RE: [Blocks-development] Ack, it's been three months!

[Spencer Jr., M. <sp...@ac...>]

Not much flying lately -- I've been waiting for the snowy and cloudy weather
to clear up.  Gary's plane isn't through its annual right now -- it needs
some very expensive fireproof carpet in the pilot/copilot seat area before
it'll pass its annual FAA inspection.

(Sorry about the sudden spam everyone, if you forgot about this list.)

I would absolutely love the chance to host SNAKE and Blocks on mspencer.net.
Email me the files to serve and they'll be up in no time.  (Finally...I've
had a dedicated Linux box on mspencer.net for months now, and never had a
real use for it other than DNS and SMTP.)

So it seems the world won't be very interested in a new filesharing
protocol.  Perhaps the Blocks project can move toward layering a new project
on top of the existing Gnutella network.  Or, that is...perhaps we should
re-engineer the Blocks project to sit on top of the Gnutella network (with
all its problems).

(Obviously we don't want our testing network to become flooded, just like
Gnutella...so perhaps we should only connect to authorized clients while
we're still testing...and run a 'public' network on the side when we do
major releases.)

I've been brainstorming lately about this web-of-trust thing living on top
of Gnutella.  I'm a very unpracticed programmer, although I've taken several
classes...so I'm probably going to write something in Win32 to do a
web-of-trust over a local filesystem, not over a filesharing network.  (The
hooks will be there, though, to add a connection to a filesharing system
later.)  If there's any interest in this, I'd love to hear about it.  :)

OK, I'm glad to hear that we all haven't become an X-file.  :)

--Michael Spencer
msp...@ac... (work)
m...@ms... (home)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blat Froop [mailto:pet...@ho...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 8:50 AM
> To: m...@ms...
> Cc: blo...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Blocks-development] Ack, it's been three months!
> 
> 
> >I know we've all had our interests pulled in new directions 
> since we were 
> >working on Blocks.
> 
> Hey Michael, hows things? Still flying?
> 
> >Is there still interest?  Is anyone still interested in 
> continuing the 
> >project?
> 
> Interest has sort of tapered off. It didnt really get enough
> initial momentum, but it was interesting while it lasted.
> I guess the project is dormant now. I will email the
> sourceforge/freshmeat people about its new status.
> 
> >Also, I can host the project page on mspencer.net's web server.
> 
> It would be nice to find a spot to host the Blocks stuff
> and maybe the SNAKE web page as well. Blocks may be
> dormant, but there is some good platform independent code
> in it that might be salvageable for other projects :-)
> 
> Im real busy moving apartment and with work just now, but
> I also plan to build my own PC in the next couple of weeks
> and my new apartment should have an 11Mbits internet connection
> so I should be finally online 24/7. Having said that, as
> soon as the snow goes away its Paragliding time! I still
> havent finished my course, but I now own a paraglider,
> and I need to fly.
> 
> ttfn
> 
> PG.
> 
> PS To everyone who helped out on Blocks...
>    Thanks! It was fun. ;-)
> 
> 
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