Serious discussion about removing dynamically controls

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Morning Nick.
Except I'm off to bed.
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Morning Fergus, late night by any chance? ;-) I know a cure for that, stop
downloading "rare material" mate you might have more hours in the day ;-)
;-)

Nick.

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Fergus - September 5th 2003
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Hi Nick,

I've been waiting days and weeks, just getting little trickles (of <data>
not what <you're> thinking!!), but I was always waiting in the queue. Last
night I said To Hell with them and switched off uploads. Wow. 140MB.

Regards,
Fergus

It <is> music. [sob] It really <is> music. [small voice: nobody believes me,
sob]
 
Hello,

To Hell with them and switched off uploads. Wow. 140MB.

140 MB of postings on a single day... Really good.

;-)
 
I've been waiting days and weeks, just getting little trickles (of
not what <you're> thinking!!), but I was always waiting in the queue. Last
night I said To Hell with them and switched off uploads. Wow. 140MB.
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I presume that you are referring to Shareaza? What a load of toot that is,
I absolutly love the program, it's an excellent piece of software, lovely to
look at too, but downloads can take days!! You end up something like number
5643 in someones que, and the program makes such a large number of
connections that it periodically knocks my router out, which is nice :-)
But yes, I believe you, music it is, rare music, like Des O'Connor maybe?

Nick.

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"No matter. Whatever the outcome, you are changed."

Fergus - September 5th 2003
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Hi Nick.

|| But yes, I believe you, music it is, rare music, like Des O'Connor
maybe?

Wierdly enough, it's not what I'd have called rare. But there is just a
single source for much of what I want.
|| Shareaza .. but downloads can take days ..
|| such a large number of connections ..

That's what I've found - all these connections. I'd be watching a
download. It would grab maybe 64K then drop the connection and starts its
little countdown again. I'm sitting there shouting at it - "Go on, You just
<had> it. Go get it!!". Naturally it ignores me until I do <Right-Click>
Access. Then off it goes for aonther dribble. Honestly - File sharers these
days, you can't take your eyes off them for a moment the lazy so-and-so's.

The forums say "Oh, you've got to be patient, got to build up your
'credit' by uploading". Grrr. I'm giving out megabytes per hour just to get
one 5 minute track per night!!

Anyway yesterday I got really fed up with it. I opened the System window
to watch what was happening to my download slots - why were they so brief and
unstable. I couldn't see what was going on because of all the in-and-out
rubbish. So I hit the disconnect button. Being already in touch with my
source, I figured that I didn't need to be connected. [It works that way with
Kazaa when it can't connect - previous downloads carry on regardless]. Well
this didn't change that much until my ISP cut me off. On redialing, I got a
new IP and so the network didn't know about me. All the traffic dropped to
nothing. The uploading stopped once my queues emptied and my download speed
went straight to MAX!!! It's against the spirit of things but I figure I've
done well over my fair share.

It may work for you. I reckon you only need the network aspect for
searching and finding more sources. I prefer it without more sources. I have a
C# manual 'on order' with > 400 sources. Not one of them is willing to give it
up. And Shareaza is a bit stupid in many little ways - I'm in my own source
list several times over!!

Regards,
Fergus
 
Hi Fergus,
|| But yes, I believe you, music it is, rare music, like Des O'Connor
maybe?
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As I suspected...
That's what I've found - all these connections. I'd be watching a
download. It would grab maybe 64K then drop the connection and starts its
little countdown again. I'm sitting there shouting at it - "Go on, You just
<had> it. Go get it!!". Naturally it ignores me until I do <Right-Click>
Access. Then off it goes for aonther dribble. Honestly - File sharers these
days, you can't take your eyes off them for a moment the lazy so-and-so's.
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Yeah, so right, I even feel that if I look at the damn thing it actually
stops. It's strange, with Shareaza I can have something downloading at 1
KB/S and the damn thing has made well in excess of 100 connections!!, then
it stops downloading just because it can. Lazy? they are *ucking useless
half the time!
The forums say "Oh, you've got to be patient, got to build up your
'credit' by uploading". Grrr. I'm giving out megabytes per hour just to get
one 5 minute track per night!!
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Haha, I saw a tweak somewhere that got the application to upload files
to yourself over and over again, increasing your 'credit' by yourself so to
speak. Have you tried Kazaa Lite? http://www.kazaalitekpp.com/ No spyware,
download 'acceleration' etc, just a pitty there is no error checking like
with Shareaza, because you could download a 700mb zip file simply for it to
contain 1 CRC error and you're buggered! :-(
It may work for you. I reckon you only need the network aspect for
searching and finding more sources. I prefer it without more sources. I have a
C# manual 'on order' with > 400 sources. Not one of them is willing to give it
up. And Shareaza is a bit stupid in many little ways - I'm in my own source
list several times over!!
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Haha, I got some VB.NET 'manuals' but I don't want to print them off,
have you tried reading a book in the form of a reem of unbinded paper? It's
not pleasent. Pah, Shareaza, such a silly program at times, it doesn't do
itself any justice, like when is the guy going to give information on making
plugins for it? He only needs to release a simple example plugin!! maybe
they are hard coded! ;-)

Nick.

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"No matter. Whatever the outcome, you are changed."

Fergus - September 5th 2003
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Hi Nick,

|| I even feel that if I look at the damn thing it actually stops.

Lol.

|| downloading at 1 KB/S and the damn thing has made well
|| in excess of 100 connections

Disconnect. When you've got a download happening and want it good, it's
worth a try.

|| Kazaa .. download a 700mb zip file simply for it to
|| contain 1 CRC error and you're buggered!

700mb? You've obviously got more than a 2KB modem. :-) Alright for some!!

My biggest failure was a 14MB chm file. It arrived and showed the table of
contents. A hex dump showed that it was stuffed full of pages. But it wouldn't
display a single page!

|| reading a book in the form of a reem of unbinded paper

I have a friend who used to work at Zerox. He'd come round and present me
with that ream of paper - rephotocopied from single-sided to double-sided,
sorted, bound and covered. A friend in the land of the copier!! Alas, he's not
there any more. But that's because he's moved to **??** where they have a
whole different set of goodies!! ;-)

Regards,
Nick.
 
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