On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:07:47PM -0500, Nicholas Sturm wrote: > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 1/20/2004 2:47:49 PM > > Subject: Re: [freenet-support] New with this ... please some help > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > I have been trying to load the Freedom Engine and it > always > > > says > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > " The network is busy, please try again > > later.Retrying" > > > > > > > > > > Sometimes it has loaded a disclaimer ( a text advising > about > > > the > > > > > contents) but nothing else. > > > > > > > > :( > > > > > > > > Can you run a permanent node? Are you firewalled? > > > > > > I'd guess he has not discovered editing to make it permanent. That > > editing > > > is a bit of a problem for people on Win2K. > > > > Well, I don?t see the problem in using the notepad to edit the > .ini > > file. ?? > > Most Win users are not at all accustomed to finding and editing .ini files > because those went out of general use about three Win-generations ago > when Microsoft decided that "those darn users just don't know how to > use our software" and started hiding all the parameters in the registry. > Since I having been around since Osborne sold his hardware > business, I am aware of them. Still, it took me several tries before I > found that the "%" was a comment marker AND to discover which > of those I needed to remove to avoid being a transient node. (And that > must be done each and every time that one downloads a new version.) > It seems that it is prefered we run non-transient, but the default is > nicely > set up to send us to transient.
The default is transient=false. If the default were transient=true, we'd have MAJOR problems. > > > > > > The failure on THE has been the case for several weeks. Item two on the > > > browsing page is the only one reliable for the last week or two. > > > > What is item two? > > Well, "Help," the way they are numbered in the log is rather > unconventional, but > I was thinking of "two" and coming after "one". Thus, second down on > the list where "Freedom" (if the thumbnail appears) is "one," as first in > a conventionally numbered list. > > Hope this helps to clarify. > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Pedro. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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