On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:58:28 +0100, Newsbyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, phillip, see my other post for your remarks, but I would wanna say > specifically one thing: > > "* I don't like <person> (frequently Ian)" > > Isn't true. I NEVER contend it's the person, as individual, that I dislike, > I dislike the actions and decisions a person takes, because it leads, and > has lead, to a virtual standstill in end-user usuability. Now, even that on > itself isn't that bad, because people make mistakes, but when one continues > for two years, it does become a question of when it is going to sink in that > maybe there is need to change things.
Well, I will give you that. We can't all agree all the time. But I would say pointing to resources supporting your viewpoint would give posts a better feel. Not that this is always possible. > Your defence of it being fast, is just the sort of non-reality check I'm > pointing at. Dude, how many people do you think have the ability of getting > a connection like that? It's not realistic to extrapolate your situation to > others, which are in a vast majority WAY less equiped and experience enough > problems just getting it running (see posts of noobs on slashdot or even on > the maillists). Yeah, I wish I had that connection to my home. I have to live with 256/128 cable. When I ran freenet on that it wasn't too bad, but I have a bandwidth cap. > Maybe you haven't been hanging around long enough to remember, but I was one > of the first people that suggested a new testnetwork which could seriously > help in the development time in pinpointing problems...and yes, I've said > that several times, so you can call that whining, if you want, but it IS in > fact, a suggestion and an alternative - which some selectively remembering > dudes claim I never do or did - and a good one at that, because there was a > time we (at least Toad) agreed to it too. Do you here about it any longer? > Well, no, it's been put back in the freezer because it was prefered to play > with simulations that, as yet, didn't fullfill their promises neither. Yeah, I do remember. At one point I considered helping hack the source, but it's just crazy in there. If only the protocol was documented somewhere so I could follow it through the source. > Ah man, all this shite about I don't contribute anything valuable is so > lame. That what gets incorporated is forgotten (like augmenting the htl a > year ago), and that what I propose in vain and hasn't been implemented is > deemed to be mere talk, because it hasn't proven itself. Well, duh. I've only been on the list for a year though. > Certainly, I have become increasingly sarcastic, but it shows a lack of > understanding if you fail to see what is the cause of it. When you entered > the scene a year ago, when freenet was plunged into it's worst non-working > period ever, then you might have a sense that it has progressed a lot - > well, it hasn't. Not in the end-users viewpoint, anyway. Maybe for a coder, > like toad, things are different: he codes, sees the code change, implements > new things, so, in his perspective, things have become better...but IMHO, > that counts for not much, if the enduser can't benefit from it. That's not > putting a blame on the hard work of Toad, or saying 'I don't like <toad>', > as you seem to think, it's just the way it is. I know the feeling. I'm a web developer, and all the time I spend speeding up the code in certain conditions is basically moot as far as the boss is concerned. He's a marketer. I actually started running a node in the 0.3 days, but I was on dialup. Now that was horrible. I've been following it on and off since then, but now I have a fast server it works ;) -- Phillip Hutchings http://www.sitharus.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
