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10y ago
Try debian woody or slackware 10, both are from around 2004 and should run on 16Mb of RAM or less There's also Damn Small Linux which is based on debian woody, you could install dos, then transfer DSL image using a null-modem cable and
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>What I wonder about, given that we have no cities running on majority wireless point to points, is what happens when you hit scale? As long as there is line of sight, the tower has fiber, the hardware upgraded as the network grows and b
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Real package managers should be left to manage system packages, where packages are often supported for a few years. Package managers for scripting languages and similar should be left to manage user-wide packages, or virtualenv-wide for web
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10y ago
Limewire was mostly run by a niche set of users?
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10y ago
Unfortunately bittorrent's only goal is getting a file fast, complexity was kept to a minimum to increase adoption. Credit systems to prioritize peers who have recently shared with us and promotion of long-running nodes to ultrapeer co
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10y ago
>destroy the Pi's SD card. Don't forget to use tinfoil gloves and hat while you eject it
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10y ago
Modern routers should be powerful enough to create an open network and route all it's traffic trough Tor, maybe with a bit of DNS caching plus hostfile adblocking in the middle.
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10y ago
The installation is very fast since it just copies package files which are read-only images mounted at boot. 1) download anyboot nighly image 2) dd to sacrifical flash drive 3) boot from it and install Once installed you can use https:
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10y ago
Most of the webtorrent streaming demos I've seen have a webseed fallback, so it's not really that important unless you're doing something completely distributed.
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10y ago
But then you would have to rely on supposedly authentic binaries to run a supposedly secure service.
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Only the early players get the luxury of large IP pools, everyone else has had to resort to carrier-grade NAT. Fortunately some of those can un-NAT you if you ask politely.
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10y ago
Works on my machine
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10y ago
Oxygen-breathing beings are not supposed to be in a room being filled with Halon
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10y ago
Some bugs might only occur on extreme conditions.
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10y ago
Yes, see http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/spoiled_onions/ and http://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/the-case-of-the-modifi...
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10y ago
Good thing I have a floppy drive
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10y ago
Oh, more disposable junk is exactly what we needed!
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10y ago
Scripts are just a simple abstraction that allows to manage all kinds of daemons, which allows SysV to happily work with anything it finds in the init directories. We give you this thing that replaces half the system with utilities (re)writ
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There's the firefox addon Decentraleyes https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes which is trying to solve those problems, currently only the most common versions of each library are bundled, but there are plans t
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11y ago
This is mostly 3D modeling, AutoCAD is more comparable to LibreCAD for 2D stuff
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11y ago
eMule and derivated have the .emulecollection format, which is just a binary file grouping together multiple ed2k links to files. As for the network eMule/KAD seems do be doing ok with 200K+ peers while Gnutella nowadays seems to be po