
Gnutella Creator Releases New Free Software 71
Compenguin writes: "Justin of Nullsoft released three new pieces of free (as in speech and in beer) software, an installer, a pinger/grapher, and a throttlable file copier. They all use the zlib license. The source is available now, marking the first time nullsoft has actually released source to their "Open Source" products *Cough*Gnutella*Cough*."
Re:How do you quit? (Score:1)
Well, the source is included...
And the answer is no, it's not sending anything more than pings. The source shows the unique_id being written to and read from the registry (though it wasn't written on my machine). My guess is that it helps the system keep track of multiple copies if they're all running at startup, by telling each instance which host it should ping. Though I'm a bit stumped, as I don't see a "run at startup" option within the program anywhere, and it didn't put itself into HKLM\...\CurrentVersion\Run.
I ran NSMon for 20 minutes and it didn't generate any traffic other than a UDP->DNS and lots of ICMP pings. I do agree it's missing a Quit button.
Shaun
Source not released on Gnutella because (Score:2)
Given another day or three and they might have released the code.
Re:the gnutella 'creator' (Score:1)
yes, why? (Score:2)
OT: one of my professors said that the reason TCP divides its transmit windows by 2 when there is packet loss is because the original authors assumed that packet loss meant you were now sharing that net link with 1 other user. My, how things have changed..
Re:Looking a gifthorse in the mouth... (Score:1)
Other non-WinAmp/Shoutcast/Gnutella Nullwares? (Score:1)
What is the big deal with Gnutella source? (Score:2)
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
Re:Wonderful... (Score:1)
Sure. Just look at the stats for your network device.
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Re:Wonderful... (Score:1)
Re:Nifty Tools from a Nifty Company (Score:1)
You like dead dude. It doesn't matter if you spent your life rescuing babies or eating them. You're dead. If you can have fun making money and working a job, then go for it. Having assloads of cash isn't exclusionary to having fun.
Re:Wonderful... (Score:1)
Click on it and then press Alt-F4.
Easy peasy japaneseyRe:SuperPimp? (Score:2)
-Compenguin
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
Re:Yet another reason... (A bit more Offtopic) (Score:1)
Re:Copy Throttling (Score:1)
Not to say the technology [atmforum.com] hasn't been around for quite a while. Everyone just got fixated on IP and Frame networks..
Nope (Score:1)
Re:He Can Expect... (Score:1)
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Re:Wonderful... (Score:1)
- Steeltoe
Re:What is the big deal with Gnutella source? (Score:1)
It doesn't matter how many people download the 3rd party versions, there are too many people using the original code which basically means that all the new wizzy things that are added won't be available for the majority.
Example: glob matching. I'd love to be able to search for "first*last*.ending" - the original gnutella client doesn't handle this, but the newer ones do. However since the majority of people use the old gnutella client, they'll return either nothing, everything or stuff completely unrelated. Not what I want.
This is where client-server works better. You could update the search method from straight match to glob and it didn't matter that people hadn't updated their clients.
Mind you, there are plenty of downsides to the client-server approach too.
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Free software for windows (Score:1)
Secondly, Perl [perl.org] has been ported to Windows. Now, you can run all the nice perl scripts and programs on Windows. Check the Perl Power Tools [perl.com] for another set of free standard Unix utilities that you can run on Windows.
Re:Er.. this isn't news (Score:1)
Why doesnt my every insignificant software release get announced on slashdot?
Thad
Gnutella source *was* released you twit. -NT. (Score:1)
Gnutella wasn't released -- GOOD THING (Score:2)
Had the source been available, than everyone distributing Gnutella might be in trouble. It was all reverse engineered, which is a good thing. Had the source code been available, AOL could demand all the copies of the program be taken down as violating their copyright...
Just a thought,
Alex
nothing new (Score:1)
Copy Throttling (Score:2)
Other than that, this program doesn't seem to do anything that simple buffering couldn't provide. And, as someone else pointed out, I didn't see a link to the source for these programs. I have absolutlely no problem with that, but they shouldn't advertise source if they don't have links to it.
"If I removed everything here that I thought was pointless, there would be like two messages here."
Windows Software (Score:3)
But, i'm afraid i cant find the source. Is it included in the executable? (no windows systems to run on, so i cant find out myself) Or am I just missing it?
Eh, oh well...
Wonderful... (Score:4)
This is a slightly useful network monitor graphing thing for Win32. It just sits in its own window, pinging a host, and giving you a graph of how long it takes each time.
How useful, now we can have more lamers transmitting unnessecary traffic so they can have a little graph show up. Just another reason to drop all incoming icmp.
Don't Blame Justin For Gnutella (Score:5)
Unfortunately Justin works for Nullsoft which is owned by AOL which in turn is part of TimeWarner which is a member of the RIAA. It is simply impossible for AOL to let Nullsoft release the source for Gnutella. Considering that Justin probably signed standard industry paperwork when he signed at with AOL , it is very likely that AOL owns the code to Gnutella and decides what gets done to it.
Unless Justin wants an intense legal battle with a corporation with more money and lawyers than you can shake a stick at, he unfortunately has to give in to their demands. Before anyone chides for this "How many of you would risk losing your job and getting involved in an expensive legal battle simply to release source code to a program that can be reverse engineered by any enterprising hacker?"
"throttlable file copier." (Score:1)
Source Code Location (Score:1)
Er.. this isn't news (Score:4)
Surely this isn't really big news? Some guy has written some free software for windows, it's not even especially interesting software.
This looks like a job for freshmeat?
Nifty Tools from a Nifty Company (Score:1)
A couple of notes. These are super usefull little utilites, the installer being really nice for open source developers on the windows platform. Definatly a right on to justin.
With the same effort behind Gnutella that powered Winamp, I think it stood a good chance of becoming the defacto file-sharing software out there, the guys at Nullsoft can deliver nice, usefull, tools for the masses. Its a shame not to see it live up to its initial promise.
Its interesting. In the end you die. Would you rather spend your life being making some money and working a job, or having fun and changing the world? The irony is in the end the people out having the fun for no pay will end up just fine financially. Its nice to see some the later spirit back into a company that introduced MP3's to the world.
I can see it now, the bandwidth throttled/Gnutella/Freenet/Beowulf/SGI NUMA cluser. Yeah :)
Re:Wonderful... (Score:2)
This is software that really had to be open sourced so someone could make the thing do something that was actually useful as opposed to something that merely worked.
-Andy
ZLib license - what do you think about it? (Score:1)
I think it somewhat extracts the good things from GPL and BSD mhile leaving the bad ones out; it is really free, allowing all kinds of applications (commercial or freeware / closed source) to be built from it, but should require you to give credit so you don't risk anybody using your code in their closed-source product without you being told.
Would this be the best of both worlds?
Why Is This a Big Deal? (Score:4)
Also, lest we forget, the installed base of Windows is much bigger, yet there is little free open source software for it, so this will get to a great deal more people.
Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
The story goes something like this (this is all secondhand knowledge, blah blah blah).
The boys at (G)Nullsoft have a friendly rivalry with the Napster camp. Justin said he could write up a quick piece of software that did the same job Napster does, only better (truly anonymous file sharing, distributed, potentially unlimited bandwidth). He wrote it, AOL shut it down, the source was leaked, and Gnutella was born.
Not a lawyer, but I think this is wrong (Score:1)
I'm not a lawyer, but from what I understand, this is called "agency by estoppel". If an employee improperly released code under the GPL, and I use it in a product believing in good faith that the employee was authorized to act on behalf of his employer, then the employer has no recourse against me, and the situation is "as if" the employee really were an agent of the company.
Any lawyers out there want to check my work?
Yet another reason that companies are loathe to embrace the concepts of The Cluetrain Manifesto.
Dropping *all* inbound ICMP is a bad idea. (Score:2)
Dropping ALL inbound ICMP can be a very bad thing.
Blocking ICMP Destination unreachable messages is a pain in the ass - when I try to get to a host, I _LIKE_ getting an immediate reply that there is a network problem (or that the host isn't listening on the port I want to use), instead of having to wait for the connection to timeout.
What about the 'Fragmentation Needed but DF set' message? Blocking that is a GREAT way to screw your connections performance.
I agree that SOME ICMP messages should be dropped (most notably ICMP echo-request) but blocking the protocol entirely is a bad idea. It exists for a reason. Yes, someone might abuse it (like in this example), but then again, someone might abuse UDP as well (what if it did a traceroute continually, so you could see _where_ the connection went bad) - would you advocate blocking UDP completely?
I didn't think so.
Re:Dropping *all* inbound ICMP is a bad idea. (Score:1)
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Re:Don't Blame Justin For Gnutella (Score:2)
I love how you make it sound like this happened by accident, or in a way that is out of poor Justin's control.
Nullsoft allowed themselves to be bought out! It's not as if they were chased into a corner and forced to sign the papers.
You have all the freedom you don't give away.
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Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
I thought AOL pulled the plug at 0.48, so what's with these new versions? Who is producing them? Are they official? Are more coming? In the interest of protecting those involved, it can only be said that these versions are being produced by someone with access to the source code. No, of course they're not official in the GnullSoft sense, but they do come from a trusted source. I would certainly expect more versions, since we've already seen several materialize.
Re:Wonderful... (Score:2)
Anyway, I'm really happy Justin did this, I've been a big fan of his for some time. It's really assume to see his code. It's relatively compressed and logical, also it's good to see how win32 code is written by people outside of Microsoft, after all 99% of the win32 code you WILL see is from Microsoft source examples. Those examples range widely in quality, and are never for anything very cool.
-Jon
-- Your favorite OS sucks
Inno is a better installer (Score:1)
http://jrsoftware.org/
Re:Wonderful... (Score:1)
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Re:Copy Throttling- Really is at application level (Score:1)
Take a look at file explorer. It has had a progress bar for a long time, but that can't be done with the standard API's (now with IE 4/5 it can be).
As for the throttling, I suppose that has it's uses. But that too is not too difficult, just a bit of Sleep()ing. (or a timer)
have fun.
nathan
Re:What is the big deal with Gnutella source? (Score:1)
So why can't we just have them standardize on a 3rd-party client and have THAT be Gnutella v
Email me.
Don't trust anyone over 90000.
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
You mean to say, every time somebody extra connects to the network, his bandwidth can be used to upload files, plus the amount of bandwidth there already was? That's just as true for napster.
(Ignoring for the moment that people don't have all available files, and people download too.)
Re:Wonderful... (Score:1)
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
Re:What is the big deal with Gnutella source? (Score:1)
But the majority of people using gnutella probably haven't heard of the site and therefore wouldn't go there and wouldn't download the latest version.
So the rest of the "community" are essentially still held up by them.
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Re:Windows Software (Score:1)
Re:Gnutella wasn't released -- GOOD THING (Score:3)
-rt-
NSCopy (Score:4)
Automatically skips or overwrites existing files
Alright! just what I've been looking for, no more "Do you wish to overwrite this file?" pop-ups! WOOHOO!
Re:Gnutella wasn't meant to be released. (Score:1)
Re:Windows Software (Score:1)
Re:Gnutella wasn't released -- GOOD THING (Score:1)
Lots of companies at this point seem to make you sign away all rights to _anything_ you produce while working for the company (note: I don't say 'on company time, or with company equipment'). If they have all rights to the work you produce, then you, releasing the code under the GPL, without consulting them, might be like someone who works as a programmer at Macromedia, taking the source code to Pagemaker and releasing it under the GPL.
A nice thought if the owners of the copyright are willing to do it, but illegal if done by the wrong people.
Re:Windows Software (Score:1)
LOL
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Re:Er.. this isn't news (Score:1)
Re:Er.. this isn't news (Score:1)
Re:Not a lawyer, but I think this is wrong (Score:1)
Yet another reason... (Slightly Offtopic) CA vs VA (Score:2)
>produce while working for the company (note: I
>don't say 'on company time, or with company
>equipment').
Yey another reason to work in a *civilized* state like California. Such contracts are illegal and unenforceable here. Even if you *DO* sign one, such as in a generic "boilerplate" contract with a company that has operations in many states, some of which might enforce such clauses... they are all null and void here.
As a matter of fact, when I signed on to my current job (first job of mine in CA), there was an addendum to my contract explicitly stating all of the above, and declared any such clauses in the main contract to be null and void in accordiance with California law.
Nice to see that SOME states actually give a crap about the people who live and work there. Virginia, OTOH, was, IIRC also one of the first states to enact UCITA. Too bad for Nullsoft that they neglected to think of things like this when they sold out to AOL.
You won't see me setting foot in a festering backwoods hellhole like VA with neanderthal laws like they have there, much less living or working in the place.
john
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Re:Copy Throttling (Score:1)
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How do you quit? (Score:1)
SuperPimp? (Score:1)
Founder's Camp [founderscamp.com]
Re:Why Is This a Big Deal? (Score:1)
Also, win32 is a closed platform, so there really aren't many different flavors. With *NIXes, you can write apps to run on a large number of different architectures. Releasing binaries for all of them would be a major pain, if not completely impossible. Less hassle for the freeware author to make it open source so people can compile for themselves rather than complaining that machine XYZ isn't supported.