On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 01:06:22PM +1000, fish wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 07:57:02PM +0200, Thomas Leske wrote: > > Menno Jonkers wrote: > > > But that may take a while. In the mean time a pragmatic, low impact way > > > to improve speed and completeness of site retrieval could greatly > > > improve Freenet's usability. Waiting is annoying; waiting for something > > > that doesn't show up in the end even more. > > > > One could also solve the two problems without containers: > > 1) completeness: > > Make FEC work for sets of small files. The regular files are > > just inserted normally. The zip archiv is only generated on the side of > > the inserter or reader for creating respectively using the > > error correcting blocks but the archiv is not stored on freenet. > > I should point out, that if your container is large enough to FEC (that's > around a meg), then your container is too fucking big - in ideal conditions, > (i.e. not freenet), a 56k modem (which are very common, despite what some of > the broadband elite think) will take around 5-10 minutes to fetch your data.
Well I suppose we probably have a few third world users and a lot of unemployed users... > > And that[s of course on the low end of the FEC scale. Files this large should > not be allowed to be containered. > > - fish > -- > I probably hate you. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ GPG key lost in last few weeks, new key on keyservers ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible in him whom we trust
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