New - Limewire Update.

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Has any one else got that Limewire update? The only thing I notice is when I add files to be shared it has to scan every file, why this version does that I am not sure. But it took about 10 mins to go though 727 files, that was kind of nuts.
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  • Reply 1 of 23
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    [quote]Originally posted by BrianMacOS:

    <strong>Has any one else got that Limewire update? The only thing I notice is when I add files to be shared it has to scan every file, why this version does that I am not sure. But it took about 10 mins to go though 727 files, that was kind of nuts.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    limewire suqs. they try to charge money on a phre and opensource protocol. get <a href="http://mutella.sf.net"; target="_blank">mutella</a>. it's a lot better, faster, stronger. and its completely and totally phre. w/o adverts or shit from the man.
  • Reply 2 of 23
    screedscreed Posts: 1,077member
    <a href="http://xlife.org"; target="_blank">Acquisition</a>



    Screed
  • Reply 3 of 23
    [quote]Originally posted by sCreeD:

    <strong><a href="http://xlife.org"; target="_blank">Acquisition</a>



    Screed</strong><hr></blockquote>



    This is some cool software!!!
  • Reply 4 of 23
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Limewire really sucks.
  • Reply 5 of 23
    I just updated my LimeWire with the new version last night. I don't like it at all. I quickly discovered that in your shared folder, the new LimeWire creates a 'placeholder' of sorts for every file you intend on downloading, whether it eventually connects and downloads or not. This creates a number of problems. First, your shared folder gets filled with numerous zero K files that you eventually have to delete yourself once you close out the program. Second, this new development negatively affects your search abilities. With the new version, you think, 'wow, it's coming up with many more results than the old version,' but when you take a closer look and sort by size, you discover that a huge percentage of those results are--you guessed it--zero K files. Thanks, LimeWire. Real helpful.



    LimeWire was always a memory hog and slow, but now, I'm not sure I want to bother with it anymore. This new version is way too annoying.



    So, I went to the Mozilla webpage and being a rather ignorant consumer end user, I have no idea how to download and implement that program. Do I have to piece it together?



    [ 08-15-2002: Message edited by: Gandalf the Semi-Coherent ]</p>
  • Reply 6 of 23
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    [quote]Originally posted by Gandalf the Semi-Coherent:

    <strong>I just updated my LimeWire with the new version last night. I don't like it at all. I quickly discovered that in your shared folder, the new LimeWire creates a 'placeholder' of sorts for every file you intend on downloading, whether it eventually connects and downloads or not. This creates a number of problems. First, your shared folder gets filled with numerous zero K files that you eventually have to delete yourself once you close out the program. Second, this new development negatively affects your search abilities. With the new version, you think, 'wow, it's coming up with many more results than the old version,' but when you take a closer look and sort by size, you discover that a huge percentage of those results are--you guessed it--zero K files. Thanks, LimeWire. Real helpful.



    LimeWire was always a memory hog and slow, but now, I'm not sure I want to bother with it anymore. This new version is way too annoying.



    So, I went to the Mozilla webpage and being a rather ignorant consumer end user, I have no idea how to download and implement that program. Do I have to piece it together?



    [ 08-15-2002: Message edited by: Gandalf the Semi-Coherent ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    mozilla has a disk image (which you mount then copy over the folder), but i think u meant to say mutella. (mozilla is a web browser, mutella is a gnutella servent). installing a piece of OpenSource software can get kind of hairy. it might require that you have the developer tools installed (almost certain that it requires it). but here goes. you gotta go to the download page, and download the file (it should end it .gz, .tar, or .tgz), and unzip and untar the file (stuffit expander can take care of that). then pop into terminal. type `cd [path into the mutella folder];`. the path will probably be ~/Desktop/mutella*, but that depends on where your downloads go to. now you should be within the mutella folder. now type: `./configure;make;sudo make install;`, it'll ask you for a password after a while. then close the terminal window, and open a new one. type `mutella`. and now you have mutella. you can check their page for instructions to setup the web frontend, cuz i dont remember those steps. enjoy.
  • Reply 7 of 23
    telomartelomar Posts: 1,804member
    [quote]Originally posted by BrianMacOS:

    <strong>Has any one else got that Limewire update? The only thing I notice is when I add files to be shared it has to scan every file, why this version does that I am not sure. But it took about 10 mins to go though 727 files, that was kind of nuts.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Limewire can be pretty dreadful but it did stop doing that for me after a while. My bigger annoyance is it displays items that are in subfolders to the world but doesn't allow them to be downloaded.
  • Reply 8 of 23
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    I have to say I am truely disappointed with LIMEWIRE! IT truley suxs! <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 9 of 23
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Where does everyone get their music?



    I miss Napster... It seems the Gnutella network sucks. Or maybe I'm just stupid! But I can't find anything these days! :o

    I mean, LimeWire sucks, but I can't find anything on Gnutella, or get it to successfully download, be it pop or weird music. Maybe it's the Gnutella protocol?



    Acquisition I will try. Drumbeat (I read about it in MacAddict) looked promising. Hell, iSwipe looked VERY promising. The only problem is, these apps never seem to actually download the files successfully (which is helpful.) iSwipe in particular does a lot of stuff, it's really cool, in concept. Only one problem, after hours, I get a few files, sometimes incomplete.



    It has become hard to get silly singles I would never pay for and weird music like remixes, parodies, eclectic world music that I otherwise wouldn't be able to get. This is sad. Mainstream music is so pathetic and boring right now. You have to look for good music. And these days that is very hard, due to fragmentation of the file sharing community, crap software, and (maybe?) crappy network protocols. I really miss Napster.
  • Reply 10 of 23
    heyas.. i downloaded the source code for mutella and i tried to compile it and if got the following error:



    [quote] Welcome to Darwin!

    [localhost:~] gasparhe% cd mutella-0.4.1

    [localhost:~/mutella-0.4.1] gasparhe% ./configure

    checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5

    checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5

    checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5

    checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

    checking whether build environment is sane... yes

    checking for mawk... no

    checking for gawk... no

    checking for nawk... no

    checking for awk... awk

    checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no

    checking for gcc... no

    checking for cc... no

    checking for cc... no

    checking for cl... no

    configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

    <hr></blockquote>



    That's taken from my terminal app upon configuration. Can any Unix geek out there help me? I installer Fink and it still didnt work.
  • Reply 11 of 23
    Im also trying to install an open source version of Direct Connect and I get this error:



    [quote] [localhost:~/desktop/dc-0.1beta9/dcgui-0.1beta9] gasparhe% ./configure

    creating cache ./config.cache

    checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5

    checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5

    checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5

    checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

    checking for -p flag to install... yes

    checking whether build environment is sane... yes

    checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no

    checking for working aclocal... missing

    checking for working autoconf... missing

    checking for working automake... missing

    checking for working autoheader... missing

    checking for working makeinfo... missing

    checking for xml2-config... no

    checking for libxml - version &gt;= 2.0.0... no

    *** The xml2-config script installed by LIBXML could not be found

    *** If libxml was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in

    *** your path, or set the XML2_CONFIG environment variable to the

    *** full path to xml2-config.

    configure: error: libxml2 must be installed. <hr></blockquote>



    any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm running Mac OS X 10.1.5, with 384 mb of ram. To find the source code for go here: <a href="http://dc.ketelhot.de/download.php"; target="_blank">Direct Connect 4 Linux</a>
  • Reply 12 of 23
    Have you installed the developer tools? gcc, cc etc. are compilers and it's saying it can't find any.



    It would be much easier to install the binary with fink. What problems did you have when you tried it that way?



    [ 08-19-2002: Message edited by: stupider...likeafox ]</p>
  • Reply 13 of 23
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    [quote]Originally posted by Proud iBook Owner 2k2:

    <strong>heyas.. i downloaded the source code for mutella and i tried to compile it and if got the following error: [omitted the quote for brevity]



    That's taken from my terminal app upon configuration. Can any Unix geek out there help me? I installer Fink and it still didnt work.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    it looks like it can't find a c/c++ compiler. which would indicate that you didn't install the dev tools. they are on a cd that came with x.1 (not sure if it comes with x.2, but it should). it died trying to find gcc, or cc which are c/c++ compilers.



    [quote]Originally posted by Proud iBook Owner 2k2:

    <strong>...[snip]...any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm running Mac OS X 10.1.5, with 384 mb of ram. To find the source code for go here: Direct Connect 4 Linux</strong><hr></blockquote>

    i haven't tried dc (didn't even know there was an OSS version) but it died trying to find an xml library (libxml2). that particular library can be fink'd (i'm sure, with `sudo fink install libxml2`). failing that, i think i've seen it on sf.net (the place for OSS). but, judging from the problem with mutella, i'd guess that your probably still missing `cc`.



    [ 08-19-2002: Message edited by: thuh Freak ]</p>
  • Reply 14 of 23
    Everybody Thanx so much. COuld you please sne me direct link to where i could download the missing pieces? I got GCC after i posted.... THanx again
  • Reply 15 of 23
    Everybody Thanx so much. COuld you please send me direct links to where i could download the missing pieces? I got GCC after i posted.... THanx again
  • Reply 16 of 23
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    [quote]Originally posted by Proud iBook Owner 2k2:

    <strong>Everybody Thanx so much. COuld you please sne me direct link to where i could download the missing pieces? I got GCC after i posted.... THanx again</strong><hr></blockquote>



    i think you said you have fink. in that case, do this `sudo fink install libxml2`. it may ask you a few things (password first, then if you want to install any dependancies xml2 has). then, you can return to dc. when u install opensource programs that require things you installed through fink though, you have to do `./configure --prefix=/sw/` instead of just `./configure`. basically, when u install OSS, try `./configure`, and if u get probs, try `./configure --prexif=/sw/`.
  • Reply 17 of 23
    Thuh Freak: yes i knew you could do that and i did and heres what it gives me as an error:



    [quote] [localhost:~] gasparhe% sudo fink install libxml2

    Reading package info...

    Information about 428 packages read in 5 seconds.

    The following 3 additional packages will be installed:

    readline readline-shlibs zlib

    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

    curl -f -L -s -S -O <a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libxml/libxml2-2.4.13.tar.gz"; target="_blank">ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libxml/libxml2-2.4.13.tar.gz</a>;

    curl -f -L -s -S -O <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-4.2a.tar.gz"; target="_blank">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-4.2a.tar.gz</a>;

    curl -f -L -s -S -O <a href="http://www.gzip.org/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz"; target="_blank">http://www.gzip.org/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz</a>;

    mkdir -p /sw/src/readline-shlibs-4.2a-4

    tar -xzf /sw/src/readline-4.2a.tar.gz

    mv support/shobj-conf support/shobj-conf.orig

    sed 's/-compatibility_version $(SHLIB_MAJOR)/-compatibility_version $(SHLIB_MAJOR).2/' &lt; support/shobj-conf.orig &gt; support/shobj-conf

    ./configure --prefix=/sw

    checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5

    checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5



    Beginning configuration for readline-4.2a for powerpc-apple-darwin5.5



    checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no

    checking for gcc... gcc

    checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

    ### ./configure failed, exit code 77

    Failed: compiling readline-shlibs-4.2a-4 failed

    <hr></blockquote>



    Any ideas?
  • Reply 18 of 23
    another thing: I installed GNOME and then i tried to start it and it said that i would have to shut down quartz with the -quartz option. Once i do that i assume that GNOME will start to boot up. my question is how do i relaunch Quartz when im finished with GNOME?
  • Reply 19 of 23
    Ya know what? i give up. How do i remove the "SW" folder that was created when FINK was installed? Im gonna be turning my older power mac 8500 into a yellow dog linux box and ill experiment on there. So how do i remove Fink? what terminal command is required?
  • Reply 20 of 23
    ppls? hello??
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