Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Just in case anyone thinks that Google is interested in people's privacy think again. They're not. Google recently agreed to give up the IP address of an anonymous blogger who used Google's Blogger to publish a blog in which some politicians were slandered.
I'm not defending slander or baseless accusations ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
The article in the Wall St. Journal doesn't come right out and call it "G-Drive" but that's pretty much what this latest project of Google's is.
It's a service where people will be able to store files on Google's computers so that they're accessible from any PC with an internet connection. ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
In an interesting move, a judge has ordered the RIAA to come up with expense information. Finally somebody is forcing them to justify the insane claims they've been making in their mad rush to sue anybody that's ever downloaded something without paying their blackmail.
Maybe now the truth will start ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I figured I'd announce it here since I've mentioned it several other places as well..
One of my other blogs, “I Am Not A Hamster” has been moved from it’s old url at http://iamnotahamster.peculiarplace.com to it’s new domain name at http://iamnotahamster.net.
please update links and bookmarks accordingly
(Note: the feedburner feed url for ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
This is probably the last one of these I'm going to do for a while since the node's data store is continuing to grow in size and the node appears to be pretty much fully integrated with the network. Performance wise everything is working every bit as good as ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Now a week since restarting fresh and the data store is growing
Data Store:
Maximum size 25 GiB
Used space 2,597,196 KiB
Free space 23,617,204 KiB
Percent used 9
Total keys 7262
There's now 315 active nodes known about and the number continues to grow:
# Histogram of node versions in fred's Routing table
# Nov 25, 2007 12:11:21 AM
# nodes: 315
Fred,0.5,STABLE-1.51,5100 2
Fred,0.5,STABLE-1.51,5102 3
Fred,0.5,STABLE-1.51,5105 8
Fred,0.5,STABLE-1.51,5106 51
Fred,0.5,STABLE-1.51,5107 248
Fred,0.5,STABLE-1.51,5108 1
Fred,0.6,1.51,60276 ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Something over two days in and the datastore is beginning to fill out to a percentage greater than one.
Data Store:
Maximum size 25 GiB
Used space 1,255,116 KiB
Free space 24,959,284 KiB
Percent used 4
Total keys 3126
The routing table is also shaping up pretty good. It now knows about 225 nodes that it has connected to
# Histogram of ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I'm about a day and a half into the new node experiment. Starting out with a new node identity and an empty 25 Gib data store.
Current snapshot of the node’s state;
Data Store:
Maximum size 25 GiB
Used space 778,124 KiB
Free space 25,436,276 KiB
Percent used 2
Total keys 16540
# Histogram of node versions in fred's Routing table
# Nov ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Well, It's a little over 12 and a half hours since essentially starting over with a new freenet node well, almost. I did keep using the "painkiller" mod version with the custom settings I had in place before. No sense messing with what works. Besides, these are ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
First up, There's a new tutorial, How to Change Firefox’s Default Search Engine, that shows how to change Firefox's default search from Google to Ask. It's an easy to do mod that not only puts Ask where Google was, but also allows you to incorporate more search engines as ...
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