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Could Apex strip off the ID3 tags while hashing, similar to what Shareaza does. Shareaza ignores the tags while it hashes the file, but keeps the tags on the file. This way the hashes don't change every time a person changes the tagging, increasing sources for MP3 files that are exactly the same without the tags. I'm not sure if this would be as useful on DC as it is on a P2P network like that, but I thought I'd just throw the idea out there. Plus, if you wanted to check the code out for it, Shareaza is open source anyways.

It's been cool the last couple of days (20-25C) around here (Toronto area), last week it hit 35C, but later on in the summer it'll go up to 45C with the humidity. It's usually 30/35 without and 45C with the humidity in the city. Heat doesn't bother me at all, like last summer when I was up north at my cottage it was 40C in the sun with no humidity and it didn't bother me, but the humidity is killer especially when you have a giant head of hair and hairy legs . There's almost an 80-85C difference between the coldest and the warmest days in this area...

I've had a cyclic redundancy check error on my harddrive before. What I did to fix it was wipe it with zeros with Linux, then reformatted it with a full NTFS format and it's worked fine ever since. You will obviously lose everything on it doing it this way though.

Yes the developer does have the right to do that. They know what's good for the network, and what isn't, unlike some n00b who doesn't know how to even forward a port or knows what a TCP packet is used for. There are very good reasons for blocking the users who use these programs, they bring back the DC network even farther back into the past compared to where the bulk of P2P networks are. They create excessive traffic (as if DC isn't already ****ty enough as it is for this) bogging down the other nodes and the hubs they are connected to. To make a mod, the developer should be responsible enough to know what his/her modifications will be and how they will affect the network. StrongDC and ApexDC try to do what they believe is right for the network, implementing features they believe will not harm the other nodes. There was a time when Apex (peerwebdc at the time) was going to make it more than 10segments, then I decided to make a big stink about it and banned it from the peerweb hub until they removed it, so don't say I blindly follow these programs.

That'd be great if he were able to help Almighteycow, and tell him he has the chance to make $130 in the process (I'm sure it'll help him make up his mind... he is a university student, and they always need money;))

Perhaps another email should be sent out... if someone hears about $100, that might be a good incentive. Or, if there are no takers and almightey can't do it, we could always hire out (i'm not sure how far $100 would go, although there isn't tons of coding I guess, just converting it to code linux can use).

If someone does get it ported, I'd be willing to add $20 to the pot.

Figured I could update the stats from my mirror which hosts PeerWeb DC++ 0.41, for November it was downloaded 5898 times totaling 15.3GB of bandwidth. Hopefully the people who download this old version will or have upgraded to ApexDC++. At least it's a good sign of the popularity of the client.

Just noticed this as I was looking through my website stats for September. PeerWeb DC++ 0.41 was downloaded a total of 4869 times (suddenly sky rocketed during the second half ) accounting for 12.61GB. I've kept up those files because they're linked to from several third party websites (1000-1500 referrals were from download.com). Also, 8GB was from the U.S. (that's not all just PWDC, it also includes the Gnutella Cache I have). Just thought you guys would be interested! (directory: http://mirror.farrugiafamily.com/programs/apexdc/ )

Translation: "Can the description tag be removed so that it doesn't show in the hub"

MoGLO is a pain in the ass, they spam hubs and most hubs now have Anti-MoGLO spam features. I (illegally) crashed one guys connection for coming on often then blocked his whole ISP range in my router. It's not a good feature and it'll definately tarnish Apex's reputation. [edit]a bit late on the post...

Uploaded it to The Pirate Bay, I'm using uTorrent so if you have that or use the mainline client you'll also possibly find me on the mainline DHT network. Anyways, download this and the torrent and spread it on public trackers and it might help shore up some more popularity: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3526128

Yeah, I love VLC, no need for codec installations and it supports pretty much every format under the sun. It also supports x264 (since the VLC team develops that open source codec of H.246) which is starting to get big.

If tunna were to write it for you (like he says he might), why not add it anyways?

Who cares about resources if you have a good computer If you were worried about them you'd spend more money on RAM, hard drives, and a CPU. If you want more speed, also try to disable paging of the XP Kernel, that way it runs off of the RAM instead of the HDD.

I think doing that will add too much bulk to the settings. Why not just doing something simple like the double arrow like you get in an MSN chat box where you hand adjust the size?

The problem with Freenet is that it brings itself to its knees under high loads and the network almost becomes unusable. Almost all of the anonymous P2P networks are slow and kinda crappy unless you stay online a couple of days. P2P is fun because of the risk Nah, I don't wi-fi, I want my fibre optics... my ISP suppose to have it out by next year, but I doubt it :D

I don't really know if encryption would work for DC unless you do one of several things: public DC hubs cease to exist, you create a network similar to freenet where everyone is a proxy cache, or you create keys that only those who know it can add you (like WASTE). Encryption doesn't hide your IP, it can mask the communication between clients, but if a company decides to download from you, they have your IP (unless you use a proxy and slow your speeds down).

Desktop I usually just have some neat photo as my background.

Info from host: http://forums.instantnetworks.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=267 Two days ago: Yesterday:

My site is on the same server as Peerweb and they're both down right now.

Heh, the only way to make it hash even faster is to compile CPU specific versions much like Shareaza does sometimes. Those things hash huge files with all four of 'razas hashes (ed2k, md5, sha1, tth) in very small amounts of time. But it's too much of a hassle. Yes it would, but almost every P2p client does it, DC lags a long ways away from mainstream P2P. Of course, it could be just the way that DC++ was made.

I usually use it for sharing files with others and only use it for private hubs. I mainly get music off of Gnutella2 and bigger files off of BitTorrent anyways. Nothing can beat BT in speed unless you include Usenet.

Just use those links in the Tech Geeks Online Hub, I'm sure you'll pick up a ton (if you already have DC of course )

Here's the zip of the latest stable out (PWDC): http://drlinky.com/?L=54526