Archive for the ‘File Sharing’ Category
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
This ought to be interesting. Some law students in Maine is taking on the RIAA. The University of Maine School of Law’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic have decided to defend fellow students against another one of the RIAA's efforts to squash any semblance of freedom when it comes ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
About a week ago I noticed that The node version information page was not only showing that my node was aware of over 550 nodes, but that build 5108 has appeared. Since then I've gotten the official build from the freenet site and gave it a test run. ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Specifically, the house has approved a "Illegal Images" bill that's going to cause a LOT of problems.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings--or face fines of ...
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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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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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