New P2P on the block: Perfect Dark
I hear that this program is supposed to be the successor to the newly discontinued Share. Has anyone else used it? I've found it to be fast as hell and addresses many of the problems that Winny and Share shared in terms of speed and security.
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I've downloaded it (not tried it yet though), however since for now all I need can be found on Share/Winny I don't personally plan embarking on a new P2P program with a smaller userbase. Who knows, maybe in a few months/years...
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Feedback from v0.886 user:
----------------------------- "I've got 0.886 installed. It has the tiniest font known to man, and it can't be changed, so it's impossible to see what files are listed. It also uses 99% CPU constantly, for god knows what reason, since I wasn't hashing or downloading or even searching for anything. It also copies anything you want to "upload" into a special cache directory, which wastes twices the space. And it seems to lack trigger downloads." I haven't used Perfect Dark myself, so that's what I'm going with. Personally, I'd keep Share for now until they make more improvements on Perfect Dark. But does it really eat 99% CPU, or is it just that guy's system? |
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As for being a resource hog, it does use a bit more than Winny and Share, but nowhere near 99%. |
'Perfect Dark'?
I'm pretty sure that infringes on a certain name copyright >_> |
Hmmm...
I'll try it, but I'm betting since it's still based on old-school P2P (no leeching, no shards, etc.) it won't be as good as uTorrent. |
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(I can't tell if you're a really really good bad troll or just really really HURF BLURF) |
the meaning of "joke" has obviosly been lost on fluff over the years and he now only know "troll"
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Wasn't funny if it was a joke. TheFluff's post actually makes me smirk though :P.
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i never said it was a good joke >_>
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Then its deserved criticism :P.
BTW where is the news of Share being discontinued now? |
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I was asking because if there was an OBVIOUS public case of the law extracting IPs to arrest people like there was with winny then that would cause people to migrate to the newer program. But if there was no such thing I just don't see any Japanese people moving away from share in large numbers like they did with winny. When it comes to software, it seems the japanese are real sticklers for trying anything new (most raws are still DIVX, for gods sake... not to mention the extrodinary outdatedness of 2chan...) |
I was asking because Starks said this
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TV-cappers seem to prefer divx, however. At least on share, I see 3x more divx encodes than wmv or xvid. You see more and more x264 raws though, every day. |
Not sure about Share, but on Winny WMV definitely seems to be far more popular than DivX.
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I've tried PD a month ago and I find it mostly unpopulated with very little files, thus useless to the western leeching crowds. The listing font is awfully small and it can't be changed (for now). That's not really a big issue for me, but the small number of shared files is. One thing I like is that it finds results faster and isn't relying on trigger searches like in Share.
I obviously prefer Share at the current time but its memory leaks are freaking annoying. In any case, each of these programs lacks stuff. For Winny it's the security and viruses, for Share memory leaks, Perfect Dark is unpopulated and still lacking in features and design. Oh, and if you want anonymity, just leech through a VPN network. Relakks does the trick. :D |
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Tried it, the font size is super tiny but the cpu usage varies from 5 to 25%. I have a AMD 64 3000+.
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