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"NES-Luke" wrote:FTP would work, but it's not too secure... people could be uploading anything... Yeah, it would work, but it'd have to be a good client. Alot of the FTP clients aren't secure, and passwords are sent over the net as plain text. Of course, there's still the problem of anything being uploaded... too much of a security risk...
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Quote:Pretty darn close! A terabyte is 1024 Gb. Just like all the others as you go down the scales. 1024 Mb is 1 gig, 1024 kb is 1 Mb, 1024 b is 1 kb. It's pretty cool how that works out...
1kB = 8kb... :wink: Don't forget the difference between b and B. bits and Bytes. To be frank... I knew that. :) I just approximated it.
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"manuel" wrote:Don't forget the difference between b and B. bits and Bytes. Ah... seems the 17th can't get here fast enough (back to school)! I'm already slipping! :P
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Bittorrent works different than Kazaa.
In Kazaa you permanently allow the other users to access your files in a folder you mark.
And you have to download the whole thing before others can download from you.
In Bittorrent, people can only download from you, when you have the download window open ("seed"). Even if you don't own the whole file, people can download chunks of the file. That's why files can be spread quite quickly.
The bad thing is, if nobody seeds, nobody can download. :cry:
But when it works it's frickin' fast!
It's also easy to install and use.
Install it, click on a torrent link and wait. :)
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Quote:Ah... seems the 17th can't get here fast enough (back to school)! I'm already slipping!
:( :?: Don't get it. :oops:
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Hmmm.... Do you know how fast it would be with a 28.8 dial-up connection?
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it wouldn't download any faster than you normally download from a server, but there is a lot of content that you can only get through torrents, as there is no central server, and nearly no bandwidth cconsumed for anyone.
 
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You only have a 28.8 dial up?
I thought everybody (almost) in the US has broadband... that's what German magazines tell. And Germany is so retarded in this field... I got my broadband connection (w/ lousy 384kb/s where in Japan they use 12Mb/s as standard, YahooBB) in September 2004.
Do you live in an extremely remote area (like me :( )?
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"manuel" wrote:Quote:Ah... seems the 17th can't get here fast enough (back to school)! I'm already slipping!
( :?: Don't get it. :oops: I'm new to all things computer! I'm studying to be a PC programmer, and I just finished my first semester of college in December (http:/students.dacc.edu/~rbryant1/), and that's where I learned anything I know about computers. When I was in high school, there wasn't many classes about computers, just how to use a spreadsheet. Oh man, I feel another grandpa crack coming! :P
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Oh, now I get it.
I'm not so good at computers, either. Know only the basic stuff.
I once could program simple things in Basic and Pascal (we had it in school). Basically it's interesting, but I forgot everything.
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I'm kind of torn on how I want to do things. I'm not sure if I would like to make programs, or go to the web field, so I'm kind of studying both. I'll be learning how to use Flash, Dreamweaver, Visual.net, and a slew of other programs. Should be interesting...
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