Most of you already know what this is. It’s a popular file sharing protocol that actually works pretty good. If you have the time.
I’ve been downloading a 3.5 gb file all day. It’s only available via bittorrent and what the file is isn’t important. So far, in the 12 hours the download has been running, only 1/2 of the file has gotten to me, and it says that there is still another 4 hours to go. I’ve downloaded 1.5 gb files from iTunes and I can tell you they don’t take this long.
For bittorrent to be useful, there has to more than a few users with fast connections. If you try to download something that is only shared by a few users, the download will take forever. Same goes if any of the users sharing are doing so over a dial up connection.
I mention this because it has been tossed around that this might be the wave of the future, the new way to get content from production houses or television networks. No way I’m going to wait 12+ hours to download a movie.
This might work if the content providers have their own seeders on super fast connections. Maybe a server farm someplace with the torrents? Who knows. But something like this might actually work.
For now, I still think it is mostly for the more ‘geekier’ of us. Someday maybe it might be more mainstream, but just not today
I know this has to break a record someplace. I don’t know anyone that gets this much spam.
I’m feeling a change on board….
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Thank you. No, really. You are too kind.
Please keep in mind that gmail automagically deletes spam messages that are over 30 days old. the number you see above is only for 30 days! It doesn’t count any messages that get deleted.
Less than 24 hours have passed and there is already a vulnerability in the Internet Explorer code base.
This one is nasty too gang. With IE 7 installed, a website can get access to any site you have visited, using your creditials for that site! Like, your bank, your paypal account, your gmail account or your eBay account. If you don’t log off from those sites and hit a site that exploits this vulnerability you will, essentially, be hosed.
Tell all of your Windows XP users now! DO NOT INSTALL IE 7!
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Gettin’ caught up on The Office, season 2. Watch for more random quotes.
Anyway, had an Uncle Don weekend here at el casa this weekend. X-Men marathon, good dinner and, of course, cinnamon rolls and icy cold glasses of milk for breakfast. Hey, my crew likes cinnamon rolls dammit!
There was an actual reason for this weekend. Sis and brother-in-law had their 13th wedding anniversay last Monday and they wanted to do something nice this weekend. As it turns out they had a gift card to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse that they needed to use. For those of you not familiar, this is about as swank a joint you are going to find. Great food, great service. Not cheap by any means, but totally worth it.
Not, not the number of shows at the podcast.
More like the number of times I have sneezed in the past 72 hours. No kidding.
I’m all about a good sneeze. You know, here or there. But when they come in groups of 6 three tiimes an hour, it’s fairly tiring. Oh yea, there is also the coughing that goes along with it. At least it’s a productive cough, so I’m feeling as sore and worn out as I could.
Odd that it happened the weekend I went to do some work in the desert. Must have been all of the driving. I’m not sure, but I think I came pretty close to driving 1K miles. That would be a personal record for me.
Oh yea, while in the desert, I snapped a pics and have them up on the flickr. One is this little nugget I think most of you might find amusing…
Ok, I need to get back to work so I can go home and have some soup and a nap.
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