[freenet-dev] RoboHashes rather than Identicons for FreeTalk

2011-07-11 Thread Colin Davis
Good Afternoon, As part of an unrelated forum project that I'm building, I put together a project to use a SHA hash to create robot-avatars, called RoboHash. (RoboHash.org). This is similar to the identicons that are currently being used in FreeTalk, but it's designed to be easier to remember

[freenet-dev] RoboHashes rather than Identicons for FreeTalk

2011-07-11 Thread Colin Davis
Good Afternoon, As part of an unrelated forum project that I'm building, I put together a project to use a SHA hash to create robot-avatars, called RoboHash. (RoboHash.org). This is similar to the identicons that are currently being used in FreeTalk, but it's designed to be easier to remember

[freenet-dev] Wiki

2009-12-23 Thread Colin Davis
They've gotten dramatically more specific as time as gone on. All major games/movies have their own wiki, plus TV shows, etc. The guidelines no longer have the whole "Create a wiki in staging, then attempt to have it promoted", it appears to be just general Mediawiki hosting at this point. http:

Re: [freenet-dev] Wiki

2009-12-22 Thread Colin Davis
They've gotten dramatically more specific as time as gone on. All major games/movies have their own wiki, plus TV shows, etc. The guidelines no longer have the whole "Create a wiki in staging, then attempt to have it promoted", it appears to be just general Mediawiki hosting at this point. http:

[freenet-dev] [FYI] Sun Java SE 5.0 EOL today.

2009-11-04 Thread Colin Davis
Per- http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardRN/JavaSnowLeopardRN.pdf Mac OS X 10.6 contains an Apple-provided Java SE 6 version of 1.6.0_15 for both 32 and 64-bit Intel architectures. Ximin Luo wrote: > xor wrote: > >> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 03:43:34

Re: [freenet-dev] [FYI] Sun Java SE 5.0 EOL today.

2009-11-04 Thread Colin Davis
Per- http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardRN/JavaSnowLeopardRN.pdf Mac OS X 10.6 contains an Apple-provided Java SE 6 version of 1.6.0_15 for both 32 and 64-bit Intel architectures. Ximin Luo wrote: > xor wrote: > >> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 03:43:34

[freenet-dev] Can we link freenetforums.org into the official website?

2009-10-22 Thread Colin Davis
> Of course, I've never really understood why people love these web > forums so much, they are a usability nightmare a lot of the time :-/ > After a community grows to a certain size, having dictatorial control is necessary in order to prevent chaos. I've always preferred Usenet, but discussion

Re: [freenet-dev] Can we link freenetforums.org into the official website?

2009-10-22 Thread Colin Davis
> Of course, I've never really understood why people love these web > forums so much, they are a usability nightmare a lot of the time :-/ > After a community grows to a certain size, having dictatorial control is necessary in order to prevent chaos. I've always preferred Usenet, but discussion

[freenet-dev] Freenet 0.7 build 1228

2009-08-14 Thread Colin Davis
Matthew Toseland wrote: > > What's the difference? The official one should be from the build01228 tag, > the staging one can be auto-built if you think that is wise (you might want > to sandbox it a bit). > > I'd like to reiterate that it would be best to give Matthew a way to build this o

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet 0.7 build 1228

2009-08-14 Thread Colin Davis
Matthew Toseland wrote: > > What's the difference? The official one should be from the build01228 tag, > the staging one can be auto-built if you think that is wise (you might want > to sandbox it a bit). > > I'd like to reiterate that it would be best to give Matthew a way to build this o

[freenet-dev] Debian (and possibly Ubuntu) package for Freenet (Git snapshot)

2009-08-07 Thread Colin Davis
Great work putting together this package! It looks like it does a very good job in following Debian standards, particularly when it comes to bundling the docs. I had put together a very simple package in March ( See http://archives.freenetproject.org/message/20090621.204854.22bccb0b.ja.html )

Re: [freenet-dev] Debian (and possibly Ubuntu) package for Freenet (Git snapshot)

2009-08-07 Thread Colin Davis
Great work putting together this package! It looks like it does a very good job in following Debian standards, particularly when it comes to bundling the docs. I had put together a very simple package in March ( See http://archives.freenetproject.org/message/20090621.204854.22bccb0b.ja.html )

Re: [freenet-dev] F2F web proxy???

2009-08-07 Thread Colin Davis
t;> be hackers and spammers, who actually need to have full anonymous >> access to >> the internet. >> So probably it is better to leave it "just HTTP" for now. > > The proposal is that it would not be anonymous at all, at least > initially. >> &g

[freenet-dev] F2F web proxy???

2009-08-06 Thread Colin Davis
t;> be hackers and spammers, who actually need to have full anonymous >> access to >> the internet. >> So probably it is better to leave it "just HTTP" for now. > > The proposal is that it would not be anonymous at all, at least > initially. >> &g

[freenet-dev] F2F web proxy???

2009-08-06 Thread Colin Davis
I think Matthew's Proposal is a great idea- I don't think that Freenet should do a general port proxy though, Alex. The big difference from a user-standpoint is that for HTTP, they can just enter a URL into their browser, and it'll connect and pull over the page. They don't need to set prox

Re: [freenet-dev] F2F web proxy???

2009-08-06 Thread Colin Davis
I think Matthew's Proposal is a great idea- I don't think that Freenet should do a general port proxy though, Alex. The big difference from a user-standpoint is that for HTTP, they can just enter a URL into their browser, and it'll connect and pull over the page. They don't need to set prox

[freenet-dev] please please please can we get a better screenshot?

2009-08-03 Thread Colin Davis
>> How would a new user find out about such software? It doesn't look >> obvious from the front page of the site to me. Frost and FMS have >> links from the "discussion" tab on the node page, but jSite and >> Thingamablog don't. There's some info on the "documentation" page of >> the freenetpro

Re: [freenet-dev] please please please can we get a better screenshot?

2009-08-03 Thread Colin Davis
>> How would a new user find out about such software? It doesn't look >> obvious from the front page of the site to me. Frost and FMS have >> links from the "discussion" tab on the node page, but jSite and >> Thingamablog don't. There's some info on the "documentation" page of >> the freenetpro

[freenet-dev] New website : is it ready ?

2009-08-03 Thread Colin Davis
> Ah, no, nothing intentional, it wasn't intended to be the "official" > screenshot, > so I just went the easiest way. > Once I know which screenshot will be used, I'll fix that (which will also fix > the fact that it looks ugly on small connections when the css isn't loaded > yet). > Just

Re: [freenet-dev] New website : is it ready ?

2009-08-03 Thread Colin Davis
> Ah, no, nothing intentional, it wasn't intended to be the "official" > screenshot, > so I just went the easiest way. > Once I know which screenshot will be used, I'll fix that (which will also fix > the fact that it looks ugly on small connections when the css isn't loaded > yet). > Just

[freenet-dev] New website : is it ready ?

2009-07-17 Thread Colin Davis
I really do think this site looks great. Much more visually appealing than the current endeavor, and more importantly, likely to drive people to huge download button. One question on the screenshot- It looks like you're including the entire full-size screenshot, then shrinking it in the browse

Re: [freenet-dev] New website : is it ready ?

2009-07-17 Thread Colin Davis
I really do think this site looks great. Much more visually appealing than the current endeavor, and more importantly, likely to drive people to huge download button. One question on the screenshot- It looks like you're including the entire full-size screenshot, then shrinking it in the browse

[freenet-dev] New website design

2009-07-15 Thread Colin Davis
> It turns out to be easier to just generate it and post it here: > > http://amphibian.dyndns.org/freenet/newsite/ > > Is it acceptable? Can we deploy it on the main site? > > That does look very slick. Two quick thoughts- * It might be nice to include multiple screenshots, and link

Re: [freenet-dev] New website design

2009-07-15 Thread Colin Davis
> It turns out to be easier to just generate it and post it here: > > http://amphibian.dyndns.org/freenet/newsite/ > > Is it acceptable? Can we deploy it on the main site? > > That does look very slick. Two quick thoughts- * It might be nice to include multiple screenshots, and link

[freenet-dev] Ubuntu Package

2009-07-02 Thread Colin Davis
> IIRC nextgens had some issues with this? If it is of adequate quality we > should host it ... however, all the installers now include all the > dependancies bundled (for what are IMHO several good reasons), I don't think > we should make the ubuntu .deb the exception; it should include the fi

Re: [freenet-dev] Ubuntu Package

2009-07-02 Thread Colin Davis
> IIRC nextgens had some issues with this? If it is of adequate quality we > should host it ... however, all the installers now include all the > dependancies bundled (for what are IMHO several good reasons), I don't think > we should make the ubuntu .deb the exception; it should include the fi

[freenet-dev] Ubuntu Package

2009-06-21 Thread Colin Davis
7;s just a simple bit of script so it doesn't matter ;) Feel free to commit it for me, if you'd like. I can funnel any needed changes through you. -CPD On Jun 21, 2009, at 1:09 PM, xor wrote: > On Tuesday 03 March 2009 19:16:46 Matthew Toseland wrote: >> On Wednesday 04 February 20

Re: [freenet-dev] Ubuntu Package

2009-06-21 Thread Colin Davis
7;s just a simple bit of script so it doesn't matter ;) Feel free to commit it for me, if you'd like. I can funnel any needed changes through you. -CPD On Jun 21, 2009, at 1:09 PM, xor wrote: > On Tuesday 03 March 2009 19:16:46 Matthew Toseland wrote: >> On Wednesday 04 February 20

[freenet-dev] Separate browser or not

2009-05-21 Thread Colin Davis
As an aside, Matthew had asked in the past about reducing the number of connections from the browser to the node. Digg's new library may be able to assist- It breaks images into data uris, and then inlines them. Even if Freenet doesn't want to use the library, inlining images as Data URIs may imp

Re: [freenet-dev] Separate browser or not

2009-05-21 Thread Colin Davis
As an aside, Matthew had asked in the past about reducing the number of connections from the browser to the node. Digg's new library may be able to assist- It breaks images into data uris, and then inlines them. Even if Freenet doesn't want to use the library, inlining images as Data URIs may imp

[freenet-dev] Separate browser or not

2009-05-15 Thread Colin Davis
As implemented currently, Private browsing is all-or-nothing in FF3.5beta4 and Safari, but Google Chrome is per-window. > Firefox has issues with coalescing windows, no? If I run firefox with command > line options to use one profile, it may use another if a window is already > open, there are t

[freenet-dev] Separate browser or not

2009-05-15 Thread Colin Davis
We could probe on the main fproxy page, in the same place we have the IE warning, IIRC. If they switch it off after that, it's their business; They turned it on, and they can turn it off. > I'm assuming that once you have switched "privacy mode" off, websites can't > probe links you've visited

Re: [freenet-dev] Separate browser or not

2009-05-15 Thread Colin Davis
As implemented currently, Private browsing is all-or-nothing in FF3.5beta4 and Safari, but Google Chrome is per-window. > Firefox has issues with coalescing windows, no? If I run firefox with command > line options to use one profile, it may use another if a window is already > open, there are t

Re: [freenet-dev] Separate browser or not

2009-05-15 Thread Colin Davis
We could probe on the main fproxy page, in the same place we have the IE warning, IIRC. If they switch it off after that, it's their business; They turned it on, and they can turn it off. > I'm assuming that once you have switched "privacy mode" off, websites can't > probe links you've visited

[freenet-dev] Separate browser or not

2009-05-14 Thread Colin Davis
The most reliable way to detect incognito mode is to use the CSS detect trick. If we can detect their CSS links followed, they are not in privacy mode. http://crypto.stanford.edu/~collinj/research/incognito/ -CPD Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thursday 14 May 2009 18:40:31 Zero3 wrote: > >> Matt

Re: [freenet-dev] Separate browser or not

2009-05-14 Thread Colin Davis
The most reliable way to detect incognito mode is to use the CSS detect trick. If we can detect their CSS links followed, they are not in privacy mode. http://crypto.stanford.edu/~collinj/research/incognito/ -CPD Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thursday 14 May 2009 18:40:31 Zero3 wrote: > >> Matt

[freenet-dev] Good news: WoT/Freetalk as my bachelor thesis

2009-02-05 Thread Colin Davis
Just one question from a user-perspective, if you'll permit it. Would taking it on as your Thesis project mean that you wouldn't be able to take contributions from other people toward the WoT and Freetalk? I know that there have been various proposals from freenet message systems to work to

Re: [freenet-dev] Good news: WoT/Freetalk as my bachelor thesis

2009-02-04 Thread Colin Davis
Just one question from a user-perspective, if you'll permit it. Would taking it on as your Thesis project mean that you wouldn't be able to take contributions from other people toward the WoT and Freetalk? I know that there have been various proposals from freenet message systems to work to

[freenet-dev] Ubuntu Package

2009-02-04 Thread Colin Davis
I don't know if these are useful for anyone use, but I needed to deploy Freenet across several machines last night, so I made up a quick Ubuntu package. http://sq7.org/colin/freenet.deb After downloading, you can install with dpkg -i freenet.deb. This will then run the updater and pull in th

[freenet-dev] Ubuntu Package

2009-02-04 Thread Colin Davis
I don't know if these are useful for anyone use, but I needed to deploy Freenet across several machines last night, so I made up a quick Ubuntu package. http://sq7.org/colin/freenet.deb After downloading, you can install with dpkg -i freenet.deb. This will then run the updater and pull in th

[freenet-dev] Moving towards Freenet 0.8

2009-01-07 Thread Colin Davis
>> > > We are prefetching them already. And we have a config option for that. > It's just too slow. I know I'm being terrible dense, but I don't see how this makes sense. Matthew had mentioned that the concern stemmed from the fact that the browser had a lmited number of connections to each hos

[freenet-dev] Moving towards Freenet 0.8

2009-01-07 Thread Colin Davis
> CAVEATS: > - I'm really not convinced that the basic progress screen on its own > will > yield adequate performance. It could be improved significantly by some > javascript, but the real worry is once a page has loaded, it may > have inline > images which are over 64k and therefore not in the

Re: [freenet-dev] Moving towards Freenet 0.8

2009-01-06 Thread Colin Davis
>> > > We are prefetching them already. And we have a config option for that. > It's just too slow. I know I'm being terrible dense, but I don't see how this makes sense. Matthew had mentioned that the concern stemmed from the fact that the browser had a lmited number of connections to each hos

Re: [freenet-dev] Moving towards Freenet 0.8

2009-01-06 Thread Colin Davis
> CAVEATS: > - I'm really not convinced that the basic progress screen on its own > will > yield adequate performance. It could be improved significantly by some > javascript, but the real worry is once a page has loaded, it may > have inline > images which are over 64k and therefore not in the

[freenet-dev] How to solve the browser problems

2008-12-31 Thread Colin Davis
ber 2008 18:14, Colin Davis wrote: >> I really think option 2 is the by FAR the most user friendly, for quite >> a few reasons- >> >> 1) Software shouldn't be ill-behaved. I'm a large advocate of and for >> Freenet, and even I get quite annoyed when freene

Re: [freenet-dev] How to solve the browser problems

2008-12-31 Thread Colin Davis
ber 2008 18:14, Colin Davis wrote: >> I really think option 2 is the by FAR the most user friendly, for quite >> a few reasons- >> >> 1) Software shouldn't be ill-behaved. I'm a large advocate of and for >> Freenet, and even I get quite annoyed when freene

[freenet-dev] How to solve the browser problems

2008-12-31 Thread Colin Davis
I really think option 2 is the by FAR the most user friendly, for quite a few reasons- 1) Software shouldn't be ill-behaved. I'm a large advocate of and for Freenet, and even I get quite annoyed when freenet alters Firefox by creating a new profile. I understand the rationale, but one software

Re: [freenet-dev] How to solve the browser problems

2008-12-31 Thread Colin Davis
I really think option 2 is the by FAR the most user friendly, for quite a few reasons- 1) Software shouldn't be ill-behaved. I'm a large advocate of and for Freenet, and even I get quite annoyed when freenet alters Firefox by creating a new profile. I understand the rationale, but one software

[freenet-dev] Priorities for 0.8

2008-12-18 Thread Colin Davis
It's an interesting Milestone for the project that most of the tasks that are being undertaken are UI/user focused. Reduce Ram, fix the installer, improve help docs, fix auto-updates, add messageboards, etc. Just interesting to compare to the runup to .7, which was all about features, and getti

Re: [freenet-dev] Priorities for 0.8

2008-12-18 Thread Colin Davis
It's an interesting Milestone for the project that most of the tasks that are being undertaken are UI/user focused. Reduce Ram, fix the installer, improve help docs, fix auto-updates, add messageboards, etc. Just interesting to compare to the runup to .7, which was all about features, and getti

[freenet-dev] Installer: Windows: Running from the start menu

2008-12-11 Thread Colin Davis
Zero3- I appreciate the suggestions you've made, and I'm sorry that you seem to be butting heads a bit. I tend to agree with you that the installer should default to having as much as a user might reasonably need- To my eyes, this includes at the very least the Librarian plugin, since I thin

Re: [freenet-dev] Installer: Windows: Running from the start menu

2008-12-11 Thread Colin Davis
Zero3- I appreciate the suggestions you've made, and I'm sorry that you seem to be butting heads a bit. I tend to agree with you that the installer should default to having as much as a user might reasonably need- To my eyes, this includes at the very least the Librarian plugin, since I thin

[freenet-dev] Loading-a-page screen

2008-12-11 Thread Colin Davis
This is a really excellent idea. Using a small picture for a background logo, this page could give the user the impression "Freenet is looking for the file you requested, but hasn't found it yet." This will look much better, and it would let the user know that Freenet isn't not-responding, it's

[freenet-dev] Installer: Windows: Running from the start menu

2008-12-11 Thread Colin Davis
> I'd argue that if the user knows about any autorun location at all, the > start menu will be the one. Most Windows users probably don't even know > what the service MMC snap-in is (:s), where the functionality of "Start > -> All programs -> Start" seems a bit more easy to "comprehend". Users

Re: [freenet-dev] Loading-a-page screen

2008-12-11 Thread Colin Davis
This is a really excellent idea. Using a small picture for a background logo, this page could give the user the impression "Freenet is looking for the file you requested, but hasn't found it yet." This will look much better, and it would let the user know that Freenet isn't not-responding, it's

[freenet-dev] Installer: Windows: Running from the start menu

2008-12-11 Thread Colin Davis
I absolutely appreciate the spirit of the suggestion- Making things more clear to the user is usually a good idea, but this suggestion doesn't help users as much as it seems to. While I agree that it does make things a bit clearer, it only does so to a certain sub-section of users- Those

Re: [freenet-dev] Installer: Windows: Running from the start menu

2008-12-11 Thread Colin Davis
> I'd argue that if the user knows about any autorun location at all, the > start menu will be the one. Most Windows users probably don't even know > what the service MMC snap-in is (:s), where the functionality of "Start > -> All programs -> Start" seems a bit more easy to "comprehend". Users

Re: [freenet-dev] Installer: Windows: Running from the start menu

2008-12-11 Thread Colin Davis
I absolutely appreciate the spirit of the suggestion- Making things more clear to the user is usually a good idea, but this suggestion doesn't help users as much as it seems to. While I agree that it does make things a bit clearer, it only does so to a certain sub-section of users- Those

[freenet-dev] Installation -

2008-11-28 Thread Colin Davis
> IMHO we should always download the opennet seednodes. The file is very small, > it's not a big overhead. And the auto-start option ... we probably can't turn > it off from the wizard, but we could create a "Disable auto-starting Freenet" > option on the start menu. > >

Re: [freenet-dev] Installation -

2008-11-28 Thread Colin Davis
> IMHO we should always download the opennet seednodes. The file is very small, > it's not a big overhead. And the auto-start option ... we probably can't turn > it off from the wizard, but we could create a "Disable auto-starting Freenet" > option on the start menu. > >

[freenet-dev] Wither Freemail in favor of Freetalk?

2008-11-13 Thread Colin Davis
Your state of the project post has me thinking about Freemail- I think that the system is a really nice idea, and I love the fact that you can connect to a standard Mail client, but I think it might be best to retire the system in favor of a modified version of Freetalk. The primary reason I f

[freenet-dev] Wither Freemail in favor of Freetalk?

2008-11-13 Thread Colin Davis
Your state of the project post has me thinking about Freemail- I think that the system is a really nice idea, and I love the fact that you can connect to a standard Mail client, but I think it might be best to retire the system in favor of a modified version of Freetalk. The primary reason I f

[freenet-dev] Thoughts on the Freenet UI

2008-09-08 Thread Colin Davis
> > 4) Minor issues- > > One more- A lot of people already publish content online... A Lot of it. They have a twitter feed, a Blog, maybe a Facebook and Myspace page.. We should have an option that says "Already have a website? Great! Enter the URL here to mirror it to Freenet"- It could then

[freenet-dev] Thoughts on the Freenet UI

2008-09-08 Thread Colin Davis
I worry that right now, Freenet doesn't provide a very good first user experience- I worry that this leads to frequent installation of the tool out of curiosity, and then subsequent uninstallation when the user can't find anything fun to do with Freenet. The main problem is that Freenet is mar

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on the Freenet UI

2008-09-08 Thread Colin Davis
> > 4) Minor issues- > > One more- A lot of people already publish content online... A Lot of it. They have a twitter feed, a Blog, maybe a Facebook and Myspace page.. We should have an option that says "Already have a website? Great! Enter the URL here to mirror it to Freenet"- It could then

[freenet-dev] Thoughts on the Freenet UI

2008-09-08 Thread Colin Davis
I worry that right now, Freenet doesn't provide a very good first user experience- I worry that this leads to frequent installation of the tool out of curiosity, and then subsequent uninstallation when the user can't find anything fun to do with Freenet. The main problem is that Freenet is mar

[freenet-dev] Custom Firefox profile causing aggravation with users?

2008-05-23 Thread Colin Davis
Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Friday 23 May 2008 17:25, Colin Davis wrote: > >> What about using Prism/Webrunner, rather than XULrunner or a customized >> profile? >> http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/ >> >> It creates a quick single-window webbrowser, w

Re: [freenet-dev] Custom Firefox profile causing aggravation with users?

2008-05-23 Thread Colin Davis
Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Friday 23 May 2008 17:25, Colin Davis wrote: > >> What about using Prism/Webrunner, rather than XULrunner or a customized >> profile? >> http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/ >> >> It creates a quick single-window webbrowser, w

[freenet-dev] Custom Firefox profile causing aggravation with users?

2008-05-23 Thread Colin Davis
What about using Prism/Webrunner, rather than XULrunner or a customized profile? http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/ It creates a quick single-window webbrowser, with system integration for icons, system tray, etc. You can ship the customizations such as number of connections in the included

Re: [freenet-dev] Custom Firefox profile causing aggravation with users?

2008-05-23 Thread Colin Davis
What about using Prism/Webrunner, rather than XULrunner or a customized profile? http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/ It creates a quick single-window webbrowser, with system integration for icons, system tray, etc. You can ship the customizations such as number of connections in the included

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Davis
Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daigni?re > wrote: > >>> But the same argument could be used in my Java analogy. Java has a >>> far higher profile than many apps written in Java, but it doesn't >>> follow that Java should bundle all of these apps. >>> >> Heh

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Davis
> Why are you so obsessed with turning us into Sourceforge for Freenet > apps? If we are successful there could be hundreds of apps, there is > no reason for us to host all of them - that is rediculous. Let them > use sourceforge, or google code, or set up their own website. > > For the same

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Davis
Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daignière > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> But the same argument could be used in my Java analogy. Java has a >>> far higher profile than many apps written in Java, but it doesn't >>> follow that Java should bundle all of these apps

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Davis
> Why are you so obsessed with turning us into Sourceforge for Freenet > apps? If we are successful there could be hundreds of apps, there is > no reason for us to host all of them - that is rediculous. Let them > use sourceforge, or google code, or set up their own website. > > For the same

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-15 Thread Colin Davis
Ian Clarke wrote: > I do agree that bundling can make user's lives easier, but it should > be >>client apps bundling Freenet<<, not the other way around. > > Ian. > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-15 Thread Colin Davis
Ian Clarke wrote: > I do agree that bundling can make user's lives easier, but it should > be >>client apps bundling Freenet<<, not the other way around. > > Ian. > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready

[freenet-dev] Can we improve the announcement message?

2008-04-18 Thread Colin Davis
Here's my stab- Congratulations- Freenet is installed and running. Freenet is currently contacting other Freenet users and integrating into the network. It will take a few minutes to make the initial connection, after which you can begin using Freenet. As Freenet connects to more and more other

Re: [freenet-dev] Can we improve the announcement message?

2008-04-18 Thread Colin Davis
Here's my stab- Congratulations- Freenet is installed and running. Freenet is currently contacting other Freenet users and integrating into the network. It will take a few minutes to make the initial connection, after which you can begin using Freenet. As Freenet connects to more and more other

[freenet-dev] [GSoC] Packaging and setup process

2008-03-20 Thread Colin Davis
I thought that Update over Mandatory was implemented at this point, negating this problem? Tommy[D] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > you > will need fast ways to get new versions to the user, else it could happen > that he is out of freenet > because of a too old version. > -BEG

Re: [freenet-dev] [GSoC] Packaging and setup process

2008-03-20 Thread Colin Davis
I thought that Update over Mandatory was implemented at this point, negating this problem? Tommy[D] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > you > will need fast ways to get new versions to the user, else it could happen > that he is out of freenet > because of a too old version. > -BEG

[freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-06 Thread Colin Davis
If you want to avoid a distinct fingerprint, you could advocate installing http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/ Granted, it's not the kindest software on external servers, but it's in common use, and would set the connections much higher. > > As far as I remember we have always been asking users to chan

[freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-06 Thread Colin Davis
> Ideally we want an external profile option - something where the settings are > kept outside of the firefox directory, where firefox will always default to > the default profile, without asking the user. > > Well.. If you wanted to go that way, you could use the -no-remote option, which a

Re: [freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-06 Thread Colin Davis
If you want to avoid a distinct fingerprint, you could advocate installing http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/ Granted, it's not the kindest software on external servers, but it's in common use, and would set the connections much higher. > > As far as I remember we have always been asking users to chan

[freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-06 Thread Colin Davis
> Not a bad idea, although it's an additional 6MB download, and one more thing > to update (does it auto-update?). And it's windows specific: what would we do > on linux and OS/X ? > > Portable Firefox is what TorPark uses. There is a version of Portable Firefox for Mac. http://www.freesm

Re: [freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-06 Thread Colin Davis
> Ideally we want an external profile option - something where the settings are > kept outside of the firefox directory, where firefox will always default to > the default profile, without asking the user. > > Well.. If you wanted to go that way, you could use the -no-remote option, which a

Re: [freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-06 Thread Colin Davis
> Not a bad idea, although it's an additional 6MB download, and one more thing > to update (does it auto-update?). And it's windows specific: what would we do > on linux and OS/X ? > > Portable Firefox is what TorPark uses. There is a version of Portable Firefox for Mac. http://www.freesm

[freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-06 Thread Colin Davis
> Both IE and Safari have *MAJOR* problems with Freenet. Safari waits for all > the images to be loaded before even attempting to render the page; IE > autodetects HTML even when it is told that a page is plain text (which is a > major security breach as an attacker can then send unfiltered HTM

Re: [freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-06 Thread Colin Davis
> Both IE and Safari have *MAJOR* problems with Freenet. Safari waits for all > the images to be loaded before even attempting to render the page; IE > autodetects HTML even when it is told that a page is plain text (which is a > major security breach as an attacker can then send unfiltered HTM

[freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-05 Thread Colin Davis
As a ignorant user, I think that's as a general principal, Freenet should try to be as browser agnostic as possible.. 1) Firefox may not be the dominant browser down the line- Freenet shouldn't constantly chase the tale of different browsers. 2) Most users don't use Firefox currently. Most gene

Re: [freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

2008-03-05 Thread Colin Davis
As a ignorant user, I think that's as a general principal, Freenet should try to be as browser agnostic as possible.. 1) Firefox may not be the dominant browser down the line- Freenet shouldn't constantly chase the tale of different browsers. 2) Most users don't use Firefox currently. Most gene

[freenet-dev] The perils of releasing unusable software, or why opennet sucks

2008-01-23 Thread Colin Davis
27;s eligible to be > a seednode and then, if it is, ask the user ? > > > Colin Davis a ?crit : >> I admit that I'm woefully ignorant when it comes to proper design, >> and I'm not among the smartest people in the room. >> That said, these don't seem

[freenet-dev] The perils of releasing unusable software, or why opennet sucks

2008-01-23 Thread Colin Davis
I admit that I'm woefully ignorant when it comes to proper design, and I'm not among the smartest people in the room. That said, these don't seem like difficult problems- Certainly it's because I'm missing the complexity. I think it the installer should present the option, because that's when u

[freenet-dev] The perils of releasing unusable software, or why opennet sucks

2008-01-23 Thread Colin Davis
Matthew Toseland wrote: > What makes you think that the number of seednodes is the problem? > Announcement > ensures that we mostly connect to nodes that aren't in the seednodes list.. > Perhaps I'm off base- It would seem that if there is a small collection of seednodes, then any initial an

[freenet-dev] The perils of releasing unusable software, or why opennet sucks

2008-01-23 Thread Colin Davis
If we added a button to the installer to add yourself as a seednode, perhaps we could offer a better collection of starting nodes. Do you want to be added to Freenet Directory? Adding yourself to the Freenet Directory will publicly publish your connection information, so that new users can us

Re: [freenet-dev] The perils of releasing unusable software, or why opennet sucks

2008-01-23 Thread Colin Davis
27;s eligible to be > a seednode and then, if it is, ask the user ? > > > Colin Davis a écrit : >> I admit that I'm woefully ignorant when it comes to proper design, >> and I'm not among the smartest people in the room. >> That said, these don't seem

Re: [freenet-dev] The perils of releasing unusable software, or why opennet sucks

2008-01-23 Thread Colin Davis
I admit that I'm woefully ignorant when it comes to proper design, and I'm not among the smartest people in the room. That said, these don't seem like difficult problems- Certainly it's because I'm missing the complexity. I think it the installer should present the option, because that's when u

Re: [freenet-dev] The perils of releasing unusable software, or why opennet sucks

2008-01-23 Thread Colin Davis
Matthew Toseland wrote: > What makes you think that the number of seednodes is the problem? > Announcement > ensures that we mostly connect to nodes that aren't in the seednodes list.. > Perhaps I'm off base- It would seem that if there is a small collection of seednodes, then any initial an

Re: [freenet-dev] The perils of releasing unusable software, or why opennet sucks

2008-01-23 Thread Colin Davis
If we added a button to the installer to add yourself as a seednode, perhaps we could offer a better collection of starting nodes. Do you want to be added to Freenet Directory? Adding yourself to the Freenet Directory will publicly publish your connection information, so that new users can us

[freenet-dev] Shrinking the opennet warning, documentation toadlet

2007-12-19 Thread Colin Davis
debate it ;) -Colin Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 18:23, Colin Davis wrote: > >> I think this conversation has denegrated into Bike Shed area. >> (http://wiki.netbsd.se/bikeshed) >> My vote is for the following, but I think at this

[freenet-dev] Shrinking the opennet warning, documentation toadlet

2007-12-19 Thread Colin Davis
I think this conversation has denegrated into Bike Shed area. (http://wiki.netbsd.se/bikeshed) My vote is for the following, but I think at this point is almost doesn't matter. You're almost there! Your Freenet installation is almost complete. Freenet is currently running in insecure mode, whic

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