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  1. Posted

    if you put it in italics, people think it's more important than the rest of the post.

    :blushing: thanks, as soon as i posted i remembered that bold italics and underline are genrally used to highlight things as apose to the opisit Doh ;)

  2. Posted

    It is 10:13 currently at my place, I'm still not drunk and I think you are right, even if you are drunk. Moreover, I think that the American commerce is nasty related with the American military force (and not only). Never mind... :blushing:

    haha, i think you noticed, but it is really hard to make serious comments like that without sounding like David Iyke. they did a good job with that plant ;) ^_^

  4. Posted · Edited by balder

    Well, the police shut Pirate bay down for illegal buiness.

    The piratesbay hasn't broken any (existing) Swedish law. There defense is that they are not providing any copyrighted material. They are just providing instructions on where to obtain that material (a torrent doesn't contain any copyright material, just a pointer too where you can get it from). Its a bit like someone giving you a map of all the people in your area selling pirated videos/dvd's, the person selling the map isn't breaking the law.

    I should point out that torrents ARE illegal in the US and im pretty sure its illegal here in the UK and probably anywhere else that the us* has an influence. However there are a lot of developed countries in Europe which have sensible copyright laws (:blushing:), for the moment (;)), and the EU hasn't decided what it thinks yet either.

    I think it is a watch this space moment. This trial, if one occurs, will be one which starts to define these laws for Sweden. However they as there law stands they have broken no Swedish law**

    *i just wanted to say i am not having a go at America but i do think American commerce has a lot of influence in these matters [1]

    **I have formed these opinions from various Internet and news sites [2] so can admit that i may be wrong but im pretty sure what I've said is pretty accurate.

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Jon#The_DeCSS_prosecution

    [2] google

  5. Posted

    there is/was a php script that has/had DC chat possibilities,

    do you know where i could get a copy, from you vagueness i'm guessing not

    with that you'd need to get an entry permission from hubowner though, as shares and such would be a prob with it ;)

    Yes, i have recognized that show stopper :blushing: . my intention was to create the page test it with some sympathetic hubs and if it is plausible/possible think about those issues then. My thinking is that because the user wont be downloading it shouldn't be a problem. However i do appreciate that the practicality of the matter is much more complicated then that.

  6. Posted

    That way you'll already be on all your hubs, and will still be sharing. The favorites and quick connect etc. could also be there. Hehe, maybe this might not be every easy?

    i think this is a would be a good feature to implement. It would also be nice if it (as an option) serve your share of http/ftp. However i get really nervous when ever i run a web server on my home PC, don't know why just paranoid.

    To be quite honest I'd say you're better of just using the VNC via the web through a Java client in a browser and chatting on DC that way.

    again another good solution, however my work firewall want allow certain traffic.

    I would find it quite useful to be able to login to my hub and chat even if i had a sudo-anonymousness username (e.g. guest1006). this would allow me to see whats going on in various hubs and if im in a support hub i would be able to support people while im at work

  7. Posted

    Stop writing in damn italics.

    sorry i'm not up on my web etiquette.

    didn't realize that sort of thing bothered people. Admittedly i do use it a lot. I always have an after thought which is generally contradictory, off the point or untested i therefore put it in italics so it isn't given much consideration or to indicate it should be taken as an after thought (which is what it is)

    it was really hard not to use italics, especially for this bit :blushing: ;)

  8. Posted · Edited by balder

    moved, as asked because it indeed is out of our website's scope (as the idea with ApexDC++ website in the beginning was it to be simple and clean, or something like that)

    yer cheers, sorry about that :oops: :blushing: i blatantly new that i shouldn't have mentioned that in that thread ;)

    i thought that now i had spell checke i wouldn't need to edit my post, how n-eye-eve*

    how the hell do you spell that

  9. Posted · Edited by Crise

    anyway to get this back on-topic what would you members like to see done on the website next?"
    To be honest i would really like to see a web site which could (using AJAX) have access to DC chat facilities (main, maybe pm). I know web programming languages really well, my job is supporting web programmers, and this is something which i think would be really popular [sorry for going of topic a bit] but i would really appreciate a PM from anyone who has an idea on this (or perhaps the moderates might put this into its own thread :D

  10. Posted · Edited by balder

    i don't know. :D

    You give a guy a get out of jail free card and he just chucks it in the bin :P:)

    Crise* needs to wait for this release so that he is not wasting his time. This same dependencies means that he cant make [stable] improvements as they may not be compatible with sdc+

    all code can be made compatible with the new sdc, so i could make some stable improvements.

  12. Posted · Edited by balder

    EDIT:when i started to write this response, Crise hadn't already responded, Doh. However i think i should mabey leave it here as it may still have some valid points. if you diagree crise/lee please send this to trash :D

    The new apex is going to be quit a bit different but we have to wait for the sdc release. The only changes that have been made to pwdc (as experiments) are quite minor or for the advanced user. Most users wouldn't even notice them.

    strongDC or DC 0.6** project fix a lot of the bugs so Crise* needs to wait for this release so that he is not wasting his time. This same dependencies means that he cant make [stable] improvements as they may not be compatible with sdc+

    *sorry if i have miss represented things

  14. Posted · Edited by balder

    To be honest i don't really use bit torrent (DC is so much better) but i have always kept an eye on the pirates bay because they really take the piss. But t is actually more then that in Sweden (from what i understand) the pirates bay has been a pivotal force in creating debate about the legality of torrents and more fundamentally copyright. so even though there will, most deferentially, be another site to take the place of pirates bay. unless it is run by the same people i doubt it will provoke the same amount of public interest/debate

    apparently

    The Pirate bay was the 479 most visited website in the world ranking 21 in Sweden and 312 in the U.S. In comparison, CNN.com is the 125 most popular site in Sweden.
    ref:MPAA press release

    That is a "popular" F@$%ing site and a hell of a lot of opinions to ....*

    * couldn't think of the correct word to finish this sentence, something like affect/poison/mold, hope you get the idea

  15. Posted · Edited by balder

    ..personally..

    Is that to be taken literally

    it wouldn't got down that easily

    I know i was shocked it whet down at all and even more shocked that the Swedish law enforcement agencies seem to have performed (from what i understand) an illegal search.

  18. Posted

    thepiratebay.org/

    It is well worth watching to see the outcome of this situation it could set a precedent for the European countries (and the EU) which havn't already bowed to the pressure of American commerce. Also considering a lot of stable public hubs are based in Sweden it will be interesting to see what affect, if any, this has to the DC community

  21. Posted

    £1450 (with training) A hell of a lot of money, but it was paid for by work.

    The cost of it is the reason i have never done it before. Any type of computer certification is ridiculously expensive

    spell checking in my browser wow, i love firefox

  22. Posted

    is that the Red Hat Technician thing?

    yes

    is it easy?

    yes it was but i am really bad with exams, i started second guessing everything i had done and ended up thinking i hadn't passed. thats paranoia