Wow, THIS is a lot of files....

[MacAztec]

Isnt it? 4.6GB? Of Files?? Not 4.6GB of space in files, but 4.6GB of Files....

[edesignuk]

It's quite alot, nothing like the 2,944,320Gb (that's 427,595,279 files!) currently being shared globally on KaZaA, but of course, that no good for Mac :(

[MacBandit]

Get Neo it's the OSX kazaa client.

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by MacBandit
Get Neo it's the OSX kazaa client.
Got a link? I'd like to read some info on it and see some screen shots. Thanks!

[Durandal7]

It's not that many, maybe just a few DVDs.

[job]

Originally posted by asurace
It's not that many, maybe just a few DVDs.

or a couple hundred mp3s. :)

i had almost 5GB/1000 mp3s.

[AmbitiousLemon]

i see pedabytes on some file sharig networks. GB is tiny actually. most hotline/carracho/kdx servers have far more than 4.6GB. many have terabytes and thats just one guys computer. not sure why yo think 4 gigabytes is large. you realize that apple sells 20GB ipods right? when i go on one of these things im typically sharing 30-40GB.

[Mephisto]

I have over 400gigs of stuff.
<waits for the appluase>

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by Mephisto
I have over 400gigs of stuff.
<waits for the appluase>
For real? U got ur own XServe fully kitted out for that little lot? :D

[MacAztec]

Originally posted by AmbitiousLemon
i see pedabytes on some file sharig networks. GB is tiny actually. most hotline/carracho/kdx servers have far more than 4.6GB. many have terabytes and thats just one guys computer. not sure why yo think 4 gigabytes is large. you realize that apple sells 20GB ipods right? when i go on one of these things im typically sharing 30-40GB.

Do you see where it says on the far right side how many FILES that each host has? Not megabytes of files, because there is no such thing as 1.8k megabytes of files, it would say 1.8GB. That is over 4,000,000 FILES right there. Think, if each of those files is 2mb, thats 8 Terrabytes of stuff....

[AmbitiousLemon]

still not very impressive. i see individuals with terrabytes all the time. for over 300 people to be sharing a few terabytes is nothing impressive. like i said most filesharing apps ive seen tend to list pedabytes of files. i just dont get why people are making a big deal about this. maybe 10 years ago terrabytes would have been impressive but not today.

[MacAztec]

Can you give a a good app for mac that gets me pedabytes of information?? Limewire gets me about 40GB, and neo gets me about 400-500GB of info.

I mean free p2p, not carracho or anything.

[AmbitiousLemon]

limewire usually gives me between 4 and 20 pedabytes.

drumbeats 4-20 pedabytes.

neo is just a matter of searching nough ip addresses, but i havent gotten more than terrabytes in neo. the network has pedabytes but with the limitations of a shadow client it makes it difficult to actually access all that data.

any open nap app will give you pedabytes easily.

edonkey would i would guess but i dont think it lists that info so who knows.


in my experience edonkey and open nap networks tend to have the most files and give the best sucess.

[MacAztec]

How long do you leave LimeWire on for than?

Do you have it set on a certain port?

[AmbitiousLemon]

no special settings really. usually give it 20 minutes to an hour to get connected. set the number of servers to max.

[Hemingray]

Okay guys, if you're gonna use the big figures, at least spell them correctly. :p

Terabyte
Petabyte
Exabyte

[MacAztec]

Can you help me with a few things in limewire? First, I cant find the spot to set servers to "max."

Second, what are the "Quick Connect" conections you have listen in your preferences. Any other things you do would be appreciated!

[AmbitiousLemon]

Originally posted by Hemingray
Okay guys, if you're gonna use the big figures, at least spell them correctly. :p

Terabyte
Petabyte
Exabyte

you know ive seen both peda and peta used. check this definition:

Byte 8 bits
Kilobyte 1,000 bytes
Megabyte 1,000,000 bytes
Gigabyte 1,000,000,000 bytes
Terabyte 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
8 bits Pedabyte 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
Extrabyte 1,000 pedatytes
Zettabyte 1,000 extrabytes
Yottabyte A whole lot of data!

and below bytes we have nibbles and bits (sounds like a dog food)

http://pratt.edu/~rbarry/Classes/cg628/terms.htm
http://www.arlington.k12.tx.us/boles/BolesTechnology/CmptrLit/Notes/M2Web/M2jobs.html

[AmbitiousLemon]

Originally posted by MacAztec
Can you help me with a few things in limewire? First, I cant find the spot to set servers to "max."

Second, what are the "Quick Connect" conections you have listen in your preferences. Any other things you do would be appreciated!

:) well you cant set it to max but you can manually type in the number of servers you want to connect to. its in your connection tab. i havent used limewire in awhile (dont have it installed now) so i cant tell you a list of servers. but what i used to do is set my connection type to whatever the fastest was (so it would let me connect to more servers) and then go to my connection tab and just type in between 6 and 12 servers as the number to connect to. i also made sure i was always sharing more than 20 files and less than 1000 (some servers will ban you if you have less than 20 or more than 1000, open nap is the same)

lately ive been using xnap to connect to open nap servers. ive had better luck with it so i stopped using limewire. it connects to many more servers than limewire will allow.

[MacAztec]

Can I have a link?

Can you download movies, files, etc. or just music?

Is it OS X too?

[AmbitiousLemon]

Originally posted by MacAztec
Can I have a link?

Can you download movies, files, etc. or just music?

Is it OS X too?

http://xnap.sourceforge.net/

its java so its cross platform (kinda like limewire). works in osx.

ugly but functional (kinda like kdx)

any file types (apps, movies, music, anything)

if you want music searching for albumwrap always helps (whole album one file use albumwrap extractor to get the individual tracks out of the album wrap file)

and very ugly... but it works (most of it)

[MacAztec]

So far i like it. Just a few questions.

How do i share files so I can get more servers?

Is there a certain channel or whatever to go to? Right now im in #xnap

Can you help me set it up? Its confusin!!!

[Hemingray]

Originally posted by AmbitiousLemon
you know ive seen both peda and peta used. check this definition:

Byte 8 bits
Kilobyte 1,000 bytes
Megabyte 1,000,000 bytes
Gigabyte 1,000,000,000 bytes
Terabyte 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
8 bits Pedabyte 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
Extrabyte 1,000 pedatytes
Zettabyte 1,000 extrabytes
Yottabyte A whole lot of data!

I have seen peda used as well, but the correct prefix is peta. And wherever you got those definitions from, scrap 'em. That person doesn't know how to spell or count correctly. These are the official correct spellings and orders:

Kilobyte (1^3 bytes)
Megabyte (1^6 bytes)
Gigabyte (1^9 bytes)
Terabyte (1^12 bytes)
Petabyte (1^15 bytes)
Exabyte (1^18 bytes)
Yottabyte (1^21 bytes)
Zetabyte (1^24 bytes)

1 zetabyte is equal to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. That's one septillion bytes! :eek:

[AmbitiousLemon]

Originally posted by MacAztec
So far i like it. Just a few questions.

How do i share files so I can get more servers?

Is there a certain channel or whatever to go to? Right now im in #xnap

Can you help me set it up? Its confusin!!!

well on your left you will basically only need the search section. i dont know what most of the rest does. the servers or connections section is sometimes useful to try connecting to more servers. but basically just start searching in the search section.

in the top rightish area there should be a menu that included preferences or settigs. in there you can set stuff like where to download and what to share. one bug is that you have to type in the file path manually /Volumes/your drive/downloads rather than selecting the folder by some sort of window.

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by verbose101

Got a link? I'd like to read some info on it and see some screen shots. Thanks!


Do a search for, "Neo," at www.versiontracker.com.

[MacAztec]

How come most of the stuff wont download, it says its got like 6 users, but it doesnt download!

Do i have to wait a while?

[AmbitiousLemon]

Originally posted by MacAztec
How come most of the stuff wont download, it says its got like 6 users, but it doesnt download!

Do i have to wait a while?

yeah. its important to pick files that sevreal people have (like 6) and then you just let it run a couple days (depending on how large the file is). a lot of the [trade only] people will be cool as long as you are sharing items similiar to what you are downloading [so they can get stuff from you too]

if you find a good person you should browse their files.

[King Cobra]

>(Hemingray)
Kilobyte (1^3 bytes)
Megabyte (1^6 bytes)
Gigabyte (1^9 bytes)
Terabyte (1^12 bytes)
Petabyte (1^15 bytes)
Exabyte (1^18 bytes)
Yottabyte (1^21 bytes)
Zetabyte (1^24 bytes)

I must consider your math now. The number 1 to ANY power is still 1. I assume you mean 10 to each of those powers. :D

I don't have my conversions book with me right now, but I do remember that it is listed as just Peta-.

As for a file sharing program, Limewire works, but terribly. Neo doesn't get me enough results, and Mactella, well, I'm glad no one mentioned that. :rolleyes:

I would recommend Acquisition for OS X users if you easily get sick of Limewire. But I would recommend more getting into the habit of buying CD over any client. :p

[noht*]

just for the record:

a kilobyte is actually defined as 1024 bytes, as it's is based on a binary system. this leaves us with:

1 Kilobyte (2^10 bytes) = 1024 bytes
1 Megabyte (2^20 bytes) = 1'048'576 bytes
1 Gigabyte (2^30 bytes) = 1'073'741'824 bytes
1 Terabyte (2^40 bytes) = 1.0995E12 bytes
1 Petabyte (2^50 bytes) = 1.1259E15 bytes
1 Exabyte (2^60 bytes) = 1.1529E18 bytes
1 Yottabyte (2^70 bytes) = 1.1806E21 bytes
1 Zetabyte (2^80 bytes) = 1.2089E24 bytes = a whole lot, i agree

(heheh, first time i used my hp38 for a loooong time...)

just some thoughts

noht

[Mr. Anderson]

watch out for the yodabytes - i heard they're poisonous....

that was bad, I know, so don't bother telling me. :D

But I'm not sure we'll ever need to use a Zetabyte in our lifetime - that is just so much data and storage technology, hah, that would bring back the computers the size of rooms from the 50s - even storing that many bytes at a molecular level would take up huge amounts of space.