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UPDATE***: Now you can buy hosting from http://sciclonehost.com They now recently offer TorrentFlux hosting which is a torrent client on a server so it uses the server’s resources/100mbit internet to download. I am a client of there’s and I have to say, this is quality stuff. (shh…they even allow copyrighted material…)

These days, nothing worries an internet service provider more than peer-to-peer file trading. Depending on where you live, P2P can account for between 50 and 75% of broadband internet traffic. We mostly have the popularity of BitTorrent to thank for this crazy amount of data going to and fro.

This amount of traffic can raise the ISPs daily costs of delivering service, cause congestion either in your neighborhood or on the ISP’s network, and force the ISP to buy increased bandwidth capacity.

But if you’ve been paying close attention to your BitTorrent transfers lately (or if you’ve simply been reading the news) you’ll notice that ISPs have begun to take drastic measures to slow that flood of data currently clogging up their pipes.

Even though many of them deny it, most ISPs actively engage in traffic shaping, bandwidth throttling, connection denial or some such tactic to keep the amount of bandwidth consumed by high traffic applications on their networks to a minimum. While this does often ensure better performance for everyone in the neighborhood, it can mean painfully slow transfer speeds for those dabbling in P2P — legit or not.

While there are valid arguments for and against shaping, we’re not here to debate. We just want the fastest BitTorrent transfers possible.

So how do we get our speeds back?!

There’s been a fair number of articles online regarding protocol encryption and whatever so I’m not going to touch those topics anymore. What I’ll do is introduce 2 BT clients that have worked (at least for me) exceptionally well considering my ISP actively shapes P2P traffic. In the follow up to this article, I’ll touch up on the non-free solutions to get around traffic shaping.

Deluge

Previously know as gTorrent (probably because it was the first native GNOME torrent client ever), this is probably one of the most actively developed torrent clients around today.

The good thing about this client is it supports full stream encryption (the entire stream is encrypted with RC4). This means that its highly unlikely that your ISP will shape it unless you enable legacy connections - I recommend to turn this off as if the ISP detects unencrypted connections, there’s a higher chance that it will start shaping you.

You can download this client by clicking the links below

* Windows
* Linux

Some notes: Deluge for windows seems to be buggy for some users, experiencing random crashes or the listening port suddenly stops ‘listening’. This is probably because its an alpha port and isn’t too stable yet. You could try virtualization and load linux inside VMWare and run Deluge in it.

Xunlei

Xunlei is a Chinese p2p software using http ports This software takes a different approach from deluge by faking the header and signature of IE and Firefox. In other words, downloading from other Xunlei users can be considered as HTTP downloads are thus not shaped. I’m sure they do some other magic in the background but as this is not open source software, I haven’t had the opportunity to actually look into it, bar some rudimentary packet sniffing.

It even has its own search engine at http://www.gougou.com (use google translate to figure out what’s being said, if you can’t read Chinese). The cool thing about gougou is that all the links from there use the http protocol so if you find what you want there, be prepared to be amazed by the speed!

Pros

* Good download speeds
* Has its own indexed search engine.

Cons

* Lots of Ads (Suspected spyware)
* Not fully translated to english. ( There is an unofficial translation project going on though, you can check it out here )

Download links

Original Client - http://down.sandai.net/Thunder5.7.3.389.exe
DDR Client (Modified) - http://www.mediafire.com/?0jmzqxz0jmc

Notes:

I’d definitely prefer the DDR client. It has the spyware removed as well as some of the more usless options and some tweaks to boot!
Conclusion

Take your pick on which one to use, they each have their strong points, but personally I’d take Xunlei over Deluge for stability issues AND I’m Chinese which means their search engine has tonnes of stuff I want

Personally, I will not buy a single track for over $1.00. It just seems just a little too much when I see $1.29 for a DRM-Free track that gets you 256kb songs. Thank god for Apple and Steve Jobs, yesterday, they announced on Apple.com home page that they have reduced their price for their iTunes Plus tracks from $1.29 to .99 cents. Now thats more affordable. Apple also has included more record labels into the DRM-free section and is now the world’s largest DRM-free music store. Good work Apple and keep on going and try to get Universal back!

Halo 3, responsible for over 3.3 million copies of the game sold and over 528,000 consoles sold in September, just to play Halo 3.

These guys have.
http://www.gametrailers.com/game/2581.html

Assassin Creed. Is a the best game i know of yet that has to do with Stealth, Assassination, and olden day thing-y ma bob.

Take the role of an Assassin in a white cloak. Whats best about this white cloak, is that. Your enemies aren’t “All That!”. No!, they can be tricked by simply merging into some monks walking out of a church. If that fails, RUN and jump off a REALLY tall wall and land in some hay for a day, and the guards will just forget about you.

The point of this game, is not to be caught by your enemies, since if they even hit you once or twice, your dead (that doesn’t count for arrows though.)

Like i mentioned before, Crysis. A new game that will be hitting the stores that will be selling out like toilet products! (That means really fast)

Words can’t describe this game as much as the videos do.

Here’s like 20 videos to view of them, perhaps more.
http://www.gametrailers.com/game/2509.html

On the 5th of November, god brings us one of his delightful new PC games that are supported on even the DS!

Yes I’m talking about Call of Duty Modern Warfare.

From Call of Duty 1 the game series has been such a big success. - But what i don’t get is, WHY is it such a good game? I personally think its a beautiful game. Being able to take the roles of one person into the battlefield to take down the apposing team.

What also made this a massive hit was its ability to run multi player, fight the whole world on a server of 64 slots. And have the ability to create custom maps and modifications to enhance game play to the max (even if you play on a Sniper Mod, there is still some acceleration).

Now with the new game coming out and with its pre-made features from its old series, what does Call of Duty Modern Warfare bring us, thats new?

Well. Hence the name, Modern Warfare. Thats today right? - Yeah! This game (I’ve played the demo on a 4 year old graphic card) has so much more fun and depth to it, the game play is compacted with enemies throwing grenades, shooting rocket launchers and shooting through a walls! - Yes you heard me! Shooting through a wall! Take that M1 Machine Gun, Aim down the sight and lay some led in the guts of the enemy from the other side of the closed door. Oh did i mention that, you can shoot grenades from the M1 if it is equipped with the grenade launcher? - No, well i appologize, now you know :).

But what other games does this game lay on comparison? Half Life 2 perhaps? - Nah, Crysis perhaps? - Nah, oh oh, FarCry 2! - Erm. Nah!

Game these days that are being released are very powerful. Therefore a new machine or a upgrade of hardware is needed to run them. But believe it or not, my Radeon 9550 with 2gb’s of ram, 2.3ghz of processor and a shit cpu, RAN Call of Duty Modern Warfare. - I’ve seen the screen shots and the demos of this game, and i think I’m missing out.

Tell me what you think! - Lay some information on me.

Contributer
Leacher

Guys from iPodwizard has recoded the iPod classic firmware to make it usable on the iPod video 5th and 5.5 generations. The firmware now supports split screen, a redesigned now playing screen, and a mini now playing screen on the right side for each menu. They are hoping to get more things in from the iPod classic such as coverflow and other special features.

More info: http://www.ipodwizard.net/showthread.php?t=30444

“21 Facts About The Internet You Should Know!

You probably use it every day but how well do you
know your Internet?

Ever wonder how all this foolishness got started in the
first place and why? How big it really is? How many present
users there are? The average time spent on a website?
Here are 21 facts you might or might not want to know
about the Internet.

1. Who coined the phrase ‘World Wide Web’?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.

2. How did the Internet Start and Why?

It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early
60’s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States.
People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The
Internet also got help from Sputnik! After this Russian Satellite
was launched in 1957; President Eisenhower formed ARPA to advance
computer networking and communication.

3. Who was J.C.R. Licklider?

Licklider is often referred to as the father of the Internet because
his ideas of interactive computing and a “Galactic Network” were
the seeds for the Internet. His ideas would be developed thru
DARPA,(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1962. Later he
would help form ARPANET and the Internet was on it’s way.

4. What was ARPANET?

ARPANET stands for ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency Network’
Came about in the arena of Sputnik and the cold war. The military
needed a method of communicating and sharing all the information on
computers for research and development. It would also be a handy
communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in
a nuclear attack!

5. What was the First long distance Connection?

In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT
researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill,
connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32
in California. The phone lines weren’t quite up to the task!

6. Who was Leonard Kleinrock?

Kleinrock came up with the theory of packet switching,
the basic form of Internet connections. With a group
of UCLA graduate students on Oct. 29, 1969, Kleinrock
connected with the Stanford Research Institute but as
they typed in the G in LOGIN — the system crashed!

7.What is an Ethernet?

It’s a protocol for by many local networks, (LAN Local-area Networks)
the origins of which came from Bob Metcalfe’s Harvard’s dissertation
on “Packet Networks”.

8. When was the first mouse introduced?

The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by
Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo
in San Francisco.

9. Did Al Gore really invent the Internet? No, but give
credit where credit is due. He did the most of any elected
official to actively promote the Internet. However, he wasn’t
even in Congress when ARPANET was formed in 1969 or even when
the term ‘Internet’ came into use in 1974. Gore was first
elected in 1976.

10. Who coined the phrase ‘information super highway’?

Wikipedia says Nam June Paik coined the phrase “information superhighway”
in 1974.

Al Gore popularized the phrase in the early 1990’s.

11. Which decade really saw the explosion of the net?

The 90’s! The Internet exploded in or around 1993.

12. How fast is the Internet growing?

Very fast! It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million users,
13 years for TV, and only 5 years for the Internet. Source:
CyberAtlas.com

13. Number of Internet Users and Breakdown.

The Internet is roughly 35% English, 65% Non-English with
the Chinese at 14%. Yet only 13% of world’s population,
812 million are Internet users as of Dec. ‘04. North America
has the highest continental concentration with 70% of the people
using the Internet.

14. Country with the highest percentage of net users?

Sweden at 75%.

15. How big is the Internet’s surfing world?

Google’s index now stands at 8 billion pages.

16. What was the Net’s first index called?

Archie, other than library catalogs, this was the first
index created in 1989 by Peter Deutsch at McGill in Montreal.
Although it spouted such others as Veronica and Jughead, Archie
was short for Archiver and had nothing to do with the
comic strip.

17. Who coined the phrase ‘The Web might be better than sex’?

Bob Metcalfe in 1995.

18. What does HTTP stand for?

HyperText Transfer Protocol — it’s the protocol for moving files
across the net; it requires two client programs. The HTTP client and the server.

19. What is an ISP?

Internet Service Provider — This is the service or company you use to
access the Internet.

20. What is HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language — it’s the coded format language for
transmitting and creating hypertext
web pages.

21. What are your average surfing habits according to Nielsen
NetRatings?

Each month you usually visit 59 domains, view 1,050 pages allocating 45
seconds for each page and spend about 25 hours doing all this net activity!
Each surfing session lasts 51 minutes.

One last thought - Henry Edward Hardy in his Master’s Thesis (1993) on
The History of the Net stated “The Net is Immortal”. Ever wonder what
this baby will be like in a 100 years? a 1000 years? Just something
to think about as you keep your eye on that cursor.”

Courtesy of http://www.bizwaremagic.com/quick_internet_history.htm

This morning, Nintendo released the new Wii Firmware update. No major changes have been made except for that the Opera Web Browser supports a USB keyboard so no more point and clicking with that Wiimote. Also, this update allows you to click links inside messages and it will bring up the Opera browser. This now means you can send bookmarks and links to your friends!