wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

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Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi

So Suprnova.org is officially dead. This is a pain in the short term. But according to Mark Pesce it’s a great thing for the long term.
I don’t agree with everything he says, but he does provide a great explanation of bittorrent and what the future may hold for P2P.

BitTorrent

I last checked out BitTorrent a year ago. It looked like an interesting concept, and the speeds were quite reasonable. However, the client was no more than a new download window for each file within Internet Explorer. Resuming long downloads after a system restart was not convenient and the available files seemed to be limited [...]

KCeasy

I’d been out of touch with decent peer to peer file sharing apps until recently. Someone pointed me to KCeasy. Screenshots here. It’s an open source windows client that uses giFT as a back-end.
It connects to the OpenFT, Gnutella and FastTrack networks. The UI resembles Kazaa, but without any embedded spyware.
Initial impressions… Clean, responsive UI [...]