Takara's New Toy Controls Your Dreams

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Takara's dream machine

Takara's dream machine 01/16/2004 10:57 AM
Takara, the company behind the Bowlingual and the Meowlingual, says they have a new gadget that will let people create their own dreams:Prospective dreamers are...

When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a
frisbee

When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a
frisbee 07/24/2004 09:29 PM
"Competit ive play is encouraged, but never at the expense of respect between players, adherence to the rules, and the basic joy of play."
The overriding ideal behind Ultimate frisbee is Spirit of the Game where sportsmanship is valued above all else. Next week is the World Ultimate & Guts Championships in Turku, Finland where 23 countries compete, so now is a great time to (re-)learn to play< /a>. Besides being lots of fun for everyone, it might even improve your career prospects.

Home dreams.

Home dreams. 07/22/2004 09:47 PM
Straw House Blog. Coolhouse. Colorado house. When summer comes, I invariably start dreaming of places to live that are utterly unlike the standard Korean Concrete Beehive Box.

Frontier Dreams

Frontier Dreams 05/21/2004 12:50 PM
In the back of my mind I’ve been thinking about the open-s ourcing of the Frontier kernel, and like some other folks it’s made me dream of software that’s close in spirit to the early versions of Frontier, before it became the basis for a content management system.

For those who don’t know, Frontier began life as a scripting system for Macintosh. But not just another language—it included an object database and a relatively rich (for the time) library of verbs. You wrote code in an outliner, which I still think is a wonderful way to write code.

You used it do many of the same things people use Perl and Python (and so on) for today, only it was on Macintosh System 7. Instead of using pipes and Unix-y things for inter-application communication, it used Apple events. (Like AppleScript.) It was very common to use Frontier to do tasks that required scripting one or more other applications.

For instance, your script might grab data from a Filemaker database, format it as text in Frontier, then create a new email message in Eudora and send it. With Frontier’s scheduler, its cron-equivalent, you could make this happen once an hour or whatever. And you might archive the data in its object database and create weekly reports based on that data.

That’s just a for-instance, of course. The gist of it was that it made it possible to do custom things that apps like Filemaker and Eudora would never (quite rightly) have supported on their own.

Sounds like AppleScript, right? Well, yes. But Frontier brought some things that AppleScript doesn’t have. (The browse-able object database, the richer library of verbs, the code outliner, the scheduler, and so on. Frontier is an entire environment on its own, though an open one, aware of the rest of the system.)

My dream app

First thing—I don’t have plans to work on Frontier. I’d love to use the results of someone else’s work, though! As much fun as it would be for me to work on it (partly because the kernel is an old friend, but more so because I know a lot of Frontier users who are cool cats) it just isn’t on my path. However, I’d be happy to make sure my software works well with people who want to script it with Frontier.

Anyway... my dream app goes back to that earlier vision of Frontier. To bring it up-to-date, there are a few things I’d love to see:

Python

Whitespace-aware Python just begs to be written in an outliner. The language is similar in style to UserTalk (Frontier’s scripting language), but, key fact, it’s object-oriented.

The object-oriented thing is a big deal: I’ve gotten so I won’t even consider writing in a procedural language for anything but the smallest of tasks. I want objects.

And Python is just plain cool.

I wouldn’t advocate dropping UserTalk, I’d argue for making Python a first-class peer of UserTalk. There are some challenges to consider, though. Frontier internally is receptive to other languages. (Note that you can write scripts in any OSA language, including AppleScript). But you’d have to make it so Python could access the object database (to store and retrieve data and to call other scripts) and you’d want a way to freeze-dry Python objects in the database.

Cocoa front-end

Okay, obviously I don’t care about classic Mac OS or Windows. I care about OS X.

When Frontier was written, there were no system-supplied user interface controls for tables, outlines, and toolbars. And all applications polled for events (via WaitNextEvent, if I remember correctly).

The first obvious thing to do is replace a bunch of the user interface code with .nib files and standard Cocoa widgets. However, I think I’d retain the existing outliner for writing scripts. (Cocoa and Carbon can co-exist: it’s not a problem.) But all toolbars, the object-database browser, text-editing views, and so on would use Cocoa user interface.

In theory, you’d end up with less code, better performance, and a modern OS X UI.

Bonus points: custom windows

Sometimes you want to create a mini-application, a custom dialog or window backed by a script. Frontier has a long history (at least on classic Mac OS) of supporting this: you could run dialogs from resources, you could run MacBird cards.

In the year 2004, the thing to do would be to run dialogs and windows from .nib files. You’d lay out your user interface using Interface Builder, then run it in Frontier.

How would you handle wiring up actions and outlets to scripts in Interface Builder? Glad you asked. You probably wouldn’t. One way to handle this is to give each item a unique tag in IB. Then your script might have a handler like on itemDidSendAction (itemRef, actionRef). This would be called when a checkbox was clicked, a button pressed, whatever. Your script would, obviously, have to branch on which item sent the action and what the action was. Not quite as slick as wiring up actions, but it would work.

The other side of the coin is outlets. That’s where tags come in. To get a reference to an item, you might write something like itemRef = cocoaWindow.itemWithTag (tag, windowRef). Then you could do things like set the value of a text field like so: cocoaWindow.setStringValueForItem (itemRef, someString).

Double bonus points

Get PyObjC in the mix of all this, and now you’re talking about something extraordinary.

Anyway...

It’s possible that there will be an exciting burst of creativity once the kernel is made open-source. I think that’s totally cool, it it comes to be. For my part, I’d be happy to answer any questions I can for people who work on the code, since I know a little about it.

It’s entirely possible that the things I’d like to see are not the things most people would like to see, and that’s fine. (But I can dream, right?)

P.S. A glimpse into the kernel: The first thing you’ll discover is that, before Frontier was Frontier, its name was Cancoon.

Moustache dreams

Moustache dreams 03/31/2005 12:42 PM
David Pescovitz: After seeing my post yesterday about the World Beard and Moustache Championships, reader Rohit Gupta of Bombay points us to this short video by Soumyadeep Paul documenting a moustache competition in Rajasthan, India. I especially like when this entrant plays two nose flutes simultaneously. Link

i am the man of dooce's dreams

i am the man of dooce's dreams 06/04/2004 03:40 PM
unfortunately, i am sharing the title with david hasselhoff

Technicolor Dreams

Technicolor Dreams 01/18/2004 12:24 AM
There's a diner near my house that's not the best but it's not the worst and it's the only thing...

Dreams of the Moon

Dreams of the Moon 01/04/2004 04:37 PM

Car Wash dreams

Car Wash dreams 01/08/2004 08:49 PM
We know what we are, but we do not know what we can be. Shakespeare I was washing my car...

The girl of my dreams

The girl of my dreams 07/19/2004 08:14 AM
I'm deeply in love but I can't tell how she feels about me.

Geek dreams

Geek dreams 05/04/2004 06:15 PM
Do IT workers dream of electric sheep? This hilarious site compiles the nightmares and dreams of coders.

One of the scariest nightmares I've had in the past decade or so was about me being stuck in a Nethack dungeon. Everything was green on black (I'd been playing on a Facit VT100-clone) and in 7-bit ASCII. I distinctly remember being chased by a lower-case x, scared out of my wits and at the same time feeling ashamed of being such a wimp that a mere grid bug was a threat.

Link (Thanks, Eli!)

Desert dreams

Desert dreams 08/30/2004 01:52 PM
USA Today Aug 30 2004 5:52PM GMT

Mac Tip: Database of Dreams

Mac Tip: Database of Dreams 08/08/2004 10:45 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 8 2004 2:17PM GMT

Longhorn dreams

Longhorn dreams 05/24/2004 04:05 PM
CNET Asia May 24 2004 8:22PM GMT

The importance of dreams

The importance of dreams 08/22/2004 07:25 PM
I'm back home again; a day later than I was supposed to. With some very interesting tan lines, I might add.

My Thursday night was one of the strangest ever. Suffice to say that I ended up alone, in an Irish pub in Reykjavik, listening to melancholic guitar music and downing a horribly expensive beer. I also had a fever (of which I was not aware of the time), which produced some of the most vivid and strangest dreams I've seen in a long while, when I finally clambered to the youth hostel.

So I dreamed. In one dream, I was crossing a street, and as the traffic lights went green, all of the cars turned to horses and had to be herded away so I could cross the street. In a second dream, I saw myself find an internet terminal, and buying tickets to Oulu for the day that I arrive in Helsinki.

I wake up - still feverish - and recount some of the dreams to my travel companion. She looks at me, with a slightly worrying look, as I start to ponder that the idea from the last dream is not really that bad.

In our hotel, on the last night, I find a free Internet terminal that looks just like the one in my dream. So I buy tickets to Oulu, wondering who the heck gave my subconscious a free reign over my credit card.

For the rest of the trip, I worry about whether I'm going to make the connection, or the inevitable gaping hole that will be left on my bank account, or whether this was such a good idea at all, since I have been doing nothing but travel, and I shall be doing some heavy travel in the near future as well. (Bleargh.)

But Outi meets me on the airport, and one hug removes all doubt and weariness.

Later in the evening, the air is charged with a magical feeling that cannot be described in my crude words. It's as if one touch could set the world on fire; as if the thunder outside came from your mind; as if one look made your heart explode; as if tears and laughter and pain and pleasure were all the same thing. No masks, no hiding behind them. No buts, no ifs. Just...

*sighs deeply* This belongs to poets and songwriters and philosophers; not simple engineers like me. Shutting up now.

Dreams of big media

Dreams of big media 02/12/2004 09:54 AM
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the proposed Comcast-Disney combo is just another in a line of big power grabs that rob consumers of alternatives.

animated dreams

animated dreams 02/11/2004 03:51 AM
I enjoy film. I guess the word "film" is starting to be an inaccurate term, since we are quickly moving...

Diesel Dreams

Diesel Dreams 08/08/2004 07:03 PM
Pepsi Blue! I mean, lots of interesting occasionally NSFW Flash video, from some-company-or-other.

Dreams of Longhorn

Dreams of Longhorn 05/20/2004 02:32 PM

Vanilla sky dreams

Vanilla sky dreams 12/02/2003 01:19 AM
Watching Vanilla Sky before going to bed is probably not advisable when you are prone to weird dreams as I...

3D Controls

3D Controls 04/24/2004 04:42 AM
version 0.6b of 3D Controls

At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a
Scholar

At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a
Scholar 04/09/2005 03:35 AM
Alicia Álvarez, a Mexican teen with dreams of attending college, finds herself, like her country, poised with one foot in the door of opportunity and one stuck in poverty.

Skype dreams for developers

Skype dreams for developers 04/01/2005 08:42 PM
Fast-growing Net phone service has developers scrambling to figure out the best ways to add on--and cash in.

Sweet Dreams Are Made By This

Sweet Dreams Are Made By This 01/17/2004 10:47 PM

When Predictions Become Pipe Dreams

When Predictions Become Pipe Dreams 01/22/2004 02:26 AM

Web Content Management: 10 Predictions for 2004: As much as I respect Gerry McGovern, this is more of a pipe dream list than a set of predictions. I predict we'll end 2004 roughly at the same place we ended 2003.

Finally, content gets taken seriously in 2004. Management will start thinking about content in a whole new way. Content will emerge as a strategic asset. Better organizations will begin to identify processes that will ensure the creation of high-quality content and reduce the creation of poor-quality content.

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eBay's Golden Dreams

eBay's Golden Dreams 07/22/2004 09:49 AM
eBay continues to make a bid for your attention.

Anesthetics spur sex dreams

Anesthetics spur sex dreams 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
David Pescovitz: The American Society of Anesthesiologists is warning physicians and nurses that patients might experience intensely vivid sex dreams while under anesthesia. From the Arizona Daily Star:

"Most physicians are not aware of this potential aspect of sedating drugs and anesthetics," said Dr. Robert Strickland, anesthesiologist at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. "In the patient's mind, such hallucinations can seem very real upon waking from sedation. In several recent, well-documented cases, physicians have been accused by patients of sexual misconduct, even though witnesses were present throughout the entire procedure."

Although it is almost impossible to verify how often sexual hallucinations occur, some studies indicate it happens in 1 percent to 3 percent of anesthetized patients, Strickland said. With some anesthetic drugs - such as ketamine or propofol - the incidence is up to 5 percent...

(Steven Barker, head of anesthesiology at the University of Arizona Medical Center,) was not alone the day he put a female patient under moderate anesthesia for a minor surgical procedure. He wanted her deeply sedated, but not completely out, so he could maintain verbal contact to check her breathing and other signs.

"At one point, I asked her if there was anything I could get for her, and she said, 'Yeah, a man,'" Barker said. "She then proceeded to describe the sexual characteristics of what she wanted, in a pretty direct way.

"I knew it was the drug, so I just sort of tried to change the subject. We all know these things can happen."

Link

Sleep Dreams Can Come True

Sleep Dreams Can Come True 06/12/2004 09:34 AM
CBS News Jun 12 2004 1:52PM GMT

Bubble Dreams Come True

Bubble Dreams Come True 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
Grab your sock puppets, order some bags of dog food to be delivered, and start selling pots and pans to the gold miners: Broadband usage has passed dial-up in the United States! I bet all the people that Om covered in Broadbandits must be rolling over in their prison cells....

eBay's Global Dreams

eBay's Global Dreams 07/22/2004 04:46 PM
Plus, no stopping Starbucks, Viacom's dazzling, and what's not to like about Qualcomm?

black and white dreams

black and white dreams 03/13/2003 02:12 PM
Just a quickie (huh huh) before I am off to take my Photo History final (eep!)... I've created a new...

InterActiveCorp's Local Dreams

InterActiveCorp's Local Dreams 11/12/2003 08:02 PM
InterActiveCorp (Quote, Chart) CEO Barry Diller told investors that his company's CitySearch unit is being courted by Google, Yahoo! and MSN. ...

US criticised over web controls

US criticised over web controls 05/11/2004 06:17 AM
BBC May 11 2004 11:09AM GMT

Who controls the internet?

Who controls the internet? 06/04/2004 03:54 PM
PC Magazine UK Jun 4 2004 8:31PM GMT

Data Controls

Data Controls 12/22/2003 11:31 AM
DataControls enable dynamic properties at Mfg. Company

Who Controls Your Media?

Who Controls Your Media? 09/21/2004 04:55 PM

Direct and Related Links for 'Who Controls Your Media?'

When will the media companies learn. Just because someone wants to record a program off of TV does not mean that they have an intention of trying to go behind their back to resell it or do other evil, illegal things with that content. And why bother adding USB and Firewire ports if there is no intention of allows users to have access to backing up their media content?…

Cavier dreams and birthday wishes

Cavier dreams and birthday wishes 05/04/2004 07:31 PM
Yes today I turn 25........ (ok well I might just be fibbing a little bit) thank you to all...

desires dreams wishes and hopes

desires dreams wishes and hopes 04/29/2004 10:27 AM
all the things that fuel us as humans set us apart from each other we can dress the same, talk...

Jumble sale for internet dreams

Jumble sale for internet dreams 06/12/2004 12:05 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Thu Jun 10, 04:24 pm GMT
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Digital Film Tools Releases 55mm 5.0

Digital Film Tools Releases 55mm 5.0 04/01/2005 04:51 AM
Digital Film Tools releases 55mm 5.0, a comprehensive set of Digital Optical Filters for Adobe After Effects and After Effects compatibleprograms, Apple's Final Cut Pro and Motion, Avid Editing Systems, Adobe Photoshop and Discreet Flint, Flame and Inferno systems. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2005]

BitTorrent is dead. Long live
BitTorrent?

BitTorrent is dead. Long live
BitTorrent? 01/05/2005 01:38 PM
ZDNet Jan 5 2005 5:09PM GMT

Discreet Cleaner and Combustion Updates
at MWSF?

Discreet Cleaner and Combustion Updates
at MWSF? 01/01/2004 02:40 PM
Discreet.com has posted a teaser on their website, hinting at updates or news coming for both the Mac versions of Combustion and Cleaner. The teaser ...

No - 911 will not be available on
bittorrent - yet

No - 911 will not be available on
bittorrent - yet 05/27/2004 03:10 AM

The Doc Searls Weblog

Doc makes it very clear.  I just liked this story so much - I ran it anyway - but alas - it's true - it was fake....

Panning for gold in the bitstream 

Brian Dear says Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the Palme D'Or at Cannes, will be distributed via BitTorrent:

In a stunning move, controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore announced today that his latest film, "Fahrenheit 9/11", will be released by BitTorrent, the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing network.

From Brian's Denounce.com.

[Later...] Once again, we need to point out that Denounce is a satire site. Hence the name. Here's the disclaimer, from top right on the index page:

Recognized around the world as the best source for completely fictional news and information.

When you're not looking for a reliable, accurate site for industry news, there's only one place to go: Denounce.

All fake. All the time.

Founded in 1980. Eight years before The Onion. Deal with it.

BitTorrent v4.0.1

BitTorrent v4.0.1 03/25/2005 09:08 PM
BitTorrent is a protocol designed for transferring files. It is peer-to-peer in nature, as users connect to each other directly to send and receive portions of the file. However, there is a central server (called a tracker) which coordinates the action of all such peers. The tracker only manages connections, it does not have any knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed, and therefore a large number of users can be supported with relatively limited tracker bandwidth. [Freeware 3.6 MB]

BitTorrent Will Not Go Away

BitTorrent Will Not Go Away 03/17/2005 03:08 AM
There was an article I read in Yahoo News from the Washington Post on BitTorrents. It explains that too many legit uses exist for BitTorrent for the service to be shut down. The MPAA is admitting that there are good and bad uses for BitTorrent and that they will only go after people that are helping users to download illegal movies. It's good to see a mianstream media outlet like the Washington Post understand the real concept and design behind BitTorrents.

This represents a shift from previous practices, in which the MPAA, the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) and other groups have tried to have entire products -- for example, the first Diamond Rio MP3 player or the networked ReplayTV (news - web sites) video recorder -- taken off the market.One reason for this change of heart may be that in BitTorrent, unlike many other file-sharing programs, legitimate use doesn't amount to a token minority. It's central to this program's existence. Developers of versions of the Linux (news - web sites) operating system were some of the first to jump on BitTorrent as a way to ship out vast amounts of data. A Linux distribution can easily span four CD-ROMs; instead, companies such as Red Hat offer BitTorrent downloads of their work.

BitTorrent 4.0.1

BitTorrent 4.0.1 04/02/2005 12:57 AM
The key to cheap file distribution.

BitTorrent++

BitTorrent++ 06/07/2004 04:32 AM
BT++ Back In Development

BitTorrent

BitTorrent 06/09/2004 10:03 PM
The new BitTorrent 3.4.2 for OS X has an all-new GUI that makes it easier to keep track of multiple downloads.

BitTorrent C Library

BitTorrent C Library 05/26/2004 01:17 AM
LibBT Version 1.02 Released

bittorrent is nice, but...

bittorrent is nice, but... 01/08/2004 08:18 PM

...there's always a 'but' isn't there?

I had attempted to use BitTorrent a couple of times before, but never spent more than a few minutes with it, not enough to understand what was going on. Yesterday night though, I gave it a little more time and some tips from Russ and Matt I could get it going. I had to adjust some settings, such as the bandwidth allocated for uploads, which defaulted at 12 KB/sec and immediately started to suck up my entire upload capability (I set it at 7 KB/sec). I chose a couple of files (three actually) and let it download overnight. This morning, things were well on their way, two files done, the remaining one halfway through. But then it hit me: my transfers are limited!

I have a 4GB transfer limit (as it's common here in Ireland) on my DSL connection. So now I have downloaded, in one day, over 1.5 GB of data, and still have 1 GB to go. Then, there's the uploaded data, which also counts. EEk! By the time the second transfer is finished I will have spent over 75% of my monthly bandwidth allotment. With 60% of the month still to go!

Damn. I want to go back to my good old days of DSL in the Bay Area, where I had a symmetric 768 KB/sec DSL connection, with no transfer limits, at $40 a month. Okay, that's not realistic. :) But on the other hand, until transfer limits are removed (or at least raised) here, I won't be able to do much with BitTorrent. Too bad.

And, btw, this clearly has to have an impact on broadband usage. Forget about BitTorrent specifically, other types of media transfers are also quite heavy, and having that sword hanging over your neck (the sword being whatever they charge per megabyte after you cross the transfer limit) users will be more likely to treat broadband as a kind of always-on modem, rather than as true broadband. Ireland is great, for technology in particular, but it definitely needs some serious improvements to both infrastructure and access to that infrastructure (see my post on mobile handset costs yesterday) to be truly competitive. There's a qualitative jump (both on the supplier and the consumer side of a market) that happens when connectivity is pervasive, always-on, fast, and relatively inexpensive, and Ireland isn't there yet. Here's hoping we won't have to wait much longer.

Professional BitTorrent?

Professional BitTorrent? 08/31/2004 04:28 AM
A startup, Atzio, is now claiming that they have the first peer-to-peer internet platform for television, apparently ignoring something like BitTorrent. Of course, the technology can basically be described as... BitTorrent with copy protection (how innovative). Plus, they only allow a select group of clients to seed material on the network, making it less likely that people will bother to download the software to make it possible for all this P2P television distribution. The company's own website, amusingly, claims it's having trouble handling all the traffic from the news of their launch -- which might raise some concerns from a company telling the entertainment industry they can handle the distribution of large files in great demand. Still, you have to wonder how effective this sort of solution is. The whole point of their system is you want more people getting and redistributing the content, but then they throw in this copy protection, which is almost laughable considering the system doesn't work if people aren't copying from you while you're copying from others. Besides, if you're a content producer, why bother paying this startup (and I assume they want money) to put your content on their network, when it's easier to just create a torrent, and get it out there -- where a lot more people already have BitTorrent clients.

Top Tip: Is BitTorrent dangerous?

Top Tip: Is BitTorrent dangerous? 04/12/2004 02:14 AM
I was intersted in using bittorrent but was afraid it was like Kazzaa and would end up with massive viruses and hackers. Is this true, will this most likly occur?

Examining Bittorrent

Examining Bittorrent 12/19/2004 03:51 PM
Slashdot Dec 19 2004 2:12AM GMT

Everything you ever wanted to know about
BitTorrent

Everything you ever wanted to know about
BitTorrent 07/04/2004 06:59 PM

I have used BitTorrent quite a bit and really like it's performance for those big downloads. If you are not up to speed on BitTorrent this Faq is the place to start. [BitTorrent Faq]

Reviving BitTorrent

Reviving BitTorrent 01/06/2005 12:27 AM
CNET Asia Jan 6 2005 4:47AM GMT

RSS baked into BitTorrent

RSS baked into BitTorrent 03/08/2004 11:26 PM

Dear Bay Area friends: I am coming to visit you! [Scripting News]

No - this isn't a Dave Winer lovefest - but I DID catch something in the subtext which said:

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.010

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.010 06/25/2004 12:39 AM

How to Bittorrent Farenheit 9/11

How to Bittorrent Farenheit 9/11 07/08/2004 10:48 AM
Aliased BoingBoing reader "humboldt 11" provides instructions for obtaining a digital copy of Michael Moore's latest film:

1. download BIT TORRENT 3.4.2.exe (Link) and install
2. download Fahrenheit.911.CAM-POT(1).torrent (Li nk) on your desktop
3. open it with BitTorrent
4. start download
5. download "wrar330d.exe" (Link) open it
6. unpack the file "pot.911a.rar" in the CD1 file (as well as the "pot.911b.rar" in the CD2 file - this is why there are 36 parts on each desk. In order to assemble it, opening the file will automatically identify all the segments and put them together) this will create a "pot.911a" (and a "pot.911b") file
7. download "vlc-0.7.2-win32.exe" (Link) install
8. open "CD1.cue" from the "pot.911a" file

Link

BitTorrent for Dummies: On its way

BitTorrent for Dummies: On its way 03/19/2005 03:08 AM
My February 26 post pleading for BitTorrent for Dummies bore fruit. First, Travis Smith pointed me to the project, and then Kris Krug emailed me. Kris is one of the authors of the forthcoming book. One way or another, I'm...

BitTorrent 4.0.1 for Mac OS X released.

BitTorrent 4.0.1 for Mac OS X released. 04/02/2005 12:48 AM
MacCentral: Bi tTorrent 4.0.1 for Mac OS X released. I've been beta testing this for a while; it's like the old version but even better.

Bittorrent marketplace

Bittorrent marketplace 04/10/2005 12:37 PM
Prodigem, a legal torrent site, has announced a marketplace that will let you upload a file and sell bittorrent access to it. So, if you had, say, a video of your band performing its hit "Download Me, Baby, and Then Why Doncha Set Me Free?" that you wanted to sell, you'd upload it to Prodigem Marketplace and slap a price on it. Prodigem takes 10% plus the PayPal fee and passes the rest on to you. It's DRM-free once you've downloaded it: It's just a file that you can redistribute as you see fit. And they're contemplating an interesting licensing...

MLDonkey and BitTorrent

MLDonkey and BitTorrent 05/09/2004 06:27 PM

I was looking through MLDonkey wiki when I ran into this technical yet compact explanation of how BitTorrent protocol works.  I already know how BT works but I thought my fellow geeks might find this useful since the diagrams at the official BT site aren't that useful:

It [BitTorrent] divides shared data (a single file or a directory) into pieces, typically of 256 KiB. A SHA-1 checksum is computed for each piece, and used to check the piece has been correctly downloaded. The checksums are stored in a .torrent file, along with filenames. The .torrent file also nominates a tracker, a Web resource that introduces peers to each other. Peers contact each other, learn what pieces they have available, request the rarest (least commonly seen) pieces first, and send requested pieces.

Just in case you are wondering, MLDonkey is a universal client of sort for many P2P networks including FastTrack, eDonkey2000, Gnutella, and Direct Connect.  It supports BitTorrent too but then BitTorrent is not really a network.  While MLDonkey is open source, it's written in Ocaml which is powerful but non-mainstream.

She Bangs BitTorrent and RSS

She Bangs BitTorrent and RSS 03/06/2004 02:08 AM
I heart BitTorrent. It's a poor man's TiVo! In a single day, I was able to catch up on my Scrubs and Simpsons seasons. Frasier, Friends... they're all here. That, combined with RSS, makes for a wonderful broadband experience. Props to rayg for helping feed my new addiction. Now I can stay abreast of all of William Hung's appearances. Here's to hoping they give him a card in an upcoming GPK release. FWIW, Topps just announced an all-new 2nd series the other day. Too bad they don't have an RSS feed, eh?...

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.0.8

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.0.8 06/20/2004 11:55 PM

US govt uses BitTorrent

US govt uses BitTorrent 04/06/2005 09:02 PM
Cory Doctorow: Adam sez, "First Bittorrent hosted off a .gov domain. Tracks the releases of World Wind since it was saturating the bandwidth of the direct download." Link (Thanks, Adam!)

ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client]

ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client] 11/06/2003 12:23 PM
ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client] Version 2.6 Released!!

BitTorrent t-shirt

BitTorrent t-shirt 06/29/2004 11:31 PM
There's now a BitTorrent t-shirt to complement your Buccaneer-American shirt.

The BitTorrent Effect

The BitTorrent Effect 12/28/2004 11:11 PM
Wired News Dec 29 2004 2:44AM GMT

A new hope for BitTorrent?

A new hope for BitTorrent? 01/05/2005 08:14 AM
Unreleased Exeem could make BitTorrent more lawsuit-resistant, but questions remain.

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