Java Direct Connect
I know that I've posted about this before but I'm having problems with it again. How do you get JavaDC to register your shared amounts? I have 244 MB to share at the moment and i dont know how to type that into Java DC. Any and all help would be appreciated.
I'm still awaiting the native Mac OS X Direct Connect...
Thanx,
PiBO2k2
I'm still awaiting the native Mac OS X Direct Connect...
Thanx,
PiBO2k2
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Isn't this for Genius Bar?
I wanna know.... well refer to the first post in this thread.
<strong>DC is MUCH better than KaZaA will ever be...
I wanna know.... well refer to the first post in this thread.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ok, I'd never heard of this app before, but I went ahead and d-l'd it. Looks pretty cool, BTW.
Here's what you do;
launch it (duh...)
when the Direct Connect client beta window appears, click on 'Edit' at the TOP OF THE WINDOW (not in the Menu Bar)
The only option is 'Preferences'. Select it.
In the Preferences window, select the 'File transfers' tab.
Click 'Add Share', and you should be good to go.
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(tig)
[ 10-25-2002: Message edited by: The Grimace ]</p>
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Ok, I'd never heard of this app before, but I went ahead and d-l'd it. Looks pretty cool, BTW.
Here's what you do;
launch it (duh...)
when the Direct Connect client beta window appears, click on 'Edit' at the TOP OF THE WINDOW (not in the Menu Bar)
The only option is 'Preferences'. Select it.
In the Preferences window, select the 'File transfers' tab.
Click 'Add Share', and you should be good to go.
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removed image tag; didn't work for me...
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(tig)
[ 10-25-2002: Message edited by: The Grimace ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Thats the thing... I did exactly that and it doesnt register my share..... i even adjusted it on the settings.txt file and it still didnt work.. Any other suggestions?
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Thats the thing... I did exactly that and it doesnt register my share..... i even adjusted it on the settings.txt file and it still didnt work.. Any other suggestions?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'll poke around, see what I can discover...
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Stupid question, but I gotta ask - did you click the 'Ok' button before closing the Prefs window? Might make a difference, although it seems not to... It doesn't appear to remember the prefs from on run to the next, does it... Hmm...
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(tig)
[ 10-25-2002: Message edited by: The Grimace ]</p>
[ 10-25-2002: Message edited by: Proud iBook Owner 2k2 ]</p>
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I'll poke around, see what I can discover...
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Stupid question, but I gotta ask - did you click the 'Ok' button before closing the Prefs window? Might make a difference, although it seems not to... It doesn't appear to remember the prefs from on run to the next, does it... Hmm...
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(tig)
[ 10-25-2002: Message edited by: The Grimace ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
heh.. it wouldnt let me leave the settings window when i typed in how much i had shared.... and thanx again for helping me....
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heh.. it wouldnt let me leave the settings window when i typed in how much i had shared.... and thanx again for helping me....</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, ya gotta kill the window manually, with the 'close' (red) button. Checked out SourceForge, not much info there. Wonder what we're missing. Looked for the source code as well, but I'm not familiar with SF's layout, and it was late (US Pacific Standard Time). Gonna give another looksie today. You mentioned prefs; where'd ya find them? Be damned if I can find any relating to this app anywhere on my machine. It may be time to e-mail the dev.
(tig)
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Yeah, ya gotta kill the window manually, with the 'close' (red) button. Checked out SourceForge, not much info there. Wonder what we're missing. Looked for the source code as well, but I'm not familiar with SF's layout, and it was late (US Pacific Standard Time). Gonna give another looksie today. You mentioned prefs; where'd ya find them? Be damned if I can find any relating to this app anywhere on my machine. It may be time to e-mail the dev.
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Heh.. that sorta helped but not really. Its still not registering my share and I have about 244 or so MB shared. How do I tell it that its MB and not just B or KB?
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Heh.. that sorta helped but not really. Its still not registering my share and I have about 244 or so MB shared. How do I tell it that its MB and not just B or KB?</strong><hr></blockquote>
So the way it works is like this...
Open Prefs.
Select Personal Information
Enter your Nick, Description (optional), Email (optional), Connection, and Shared size
You can obtain your Share size by using 'Get Info' on the folder(s) you wish to share
Enter your Share size in bytes (as it appears in Get Info), numerals only, no alphabetic characters
Click on Connection
Make sure Passive mode is selected
Click on UI (optional)
Unselect Use default metal theme
Select MacOS adaptive from the drop list (gives Aqua appearance)
Click on File Transfers
Click Add Share
Select your share folder; the same you got the byte size info for
Click Browse
Select your download location
Click Ok at the bottom of the Preferences window
You should be good to go.
Never used DC before, got mixed feelings. Most of the hubs require HUGE share sizes, quite a few won't accept the JavaDC client, and one kicked me off and banned my IP for no apparent reason. Had good luck with the Keepers of the Deep 2 hub, though.
Anyways, hope this gets ya going..
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How do you fscking INSTALL this bitch? What a UNIX app. No GUI? No installer? SCREW that.
Neo sucks but it's the only thing that works. Aquisition never finds any networks, and Drumbeat is ok but bloated and needs a special work-around to hack it ( )
I've also noticed things on Kazaa download at half a k/sec.
Damnit I miss Napster
Where the HECK do you guys get your music?!
also, i dont kno if all colleges do it, but mine has a server setup just for dc (its not an official college-related server of course, its run by students). 'most everyone on campus connects to it 'most all the time, so we share shitloads. music, movies, hw, games (tho mostly pc), etc. and dl speeds are a minimum of 300k/sec, and up to 10MB/sec (notice the upper case M, and B, indicating MegaBytes). it averages 1->2 MB/s tho. (its kewl 2b a geek at a geek college.)
the only bad part about dc is most hubs have a minimum requirement of a few gigs to get in. so u have to already have something to contribute. and people with large shares tend to hang out in places that require large shares.
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Where the HECK do you guys get your music?!</strong><hr></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.limewire.com" target="_blank">LimeWire</a> works for me
All Gnutella apps never seem to find anything. I just tried Aquisition. Blech. The Gnut network looks dead.
If only iSwipe actually worked, I would pay > $50 for it, like yesterday.
unfortunately for u non-programmers, dclib/gui is still in the works, and not really ready for primetime. i built it from source (after some hacking at it). it requires xfree86, and a few odd libraries i can't even think of. i considered (and am still very interested in) making a dc for osx, but there wasn't much documentation for dclib, not enuf for me to hack at it full on yet. i'll look it over now again, maybe they added some docs to teh src.
[edit:]oh, and my dcgui dl speed vary from <1MByte/s to >7MB/s, avg'ing around 1.5-2 Megabytes/second.
[ 11-04-2002: Message edited by: thuh Freak ]</p>