For those who long for those days of descript.ion - AcdSee32 does the same. I've been using it for years now, and it's a lot handier than the standard explorer.
Indeed - but there is a big problem with that system. eMule recognizes the file hashes and reports them as fakse, but it stops after that.
For the past few weeks, I have been rewriting part of the eMule source to have the following changes:
1. I offer a valid file with a valid hash (no fake)
2. People try to download the file from me and move up fast in my queue
3. Once they download a chunk from me, the data I send them is invalid (generated random)
4. Since this part is invalid, they need to redownload it
5. Since they move up faster in my queue than others, they redownload the part from me.
6. etcetera...
To be honest - I want to sell this tactic, that's why I do it. And so far it works! I get loads and loads of requests and rerequests for files, so this is a perfect tactic to kill the download of valid files - reputation system or no reputation system.
Remember, the file is valid, but they'll get it much much slower and spend x times the bandwidth to get it. I have unlimited bandwidth (up/down) so I always win in the end.
If whatever organisation I sell it to employs this on a large scale, the network will be flooded.
Whatever happened to shooting a suspect in the legs to take him out, to stop him from running?
If they shot him in the legs at a time where he could not pose a big risk to bystanders, they a) would have immobilized their target and b) would have had the ability to let him live and thereby acknowledging their mistake as it turned out.
My guess is that some gun toting idiot just got a little bit too trigger happy, and thought of his fifteen minutes of fame in case it was a terrorist.
First of all, $129 is a lot of money - too much money for the job at hand. I clean PC's for a lot of friends and neighbours and I do it for $10 an hour. Most of the time I'm just waiting for scanner X or adware cleaner Y, so I can continue working on other projects. Extra money, easily earned. I'm sure most people would find someone like me nearby.
Second, if you're gonna throw away your rig over something as stupid as this - throw 'm my way! I'll clean 'm and put them to good use or sell them. Either way, I'm the winner in this story.
Sure, spyware, adware and whatever are annoying, but I've seldomly seen some junk that cannot be cleaned easily.
When a company is worth $80 billion, it has to be sued for SOMETHING
Oh yeah?
1. Pick random top 500 company
2. Sue for random reason
3. Profit!
If that was the case, I'd be rich in a few months! IMHO, sueing someone/something should only be done when there is a valid reason (or at least something that looks valid) - this is not one of those cases.
Could be... But with my last machine (few months ago, new hardware), I still got floppies for Mobo, network card and Sata.
As for transferring large files: I once went to a friend to transfer about 650Mb of data. I brought my case with a serial cable (null-modem, pre-network times for him) which we were unable to hook up for some reason or other. He did not want me to remove his hard disk, so we had no means of transferring the data left.
In the end, I gave him two floppies and let him use ARJ: archive to disk one, take it out, archive to disk two while disk one is unpacking on my machine, swap disks, repeat... and repeat... and repeat...:)
It took him the best part of a day to copy the contents of a CD (had he had a burner) - then you know who your friends are.
Why not buy one? They are dirt cheap, and now you have a drive in each rig.
I don't know what you do with older machines, but I keep all machines up and running, or at least in a working state. If you try to sell them, you get very little money back, so I mostly just keep them around the house as a small webserver, p2p machine, mp3 player, whatever...
As for your 'soo early 90s' remark, well, I don't care how my machines look, the only thing that matters to me is ease of use.
* They can be removed without an unmount procedure.
This is not an advantage over the floppy - any USB device can be removed without an unmount procedure. If you do it at the right time (not while moving/copying/etc), there is no risk for data loss.
At least that's what I'm lead to believe after all my attempts, I've never had any trouble with removing USB keys etc. without going through the unmount procedure.
Although I myself still use a floppy to boot some old stuff from time to time, this simply is not true.
I still have about 500 floppies laying around the house from 5+ years ago. Most of them have gone bad and are no longer usable.
As far as CDROMs are concerned, I have ten times as much CDROMs and CDRs laying around the house from that same period, and NONE of them have gone bad so far.
Therefor I seriously doubt your statement. Given the fact that most people naturally are more careful with CDs than with floppies, I highly doubt your statement:)
How about using the drive to insert floppies in order to be able to install a driver from a manufacturer who still needs to find out about the existence of cdroms?
Granted, it only happens once in a while, but it still happens. And I don't consider 10$ a lot of money, so why not buy it just in case?
I still believe firmly in some sort of 'an eye for an eye' rule. In the case of a hacker, as long as his/her acts did not cause the death of another human being, the death penalty is not in order.
If for example his actions led to a hospital or something similar no longer functioning, resulting in the death of patients, then yes, the death penalty would be in order.
As I pointed out in my other post, what if the parents AND the children are employed? There are enough examples of this kind of situation available in recent history.
Then the issue isn't that simple anymore.
Again, I'm not in favour, but it is way too easy to just say 'no' and dismiss the issue.
1. There is a BIG difference between child labour/slave labour and effectively killing people.
2. Suppose both the children AND their parents work for the company - what would you do then? For example in my own country, in the not to distant past, it was very common for an entire family to work for the same factory. Women, men, and children from the age of 5-6 would work in said factory for a very low wage.
To stick with your networking situation: there are people out there who can arrange drops of paint on a piece of paper in such a fashion, that they represent people, buildings or scenes, so neat and logical that it would make a network engineer weep. But is it art?
Is it still a stupid question?
Since there is no fixed definition of what is art, there is no answer - only a question that still needs to be resolved.
Funny you should mention the BMW Z4, one of the Bangle models which have stirred up a lot of comment in the Bimmer world with regards to the fact whether or not the design is beautiful or not.
As a Bimmer driver myself (late E46), I like the look of a Z4. I'd never buy one because of it's looks, whereas I absolutely love the Lamborghini Gallardo and would definitely buy one for the looks.
The point I'm trying to make is that art and beauty IMHO are in the eyes of the beholder.
Alas, you do have a valid point with your last statement: many people let the value of the car guide their preference, which is utter nonsense.
I'll assume that you're joking, since you're posting anonymously, but I'll reply:
Eclipse - the slowest machine I'm running it on is a Pentium III - 500 Mhz (Windows 2000, 512Mb ram), indeed not the fastest machine around, but the application is definitely not slow when working on my projects (large projects, I might add, no helloworld 1 classamathingies).
Azureus - I'm running Azureus at home on my old Pentium 1 - 133Mhz (Windows 2000, 48Mb ram) and it works like a charm. If it runs visually fast on THAT machine, it's FAST.
I never use jEdit, so I cannot comment on that.
Java applications can be slow (think JDeveloper by Oracle for example), but that's not the fault of the language. Repeat after me: if a Java application seems slow, it's almost always the fault of the programmer's lack of knowledge of the language.
Java on the other hand is 14 years old and people are still talking about its slowness.
C++ was 14 around 1997 and was widely used and known for its high performance.
Doesn't that say something to you?
Yes, that does say something to me. It tells me that people very much like to stick to first impressions. Granted, those horrible applets from the dark ages of Java haven't done the language much good, but I would definitely not consider a decent, well-written piece of Java software to be slow.
Show me a recently written piece of slow Java code, and I'll show you a programmer who should be looking for a new job. Think Burger King.
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If there are places out there where they buy that sort of crap, productivity should be the last thing on their minds!
For those who long for those days of descript.ion - AcdSee32 does the same. I've been using it for years now, and it's a lot handier than the standard explorer.
For the past few weeks, I have been rewriting part of the eMule source to have the following changes:
1. I offer a valid file with a valid hash (no fake) 2. People try to download the file from me and move up fast in my queue 3. Once they download a chunk from me, the data I send them is invalid (generated random) 4. Since this part is invalid, they need to redownload it 5. Since they move up faster in my queue than others, they redownload the part from me. 6. etcetera...
To be honest - I want to sell this tactic, that's why I do it. And so far it works! I get loads and loads of requests and rerequests for files, so this is a perfect tactic to kill the download of valid files - reputation system or no reputation system.
Remember, the file is valid, but they'll get it much much slower and spend x times the bandwidth to get it. I have unlimited bandwidth (up/down) so I always win in the end.
If whatever organisation I sell it to employs this on a large scale, the network will be flooded.
If they shot him in the legs at a time where he could not pose a big risk to bystanders, they a) would have immobilized their target and b) would have had the ability to let him live and thereby acknowledging their mistake as it turned out.
My guess is that some gun toting idiot just got a little bit too trigger happy, and thought of his fifteen minutes of fame in case it was a terrorist.
Second, if you're gonna throw away your rig over something as stupid as this - throw 'm my way! I'll clean 'm and put them to good use or sell them. Either way, I'm the winner in this story.
Sure, spyware, adware and whatever are annoying, but I've seldomly seen some junk that cannot be cleaned easily.
Oh yeah?
1. Pick random top 500 company
2. Sue for random reason
3. Profit!
If that was the case, I'd be rich in a few months! IMHO, sueing someone/something should only be done when there is a valid reason (or at least something that looks valid) - this is not one of those cases.
As for transferring large files: I once went to a friend to transfer about 650Mb of data. I brought my case with a serial cable (null-modem, pre-network times for him) which we were unable to hook up for some reason or other. He did not want me to remove his hard disk, so we had no means of transferring the data left.
In the end, I gave him two floppies and let him use ARJ: archive to disk one, take it out, archive to disk two while disk one is unpacking on my machine, swap disks, repeat... and repeat... and repeat... :)
It took him the best part of a day to copy the contents of a CD (had he had a burner) - then you know who your friends are.
I don't know what you do with older machines, but I keep all machines up and running, or at least in a working state. If you try to sell them, you get very little money back, so I mostly just keep them around the house as a small webserver, p2p machine, mp3 player, whatever...
As for your 'soo early 90s' remark, well, I don't care how my machines look, the only thing that matters to me is ease of use.
This is not an advantage over the floppy - any USB device can be removed without an unmount procedure. If you do it at the right time (not while moving/copying/etc), there is no risk for data loss.
At least that's what I'm lead to believe after all my attempts, I've never had any trouble with removing USB keys etc. without going through the unmount procedure.
Although I myself still use a floppy to boot some old stuff from time to time, this simply is not true.
I still have about 500 floppies laying around the house from 5+ years ago. Most of them have gone bad and are no longer usable.
As far as CDROMs are concerned, I have ten times as much CDROMs and CDRs laying around the house from that same period, and NONE of them have gone bad so far.
Therefor I seriously doubt your statement. Given the fact that most people naturally are more careful with CDs than with floppies, I highly doubt your statement :)
Granted, it only happens once in a while, but it still happens. And I don't consider 10$ a lot of money, so why not buy it just in case?
For the idiot who modded my post as 'troll' - it's not my fault your vision of this world is so naive.
If for example his actions led to a hospital or something similar no longer functioning, resulting in the death of patients, then yes, the death penalty would be in order.
Then the issue isn't that simple anymore.
Again, I'm not in favour, but it is way too easy to just say 'no' and dismiss the issue.
2. Suppose both the children AND their parents work for the company - what would you do then? For example in my own country, in the not to distant past, it was very common for an entire family to work for the same factory. Women, men, and children from the age of 5-6 would work in said factory for a very low wage.
I've always had my doubts about so called slave labour and child labour - I'm not for it but I'm not against it either.
Agreed, they work terrible hours, get no rights, and get paid very little - but if they didn't do the work, they would not get paid AT ALL.
I absolutely loved Doom 3, whereas I got bored of Unreal after ten minutes.
I've played Half Life, but I got bored after the demo. Half an hour into Half Life, I got even more bored.
Doom 3 is the perfect game to play in a dark room, no lights, no leds, and a set of surround speakers on the right locations around you. Awesome.
And what would be the problem with that? Every small computer shop I know will sell you a PC without Windows.
If they refuse, refuse to buy/pay and go somewhere else. It's as simple as that.
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Fixed the last mistake...
You still believe 'democrazy' works??? Bwahahahahaha!!!
Is it still a stupid question?
Since there is no fixed definition of what is art, there is no answer - only a question that still needs to be resolved.
As a Bimmer driver myself (late E46), I like the look of a Z4. I'd never buy one because of it's looks, whereas I absolutely love the Lamborghini Gallardo and would definitely buy one for the looks.
The point I'm trying to make is that art and beauty IMHO are in the eyes of the beholder.
Alas, you do have a valid point with your last statement: many people let the value of the car guide their preference, which is utter nonsense.
Eclipse - the slowest machine I'm running it on is a Pentium III - 500 Mhz (Windows 2000, 512Mb ram), indeed not the fastest machine around, but the application is definitely not slow when working on my projects (large projects, I might add, no helloworld 1 classamathingies).
Azureus - I'm running Azureus at home on my old Pentium 1 - 133Mhz (Windows 2000, 48Mb ram) and it works like a charm. If it runs visually fast on THAT machine, it's FAST.
I never use jEdit, so I cannot comment on that.
Java applications can be slow (think JDeveloper by Oracle for example), but that's not the fault of the language. Repeat after me: if a Java application seems slow, it's almost always the fault of the programmer's lack of knowledge of the language.
C++ was 14 around 1997 and was widely used and known for its high performance.
Doesn't that say something to you?
Yes, that does say something to me. It tells me that people very much like to stick to first impressions. Granted, those horrible applets from the dark ages of Java haven't done the language much good, but I would definitely not consider a decent, well-written piece of Java software to be slow.
Show me a recently written piece of slow Java code, and I'll show you a programmer who should be looking for a new job. Think Burger King.