I extended the work from last week in order to actually get data from a swarm. The main change is that new sockets are now allocated for each connection, state is remembered, and the client can actually get so far as to download data from the other peers. What needs to happen still is that… Continue reading Downloading Torrents
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Auditing Bit torrent
One of the strengths of bit torrent is that the primary data transfer protocol is entirely separate from the advertisement protocol. This also has created a strain both in discovering other users who have data, and keeping accurate reports of data that was transfered. The first issue is one that has been developed for extensively,… Continue reading Auditing Bit torrent
Talking to Kad
[python] # Standalone Mainline Kad Client # import socket import time import sys import getopt import random import benc import binascii import select client = "AZ"+str(0x05)+"31"; UDPSocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_DGRAM); targetID = "".join(chr(random.randrange(0, 256)) for i in xrange(20)); myID = "".join(chr(random.randrange(0, 256)) for i in xrange(20)); reqs = 0; knownHosts={}; knownPorts={}; def sendData(data,host,port): global UDPSocket,reqs; reqs… Continue reading Talking to Kad
Distributed Computing and Me
The moniker distributed computing has become a broad catchall term that has been applied to everything from parallel computation to the auto configuration of ad-hoc networks. In order explore the technical problems in this field it is necessary to clearly define what exactly the field is, and to this end I want to elaborate on… Continue reading Distributed Computing and Me
The One-Day Website
I spent today building http://setTimeout.net, a website that I was inspired to create yesterday evening. I set myself the goal of finishing the project in one day, I’ve managed to get done enough in that time period, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I came up with several ideas for how to… Continue reading The One-Day Website
Novation Launchpad
Information here is outdated. Look instead at the Latest Progress. The new toy I got for christmas was a novation Launchpad. It’s a Midi controller developed specifically for ableton live, and is able to both generate midi data or trigger program actions. Since my current computer is running ubuntu, I was planning to use it… Continue reading Novation Launchpad