[Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-07 Thread Stephen Adler
Blu, I'm looking to write a peer to peer application and was looking for some tool kits or libraries or other software bit which I could use to build my application. I did a quick search of peer to peer software and all I got were discussions and books about general peer to peer applications,

Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-07 Thread John Abreau
I would imagine that peer discovery is the main thing that distinguishes peer-to-peer from client-server. Other than that, you should be able to use any existing network programming toolkits or libraries, and you could probably use those toolkits and libraries to implement peer discovery. It should

Re: [Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

2014-06-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: j...@gapps.blu.org [mailto:j...@gapps.blu.org] On Behalf Of John > Abreau > > I've installed Python 2.7.7 on the BLU mailserver with the binary named > "python277" instead of just "python", then I installed Mailman 2.1.18-1, > which was just released a few days ago. Thank you guys. I hav

[Discuss] Tor non-exit relay on GNU/Linux

2014-06-07 Thread Daniel Fitzmartin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear BLU Discuss List Members, I'm working on a video for the Free Software Foundation describing the installation and setup of a Tor non-exit relay on a GNU/Linux system. I'm writing a bash script that installs Tor and sets up the relay. The video wi

Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler > > I'm looking to write a peer to peer application and was looking for some > tool kits or libraries or other software bit which I could use to build > my application

Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-07 Thread Bill Ricker
If peering is manual-out-of-band, you can just code to sockets (or pipe to netcat). ​If peering isn't manual-out-of-band, yes, you need peer discovery. Which protocols and (de)centralized server-infrastructure depends upon how local or dispersed your users will be, and if they will have special pr

Re: [Discuss] GPS feature in cellphones?

2014-06-07 Thread Rich Braun
Rich Pieri wrote: > A power off state does not disable this "feature" on smart > phones and some feature phones. > ...[and followed up with] > Off isn't really off. It's > a very low power state same as every personal computer and TV set made > since manufacturers did away with physical power swit

Re: [Discuss] GPS feature in cellphones?

2014-06-07 Thread Richard Pieri
Rich Braun wrote: > But anyone > who has ever fiddled with a handheld GPS or wifi-enabled device knows how much > of a power-suck those technologies are. Just because Ed Snowden found a > document that claims otherwise doesn't mean it's true. You're assuming that the GPS receiver in the device ha

Re: [Discuss] GPS feature in cellphones?

2014-06-07 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Braun wrote: > I'm not buying the NSA's published FUD on this issue. Me neither. This is also a knowable answer that any high-school level electronics student can answer: 1. Monitor the current draw from the device's battery when the unit is powered off. If you never see more an micro amps

Re: [Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

2014-06-07 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > Plus - it's nice to not feel like a single person posting from a yahoo > address would destroy the list. ;-) ​Looks like the cascade didn't happen. A post on the GPS phone threads was from Yahoo; Gmail put it in my *SPAM* fol

Re: [Discuss] GPS feature in cellphones?

2014-06-07 Thread Richard Pieri
Tom Metro wrote: > My guess is that the origin of this FUD comes from phones that have been > hacked by a government agency. One can imagine how it would be easy to > modify a phone's software such that the power button merely fakes a shut > down. Meanwhile it stays running, tracking, and sending a

Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-07 Thread Tom Metro
Stephen Adler wrote: > I'm looking to write a peer to peer application and was looking for some > tool kits or libraries or other software bit which I could use to build > my application. I did a quick search of peer to peer software... Were you searching specifically for libraries? I'd start by