Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-12 Thread Chris Vogel
Hi, Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2002 20:09 schrieb Aaron Ingebrigtsen: > >- a bootloader to load their operating system *eg* > > A Freenet Based OS?! I would really like that. Have a look at sourceforge.net and search for freenet. Along with all the project comparing themselfs to freenet you will fi

[freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-11 Thread Aaron Ingebrigtsen
>From: Chris Vogel >- a bootloader to load their operating system *eg* A Freenet Based OS?! I would really like that. I am getting sick and tired of JAVA. All JAVA apps are way too processor hungry on my machine. My machine, at home, is so slow it took over 6000 hours to do 5 data packets

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-10 Thread Chris Vogel
Hi, Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2002 16:31 schrieb Mark J Roberts: > Chris Vogel: > > Why not compare freenet to a distributed filesystem? > > Because nobody (to my knowledge) has ever implemented a Freenet > filesystem. I do not mean a technical description. It is more like a picture to give non-tech

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-07 Thread Mark J Roberts
Timm Murray: > No, a regular user wouldn't touch them at all. Which is my point: the web is > just one application of the Internet. The web (and e-mail, I suppose) is > probably the most visible application of the net, and many people believe > that "Internet" and "WWW" are synonyms. However

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-07 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 June 2002 09:35, Mark J Roberts wrote: > Timm Murray: > > RIP, IGRP, OSPF, etc. Not very convienant for your non-techie, but more > > accurate, IMHO. > > I'm so happy to not know what those abbreviations mean. Though I > suspect they hav

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-07 Thread Mark J Roberts
Timm Murray: > RIP, IGRP, OSPF, etc. Not very convienant for your non-techie, but more > accurate, IMHO. I'm so happy to not know what those abbreviations mean. Though I suspect they have something to do with IP itself. Tell me, can I look at HTML or publish files with them? Do you access them

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-07 Thread Mark J Roberts
Chris Vogel: > Why not compare freenet to a distributed filesystem? Because nobody (to my knowledge) has ever implemented a Freenet filesystem. ___ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-07 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 June 2002 08:47, Mark J Roberts wrote: > Timm Murray: > > No. The web is all about storage of data. Freenet is about routing. > > You can lie to average people all you want (people are lied to enough for > > the sake of "dumbing down")

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-07 Thread Chris Vogel
Hi, Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2002 15:47 schrieb Mark J Roberts: > Sure it is. What would you prefer to compare it to? Why not compare freenet to a distributed filesystem? Chris. -- this bunny killed censorship - www.freenetproject.org ___ chat mailing

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-07 Thread Mark J Roberts
Timm Murray: > No. The web is all about storage of data. Freenet is about routing. You can > lie to average people all you want (people are lied to enough for the sake of > "dumbing down"), but it is *not* a web analogue. Sure it is. What would you prefer to compare it to? _

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-07 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 <> > Why do you think comparing Freenet to the web is "one of the worst > things you can do"? It _is_ essentially a WWW analogue isn't it? <> No. The web is all about storage of data. Freenet is about routing. You can lie to average people al

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
Revenant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Why do you think comparing Freenet to the web is "one of the worst > things you can do"? It _is_ essentially a WWW analogue isn't it? (It > also has e-mail analogues, but AFAIK they're kludges where each message [...] I see no similarity to e-mail at

[freenet-chat] Re: Describing Freenet

2002-06-06 Thread Revenant
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 19:33, Revenant wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> I tend to describe freenet as a peer-to-peer alternative to the >> world wide web. (I stay the hell away from the term "file sharing" >> because it's such a loaded term, and barely touches on what freenet >> is anyway). >