http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=303
"Rodi is a small-client P2P application, written in Java, that improves on BitTorrent by allowing both content searches and full anonymity."
"Rodi can also be used from behind corporate firewalls and LANs using Network Address Translation (NATs), something most home gateways have."
Author says it needs work before it's useable.
Sounds exiting. The trackerless feature on the new versions of bittorrent seem a little half-hearted.
Java? Yargh!
Coming to a future near you: you'll need a 10ghz box with 4GB ram to run programs that would have operated just fine on a 486 with 32MB of ram if written ten years ago.
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Although Java is big and slow, I guess the main reason he wrote it in that was for inter-OS operation.
Java can easily be ported to C and compiled. Not a big problem.
I'm more concerned about his anonymizing system.
From what I gathered elsewhere, anonymizers in general put an heavy load on some site somewhere and so fail in the end.
I was wondering if this guy has gotten a valid concept or if it's just another doomed idea.
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Except that is no longer as clear-cut as it once was. There are many other languages and toolkits out there that are crossplatform. Java isn't as perfectly cross-platform as Sun would have you believe either.
Doesn't change that it's still a joke: x86 processors are doing, what, ~6000 MIPS by now? A fast 486 did about 55. And yet applications and operating systems don't actually do anything significantly different.
Am I the only person who sees a problem with this? Am I the only person who gives a damn? Am I the only person bothered by applications taking several seconds to load when by all rights it should be instantly by now?
Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine. I'll get off my soapbox; thanks for listening.
Why does everyone want to "improve on BitTorrent" by adding content searching?
Every single P2P client except BitTorrent has searching. BitTorrent beats them all out in popularity, often by orders of magnitude. These two facts are not completely unrelated.
BitTorrent is so popular because it is minimalistic, and uses the web to catalogue the content. People already know how to use the web. People don't want classic P2P app with a confusing interface and strange behaviours and rules, they want to click on a link and get their file. And that's what BitTorrent does, and that's why it beat out all the clients that already exist and do exactly what BitTorrent does except with content searching.
I don't think the reasoning you give is suffice to explain the correlation of BitTorrent's popularity and the absence of a search function. In fact, you still do have to search for content, but you search for it on different trackers (which must be known or be able to be found to begin with) - thus supply of content and the searching for content both became decentralized - one of the best arguments for BitTorrent, since previously most central networks were easy targets for corporations or lobbyists and could just as easily be completely shut down.
Of course the lack of a search isn't the sole reason that BitTorrent is popular, but the people who see it as a fault are seriously missing the point.
Out of curiosity, does google index .torrent files?
Argh! I know! Every single new iteration of windows or whatever OS we're using seems to make things slower than they were before, needing more rescources.
I honestly think that intel and microsoft (great targets of conspiracy by crazy people everywhere) have come to an agreement. As long as MS keeps consuming more rescources, people will need to buy better processors. People keep needing 10x more hardware and software to get only like 1.5x of the work done...
With a hundred new features that only three people will use! And confusing and patronising default behaviours! This is progress!
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