Interesting article on the inventor of Winamp, Gnutella, Waste and others....

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:41 am

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/fe ... p?pid=2763

I'm using Waste now instead of DC with some friends. MUCH better private file sharing app.

brainchasm · Post by **brainchasm** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:39 am

I'm curious about what make it automatically better than DC as an app?

The article tells nothing about WASTE itself, or why it might be better.

I personally love riding on multiple private DC hubs, so much so that I even started my own.

BC

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:24 am

I use Waste (and DC) to share amongst private groups.

Waste is easier to setup than DC (it works behind a firewall or router without port forwarding), it's more reliable (I am constantly having issues in DC with the hub disconnecting and sometimes refusing to let me connect), and most importantly Waste shows you file dates and lets you sort by file date (unlike DC). So you can sort a list of files by date to see the newest files in a directory.

Waste is also less of a bandwidth hog than DC. I can download while still browsing.

MK888 · Post by **MK888** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:53 pm

Very Cool Article. I have only used one file sharing prog WinMX, and I hated it.

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:20 pm

Fp, can you get me more info on Waste?

does it need a server like DC?

if so I can set one up for PCA

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 1:04 am

YGM Dopey

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:55 pm

send me the info on waste as well =)

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:58 pm

Originally posted by DaMaN
send me the info on waste as well =)

I sent ya what he sent me

I am still looking into it, and might set up a PCA hub