Not connecting
 

Gnutella 2.43
Only Firewall = Zonealarm
Connecting to net through academic backbone.

Tried downloading and using list of ips as recommended -still no connection.

Limewire just sits there

Number of degres in CompSCi, Physics etc.. Teaching P2 next year to undergrads..


Having spent a year using/teaching Linux (recently removed it as it was unstable and very inefficient - yes it probably was set up wrong but when you're concerned about productivty you havn't always time to look for the latest RPM, find the right driver etc etc).. it strike me that Limewire is a product that suffers the same problems as linux and many open source projects i.e from lack of resource and not customer centric. I have just spent an afternoon trying to get this system to work.. it doesn't. A typical experince with OS material.. promises so much.. but delivers very little..........

Most universities block the public gnutella host caches, so you won't be able to connect with LimeWire. The ip list was just something like an experiment (I guess you didn't try a recent list anyway, since I didn't post any). Here's a newer one (although it ain't the newest one. I don't want to interrupt that guy who's downloading "The House On Chasey Lain" from my computer and I have to quit LimeWire to save a new gnutella.net)
ftp://anonymous:anonymous@whitedrago...g/gnutella.net

The problem with that list is, that you need a little luck to connect.

As for your attitude towards OS, - you might be right, that it's probably nothing for computer-illiterates but your opinion that OS would deliver less than it promises and that it wasn't customer centric is very wrong. Maybe you should give some thought to who the customers of OS are, - and I believe most of them are quite satisfied with what they get.

P.S.
How come, somebody who is obviously not able to form a complete sentence is teaching undergrads?