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Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by pjerem »

globular-toast wrote: post #51
paulryanrogers wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recall we had special apps to queue and schedule our downloads, and resume them where servers supported it. They were a dream compared to the boredom of staring at progress bars.

The trouble is those special tools also needed downloading. So I could either sacrifice an evening's, ahem, download, or just chance it yet again. I eventually got an FTP client and it was like a superpower. BitTorrent was honestly more impressive to me than AI. Ah, the good old days.

> BitTorrent was honestly more impressive to me than AI. Ah, the good old days.

That’s because BitTorrent was immediately useful and empowering.

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by downrightmike »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #139
henry700 wrote: post #76

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Anyone remember DAP, Download Accelerator Plus? The colorful bars were nice. A part of my childhood, downloading shareware Windows games through dial-up.

Some apps still do the same, eg: https://www.downthemall.net/ (also a great app to download everything you wanted from a site, regex selections, etc.) Makes several connections and downloads chunks in parallel, for some sites with limited upload (their, your download) speeds per session it really speeds up the downloads. Sadly, not much development recently (9 months ago was the last commit)

Wow, that's a throwback.

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by m3kw9 »

kreco wrote: post #90

Coincidentally, I started to do media server similar to this 3 days ago. I just want to serve any folder, then be able to download a file and watch videos with a decent video player. Now I feel like crap seeing how amazing this project is.

he probably did this with 500 other file servers already in the wild.

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by mk_stjames »

henry700 wrote: post #76
paulryanrogers wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recall we had special apps to queue and schedule our downloads, and resume them where servers supported it. They were a dream compared to the boredom of staring at progress bars.

Anyone remember DAP, Download Accelerator Plus? The colorful bars were nice. A part of my childhood, downloading shareware Windows games through dial-up.

Download Accelerator Plus... wow what a memory.

Finding that piece of software around 2001-2002 was what allowed me to finally download a specific piece of, ahem, 'shareware', that was about 400 MB, zipped, that I would never have been able to finish on a 14.4kbps modem on a single very noisy phone line that usually dropped the call every 2 hours or so. It eventually took three days but the file came across uncorrupted. It wouldn't have been possible without the ability to resume downloads after dropped connections.

And that software download went on to allow me to start the path learning what I wanted to learn about, and that paved the way for my engineering degrees and thus setting me up for the last 20-some years. Wild how little pieces of the puzzle like that drive so much of your life.

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by matheusmoreira »

eadmund wrote: post #130

From https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/docs/vers... (kudos for doing this, BTW!): > seafile … and nextcloud … their license is problematic There’s nothing problematic about the AGPL, really. It protects users. It protects developers against someone taking over their projects. The only people it bothers are those who wish to take a free software project and integrate with an unfree one. That seems lik…

It's a huge feature. It won't prevent forks but it will stop corporations from making proprietary enhancements for SaaS. They have to publish the source code.

I even emailed Stallman about it. The only way to make a proprietary version of an AGPLv3 project is to pay the original copyright holders for a special proprietary licensing deal, thereby supporting its development. Forks don't have the same privilege.

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by therein »

aitchnyu wrote: post #114
therein wrote: post #112

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I remember redownloading Liero over and over again and failing. And then cherishing it once getting a successful download. It would barely fail to fit into a floppy.

Amateur. Use Flashget or Netants which download the file in 8 simultaneous chunks. I used to cheer the threads on last legs of a whopping 5m download. I hated servers which dont allow resume or even report file size.

If I remember correctly, unfortunately the HTTP server hosting Liero back then didn't support requests with the Range header.

But also likely I didn't have FlashGet on my cousin's computer which was the computer we were using to play it.

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