Hello!

Exactly just as I stated in the other thread I mentioned above!.

The Requery function sure can be a good one if you learn how to use it correctly!.

And with a future implimentation of the Hash technology and the Requery technique it will sure become a very powerfull function in the future.

I await with interest - as it is at the moment the requery (ie, "you're doomed") function is just irritating and deceptive - searching again is FAR more likely to result in a workable connection than placing any faith in the requery option

LW is GREAT !! p2p software - it dosn't need to pretend that the requery option is anything more than a lazy high risk gamble (why not have a text box coming up when the cursor is over a requery telling the user just how many minutes till the next 'real' search)

bad_vlad

Glad to hear you were able to delete the invader. I had the same problem with "x finder" ( sex finder is the listed name). It is a webdialing program that is geared to dialup users. It attaches to your modem and tries to give you "free" access to porn sites by dialing long distance 900 type phone numbers. (which cost many dollars). It is an insidious program that hides itself in a lot of places on your hard drive. It seems obvious that the creators of it don't want you to be able to remove it. I had to do about six searches to finally remove it and STILL have the name on my Systems config startup files. Although at this point it is harmless. I think that it has to be removed through the registy. .........I have also had some experiences with "overpeers" that promise one program but deliver something completely different. Be careful what you download over P2P sites. Check the file size and NEVER download an .exe file. ...I don't agree with the "stealing" insinuations though. I know that some people want to make file sharing synonymous with bank robbery, but it really is just file sharing. It's the same thing as going to the public library and borrowing a book or CD. You are not paying for it there either.

putting aside my earlier cheap smart **** comment - does anyone else get the feeling that the p2p community may become an essentially mac based community soon because of the sly moves towards installing the palladium chip in windows machines - I desperately need a new PC with a bigger hard drive etc but if all new machines end up coming with a chip blocking 'unauthorized' sharing of media files a substantial aspect of the exercise is crippled - the moves coming as they do in the context of the Hollings bill threaten the gnutella network of the non mac based community in a big way (its also worth noting that if palladium compliance eventually becomes mandatory as is being discussed in some quarters then macs would theoretically be deemed illegal)

maybe its a good thing after all that the new macs are so damn fine looking

Cheers, bad_vlad

I should've bookmarked the link - I got to it yesterday though via a google search on 'palladium chip' - I then was following links on 'The Register' pages - I think - I was kind've chatting to folks at the same time - I really do wish I'd kept the links cos I'm going to have to relocate them myself - but truly - google will take you to plenty of very disturbing discussions of dodgy deals being toyed with by microsoft, riaa, intel, amd etc

I just wish macs weren't so expensive here in Oz (like 2-3 times the price of microsoft/intel machines)

hope this helps a bit (let me know if you find out more)

bad_vlad

here's a start - and the more you read the worse it gets

http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stori...microsoft.html

oops - did I say Hollings? - I meant 'Berman' (what was I thinking?

here's another lead in link though

http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/index.ph...more&wl_eid=38

bad_vlad

Frankly, vlad, I think the new OS X is heading in the same direction as XP, just not as fast. At least in OS 9, the user has full control of the computer (Someone asked, "You mean you can just DELETE Internet Explorer??), the interface and file hierarchy so transparent, that there is no way a file such as this could hide. Even if the developer turned it into an invisible file, various search programs show such files and they can be made visible again. There is no such thing as a file you cannot delete on a Mac unless it is being used at the time.

damn but thats a shame - after reading the article below:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

I was pretty well decided it was mac world here I come

bad_vlad

I've been reading the links about Palladium\TCPA\Fritz (thanks guys).

They might just about get it to stick in [relatively] by-the-book countries like the US, UK, France or Germany (albeit after a lot of huffing and puffing on the part of consumers) , but my first reaction is that they're going to have serious problems implementing it other countries and I'm not just talking about China

In Spain, for example, you go into a shop to buy a computer and they often ask you "What software do you want me to install? Office? Photoshop? Freehand? Flash? Director? Premiere?" I've seen copies of Windows and Office collecting dust in computer stores because so few people ever buy them. Game consoles like the Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast simply haven't sold because of their uncopyable formats. The Playstation is normally sold with its copy protection inhibited (allowing copied game CDs) and the same will happen with the Playstation II once DVD recorders come down in price.

In this culture if someone buys a Palladium PC and goes home only to find that he can't install the copies of Office and Photoshop that his friend has made for him, I can guarantee that he'll go straight back to the shop and say "This computer doesn't work properly. What are you going to do about it?" and if the shop can't come up with a hack or a way round it, they ain't going to be selling many new PCs. It's as simple as that.

If Palladium were introduced, a two stream IT world would be created with Palladium compliant countries on one hand and countries with older or hacked computers on the other with all the chaos that that would entail.

Apart from that, it's the anti-globalisation campaigner's worst nightmare: as the articles said, it would severely reduce consumer freedom and choice [and privacy, if abused] and would give even more power and control to mastodontic corporations like Micro$oft, Intel, Sony, Universal etc.

And of course any OSs that resist will soon get squeezed out by major software manufacturers, film distributors and record labels - but as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have been getting more and more pally over the last few years, you can be pretty sure that OSX will be fully Palladium compliant before long anyway (sorry, Bad Vlad). So Linux will be the OS of choice in China and Spain then. :)