Loving the Limit

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Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed
to Google's -- So What?

Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed
to Google's -- So What? 08/19/2004 10:41 PM
I've gotten several mails about Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't. Many people asked about the query limit, mostly two things: 1) Is there any query limit? 2)...

Loving Day

Loving Day 06/07/2004 07:14 PM
i'm in favor of love.

Loving the Mambo

Loving the Mambo 05/28/2004 06:38 PM
Submission by David Shamoon Two thumbs up for Mambo. I'm experienced with a few different CMSs and decided to try Mambo because I was building a site on a site that had a lot of limitations (one database and no access to the php.ini). What a relief it was to use. Finally something that breaks the Nuke mold. It’s really slick and easy to hand off to non-technical people. You don’t have to disable a lot of features that you’ll never use.

Time for loving

Time for loving 09/17/2004 02:38 AM

I can't believe how much I love FuzzyClock. If you've never heard of it, it's a simple app that puts the current time into natural language. So instead of 2:53 it will say "ten til three." At first I thought the lack of accuracy could be a problem, but I've got lots of meetings and have never been late (just wait until it says "shortly before eleven" and you'll be on time for it). Here is what it looks like on my current menu bar (also running: audioscrobbler, slimbattery, and instiki).

On the surface, it simply saves you a half-second of converting the numbers 3:41 into "about twenty to four" in your head, but in practice it removes a small mental tax you put yourself through dozens-to-over-a-hundred times per day. After months of running this app in place of the standard clock (I disabled it in my OS prefs and run fuzzyclock on startup), I feel liberated in a small way. I've spent my life surrounded by clocks and never realized how much easier it is to read "half past twelve" than reading numbers.

Last week, I noticed Flickr does timestamps on comments this way, which is a great idea and something I should really do at metafilter. Someone's already written a function for it in PHP, I'm sure it'll be a MT plugin soon, if it isn't already.

Loving a loner

Loving a loner 05/12/2004 08:20 AM
I'm with a man who doesn't believe in love and thinks he'll end up alone. Will he ever change?

Loving iLife

Loving iLife 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
Reviewing iLife ’04, Matthew Fordahl writes for Associated Press, “For me, the suite would be a bargain even at twice the price. Its newest addition is an addictive music-creation program. Called GarageBand, it is simple enough for those of us who’ve never touched a keyboard or strummed a guitar yet advanced enough to appeal to a polished practitioner.” [Mar 1]

Machines of Loving Grace

Machines of Loving Grace 11/04/2003 12:06 PM
Machines of Loving Grace, an early to mid 90s Industrial Rock group, makes their appearance on the iTMS. First up is their last release...

Loving Norah Jones

Loving Norah Jones 01/16/2004 01:02 PM

I tend to listen to same songs over and over with my eyes half-closed.  Many of the songs I am enjoying of late are Norah Jones songs.  She sings very well but I enjoy her songs because they are easy to sing.  Here are some of her songs I like:

• Come Away with Me (sleepy seduction)
• Don't Know Why (fast moody jog)
• Lonestar (best on horseback)
• One Flight Down (slow moody swaying)
• Shoot the Moon (excellent guitar!)
• Cold Cold Heart (nice rythm)

If you haven't discovered Norah Jones yet, check her out.

Loving and Hating iTunes

Loving and Hating iTunes 12/19/2003 11:54 AM
A new PC World music column explores iTunes and how it changed the world of digital music. Stressing the superiority of iTunes for Windows over many competitors, the article does mention several concerns. One such issue is the way Apple updates iTunes, not as patches, but as complete version upgrades, meaning many-megabyte downloads. Another concern is difficulties moving songs from a work computer to a home computer, and the fact that an iPod cannot be used to do this. The article...

Loving Google but Not Its Public
Offering

Loving Google but Not Its Public
Offering 08/05/2004 11:23 PM
Silicon Valley's digerati, traditionally the biggest proponents of initial public offerings of technology stocks, are overwhelmingly bearish on Google's anticipated offering.

Dutch Singles Just Aren't Loving It
(Reuters)

Dutch Singles Just Aren't Loving It
(Reuters) 09/21/2004 08:26 AM
Reuters - Dutch singles aren't having satisfying love lives despite the country's reputation as a haven for free and easy sex, according to a new poll.

IT vendors lose that loving feeling

IT vendors lose that loving feeling 09/20/2004 11:00 AM
Big brands not loved by great unwashed

Loving Pioneer's new TiVo with the DVD
burner

Loving Pioneer's new TiVo with the DVD
burner 11/10/2003 11:04 PM
Mark Evanier bought the DVR-810H, Pioneer's new TiVo digital video recorder with the built-in DVD burner, and he seems to like it quite a bit. Fulfilling the dreams of many a TiVo fanatic, you can use one of these things to easily create an archive shows or movies stored on the TiVo's hard drive by burning them to a blank DVD. Read [Thanks, Steve]...

I can't stop loving you. Well. Erm.
Yes. Easily. Just watch me.

I can't stop loving you. Well. Erm.
Yes. Easily. Just watch me. 01/17/2004 10:48 PM
I am being forced to watch the Finnish qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest. Dear Lord. This is like watching Idols - the first few rounds. You know, the ones with the acne-faced idiots who actually think they can sing?

Well. The only difference that I can see here is that all of the singers are pretty (and red-haired), and that the songs are new. But why, oh why, do we continue to embarrass ourselves by thinking that someone in Europe would actually be interested in this crap? And why do we keep thinking that we have to do well in this stupid contest to be accepted? Well, now they at least have songs performed by a Norwegian, in English, written by a bunch of people none of have a Finnish name...

Who the fuck thinks of lyrics like "mouse in the misery - cheese in his memory"? WHAAAT!?! And they have one of the people from the Swedish Survivors performing, too! And someone, please kill the bloody hosts! "Du gick en pojkvän där? That was Swedish. Heheheheh." This is would be damn near intolerable, if I wasn't laughing my ass off...

Well, luckily there are few songs 16 year old Lagavulin and good company can't improve. ;-)

(OK, I'll have to give it to one performer: she can actually sing, pronounce English and look pretty at the same time. Something which seems to be very difficult for the rest of the performers.)

I wanna keeping on loving you.... on a
cruise ship.

I wanna keeping on loving you.... on a
cruise ship. 07/22/2004 02:56 PM
REO, Styx and Journey. On a cruise ship. Now you can take that cruise and mingle with three 80's mega-bands (if you purchase the platinum package) for seven days. Tickets anyone? [via Kill Ugly Radio]

His Fans Can't Stop Loving Him (Los
Angeles Times)

His Fans Can't Stop Loving Him (Los
Angeles Times) 06/18/2004 05:10 AM
Los Angeles Times - Fans of Ray Charles, some bringing flowers and others clutching well-worn copies of old albums, came by the thousands Thursday to file past the singer's casket and piano at a public viewing in a sunny atrium of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

EFF reviews freedom-loving MacOS
high-def TV toy

EFF reviews freedom-loving MacOS
high-def TV toy 01/05/2005 07:09 PM
Cory Doctorow: With only half a year left until the FCC criminalizes watching television without DRM (thanks to the loathsome Broadcast Flag), it's time to start stocking up on open hardware that can tune, record and manipulate digital TV signals without Hollywood's irrational, paranoid shackles.

If you've got a Mac, that means scoring one of El Gato's new EyeTV 500s, a device that can move digital TV shows form your rabbit ears or your cable wire to your Mac in glorious high-def, as plan-jane MPEGs that you can manipulate, share, rip, mix and burn till the cows come home.

My cow-orker Fred von Lohmann, EFF's Senior Intellectual Property Lawyer, is also a certified hi-fi nut, gearhead, and gadget freak. He scored a review-unit of the EyeTV 500 and wrote up a review of its freedom-enhancing capabilities.

As a demo of those capabilities, EFF is hosting a five minute high-def clip from Fellowship of the Rings (Torrent Link), which occupies a thunderous 500MB of hard-drive (!). The studios argued that the Broadcast Flag was necessary to keep viewers from sharing high-def movies over the Internet -- at 500MB per five minutes, that seems a little far-fetched.

The tiny silver lining here is that if you can get an open, freedom-loving digital television tuner between now and the summer, you'll be able to go on doing practically anything you like with the digital television you receive over the air and with your unencrypted cable signal. If you choose to do this by plugging a DTV tuner into your computer, you'll be able to archive your shows on your hard-drive, manipulate them with your favorite editing software, and email clips to your friends.

Link

loving wired profile of craig newmark

loving wired profile of craig newmark 09/03/2004 04:27 PM
craig always gives great quotes

Road-Loving Cardinals Drop Phillies 7-4
(AP)

Road-Loving Cardinals Drop Phillies 7-4
(AP) 05/06/2004 03:55 PM
AP - Hector Luna's three-run homer capped a five-run first inning and led the St. Louis Cardinals to a 7-4 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday.

Tuna-Loving Fat Cat to Slim for New
Owner (Reuters)

Tuna-Loving Fat Cat to Slim for New
Owner (Reuters) 07/02/2004 11:46 AM
Reuters - A Berlin animal shelter is trying to wean a 31-pound cat off its daily diet of oily tuna fish, hoping the obese animal's health will improve enough to find it a new home.

Czechs get loving time for reaching
quarter-finals (Reuters)

Czechs get loving time for reaching
quarter-finals (Reuters) 06/22/2004 04:18 AM
Reuters - The Czech Republic are to be allowed conjugal visits as a reward for reaching the Euro 2004 quarter-finals.

Jeffrey Veen: How I stopped buying CDs
and started loving music

Jeffrey Veen: How I stopped buying CDs
and started loving music 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
Jeffrey Veen: How I stopped buying CDs and started loving music

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Massively multiplayer online games
evolve with dragon-loving masses

Massively multiplayer online games
evolve with dragon-loving masses 05/31/2004 08:13 PM
Nwanews.com - Mon May 31, 05:46 am GMT

LOVING MORE
THAN ONE

LOVING MORE
THAN ONE 05/06/2004 11:39 AM

When I agreed to publish Glenn Parton's essay Love Politics on this blog last week, I warned Glenn to expect a firestorm of response. While I was very intrigued by the ideas in the essay, I was disturbed by the way he broached some of these ideas. Several respondents have complained about the essay, with the loudest criticism being about his overromanticizing of the 'free love' movement of the 1960s (which Glenn and I both grew up during), his apparent misogynism and homophobia, and his preoccupation with the sexual aspects of relationships over the emotional ones. I will confess that I share readers' concerns on all these scores. At the same time, I believe the underlying message of Glenn's essay is fundamentally valid, and extremely important. Rather than debate the concerns, I'd prefer to try to restate what I learned from the essay, hopefully in a less provocative way than Glenn's, and focus the debate on the core ideas and their implications: Our society, our civilization, morally permits each of us to love, passionately and without limit, only one other person. If we violate this moral rule, we are called 'unfaithful', and this is considered a sin, fully justifying jealousy by the first person we loved. If this love manifests itself sexually, it is called 'adultery' and is illegal as well as immoral. People who do love more than one person, passionately and without limit, are demonized and shunned in our society. This limitation of permission to love is unnatural, and renders us psychologically ill, stunted, and repressed. This psychological illness manifests itself in anger, violence, hatred, neglect of others, depression, withdrawal, lack of emotional resilience, self-loathing, disconnection from our senses and from the Earth, and emotional detachment, emotional retardation, emotional isolation, emotional shallowness and emotional immaturity. In psychologists' terms it makes us neurotic and psychopathic. This is not inconsistent with Prescott's thesis that human violence stems from a combination of neglect or abuse in early childhood, and sexual repression as we grow older. Our political and economic systems promote and perpetuate this emotional trauma because it weakens and divides us, makes us politically meek, intellectually lazy and emotionally disconnected from our true wants and needs, and hence more malleable as passive students, workers, and consumers of commercial products and political rhetoric, all against our better interests. This emotional 'closing-off' is entrenched and reinforced by our society's, our civilization's, indoctrination of the absolute need and reverence for private, restricted property. Land and chattels 'belong' to a nuclear one-male, one-female family unit, we are repeatedly told that they are what, along with 'exclusive' love, gives that family unit substance, value and meaning, and in turn, the emotionally co-dependent spouses in the nuclear family 'belong' absolutely to each other ("til death do them part"), and the children 'belong' absolutely to the parents until they are "given away" in marriage and enter into a new, limited, co-dependent relationship. Homosexuality is abhorred because it doesn't 'fit' this model. As a consequence, the community is destroyed in favour of the isolated, helpless, insecure, competitive, self-interested family unit and the all-powerful corporatist State. Our co-dependence on our exclusive partner and our dependence on the corporatist State are thus deepened, an inescapable emotional, economic and political prison. Our ability to love and be loved is unlimited. It is a gift that grows and seeds itself and is enriched when it is reciprocated. There is no such thing as too much love, and until civilization imposed its brutal restrictions, it 'cost' nothing. It is liberating, and arguably the true source of life's meaning. So what does this all mean? If you can accept these six Principles About Love, what are their implications? What does this tell us about how we should live? I think it's safe to say that this kind of emotional openness would only work in a community whose members were self-selected, and where there was substantial trust among the members. That describes lots of tribal cultures, but in our culture, only communes even come close. My guess would be that most communes have failed either because they tried to live idealistically, completely cut off from the rest of civilization (instead of taking the best technologies and the best aspects of modern society and melding them with the best of communal life), or they lived on the periphery of civilization and didn't know enough about business and economics to operate successfully 'partly within the system'. And many communes were pretty liberal at allowing new members and visitors in without limits, which would certainly strain trust. The new terms Intentional Community and Bioregional Community are similar to, though somewhat broader than, 'commune', but they are vulnerable to the same failings. With the right mix of pragmatism, economic and business understanding, and rigorous review and unanimous approval of new members, however, there is no reason why these types of community shouldn't work well, and they would provide a perfect laboratory for the kind of emotional openness that Glenn espouses. Glenn makes a point of saying he is not advocating promiscuity or a culture that compels the acceptance of unwanted, coercive emotional or sexual advances. What he is saying is that people in a trusting community should be free to love, passionately and without limit, more than one person, and to express that love in any way that is mutually agreed upon, and that such love should in no way diminish the love that either partner feels and expresses for others in the community. He is saying that exclusive pairing is not 'hard wired' into us, and that we could learn to permit ourselves, and those we love, to develop deep, guilt-free, jealousy-free, loving relationships with many people within a trusted community. And he is saying that if we could allow ourselves that freedom we would be happier, more peaceful, more respectful, more attentive, more optimistic, more connected with each other, our senses and the Earth, more emotionally resilient, self-loving, emotionally balanced, more feeling, and more emotionally mature. And with that emotional health would come the clarity, strength, and vision needed to tackle and overcome many of the intractable problems that bedevil civilization. I think this makes a lot of sense. I don't believe we need this kind of emotional liberation to save the world, but I don't think it would hurt. If you didn't get this from Glenn's essay, this may be due more to my imagining of what he meant than your misunderstanding. As Daniel Dennett says "On any important topic, we tend to have a rough idea of what we believe to be true, and when an author writes the words we want to read, we tend to fall for it, no matter how shoddy the arguments." And I expect that Glenn will weigh in himself on what he really meant. But now that I've delineated what I got out of his essay, and why I think his basic idea is very sensible and very important, I'd be interested in your thoughts. Naive? Idealistic? Wrong-headed? Insensitive? Or is there something here that bears closer scrutiny, and maybe a real-world trial?

When the Sky Really Is the Limit

When the Sky Really Is the Limit 04/18/2005 08:28 AM
A little-known Brazilian jet maker has a lot of orders to fill in the finicky airline sector.

The sky wasn't the limit

The sky wasn't the limit 12/28/2004 02:58 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 7:25AM GMT

FC Now: Taking It to the Limit

FC Now: Taking It to the Limit 03/22/2005 05:12 PM
How far would you go to express your passion for a particular brand? I'm talking above and beyond wearing or using it. Think about it. Would you put its sticker on your bumper? Perhaps you may even have its logo...

EU: A limit recognized?

EU: A limit recognized? 07/27/2004 09:36 AM
Stefan Bechtold writes that the EU Commission (ok, a staff report) has decided that copyright terms for recordings in Europe should not be increased beyond the current term (50 years after publication), despite the growing pressure of recording labels to increase the term to "save" (as they put it) some of the most important Rock from entering the public domain. The story is getting press in Europe. (Independent, BBC< /a>). This is an extremely important development in this battle. For once, a government-related entity has recognized the truth (or at least, not had its recognition crushed). I've already been talking to archives that are working on the idea of releasing all the recordings they can when they pass into the public domain on January 1, as a way of demonstrating the value of a wide range of work becoming available, unencumbered, for widespread use. Here in the U.S., we'll be able to celebrate the same in, um, 2019. Till then, for your listening pleasure, an oldie (first posted here last July): a 1937 radio program from the Columbia Workshop about creative works passing from the "copyright lane" into the "public domain".

BT to stretch DSL to absolute limit

BT to stretch DSL to absolute limit 04/19/2004 08:29 AM
Milton Keynes targeted

Pushing computers to the limit

Pushing computers to the limit 07/25/2004 02:29 AM
Computing power has risen phenomenally in the past 40 years and new approaches could help to keep it growing.

F.D.A. to Limit Sperm Donors

F.D.A. to Limit Sperm Donors 05/20/2004 05:40 PM
Men who acknowledge having had homosexual sex within the previous 5 years will not be allowed to make anonymous sperm donations under the new rules.

Next Windows to Limit USB Key, iPod Use

Next Windows to Limit USB Key, iPod Use 09/09/2004 09:00 AM

CNet is reporting that Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn version of Windows will have tools designed to help businesses prevent the use of USB keys, iPods, or any other mass storage device that can be connected to work computers, all in the interest of protecting company data. Sounds like a cluster to me, but if iron-fisted sysadmins really feel like they need to lock down USB ports, an operating system-level tool is probably better than nothing. That being said, this is, at best, just a small part of an overall security solution.

It still sounds like a case of "OMG FLOPPY DRIVES?!?!" The data still leaves the company inside the minds of the employees, too. What is Microsoft doing to prevent data loss via the brain, huh? Clearly, there is a serious security hole there. My advice is free booze after 3:30.

Read - Longhorn to put squeeze on gadgets [CNet]

Even the sky wasn't the limit for
science in 2004

Even the sky wasn't the limit for
science in 2004 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:03PM GMT

New tech may limit CD burns

New tech may limit CD burns 06/02/2004 08:48 AM
ZDNet Jun 2 2004 1:40PM GMT

Google to Limit Some Drug Ads

Google to Limit Some Drug Ads 12/02/2003 01:04 AM
Google, the popular search engine, will stop accepting advertising from unlicensed pharmacies that have used the Internet to sell millions of doses of ...

XPSP2 will limit your max.
connections/sec

XPSP2 will limit your max.
connections/sec 07/20/2004 07:57 AM

Netflix Queue Limit

Netflix Queue Limit 01/03/2005 05:58 AM
Ah, joy. Netflix has queue size limit of 500 DVDs. We have 496 movies in queue to be watched now. We'll be through that in about 4 years at the current pace. That's of course if we stop adding new movies and we've been adding faster than we've been watching. At least they've mostly gotten back to their 1-2 day delivery time over the last month. p.s. happy new year everyone....

Breaking the speed limit

Breaking the speed limit 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
This year's Indianapolis 500 race has something other than the cars going fast - think wireless.

More on Google Size Limit

More on Google Size Limit 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Previously we reported on speculation that Google may be hitting a size limit: standard C coding uses 32-bits of storage for numbers, which means that Google might be running out of numbers to identify new documents with. Adding further credence to this theory is the fact that Google has finally added more pages to their results, but only by using a separate supplemental index. I can't think of any good reasons to do this except to get around the size restriction....
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"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..."

"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..." 12/31/2004 10:23 AM

Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it.

Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it. 12/30/2004 11:53 AM
fights back .. lokittorrent .. Loki Torrent

lokitorrent.com
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bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
engine (bittorrent)

bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
engine (bittorrent) 07/14/2004 01:18 AM
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"bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
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Maxivista

Maxivista 07/07/2004 04:22 PM
vnunet.com Jul 7 2004 7:44PM GMT

MaxiVista 'Laptop as Monitor'
Impressions

MaxiVista 'Laptop as Monitor'
Impressions 05/12/2004 08:35 AM
I've been playing around with a copy of MaxiVista, the software that lets you use another machine as a second monitor (usually a spare laptop, although there's nothing stopping you from using it on any machine with a display). In a nutshell, it works and works well. Read my impressions...

Torrent 0.61

Torrent 0.61 01/27/2004 02:58 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.

Torrent Zip

Torrent Zip 03/31/2005 11:44 PM
The project is live!

My first torrent

My first torrent 07/30/2004 03:00 AM

Thanks to Jim and Ado for setting up the BitTorrent tracker. Here is a torrent for Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture talk in Helsinki that I blogged about earlier.

UPDATE: Please standby. It doesn't seem to be working.

Comment - TrackBack

Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent

Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent 03/17/2005 03:55 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Lucas Emery says,

Your big article on M.I.A over the weekend reminded me that I had downloaded a mix mp3 shortly after the Tsunami disaster comprised exclusivly of Sri Lankan hip-hop. I can't remember where I originally found the mix (boomselection, maybe?) so I just made a .torrent. 58.4 Meg mp3 mix by Dr. Auratheft.

Link

Previously: M.I.A. is, well, MIA; and MIA for intergalactic overlord

Bit Torrent : An Analysis

Bit Torrent : An Analysis 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Hardy news site, The Register, recently published a detailed analysis of the file sharing protocol Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent has received attention in the main stream news after reports that it was carrying as much as 50% of all peer 2 peer (p2p) traffic, which in tern amounted to a massive 30% of all the traffic on the internet. The paper, by Dr. Johan Pouwelse, examines the protocol and looks especially at one of the largest bit-torrent hubs, Suprnova.org. He examines how just 20 moderators solve the problem of fake files, something that plagues the traditional file sharing networks like Kazaa.

Dr Powelse notes that the major problems facing hubs like suprnova are fakes and maintaining hub availability. The availability of files on bit torrent is based on a centralised system; without it, the network fails as users cannot access the trackers. Decentralising bit torrent has already begun - Suprnova have started a project called "Exeem" which apparently has 5,000 beta testers trialling it, and has an ultimate aim of taking the best of Kazaa (a decentralised network) and merging it with Bit Torrent. Decentralisation removes the issue of poor availability at the tracker end, yet0 it also provides more scope for fake files and a reduction in data integrity at the user end.

The paper concludes that bit-torrent needs to evolve to create incentives to users to seed files. Bit-torrent as a protocol is a system that’s here to stay; it enjoys more and more usage from more main stream content providers. Yes, there is a lot of illegitimate use of the protocol, but unlike Kazaa, these users should not be allowed to over shadow the usefulness to legitimate users of the bit torrent protocol.

[Update] Since this article was published, Suprnova has shutdown as a hub for torrents. Although this cannot be confirmed, the shutdown is very likely related to legal action from the Hollywood against tracker websites; earlier in the week many other sites were taken down. The effectiveness of the takedowns could be massive; the paper below notes that when on the Suprnova mirrors went offline during their monitoring period, they saw a massive reduction in the number of users downloading files through the site.

Download: The Paper (pdf) | The Register

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Xcode .torrent

Xcode .torrent 08/08/2004 02:13 AM
Apple just released an update to is Xcode development tools, but Apple's content distribution network is slow and poky, and as Danny notes, it "won't let you resume downloads using wget -c." So here's a .torrent for Xcode. Link (via Oblomovka)

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV 06/21/2004 07:41 AM

Battle Torrent

Battle Torrent 08/11/2004 09:45 AM

Thanks to Dave over at Scripting News for the link. The already easy process of downloading files via BitTorrent has just gotten easier. [Downhill Battle]

Bit Torrent question

Bit Torrent question 04/09/2004 10:30 PM
Bit Torrent and the ability to download everything in one click (is this the end of Direct TV, Tivo and the music business?!).

Used BitTorrent a little bit when it first came out and was a bit underwhelmed. It didn’t work, there weren’t a lot of places to find files, etc.

I decided to take another look at it when a designer friend of mine was telling me that he has the latest version of every single piece of design software on his Mac compliments of bit torrent (yes, I know it’s wrong… not the point I’m trying to make, the point is coming :-).

Part I: I installed bit torrent and immediately noticed an amazing new trend (prob. not new to all of you) of people posting dozens of albums in one RAR file for download. Huge file sizes in the 500 to 4,000 meg size range. The last season of seven seasons of Southpark, every Nirvanna album and here is another file with every Howard Stern radio show from March in one file.

In one click you grab one really well organized, clean and deep sets of files—scary.

Part II: A couple of month ago I got the Gateway Connected DVD player. For $195 it connects via WiFi to my desktop and I can hit the My Music or My Videos button on the remote control and pull up those directories on my hard drive (in the other room).

Part III: Today I moved into my new apartment in Santa Monica and was faced with the standard $100 month cable/dish bill and I’m thinking “dang, I only watch less then a half dozen TV shows and they are all here on bit torrent… maybe I should save the $1,200 a year and just download the shows and watch them via my Gateway Connected DVD player?”

The Point/Question: How soon before you’ll be able-with one click-download every prime-time TV show or last year’s top 500 CDs in one click?!

(Note: This is not a trick question, I have yet to find a file containing that much content—however, I did find a file with last weeks top 100 singles that someone put together in one nice package).

[The Digital Music Weblog]

It's the torrent, stupid

It's the torrent, stupid 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin: Mark Pesce rants about the recent shutdowns of BitTorrent supersites Suprnova.org and TorrentBits.com.

Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers? Do you understand how badly you've screwed up? You took a perfectly serviceable situation - a nice, centralized system for the distribution of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving birth to a system of digital distribution that you'll never, ever be able to defeat. In your avarice and arrogance you ignored the obvious: you should have cut a deal with SuprNova.org. In partnership you could have found a way to manage the disruptive change that's already well underway. Instead, you have repeated the mistakes made by the recording industry, chapter and verse. And thus you have spelled your own doom.

It's said that the best sequels are just like the original, only bigger and louder. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a crash. This baby is now fully out of control.

Link (via waxy)

CC Torrent Hosting

CC Torrent Hosting 12/17/2004 06:33 PM

Torrentocracy has announced a free BitTorrent hosting service for Creative Commons licensed content: Prodigem.

Download one of the beta torrents currently available. Send an email to Torrentocracy creator Gary Lerhaupt to request an upload account.

Update: Download all of the Duke Law School Arts Project Moving Image Contest finalists via one torrent at prodigem.

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2 05/05/2004 10:52 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns 12/22/2004 01:40 AM
Slashdot Dec 21 2004 6:33PM GMT

Comrade - Bit Torrent Client

Comrade - Bit Torrent Client 06/24/2004 12:03 AM
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Torrent of video from DV Guide

Torrent of video from DV Guide 08/30/2004 02:55 AM

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"Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB"

"Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB" 03/27/2005 10:28 AM

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Grokster briefs torrent

Grokster briefs torrent 03/26/2005 05:13 AM
Cory Doctorow: Thad sez, "This is a torrent of all of the briefs submitted re: MGM v. Grokster, in the zip format provided on the U.S. Copyright Office site." Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent 06/17/2005 03:18 PM
Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent.

The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only code at the server, and between 200 and 300 per cent faster than distributing un-encoded information.

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Torrent Site Status 01/07/2005 04:15 AM
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SP2 Bit Torrent Legal Challenge

SP2 Bit Torrent Legal Challenge 08/11/2004 05:20 PM

Download the Windows XP Service Pack 2: The guys who were doing Microsoft a favor by pushing Service Pack 2 via Bit Torrent got slapped down by Redmond.

Microsoft sent DMCA takedown notices to our two webhosts, one of which was just linking to a torrent file on another server. We've stood up to these kinds of legal threats before (see the Grey Tuesday protests), but we decided not to bother this time, because we started this site primarily as a demonstration and to that end it's already been a huge success.

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BeeTV - automatic torrent downloader

BeeTV - automatic torrent downloader 04/15/2005 10:02 AM
Prototype version released

AnimeMonitor RSS (torrent) feed monitor

AnimeMonitor RSS (torrent) feed monitor 04/16/2004 10:22 AM
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