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Saturday, July 07, 2001

hey, wow, Radiohead are playing a huge concert here in Oxford tonight, 40, 000 people in the crowd etc. I'm not going though, and I am really glad as I despise that band.

posted by captain davros , 9:41 PM Þ

I wish that it was easy to port software to every platform; havig been involved in a complex software project, I can testify to the dificulty of porting an application to multiple OSes. In an ideal world, I would have one person doing the development for the windoze version of P2PQ another for Linux and one for MacOSX, but it would have been extremely expensive, when we are putting all of our efforts into creating a working project. We hope to be able to create a native MacOSX client and a native Linux Client, but if thats not possible, then it will have to be Java for all non windoze OSes, which would suck a little, since java is generally slow.

I cant understand why Mac people never use IRC; you can find EVERYTHING YOU WANT on IRC, its a piece of piss to use, and blows Hotline out of the water...

As for those kids who posted links to MP3s, well, any court that upholds something like that is simply making the law an ass. They clearly cannot distinguish between a device and a piece of text. A device is a physical object, like a hard drive or monitor, a piece of text, wether its hypertext or plaintext, is (or should be) protected as a universal right when it comes to publishing. If a link points to a copyrighted file or text, it does not connect to it in any way like taking the actual text and reproducing it this is the critical distinction that the courts cannot make. It might take the death of all the judges and thier replacement by computer literate people for these legal precedents to be struck down. I cant wait for some Ambulance Chaser to realize that Google and all of the other serach engines are doing the exact same thing that Napster was doing. Now THAT would be a cause celeb! (SP)

posted by Irdial , 1:10 PM Þ

Friday, July 06, 2001

I never really bothered with napster, mostly because I hate it. Actually, it has become a wee bit better during the end, when all the mainstream got sorted out. It was nice & easy to find obscure punk covers and such. Right nice. Also, Hotline is it, if you can find servers. Just ask around and you will eventually run into some cool people. Just stay the hell away from the big trackers, there's nothing there. Also, most post-1.2.3 servers are rubbish. My brother tried out audiogalaxy (it's pc-only - what bollocks), and it's decent. So's soulseek (which has loads & loads of IDM, btw). Also pc-only. I'm up for porting those suckers, I reckon. =)

There were some kids in Denmark who got sued for posting links to mp3s, and what's more is that the danish version of RIAA won. Horrible breach of human rights or something. Anyway, one of the kids died, and it has been very hard to find out if it was suicide, which I think it is. Damn the capitalists.

posted by Mikkel , 1:05 PM Þ

Thursday, July 05, 2001

Music City used to run many open nap servers, where millions of tracks could be found. Then they switched over to Morpheus, which i have not yet tried. I would be VERY surprised if anyone pays to use Napster. Why should you pay someone money to list the tracks you have on your HD? After all, thats what Napster does, it lists tracks. If someone takes on the role of the major player on Open Nap we may see a return of high population / quality Napster use. They will have to find a country where the legislature understands the difference between hosting a list of the location of information and hosting the information itself. This is a crucial difference that computer illiterates simply do not get, and its what brought Napster crashing down. If they can get people to pay for access, it will be a big breakthrough for the subscription model. That has got to be one of the shortest lived revolutions ever. There are still plenty of open nap servers online; it doesnt appear that they are linked: Napigator keeps a dynamic list of whats running.

posted by Irdial , 3:28 PM Þ

Napster was great. I'll miss it. Now that it's gone, I find it much harder to even find bootlegs of obscure bands' shows, because no one uses it anymore.
Limewire IS very slow on OS 9. I think it's because 9 has sloppy java support. Actually, and mac os prior to X has had sloppy java support.
Hotline is only good if you were around back in the days of actual proper servers, not banner whores. I run a private mp3 server, have been for a long time. It's still the most effective way I can get mp3s, due to my members being wicked cool uploaders. But not everyone has that of course, so the mp3 scene is pretty crappy again... almost underground again. Weird how things change.

posted by Barrie , 12:44 AM Þ

Wednesday, July 04, 2001

napster is fucked. no only do they have a former member of the RIAA (conflict of interests?) sitting as CEO, but now you //have/// to upgrade to a new version of the client, so they can properly identify and censor your files. and macigator has shut down so i can't even do openNap stuff... napster was great, because it was just mp3s, it was quick and easy to get to what you wanted. yeah you can do audio only or video only searches on gnutella, but it is slow, especially limewire on mac os 9. maybe it's because it's java, but it just seems really cumbersome... hotline is cool, but people get greedy and you take hours trying find a login, end up with loads of porn and spam in your mailbox, searching to find a login/password. i have a hotmail account specifically for the job, and it gets full really quickly.

so then, unless a 'nix client of napigator will run on osx it looks like the end of the road for me and napster. so long charlie brown.

posted by alex_tea , 11:50 PM Þ

Tuesday, July 03, 2001

hey we hacked into our on digital card and now get all channels all of the time. the trick is to have it unplugged from the phone line, but i doubt sky would let you do that. i wouldn't give rupert murdoch the money in the first place.

can this be real?

I love my Bonsai Kitten!

posted by alex_tea , 5:31 PM Þ

Monday, July 02, 2001

Man, how did she feel when thousands of people smashed her husband to pieces with giant hammers? haha, man. :P

I'll throw in 10 dollars I still have from when I was in the US =D

posted by Mikkel , 3:31 PM Þ

A woman who got married to the Berlin Wall. Note that I said "TO" the Berlin Wall. In 1979 apparently.

And more importantly...

posted by captain davros , 12:26 AM Þ

Sunday, July 01, 2001

Ergh... can't help but feel somewhat responsible for bogging down guerilla news. I sent that link to everyone I know... who knows how many it got sent to after that. :x

posted by Barrie , 9:21 AM Þ

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