CrazyBerserk

1Dude: See my previous post, that should be all you need to get PG running. I doesn't look like there will ever be a working link again since it has already been built into ApexDC. Just looks like someone forgot to consider fresh installed versions of Apex, so try the workaround. Regards, CB

I guess the link will not be fixed: But here is how make it work in a fresh install of ApexDC, anyway: As stated before: Create the file 'guarding.p2p' in your ApexDC's settings folder, e.g. in C:\Programs\ApexDC\Settings\. Then go to your ApexDC settings and there select "Security". Now, on the right side of the Settings window, check the box next to "PeerGuardian" and press the button [View Blocklist]. In the window that popped up, make sure that the box "Current list:" points to the file you just created, in my example "C:\Programs\ApexDC\Settings\guarding.p2p", and in the "Update server:" box should be entered the location of your blocklist, such as "http://www.apexdc.net/updater/". Klick [OK] to leave the window. Now press the [update Blocklist] button. That might take a while, depending on your internet connection speed, but after the list has been loaded and written to the file you created and pointed to before, you can look at the list any time by clicking on [View Blocklist] again. At last, set up PeerGuardian via the checkboxes at the bottom as to what actions you wish to be monitored by PeerGuardian and click [OK]. If you don't know what the checkboxes mean you might wanna consult this thread. I don't know why that file is not being created automatically when needed - at least it wasn't for me - but maybe that's a bug or a feature yet to be implemented. Good luck, CB

Kole, do you use a VPN client for setting up your internet connection? I've never used it, but as far as I heard from users in our campus network, there are VPN clients available that can define for each application which network connection to use. So with such a VPN client you could tell Apex to always use the 10.200. network. I'm not sure if it was the Cisco VPN client or OpenVPN that had this feature, and neither I know how stable it really is. I hope this helps somehow. --CB

I guess I just finally figured out how to activate the PeerGuardian plugin effectively. Though, I don't suppose that the following is not the normal way everybody has to go: Going to ApexDC's settings >> Advanced >> Security, checking the box next to PeerGuardian and then having the status message say "Blocklist running but not active". Pressing [View Blocklist] only brings up a box saying something like "Blocklist is empty or in an unknown format". Of course neither pressing [Reload Blocklist] nor [update Blocklist] is bringing any changes; the file ApexDC\Settings\guardian.p2p pointed to in the [View Blocklist] box simply doesn't exist and neither is being created automatically. Than finally having the great idea of visiting the updater URL pointed to in the same box with a browser, finally finding an obviously working blocklist, saving the file from the browser to ApexDC\Settings\guardian.p2p, pressing the [Reload Blocklist] button and finally having the status message say "Blocklist reloaded, with XXX.XXX IP Ranges". Well, concluding I guess it would have gone faster to simply create an empty file ApexDC\Settings\guardian.p2p and then fill it by pressing [update Blocklist] - assuming one gets such splendid idea. But shouldn't this file better be created automatically when activating the PeerGuardian plugin? Is this just gone lost because all of you already have had the plugin installed the "old way" months ago and therefore everything on your side worked? Or am I just a single weird case? Anyway, Regards, CB

Uhm.. you're confusing me. Why obsolete if the PeerGuardian blocklist is still being updated more or less regularly? In order to use it I should need to install and therefore download it according to this guide, right? Or is there something new I haven't found yet? Can you give me a hint? So, if somebody knows something how to nowadays automatically block known "bad and evil" IPs, I'd appreciate any hint as to what to search for. Sorry for not knowing, but I'm rather new again to DC in the internet... Regards, CB

Thanks. I already thought I just found another reason to reinstall my system... Does someone know a reliable and authentic alternative download location? Via Google I couldn't really find anything I'd trust.. Regards, CB

Uhm.. is it only me or is the link not working? I only get a white page or a download of 0Byte...

Hi, on the very last page, in the section "13 - How To Install The PeerGuardian Plugin", it might be useful to have the phrase "plugin files" be a link to the actual .rar file or so as it is in the original topic. It just took me some time of searching several topics to find the files needed to install until I found the link in the original topic. Maybe there are more people as blind as me. ;-)

I am aware of that. And also of that you are mostly spending your sparetime on this client. What makes me sort of angry is that Crise didn't ever reply to my PMs and questions here about the possible status. As I mentioned several times I didn't wanna ask someone else if Crise had already racked his brain about it. But he chose to ignore my questions completely. By now I have been begging for those features for more than 9 months - being ignored most of the time I think it's only natural to give up any hope. Furthermore, in a couple of weeks I'm going to leave the campus I live on and where I host my hubs and use DC. So whatever features there will or won't come in the future, I will most likely not have any use for them. Given the current legal situation (MPAA, RIAA, lawyer's infiltrations, "Anti-terror laws" circumventing fundamental freedom and privacy a.s.o.) I doubt that I will use DC in the internet. It's most unfortunate; I only hope that maybe some other users may have benefit of my requested features - if they ever find their way back to the DC community. So, back to the point: Farewell, fellaz. And @ifmn: Good luck with your coding. I appreciate you're posting status messages. :(

Well, this went really, really sad, I guess. Obviously none of you ever used features that useful and therefore learned to appreciate havning things much easier... Wish ya guys good luck and lotta fun with copypasting nicknames throughout your DC windows and having your harddrives mistreated due to moving finished DLs from temp to target drives and I guess you will simply miss some of your friends since you didn't get notified they just came online. Farewell, fellas.

In case you have use for it, on the previous page of this thread I've posted a link to the source code of .PhantomDC, which already had it implemented. Maybe you see more than only a confusing bunch of even more confusing code in it.. Good luck with your coding. ;)

Of course it is. But it's also up to us to tell them that we want those features - as long as there are some people with me asking for them. And as the last months showed, devs rather seem to choose to ignore this thread and PMs concerning this thread. And if nobody supports these requests, they will go on doing that. Hell, I couldn't even get Crise to tell me if it's OK to bother some other DC coder or if he already spent some work on these requests. I just didn't wanna be unfair and ask someone else to do it while Crise might already be working on it. That being said, this it what I'm currently trying to do. Painful regards, CrazyBerserk

Oh c'mon, no-one with me here? Am I really the only one still missing things like that?

As promised, here is the source code again. I hate being annoying, but as long as it might help...

I just noticed that I missunderstood you, Greg. :crying: Hell, sometimes I don't know if my English is too bad or I'm just too tired.. Anyway, YES, if it helps I WANNA be a pain in the ass!!! Maybe I'll be lucky with the next non-beta release.. So, here again my feature requests (started new numbering): #R1 - Tab completion of nicknames working in all chat and PM windows belonging to a hub and working with any part of the nickname, not just with the beginning or the first characters behind a [iSP]-prefix -> Thoroughly explained throughout this thread, as number 2 and with a very nice example given by Point_Alpha in the previous post #R2 - Direct downloading to target drive and folder so downloaded files don't have to be (automatically) moved when finished to their selected destination drive/folder ("%[targetdrive]" directive isn't enough since this does only work by drive letter, so it's useless when an NTFS drive is mounted into a folder). This moving of downloaded files (especially to another drive when it's mounted into an NTFS folder) slows down performance considerably and furthermore you can only guess what makes your harddisks go crazy for several minutes when the DVD image just downloaded is being moved by the DC client. Neither the DC client nor any other standard utility does show you what is currently going on. Not to mention what may happen to the file in case the client crashes while moving... -> As well explained throughout this thread, as number 5 #R3 - Online alert function that pops up standard PM window from a user as soon as this users logs into a hub when a certain command was typed in mainchat window. Example: ...entered in MC will result in a PM popup like this from prfx.testuser as soon as he logs in: -> This feature was explained in another feature request thread, but I still want it and can't understand how especially OPs can "live" without... To all the other people reading this: Tell the devs that you want the features as well! A client without just isn't complete! (And, before you further discuss the features please read the according threads first to avoid double statements. Thank you.) Regards, Crazy "PainInTheAss" Berserk EDIT: I hope I don't forget it: I will re-upload the source code of .PhantomDC++ in case it helps. All other links I gave are down by now...