Author Topic: New Client (Read 120804 times)

~~Joanne~~ · « **Reply #80 on:** December 13, 2013, 07:34:23 pm »

Quote from: GhostShip on December 13, 2013, 06:06:49 pm

To be honest "Joanne" I have to admit I really dont know which rooms you visit and to be honest both that and your name and address are strictly none of my business.

I will take up your offer of help as tbh I need some extra hands, have you seen anything you might enjoy doing or would you be happy to simply work on whatever is the most pressing priority ?

How can I help then Ghost?

GhostShip · « **Reply #81 on:** December 13, 2013, 11:30:38 pm »

I shall PM you with a list of things we need assistance with and you can selet one that you you feel is both helpful to the community and your happy to do.

I havent made a public list of many of the jobs we need as we do try to match up the tasks with the skills of the volutneers so that no task is too arduous, "Joanne" is it seems happy to put money where mouth is and proffer some assistance, something we can all respect "Joanne" for.

GhostShip · « **Reply #82 on:** December 14, 2013, 01:59:41 pm »

Just so the rest of you are kept in the loop "Joanne" has sent me a reply and I hope will be doing some valuable work for all of us in this community , this is of course the best thing to come out of this, we all win when we work together and with more hands we can hope to deliver faster progress

silicon_toad2000 · « **Reply #83 on:** December 16, 2013, 02:10:12 am »

MeMeMe I see you managed to get past the security on the ourmxworld forum.
It's really not all that fancy, all plain simple off the shelf stuff deployed throughout the site.
As far as real or imagined slights, it has nothing to do with whatever drama you're referring to, It's simply in response to the logs of what hits the site daily.

synesthetize · « **Reply #84 on:** February 18, 2014, 02:30:32 am »

What happened to ourmxworld.com? Is the project still ongoing?

silicon_toad2000 · « **Reply #85 on:** February 18, 2014, 03:49:25 am »

yes, the site is just down as I screwed something up
should be back up in the next few days

wonderer · « **Reply #86 on:** February 18, 2014, 07:22:44 pm »

lol toad if it works don't fix it
number one rule on trouble shooting

J a M e S · « **Reply #87 on:** March 09, 2014, 12:39:35 am »

wow. Congrats,

J a M e S · « **Reply #88 on:** March 09, 2014, 12:47:58 am »

If you require a mirror for the the client to help with distribution i run a hosting business and id be happy to give an account for free to help with server costs. open a ticket @ www.lovehosts.com and il b able to sort it out for ya

Anyone remember me? Its James.. been on this site about 8 years now. Sorry been away a while.

J a M e S · « **Reply #89 on:** March 09, 2014, 01:26:35 am »

Observation : On new client, even though my ports are not open, and the client figures this out (by me telling it, there not open and nothing i can do about it..) the client still wants me to connect via primary by default. Perhaps in this case it could automatically select "secondary" as id imagine a new user for first time might just say bugger it and delete it if they cant connect. Or am i missing something, my internet is absolute crap right now so might just be me. otherwise seems okay,

GhostShip · « **Reply #90 on:** March 09, 2014, 10:14:51 am »

I'll get that added James, theres been so many bigger items to fix up that some of the smaller things are not as they should be, cheers for the feedback

J a M e S · « **Reply #91 on:** March 09, 2014, 03:13:06 pm »

first thing i noticed

everything else is okay. It does feel much like the old client, in terms of simplicity and looking dated, but that maybe that ive been away so long im not used to it. Id imagin with the isps blocking big torrent sites we have a market for increased traffic

GhostShip · « **Reply #92 on:** March 12, 2014, 11:39:02 pm »

Tbh I dont think the WPN is ever going to be the top place to obtain and share movies as the existing limitations of the WinMX client make it near impossible to handle the large file sizes and thats actually been one of the reasons we havent had even more attackers trying to smash the network, the WPN is small beer to the hollywood copyright mafia and we have tried to do our bit by asking folks to share their own material and not the crap Hollywood churns out (something like at least 5 new movies a day globally but most of them are B-rated and no one wants to watch them unless they are getting them for free), I like to think that by creating and sharing our own materials we dont have to look over our shoulders and neither do we look to deliver revenues to the cartels, I also like to think that they dont spend a fortune paying "interdiction" companies to steal network bandwidth and waste WinMX users resources and time because they know also that this isnt the network for large movie files.

Plum · « **Reply #93 on:** March 13, 2014, 05:15:55 pm »

Even when we do share original, open source, or copyleft content, we could still be sued. The cartels are that ugly. There have been people writing their own songs (lyrics and music) on YouTube and still getting take-down notifications. Yes, they challenge them and stuff, but there are still all the headaches. WMG is bad about doing that to people. It seems they want to attack on the basis of losing their bottom line. If you steal their crap or make your own, they don't get money. It is much like a labor union thug mentality to go after independent producers. There was a bar in Europe that was being sued for playing music without paying annual fees to the music rights union or whatever. The thing was, none of the music the bar played was from their members. They were playing creative commons music (under the CC licenses that allow for commercial use). Luckily, the judge ruled in their favor.

There are even now federal laws against using file-sharing software to share copyright content on college campuses. State funded universities could lose federal money if they don't implement filtering, and if they don't report such activity to the police. Someone had an interesting activism idea. Why not put a lot of huge tarballs and other open source archives on there? Things like Linux, Open Office, etc. Then when someone gets busted for distributing free content, they can sue whoever.

GhostShip · « **Reply #94 on:** March 13, 2014, 08:56:38 pm »

As a decentralised network thankfully no one can control what goes on, some ignorant of how the WPN works have tried to claim otherwise but on further inspection its just not possible with the current network design to do anything but firewall selected users individually or with the blocklist and that's only with the support of the community.

I was asked to advise in one particular instance regarding the law and the collection of UK public performance royalties and the person asking my advice went the extra dollar in ensuring the music they wished to play was not from sources signed to any label or association linked in any way with the collection society, such music does exist and when confronted with the facts nothing more was heard from the "taxing" entity.

We all know that in general the copyright tax Cartels and those politicians they ~~bribe~~ "donate" to are simply interested in putting all of their legal bills onto the public plate so we end up paying to do something they themselves are too selfish to do, who here would buy a car without looking at it or purchase a home entertainment item simply by looking at the brown box it was packed in ?

Purchasing music is no different to buying something blind if you follow their old style monopolist thought train, I hate to have to spill the beans to the recording industry but if we don't hear anything we feel is worth parting with our money for, the chances are you wont be seeing our business, I myself have a large collection of CD's and enjoy owning the material I like and most folks who use P2P networks are the same in fact study after study says we are your best customers, I would like to think if I repeat this factual message long enough they might get clued in but its been 10 years of telling it for me, how dumb are these record company chumps?

Plum · « **Reply #95 on:** March 19, 2014, 07:15:35 pm »

So how is the client going, and where is ourmxworld.com?

GhostShip · « **Reply #96 on:** March 19, 2014, 08:08:23 pm »

OurmxWorld is being worked on as its a one man job and hes been busy with work and real life commitments atm Plum, as for the client its still alive and well and growing each day, we are a bit in the same boat with that in that the main developer is not about atm for the same sort of reasons and he makes the new release, I think I have posted this info already but its a fair question and I am trying to get time made to get a further release out to the folks we have fixed many of the bugs and added further features so there is something in hand but its in need of the main mans fine handywork to smooth its feathers and set it loose to the public, our main programmer also ensures it works with linux and wine and other operating systems aside from xp so we have to be patient even if it means frustration

LostCanvas · « **Reply #97 on:** March 22, 2014, 09:09:20 am »

Hello everyone!
Can you post an alternative mirror for ourmx?
In first post, OurMX.zip doesn't work

Thanks!

silicon_toad2000 · « **Reply #98 on:** March 22, 2014, 10:59:37 am »

working on it when time permits

GhostShip · « **Reply #99 on:** March 22, 2014, 01:04:57 pm »

We are hoping to be able to get a beta 2 out within the next month so it might be worth waiting till then to get a copy of OurMX LostCanvas, beta 1 featured the usual beta selection of bugs and missing features and we have been working to eliminate many of thse for the next release as you would expect