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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