Re: Freenet or ?

["Brendan Kidwell-2" <user=1552@nabble.blu.org>]

 Sorry I took so long to respond to this. 

On 2/12/08, eric c <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > Are you worried about the content stored in your datastore? 
> Yes.  I wonder if it's necessary.  I'm new to this topic and in no way 
> think I'm sharper than the devs on Freenet, but during my first overview 
> of the application I'm wondering why I'm storing somebody else's data on 
> my hard drive.  Could it be put into RAM instead?  Do other anonymous 
> p2p apps have a datastore?  I'm currently googling, feel free to tell me 
> if I'm being a bonehead.  :) 


You're a bonehead. :^) No, of course you're not a bonehead. 

It's got to be stored somewhere in on your host on a semi-permanent basis. 
You see, the CREATOR of the content can't be the only one to store the 
content because then the creator might be identified. So instead, everyone 
randomly stores pieces of everything. Freenet is completely decentralized 
with every node providing every function--including storage. So for it to 
work, your node has to store a piece of the gigantic puzzle. 

> Are you worried about the stability of the node software and the safety of 
> > your system? 
> Yes.  I dislike going outside of the fedora repo.  (My graphics card 
> gets unhappy with every kernel update.  Yuck.)  How are you keeping Java 
> up to date? 


The Freenet project's installer should work fine on your computer, as long 
as you're okay running Freenet as the same user as the one you usually log 
in as. You should be safe enough in this instance; Freenet is well designed 
and plays nice with your other desktop. However, if you want to take the 
extra step and run Freenet as a separate user and access your Freenet node 
from your browser as your normal user account, then ask me and the group for 
help (if you can't work it out on your own.) 

How do I keep my Java up to date? I use Ubuntu 7.10 and the "sun-java6-bin" 
package in the "multiverse" repository does the trick for me. But there is 
no downstream package for Freenet; I just used the multiplatform 
Freenet-provided installer. 

(in his next message, Eric said:) 

> wow this is fascinating!  i'm testing out download speeds now.  any blu 
> friends? 
> 

My home server is actually out of commission right now and I've only been 
using Freenet VERY intermittently on my Thinkpad. When I've fixed my home 
server and I setup a more permanent Freenet node, I'll pass its ID on to 
you. 

Brendan Kidwell 

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