On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:13:32PM +1300, Phillip Hutchings wrote: > 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.
I feel for you. Are you in australia/new zealand? Or is there a local monopoly provider? > > > 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. There is some documentation. But a lot of it is evolving. We're not simply implementing a standard here. We're not writing a word processor, or a TCP/IP stack, where everything we will do is pretty much well known. What we are doing is closer to implementing the first TCP/IP stack. > > > 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. Other users have provided reasonably positive feedback, especially after we recently fixed inserts. > > 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 ;) :) -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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