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Right, that's it, I'm off of WASTE.
It's a nice enough system in some ways, but I've decided that I really don't like the fact that if I'm friends with Bob and Bob's friends with Charles and Charles is friends with Derek, then Derek has as much right to my bandwidth as Bob does.
I want to be able to shared files with my friends. And it'd be nice if they could share files with their friends, but that's no reason for me to be sharing with them. If I want to share with the world, I'll do it via Kazaa or something similar.
Nathan's challenged me to come up with something that works along these lines, so that'll be a good project for me.
Cheers for the people that helped me play around with the system. Sorry it didn't quite work out.
It's a nice enough system in some ways, but I've decided that I really don't like the fact that if I'm friends with Bob and Bob's friends with Charles and Charles is friends with Derek, then Derek has as much right to my bandwidth as Bob does.
I want to be able to shared files with my friends. And it'd be nice if they could share files with their friends, but that's no reason for me to be sharing with them. If I want to share with the world, I'll do it via Kazaa or something similar.
Nathan's challenged me to come up with something that works along these lines, so that'll be a good project for me.
Cheers for the people that helped me play around with the system. Sorry it didn't quite work out.
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Date: 2003-06-07 08:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-07 10:01 am (UTC)I'm sure you version will be much better anyhoo.
And go for a better name while you're at it...
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Date: 2003-06-08 03:29 am (UTC)All this peer-peer malarky is a nightmare for security. Call me old fashioned but I think the traditional ways are just fine :o)
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Date: 2003-06-08 03:32 am (UTC)I want something that I can say "Who has some Gotan Project?" and have it tell me, not have to trawl through hundreds of folders looking for it on dozens of FTP servers.
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Date: 2003-06-08 03:45 am (UTC)Use a simple and robust existing protocol for the actual transfer and design an app which indexes your files somewhere that people you want can view them. This could be a http (or similar) server on your machine, a list you publish and send to your friends for them to localy search, or a central depository.
Actualy, WindowsXP has various automatic indexing functions built into it, dont know if its presented via an API but you might be able to hook into the OS's own indexing and searching.
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Date: 2003-06-08 04:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 06:59 am (UTC)I'll stick with it till I grab all I can see I want (or until everyone else has vanished off it and there's nothing for me to grab), then I'm giving it the heave too.