Should we use arithmetic or geometric mean now?

My everyday laptop has no battery at all, and runs from the AC power.

Power cord is so barbarian. Civilized computers have on/off power switches on their backs.

The current Windows problem is a regression, as far as I can tell. Was the Linux problem you're talking about a regression too, or just a feature not yet implemented (for certain hardware)?

What exactly damages has Annas Archive inflicted to them? I understand when an organization like Elsevier claims millions of damages, but this?

And if someone wishes to run some of these early Unixes, or maybe RT-11, but his PDP-11 is not in working condition right now, there is the excellent SIMH emulator to save the day (other free alternatives exist, but SIMH is among the most advanced ones).

Lions' book is about Unix v6, not the SysV Unix, which was created years later.

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As they most probably got a cut from this, I bet they dream happy dreams.

It still is, if you don't use it to download random code from random people and run in on your machine.

In the real life, the equivalent behaviour would quickly give you a handful of STDs.

I'm lucky to be not likely to be subjected to this anytime soon, though. Where I work, most of my programmer colleagues use good old cigarettes.

Plus it cures ADHD.

There is not much choice, I'm afraid. Both Wireshare (best for G1) and Shareaza (best for G2) are free and open source, but have been under slow development the last several years.

Now that gtk-gnutella supports G2 (and it always supported G1) and it seems to be actively developed, it might be a good choice. I've not tested it yet, though.

Among the non-Gnutella P2P programs the EDonkey2000/Kad clients like eMule and amule deserve attention.

Even in a "pure" p2p setting a rogue or buggy peer can affect negatively the whole network (or at least it's peers and their peers). Gnutella G1 isn't pure p2p, though. It elects "ultrapeer" nodes, leaf nodes etc. it's said that Shareaza is a buggy G1 ultrapeer, wasting other nodes' bandwidth and CPU cycles. Also, in general Shareaza's G1 support is based on a very old Gnutella version, containing obsolete features and bugs that have been long ago fixed in other G1 clients. As a result, some G1 users and clients outright ban Shareaza, refusing to communicate with it.

Anecdotally, I have personally tested Shareaza's G1 support and have found that it finds way fewer files and downloads slower than true G1 clients like Phex and Limewire (when limited to G1, of course, because Shareaza supports other networks too).

Of course, if such whistleblower videos are found only on G1, the community should take measures to make them available on G2/Shareaza, the eDonkey2000/Kad/eMule network etc. so as many people as possible could use their favorite p2p software to download it.

I have no idea why are you conflating people who care about open source principles and ethics with people who download pirated movies. Prove that these groups are the same or at least that they have a significant overlap before trolling the forum.