stief
December 16th, 2007, 10:36 PM
--firewall indicator is inaccurate. Brick icon continues to show/not show within the same session, and bug reports/stack traces incorrectly state "Received incoming this session: false" when an earlier trace in the same session said "Received incoming this session: true."
--network connections are getting more and more difficult to avoid spam hosts. I've kept track of the results from > 500 "what's new .jpg" searches, and have learned to prune the connected hosts first. I've learned it's worth the time (may take an hour or so) to get rid of, e.g. Morph/etomi hosts, Comcast hosts, browse unresolved DNS hosts to check for spammers, and other such tricks and voodoo. Still, >95% of the .jpg's downloaded are spam, despite a saved download folder of the most persistent spam. In any single attempt to find original content through a "What's new" Image search, I rarely find more than 4 or 5 /100 downloads that merit a "browse host." The spammers are really getting effective at drowning out any original content. Thankfully, mojito at least allows more of a chance to find the good sources to browse, but still the results are getting worse.
For example, once I browse a host with decent content. I'll often do a "Any Type" search using 2 keywords and the .jpg extension of one of the host's decent content files. Invariably, this is an easy way to mark junk results and train the junk filter, because using the left-hand pane filters to group the results allows hundreds to be added to the junk filter, and the lone good file, if it even shows up in the search, to be marked as Not Junk.
(aside: FWIW, being able to browse a host from a completed download would be VERY welcome).
IMHO opinion, relying on big persistent ultrapeers has now made the gnutella network even more attractive to spammers. Sad to see all the networking and coding improvements abused in this way.
--old gui problems persist in OS X. Discontinuous selects incorrectly toggling selection, downloads not updating out-of-focus search results across multiple panes, sluggish dialogs, sluggish selects, multiple selects behaving differently in the Library and the download results, are just some of the issues that come to mind. Just in case one of the devs is free to look closely at the OS X gui, I thought I'd jot down some of the issues. The dock download indicator works well and a nice addition. Thanks, whoever is responsible for that.
--no changelog and beta release notification thread to help in-the-wild beta testers to focus. I sure miss the beta threads. It's getting lonely here :)
Come to think of it, beta-testing is getting to be lonely work. JIRA is no fun. Is it time to drop the old "community model" of beta-testing? I'd hope the new GUICE tests will make this forum mostly redundant, but will miss the good people I've met here. BTW: wish Jens-Uwe a Merry Christmas http://www.han.de/~jum/track.html
--speaking of community, so many new faces on the team LimeWire page. Time to update "About LimeWire" too. It's really out of sync with the Team LimeWire page.
Random dump complete :)
Merry Christmas all
--network connections are getting more and more difficult to avoid spam hosts. I've kept track of the results from > 500 "what's new .jpg" searches, and have learned to prune the connected hosts first. I've learned it's worth the time (may take an hour or so) to get rid of, e.g. Morph/etomi hosts, Comcast hosts, browse unresolved DNS hosts to check for spammers, and other such tricks and voodoo. Still, >95% of the .jpg's downloaded are spam, despite a saved download folder of the most persistent spam. In any single attempt to find original content through a "What's new" Image search, I rarely find more than 4 or 5 /100 downloads that merit a "browse host." The spammers are really getting effective at drowning out any original content. Thankfully, mojito at least allows more of a chance to find the good sources to browse, but still the results are getting worse.
For example, once I browse a host with decent content. I'll often do a "Any Type" search using 2 keywords and the .jpg extension of one of the host's decent content files. Invariably, this is an easy way to mark junk results and train the junk filter, because using the left-hand pane filters to group the results allows hundreds to be added to the junk filter, and the lone good file, if it even shows up in the search, to be marked as Not Junk.
(aside: FWIW, being able to browse a host from a completed download would be VERY welcome).
IMHO opinion, relying on big persistent ultrapeers has now made the gnutella network even more attractive to spammers. Sad to see all the networking and coding improvements abused in this way.
--old gui problems persist in OS X. Discontinuous selects incorrectly toggling selection, downloads not updating out-of-focus search results across multiple panes, sluggish dialogs, sluggish selects, multiple selects behaving differently in the Library and the download results, are just some of the issues that come to mind. Just in case one of the devs is free to look closely at the OS X gui, I thought I'd jot down some of the issues. The dock download indicator works well and a nice addition. Thanks, whoever is responsible for that.
--no changelog and beta release notification thread to help in-the-wild beta testers to focus. I sure miss the beta threads. It's getting lonely here :)
Come to think of it, beta-testing is getting to be lonely work. JIRA is no fun. Is it time to drop the old "community model" of beta-testing? I'd hope the new GUICE tests will make this forum mostly redundant, but will miss the good people I've met here. BTW: wish Jens-Uwe a Merry Christmas http://www.han.de/~jum/track.html
--speaking of community, so many new faces on the team LimeWire page. Time to update "About LimeWire" too. It's really out of sync with the Team LimeWire page.
Random dump complete :)
Merry Christmas all