Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news-peer.in.tum.de!news.belwue.de!not-for-mail From: Ulli Horlacher Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Looking for open source project maintainer Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de X-Trace: news.belwue.de 1316329701 18288 129.69.1.11 (18 Sep 2011 07:08:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.belwue.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:08:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.9.5-20091224 ("Lochruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.35-30-server (x86_64)) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8117 Tom Anderson wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > > F*IX is a java applet client for F*EX, a web based software for personal > > based file transfer of ANY size: > > > > http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/ > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/fffex/ > > In your "You have the following possibilities" section, you don't mention > BitTorrent. BitTorrent is not designed for PERSONAL file transfer (user A to user B and NOT to user *) and has no privacy option. > It's as quick as any direct connection method, and quicker than F*EX, I doubt that. With F*EX I have 300 MB/s. > because (assuming i have understood F*EX correctly), that requires the > uploader to finish uploading before the downloader begins downloading F*EX knows both modes: synchronous and asynchronous. > BitTorrent does not involve knowing any ancient scripts. Neither F*EX does. You can use modern scripts, if you want. But you also can use it with ancient web browsers. > BitTorrent does not require passwords Bad idea, when I want to send my confidential files. > Many BitTorrent clients allow you to monitor the transfer to a peer, and > to see when it is complete. All F*EX clients do this, too. > BitTorrent is portable across all popular consumer operating systems, and > unix. The protocol is publicly documented F*EX too. > The main problem with BitTorrent is ... its missing privacy and the sender must be online until the download has finished. With F*EX you can send your files to the server and then go offline. Ever heard of e-mail? F*EX works like e-mail, but for files of any size. > So, if you are having trouble finding a maintainer for your software, > perhaps you should consider switching to BitTorrent. BitTorrent is not an option, because it does not solve the problem: personal and confidential file transfer from one user A to one user B. -- Ullrich Horlacher Informationssysteme und Serverbetrieb Rechenzentrum E-Mail: horlacher@rus.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-685-65868 Allmandring 30 Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/