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- 2006-11-22 06:03
- Forum: Other Direct Connect tools
- Topic: Daylight Savings Time FAT32 Fix
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3486
- 2006-11-22 05:45
- Forum: Other Direct Connect tools
- Topic: Daylight Savings Time FAT32 Fix
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3486
Daylight Savings Time FAT32 Fix
This is a repost of the original post that seems to have vanished. I'm reposting it for the benefit of those who have FAT32 shares on Windows 2000. When daylight savings time comes on or off, DC++ will rehash that entire drive because of the way the system presents times from said disks. For the rec...
- 2006-07-15 20:47
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
- 2006-07-15 12:59
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
- 2006-07-12 10:23
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: DC is getting duplicate FileLists !!(of the same user !??)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6503
- 2006-07-12 10:20
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Qn 4. Is a File Transfer Status review possible?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5219
Re: Qn 4. Is a File Transfer Status review possible?
No, that was an incredibly stupid and pedantic move. "Oh I'm so much more enlightened and correct than u cuz I write kiB!" PC run amuk.Asc3nti0n wrote:I think you've all done a great job getting the IEC Binary unit prefixes out there, I think the program is looking great.
LA
- 2006-07-12 10:15
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
I think he was talking about the dl-list-to-get-cid thing. Not queue automatch. I still say one connection per IP is the way to go here. Simple and can't be spoofed. For the people on IP sharing, tough. "Oh God no, I can't get my file RIGHT NOW!!" They'll get the file eventually. In exchange for a s...
- 2006-06-21 23:02
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
I suggested that a while back but it was poo pooed. Actually IP alone is the easiest way to fix this. Just disallow multiple connections from the same IP. People can have different nicks in different hubs. It's true that different people could share an IP but that is a really small number and the od...
- 2006-06-21 13:24
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
That's an even more complicated solution than what I proposed. But yes, these people are keeping out other users. I'll have no free slots and some prick dl'ing off me 2 or 3 times. Even if there are other free slots it still messes up the overall network. It increases the time needed to get a file. ...
- 2006-06-21 10:51
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
- 2006-06-21 10:30
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
Ur right, I don't have information and that's why I'm beating my head against the wall here. No one's provided a reason why DC can't figure out commonality of users between hubs. This problem of people taking multiple slots has annoyed me to the point of speaking out. No one has said "it's impossibl...
- 2006-06-20 21:40
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
All users are identified by CID because that is how ADC does it. This isn't ADC. There is only NMDC. Ugly indeed, but that's what we get for using NMDC. That's a specious argument. There's nothing besides NMDC so u can't offload responsibility onto those who are using it. That's like deriding Afric...
- 2006-06-20 20:02
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
So ur saying that the CID is something my client generates and not something the remote clients push out? That seems very flaky. It's just a glorified version of nick+hubname. If a hub changes its name, wham I lost all my sources from that hub. I don't see how this way is better than the old way. Wh...
- 2006-06-20 17:30
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
- 2006-06-20 08:56
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: People taking multiple slots
- Replies: 46
- Views: 40165
People taking multiple slots
We have got to do something about people taking up multiple slots. I routinely have to close connections of people downloading two files at the same time. I even had somebody downloading three times. I got so sick of it I banned his IP on the firewall. One guy I'm fighting now is in two hubs but has...
- 2006-06-20 08:42
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Reconnecting closed connections
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5386
Re: Reconnecting closed connections
I'm pretty sure I don't have this problem. Are you sure it's a minute? Are you sure it isn't a slow source that thinks you're still connected? I didn't time it but it's atleast 30 seconds before I can get back onto a person with open slots. When I hit Force Attempt on the demised transfer it immedi...
- 2006-06-16 10:54
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Reconnecting closed connections
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5386
Reconnecting closed connections
When I am dl'ing a file and close that connection and then immediately select that person and hit force attempt, it won't reconnect. Even if that person has free slots. It has to wait a minute. I want to do this so I can start dl'ing a higher priority file from that person. Can some provision be mad...
- 2006-06-15 12:31
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: disable/restrict use of bandwidth limiters
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25251
- 2006-06-14 23:16
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: disable/restrict use of bandwidth limiters
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25251
but are kiB / MiB the same as kB / MB? They are the same. kiB and MiB came about from some government beaurocrat who was miffed that computer byte units weren't submitting to the bulldozer of globalization. Hence kibbles were born so that in his own mind kB could be inline with other kilo- units. S...
- 2006-06-13 21:27
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: disable/restrict use of bandwidth limiters
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25251
Mmm. So who measures bit rates in 2^10 units? Bits are measured in 10^3 units. Bytes are measured in 2^10 units. LA P.S. I figured out how to get rid of those ridiculous kibbles and bits units. Just take the language file and change all the occurances of kibbles and mibbles etc to kB and MB. Then lo...
- 2006-06-13 15:33
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: disable/restrict use of bandwidth limiters
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25251
- 2006-06-12 05:18
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: disable/restrict use of bandwidth limiters
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25251
- 2006-06-11 08:29
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: disable/restrict use of bandwidth limiters
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25251
- 2006-05-29 17:03
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: disable/restrict use of bandwidth limiters
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25251
- 2006-05-28 15:03
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: disable/restrict use of bandwidth limiters
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25251
Now that just seems really wrong to me. What are ur line specs? If uploading at 20kbps tanked my connection I would call up my ISP and complain. Either something is wrong or they are seriously messing with u. Pothead is correct, Timeslicing is done on a lower level of networks, I'm talking about the...
- 2006-05-27 23:06
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: disable/restrict use of bandwidth limiters
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25251
I was wondering if it would be feasable to have a option where downloaders can have the option of granting themselfes a single slot from someone for short periods of time so that all the time on DC is not in only uploading. Say like 15-30 min forced slot aquire and have a limit of say 1-3 forced gr...
- 2006-05-21 13:27
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7912
- 2006-05-19 17:07
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7912
- 2006-05-19 08:36
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7912
- 2006-05-17 07:07
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7912
Re: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
II) "Requester/Assign to" and "Requestee" I know I'm the Requestee, but who the hell am I going to "requestrate" to have my suggestions implemented? God? Actually ur the requester. The requestee is the person ur making the request of. The -er ending indicates the performer of an action and the -ee ...
- 2006-05-06 16:56
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Multithreaded filehashing?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11330
U know, another solution for these super large shares is an external hashing application. Sure DC can do it but it's not optimized particularily. With an external app, the user can do whatever is best for their own system. If u have 5 disks, u can fire up 5 processes. Or if ur 3 IDE channels are the...
- 2006-04-26 23:14
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Limiting access to drives.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8088
I think it would be useful to restate the problem. This is a situation where the network speed is vastly outstripping the IO bus speed. This leads to drive thrashing. So the solution is the same as the solution to every other drive thrashing problem. Serialize access to the drive. This can be accomp...
- 2006-04-23 13:01
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Rehashing Renamed Folders, Not Good
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3595
- 2006-04-23 12:55
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Multiuser file sharing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5929
Segmenting is a horrible idea. If DC++ got that then the network would just grind to a complete halt. People would have 50 transfers and every transfer would be going at 1.5 kB/s. To do segmenting somebody would have to come up with a much more sophisticated model that what current clients are using...
- 2006-04-09 20:26
- Forum: Protocol Alley
- Topic: ADC inform, an idea
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11083
"Informative" means anything not central to the operating of the hub system. It's just things "nice to know". U don't need to know any of MyInfo or even have the complete userlist to send search requests. IP and port is all u need for client<->client searches. Having a totally secure unspoofable net...
- 2006-04-08 20:48
- Forum: Protocol Alley
- Topic: ADC inform, an idea
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11083
- 2006-04-08 20:41
- Forum: Protocol Alley
- Topic: ADC inform, an idea
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11083
a newly connecting user would suddenly get thousands of incoming connections at once from clients trying to get their info through. If you imagine a hub reboot situation with thousands of clients connecting in a short period, the problem multiplies. Not necessarily. The hub can throttle the rate as...
- 2006-04-08 16:37
- Forum: Protocol Alley
- Topic: ADC inform, an idea
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11083
Ur right, the total traffic is the same but it has been rearranged for the benefit of the hub. In the current way, all the user list information flows over the hub's inet pipe to the new client. This way, only the inform request goes over the hub's inet pipe and the full load of the user list is dis...
- 2006-04-08 14:30
- Forum: Protocol Alley
- Topic: ADC inform, an idea
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11083
ADC inform, an idea
I had an idea about easing the hub load on new connections with ADC. Right now the hub sends the entire user list with all their information to the newly connecting client, right. A way to cut down the hub traffic is to have the hub instead inform the existing clients about the newly connected clien...
- 2006-01-28 19:11
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Why segmented downloads are a horrible idea
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9856
Why segmented downloads are a horrible idea
Below is a chat log in which I explain why segmented downloads are a horrible idea. (I am bob) [02:25] <[VIP]Zaszâ„¢> segmented downloads [02:25] <[VIP]Jamgoggâ„¢> so you can download what other are downloading even if their download hasn't finished [02:26] <[VIP]Zaszâ„¢> basically means, dl a file ...
- 2006-01-06 19:39
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Mp4 files [video]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4567
- 2006-01-06 13:36
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Mp4 files [video]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4567
For all practical purposes yes, adding .mp4 to the video list would be no CPU hit. This isn't adding a "feature" it's just adding a list entry to some data structure. I bet u wouldn't even be able to measure the additional usage. Unless DC is using some horribly inefficient matching algorithm. But t...
- 2006-01-06 08:50
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: Mp4 files [video]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4567
Huh? Adding .mp4 to the video type would be no CPU hit at all. This is something that really should be done. .mp4 is the official container format for MPEG-4 video and should become more important in the future as HD formats take over. All those DVD players that are playing avi files should be playi...
- 2006-01-05 19:28
- Forum: Proposals
- Topic: anti spam feature
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2419
anti spam feature
I think DC desperately needs an anti spam feature. The spamming is is up to a flood now. The hubs aren't doing anything about it. Here's how it would work. The spammer sends a PM. The PM window will have some command in there to mark that message as a spam message and to never display that message a...
- 2003-10-28 19:54
- Forum: Feature Discussion (Archived)
- Topic: Unicode Support
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3935
Sheesh all it is is some escape sequences and multi byte characters. Even to a non aware client it'll just show as a little junk. Even unicode is still based around 8 bit bytes. It ain't rocket science. The only thing you have to do to the "protocol" is add a key or something so each side knows the ...