On Friday 19 June 2009 07:44:34 Alan Grimes wrote: > I had wanted a freenode for a long long time. > > Then I finally got a place of my own. > > So I set up my node on my athlon 800.. > > and it just sat there. > and collected data, > > and then I tried to do some browsing, > > and performance was always horrible.
How much bandwidth did it have? How much memory? > > And I left it running for a few weeks... > > Finally, I decided I needed the bandwidth for something useful. =\ > > Freenet is a great concept, I just wish it worked. =( > > > Luke771 wrote: > > Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> > >>> <snip> > >>> > >> After a sustained campaign in the press, a legal challenge and several > >> security holes being discovered, China's Ministry of Industry and > >> Information Technology has clarified that "The use of this software is > >> not compulsory". Those who uninstall it will not face prosecution. > >> > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8106526.stm > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > > in the meantime, internet censorship is now law in germany, and it has > > been for a relatively long time in australia. > > my guess: eu and uk next, us will take longer because of their > > constiution but sooner or later the net will be censorted there too. > > > > I expect a flow of new users from germany as a reaction to the new > > censorship laws, pretty much the same as it happened in france after the > > new fascist laws lots of people installed freenet. I wonder why we have > > relatiovely few autralian users, when autralia is by far the worst in > > the formerly free world, when it comes to censorship... > > > > also, it looks like italian users are finally growing in number, after > > the introduction of some new fascist laws with a couple of italian > > indexes that have been added lately, some blogs, and even a page from an > > 'alternative' politician (yeah, right) > > > > the trend is clear: more fascist laws, more censorship laws = more > > freenet users. Now the point is how to make them stay and how to make > > them bring their friends (offering interesting content?)
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