googling around for performance comparisons. For reasons like your statement above I did some research a year ago as I was doing some java development to see just how slow java was, and, yes, the first many releases of java were quite slow, but the latest version are not.
Sure, its not as speedy as a C program, but its not designed to be. Ill take the developement cycle and portability ease in most situation that dont require absolute speed.
I have done solar simulations in java with advanced mathematics and OpenGL and they have been very speedy. Just need to do it proper.
Don Rickles apparently writing code at Microsoft:: In the aftermath of Microsoft's admission Friday that its engineers had included a secret password in some of the Web site authoring software shipped with Microsoft's Windows NT operating system -- which The Wall Street Journal claimed could be used to gain unauthorized access to Web sites -- the editor of the Microsoft-software security site NTBugTraq came forward to offer some clarification on the matter. In a message posted to the NTBugTraq mailing list Cooper wrote, "This is a hole that could allow information to be manipulated by others. However, it's limited to 'others' who already have Web authoring permissions on the same box." Cooper added that the secret password in question--"!seineew era sreenigne epacsteN" IE: "Netscape engineers are weenies!" -- wasn't a password at all, but a cypher key which only allows access to the security breach, not the security breach itself. However, over the weekend, two programmers revealed that they were able to disrupt Web servers by exploiting a different vulnerability in the same file. Microsoft confirmed that assertion, indicating that the pair had discovered "a new, separate vulnerability that significantly increases the threat to users of these products" and that "could be used to cause an affected server to crash." (Wall Street Journal story; paid registration required). In any event, when Microsoft issues a patch for this, as it inevitably will, you'll find it here.
I would agree if that was the purpose.. But as someone explained in another thread this week, some of the more knowledgeable moderators mod up funny posts as insightful if they get modded overrated.
apparently overrated gives -1 karma and insightful gives +1. For those of us getting +4 funny (0 karma) -1 overrated (-1 karma) it can be useless to post funny threads.
I give kudos to the moderators who pay attention to the people rating things overrated.
All cool people get this service to avoid all the uncool people using it, thus, increasing both the number of non-noncool people, as well as increasing the number of people avoiding non-cool areas.
So, we have cool people moving away from nerds. cool.
But this then increases the concentration of non-non-cool areas, to which non-cool users will start to flock.
Cool people will once again have to migrate away, or run, from the non-cool users.
The process cycles.
The only true conclusion is that cool people will have flocks of nerds on their tail and will be forced to abandon the service, and the nerds will grow tired of running, and will also abandon the service.
Thus, I agree with the parent: this service is stupid.
Of course, the above theory is completely rediculous because of one fact:
Google does everything right, Dodgeball sounds awsome, and it will probably be very interesting. Sure you know where your friends are, but to anyone who has spent time in europe and knows what its like to walk outside and just 'find' your friends thanks to dense population and much smaller distances of things, this service might very well help suburban areas or urban areas alike at times when you dont want to track your friends down before meeting them.
In other words: When a company claims to be working on or completing software that is unlikely to exist or to ever be completed. Prime examples: Duke Nukem Forever
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61935, 00.html "The company's perennial absentee title, Duke Nukem Forever, is still vaporware. The first-person shooter, now in its sixth year of development, earned almost as many votes as all the other nominations combined."
You dont need a windows port of Wine, you need to run linux in windows.
Windows -> VMWare -> Linux-> Wine -> ITunes...If thats what you want. But if you ask me, its pointless.
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Heh, you thing that is rediculous?
Wait until the _class action law suit_ rolls in from parents whose kids get paper cuts from these masks.
As for UDP replacing TCP...
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...as for UDP replacing TCP I dont care. Its cool, and im glad there are changes tryign to be made.
I doubt seriously they will be done soon. Unlike going from 32 bit to 64 bit processors, going from TCP to UDP as the primary or only method seems more useless then effective in a corporate view.
I dont see people wanting to put effort into adapting any time soon. But its still great to hear that we might.
Also, thanks for the info on Kademlia, as a noob developer, I always wondered how they did that;)
lol, unless of course we are talking about a software developement environment, that usually wont be a problem.
Unless there is that one great female.
But then, we come to another problem: We will start a cave-man-like battle for supremacy.
And if there arent any good looking females: Joe "three inches of chest hair" shmoe should not be forces to walk by me with half meter radius sweat stains.
Ugh.
personally: I live in canada, we choose to work in 16 deg C office temperatures. But i guess thats like 21 for you southerners;)
I know that many companies that want to try linux have been going to Red Hat for one reason. Not because they read that it was better, or had more support, or that it was easier to install.
It was so that if it crashed, the guy who decided to buy it can point the finger at the company, and not at a group of hackers puting together a (better?) distro in their garage>
paying the few bucks for the distro will sure be worth the company names, support, and few 'nicer' programs in comes with to people in a possition of either mistrust towards linux, or mistrust towards themselves using it.
As far as my oppinion, I use Debian Sarge, and beign a long time windows user, long time wanting to change, I tried Ubuntu, Red Hat, and many others, always getting mad at how 'windows' they are. But, it also made me happy for the linux community that they have gotten to that point. Its not as easy as windows, but I wouldnt mind letting grandma use it. so long as she didnt do anything other then surf the net. just like on her win machine.
A friend of mine almost got a coop job working for Xandros. Would have been interesting to know from the inside what it is that they are doing over there.
As it stands, I havent used the distro, but I have heard that it would be very comparable to Ubuntu in terms of target audience. And both debian based too. With the VERY quickly growing Ubuntu community, and what seems to be bleeding edge software that is incorporated with it, does Xandros even stand a chance?
Sure, the article sais that they wait for other distros to make it bugfree.. but Ubuntu might get there soon, and it would seem to me, that no one uses such a distro for mission critial tasks, only as desktops. Most tasks/users of these two distros are likely already stable enough.
Anyone know what Xandros could offer that Ubuntu cant?
I was on a bus today, and I saw a kid with one of those old Shockwave tape players. You know those yellow ones that had two black hatches that would close it.
It had antiskip on the cd player version of the shockwave, and it was so cool. This was when I was back in elementary school, and I wanted one so badly.
I thought to myself, wow that thing was huge, how did we ever use tapes! and I looked around and saw all the people with ipods or other mp3 players on the bus. Even mini-disc players are way to outdated nowadays.
For the most part I am very annoyed with game companies starting to introduce ads into games, especially if they pause the game. If ads were short and funny, it would be alright, but I dont think there is any justification for advertising in games.
When I pay for cable TV, I expect advertising, because I am paying the cable company to deliver me feed from the networks. The networks themselves need to make money somehow. I dont pay them directly.
But, when it comes to games, I pay for the game. The extra money they make off of ads does not benefit me, the viewer, at all.
If I was to get a game for free because it included ads, then I wouldnt complain. But if i become forced to watch Joe Scateboarder 'drink coke because its better then pepsi' every time I do a trick, I'll chuck the game out the window.
The XBox 2 sounds like it will be quite powerful. I don't know about backwards compatibility, but if we look at how Microsoft has worked in the past it will be.
Just think about how long they held on to Dos, and it is still supported.
I think compatibility has always been one of Microsoft's (one of the main?) assets.
Anyway, what I ask, Is how will the XBox 2 profit compared to the first one. How will MS price it in order to compare with the other next gen consoles?
Will it be again a huge money-loosing system, or are they expecting to start turning a profit now that they have made a (arguably) name for themselves among gamers.
Also to wonder is, will the XBox 2 be as mod-able as the original? I know many many people that only purchased it because it could be used for so many more purposes than originally intended. But that doesn't exactly benefit MS, since they don't get only loose money on the system sale.
We will see what Bill has to say about the future, although we all know that only time will tell the truth - and it will be very different from what He tells us.
This was the rough copy for some articles he was writing, and needed us to proof read it for him. It's probably for some high school assignment or something. Thats the only explanation for the incorrect use of 'big words'.
But look at all the good critiques we give!
You're welcome buddy. Hope you do well on your grade 10 assignment.
Slashdot Mirror
Please. Slashdot has had the same effect on websites for years.
you cnt imagin how hrd it is to type contrlr in hand!
mod_torrent would be WONDERFUL if "Development on mod_torrent [wasnt] currently suspended indefinitely due to lack of time."
as for the grandparent:
that exactly the idea I am talking about, to go alongside the browser mods.
a few implementation idea are:
for slow computers, limit the connection to 1 download 1 upload, 1 download from the orginal seed - so it acts (almost) exactly as a direct connection and saves the cpu utilization.
also, as you said about removing files with many seeds, that is already a popular function of clients like azureus where torrents have ignore rules for uploads.
since Apache/IIS?... would be the tracker / web server / torrent client, all the parts are already there!
another idea that dawned on me, as far as clients downloading, would it be feasable for torrent funtionality to be build into the OS kernel? how long before linux has a module (does it?). Http is handled by OS calls right? BitTorrent would be spend up both in popularity, and efficiency if it was optomized at that level.
sounds like an awsome project to start.
your claim is just stupid.
:)
consider this.
the average torrent (i assume a movie or something) is being initially uploaded by one seed with, being generous, a max of 80 kBps. The person still manages to send all that information to everyone rather quickly (given a slower start to send 1-2 full copies out into the swarm).
Microsoft Pipes have like, what, 1000000 times the bandwidth? So yes, you usually download as fast as your connection can handle. So yes, you WILL download faster than a popular torrent at the beginning of it distribution cycle.. if the person hosting originally had a small pipe.
If Microsoft used torrents, their overall bandwidth would increase - they just dont need to.
But let dream of the day that every single dedicated 'fat pipe', 'home user', and business used torrents instead of http / ftp / other p2p:
we would see a HUGE increase in bandwidth across the internet.
The reason you beleive torrents are slower has nothing to do with the protocol, but rather the people who use it.
The only issue I have is that torrents die after some time, because people do not seed to 1:1, or people loose interest files that arent 'fresh'.
If Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera embeded bittorrent, forced 1:1 seed ratios, and seeded every file in your download folder out to whoever needed it most.. well..
wouldnt that be peachy?
1.) Lets not be ignorant of the fact that a gaming computer will also be used as an office computer, a web terminal, a media center...
2.) If you need to spend 1500$ on a gaming computer than you are a n00b.
DO NOT throw in the cost of a monitor and good speaker system to the price of a gamign computer, because I argue that for the cost of a TV and Speaker set is far higher than that of a computer.
And dont tell me you need crazy case, neon lights, a laser mouse, wireless internet, and water cooling... because you dont.
Its nice. But a concole doesnt have any of that either.
You can make a beauty of a computer for a lot less than 1000$ so long as you dont get the NVidia 7800 SLI or an Athlon FX processor.
Beleive me.. it will still be a wonderful experience.
And as far as consoles being 'prettier' read the slashdot article released today about the poor underwhelming performance of next-gen gaming consoles.
If you read the other slashdot articles lately, A new greatly improved (from an already great IDE) has been released.
So it may take a while for Eclipse to be available to download since you, the entire slashdot java crowd, and half the java developement world, are downloading it right now (..trying to..).
On the one hand I agree with that Oracle Installer being one of the worst, ugliest commertial peices of software I have ever seen, but on the other I know you are overdoing the effects (or installing on a 486).
Either way, Oracle is to blame not Java.
Just look at the UI feal, it is clearly not standard, mainstream stuff. I dont know what they were thinking.
Makes me wonder about Oracle sometimes.. Too bad I love it so.
Oracle, Slow?
Are you mad?
Sure, the instalation software is crap, but I dont think you can blame java directly.
If I wasn't at work I would do a little googling around for performance comparisons.
For reasons like your statement above I did some research a year ago as I was doing some java development to see just how slow java was, and, yes, the first many releases of java were quite slow, but the latest version are not.
Sure, its not as speedy as a C program, but its not designed to be. Ill take the developement cycle and portability ease in most situation that dont require absolute speed.
I have done solar simulations in java with advanced mathematics and OpenGL and they have been very speedy. Just need to do it proper.
Bah.
Here.
This is just one of many articles actually comparing performace: Take a look at the benchmarks, SciMark 2.0 (in Java, C# and C) being the easiest to deduce results.
Clearly Java is faster than even C in some cases, and almost always faster than C#. Momo doesnt even compare, so portability is very inefficient.
Java is awsome, for the right purposes. Dont bash it.
Cest n'est pas possible, isnt it?
!seineew era sreenigne epacsten!
Translates to (when read backwards): Netscape engineers are weenies!
Here is the explanation taken from this article:
Don Rickles apparently writing code at Microsoft:: In the aftermath of Microsoft's admission Friday that its engineers had included a secret password in some of the Web site authoring software shipped with Microsoft's Windows NT operating system -- which The Wall Street Journal claimed could be used to gain unauthorized access to Web sites -- the editor of the Microsoft-software security site NTBugTraq came forward to offer some clarification on the matter. In a message posted to the NTBugTraq mailing list Cooper wrote, "This is a hole that could allow information to be manipulated by others. However, it's limited to 'others' who already have Web authoring permissions on the same box." Cooper added that the secret password in question--"!seineew era sreenigne epacsteN" IE: "Netscape engineers are weenies!" -- wasn't a password at all, but a cypher key which only allows access to the security breach, not the security breach itself. However, over the weekend, two programmers revealed that they were able to disrupt Web servers by exploiting a different vulnerability in the same file. Microsoft confirmed that assertion, indicating that the pair had discovered "a new, separate vulnerability that significantly increases the threat to users of these products" and that "could be used to cause an affected server to crash." (Wall Street Journal story; paid registration required). In any event, when Microsoft issues a patch for this, as it inevitably will, you'll find it here.
I would agree if that was the purpose..
But as someone explained in another thread this week, some of the more knowledgeable moderators mod up funny posts as insightful if they get modded overrated.
apparently overrated gives -1 karma and insightful gives +1.
For those of us getting +4 funny (0 karma) -1 overrated (-1 karma) it can be useless to post funny threads.
I give kudos to the moderators who pay attention to the people rating things overrated.
Lets further the confusion:
All cool people get this service to avoid all the uncool people using it, thus, increasing both the number of non-noncool people, as well as increasing the number of people avoiding non-cool areas.
So, we have cool people moving away from nerds. cool.
But this then increases the concentration of non-non-cool areas, to which non-cool users will start to flock.
Cool people will once again have to migrate away, or run, from the non-cool users.
The process cycles.
The only true conclusion is that cool people will have flocks of nerds on their tail and will be forced to abandon the service, and the nerds will grow tired of running, and will also abandon the service.
Thus, I agree with the parent: this service is stupid.
Of course, the above theory is completely rediculous because of one fact:
Google does everything right, Dodgeball sounds awsome, and it will probably be very interesting.
Sure you know where your friends are, but to anyone who has spent time in europe and knows what its like to walk outside and just 'find' your friends thanks to dense population and much smaller distances of things, this service might very well help suburban areas or urban areas alike at times when you dont want to track your friends down before meeting them.
If the quetion lies within the definition of vaporwear:
q =define:vaporware
, 00.html
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&
"description of software/features that is/are not currently available but may never be available"
In other words: When a company claims to be working on or completing software that is unlikely to exist or to ever be completed. Prime examples: Duke Nukem Forever
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61935
"The company's perennial absentee title, Duke Nukem Forever, is still vaporware. The first-person shooter, now in its sixth year of development, earned almost as many votes as all the other nominations combined."
You dont need a windows port of Wine, you need to run linux in windows.
...If thats what you want. But if you ask me, its pointless.
Windows -> VMWare -> Linux-> Wine -> ITunes
Heh, you thing that is rediculous?
Wait until the _class action law suit_ rolls in from parents whose kids get paper cuts from these masks.
...as for UDP replacing TCP I dont care. Its cool, and im glad there are changes tryign to be made.
;)
I doubt seriously they will be done soon. Unlike going from 32 bit to 64 bit processors, going from TCP to UDP as the primary or only method seems more useless then effective in a corporate view.
I dont see people wanting to put effort into adapting any time soon. But its still great to hear that we might.
Also, thanks for the info on Kademlia, as a noob developer, I always wondered how they did that
lol, unless of course we are talking about a software developement environment, that usually wont be a problem.
;)
Unless there is that one great female.
But then, we come to another problem:
We will start a cave-man-like battle for supremacy.
And if there arent any good looking females:
Joe "three inches of chest hair" shmoe should not be forces to walk by me with half meter radius sweat stains.
Ugh.
personally: I live in canada, we choose to work in 16 deg C office temperatures. But i guess thats like 21 for you southerners
Okay, that pretty much answers the question.
I know that many companies that want to try linux have been going to Red Hat for one reason. Not because they read that it was better, or had more support, or that it was easier to install.
It was so that if it crashed, the guy who decided to buy it can point the finger at the company, and not at a group of hackers puting together a (better?) distro in their garage>
paying the few bucks for the distro will sure be worth the company names, support, and few 'nicer' programs in comes with to people in a possition of either mistrust towards linux, or mistrust towards themselves using it.
As far as my oppinion, I use Debian Sarge, and beign a long time windows user, long time wanting to change, I tried Ubuntu, Red Hat, and many others, always getting mad at how 'windows' they are. But, it also made me happy for the linux community that they have gotten to that point. Its not as easy as windows, but I wouldnt mind letting grandma use it. so long as she didnt do anything other then surf the net. just like on her win machine.
A friend of mine almost got a coop job working for Xandros. Would have been interesting to know from the inside what it is that they are doing over there.
As it stands, I havent used the distro, but I have heard that it would be very comparable to Ubuntu in terms of target audience. And both debian based too. With the VERY quickly growing Ubuntu community, and what seems to be bleeding edge software that is incorporated with it, does Xandros even stand a chance?
Sure, the article sais that they wait for other distros to make it bugfree.. but Ubuntu might get there soon, and it would seem to me, that no one uses such a distro for mission critial tasks, only as desktops. Most tasks/users of these two distros are likely already stable enough.
Anyone know what Xandros could offer that Ubuntu cant?
Maybe soon I'll be able to call l33tMovieRipper over xyz P2Pclient and ask for The Matrix in person.
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I was on a bus today, and I saw a kid with one of those old Shockwave tape players. You know those yellow ones that had two black hatches that would close it.
It had antiskip on the cd player version of the shockwave, and it was so cool. This was when I was back in elementary school, and I wanted one so badly.
I thought to myself, wow that thing was huge, how did we ever use tapes! and I looked around and saw all the people with ipods or other mp3 players on the bus. Even mini-disc players are way to outdated nowadays.
How quickly technology changes..
For the most part I am very annoyed with game companies starting to introduce ads into games, especially if they pause the game. If ads were short and funny, it would be alright, but I dont think there is any justification for advertising in games.
When I pay for cable TV, I expect advertising, because I am paying the cable company to deliver me feed from the networks. The networks themselves need to make money somehow. I dont pay them directly.
But, when it comes to games, I pay for the game. The extra money they make off of ads does not benefit me, the viewer, at all.
If I was to get a game for free because it included ads, then I wouldnt complain. But if i become forced to watch Joe Scateboarder 'drink coke because its better then pepsi' every time I do a trick, I'll chuck the game out the window.
Yes, but I can still play my DOS games.
Thats what I meant.
(Sure, maybe not all, but for the most part - and its not like its a console, whose only purpose is to play games.)
The XBox 2 sounds like it will be quite powerful. I don't know about backwards compatibility, but if we look at how Microsoft has worked in the past it will be.
Just think about how long they held on to Dos, and it is still supported.
I think compatibility has always been one of Microsoft's (one of the main?) assets.
Anyway, what I ask, Is how will the XBox 2 profit compared to the first one. How will MS price it in order to compare with the other next gen consoles?
Will it be again a huge money-loosing system, or are they expecting to start turning a profit now that they have made a (arguably) name for themselves among gamers.
Also to wonder is, will the XBox 2 be as mod-able as the original? I know many many people that only purchased it because it could be used for so many more purposes than originally intended. But that doesn't exactly benefit MS, since they don't get only loose money on the system sale.
We will see what Bill has to say about the future, although we all know that only time will tell the truth - and it will be very different from what He tells us.
Heh, at first I thought, this guy is retarded.
But now I know why he posted this crap.
This was the rough copy for some articles he was writing, and needed us to proof read it for him.
It's probably for some high school assignment or something.
Thats the only explanation for the incorrect use of 'big words'.
But look at all the good critiques we give!
You're welcome buddy. Hope you do well on your grade 10 assignment.