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Member since May 4, 2003

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  1. Review - burst!

    RC5 (Aug 7, 2003)

    You misunderstand .. It is meant that you can now set upload to below 10k/sec while seeding (that limit still applies while leeching), so that you can share more files.

  2. Review - burst!

    RC2 (Jun 21, 2003)

    To clarify: The 1.x series of bursts (which this is) is simply a GUI wrapper around a modified python btdownloadheadless client .. hence the DOS windows. I wrote it becuase the GUI clients were memory hungry pigs, and required you to start a new instance for every file.

    Most of the bugs (like hanging, randomly, on some torrents, on some systems, which I can't reproduce here! If you're hitting this bug, please e-mail me so I can track it down) are actually due to these stupid downloader windows!

    The downloader windows will be gone in 2.x, which is a complete Win32 re-write and currently in alpha (a seeder-only preview should be out within a few weeks, keep your eyes peeled)...

  3. Comment - Low-Rights IE Only for Longhorn Users

    RC2 (Jun 11, 2005 - 8:15 PM)

    Nope, never gonna happen..

    Apple uses their OS as one of the primary selling points for their hardware, which is what they're actually interested in getting you to buy.

    It will be a cold day in hell before you can run their OS on non-Apple hardware.

  4. Comment - NT4 Upgrades Open the Door for Linux

    RC2 (Dec 24, 2004 - 12:16 PM)

    An outside consultant can be brought in to setup a Linux machine ONCE. Once Linux has been setup, it needs very little maintence, and what little it does require can be done remotely (this is all assuming a distro with a strong package repository manager .. apt, emerge, etc). Most companies are using NT4 for tasks at which Linux+Samba+Apache performs better and more reliably. When the services DO need to be patched (for example, a php advisory came out a few days ago) patches can almost always be applied with near-0 or 0 downtime (php is re-built as a shared module, and apache is warm-restarted)

    As far as applications go, if there are things that cannot be ported over, you can leave highly firewalled NT4 server(s) with no Internet access, just keep an eye on them (to compensate for the lack of security updates in a year).

  5. Comment - Microsoft Preps New Windows Update

    RC2 (Mar 7, 2004 - 11:00 AM)

    Just becuase I have nothing to hide, that does not make it OK for others (especially large corportations) to spy on me.

    What if M$ detects I'm using Winamp (which they can, by checking registry keys) instead of WMP, and bork my sound card drivers? What if they detect I'm using Mozilla and not IE, and bork my network stack?

    I have about as much trust in M$'s honest business practices as I do in Enron's honest accounting practices..