Their website looks nice but they appear to only support Mac OS X.


Not a lot of options for us 8.6 people. Nosiree.

Under this handle maybe.

Commenting on well documented shortcomings of a program is not "flaming."
It is simply a justified critique. Why are you so defensive of such an inferior product junior?

So, you're 82 years old and still naive?

It seems my name has cropped up!
 

Well, it's good to see that everything is as I left it a month or so ago. Some people want Limewire to deliver jam tomorrow and the brave troops defend the line that the application is doing the best it can in adverse conditions.

I have been looking at the alternatives to Limewire for Mac users and can report that all of them are inferior if what you want is a free search engine that delivers a wide range of product in a reasonably efficient manner. It would not be a contructive use of limited space here to deliver a detailed critique of the opposition clients. Suffice it to say that they may all start with the appearance of delivering the goods but, statistically, they do not measure up.

However, the use of this system is not actually the most efficient system for exchanging material. The world of hubs provides a more effective source for all forms of media. I've been using Neo-Modus DC and it's a painless way of accumulating material in a serendipitous way. The supposed drawbacks are that there is no free search facility available (unless you can get dcgui.qt to work) and the pop-up system is highly disruptive. You need OSX for all the best Mac based hub software.

Should you explore this world? Well, you're going to need a trading quantity of material before you start. All the better hubs require a minimum holding of useful files as a key to entry. And, before you think of cloning files to cheat the system, all the better hubs are all policed and fakers are kicked off. The better the hub, the larger the holding required and the more rigorous the checking. However, once you have gained admission to some sensible hubs, you can begin looking around for what you want. And, once located, you can d/l for as long as the other users stay on-line or return to the hub.

So if you are a broadband user and stay on-line for long periods of time, you can accumulate whatever you want and a lot you didn't know you wanted until you found it. The exercise is mildly addictive for those with a pack-rat disposition like me. However, if you only want specific files and you have limited access to the net, Mac users should stay with Limewire. It is a labour-intensive way of acquiring what you want but, believe the really old man when he tells you that the other free-searching ways ain't worth spit.

Good to hear from you again. Wondered what you were trying now.
Cheers.

Pluckers and David91s
 

Peerless, ya miserable dishonest old plucker... You've been lying to me about your age again ? Ssheeeeeeesh !
Strumming me along !

And, as for David91... well, sure is nice to see a post from him, huh ? :p

Ya dirty old creeps !

Now, seconds away and continue your polite battle !

Learn Something New Every Day Dept:
 

Who says life isn't full of surprises ? :D

Venturing into the L/W Forum, this old tin man has found it to be, like most forums, well, like all other forums.

HA HA HA!

I don't have the problems mentioned in the "Why do you bother w/Limewire?" original post.

Of course, I am a patient old man. I also don't expect free lunches.

What if it takes 30 minutes to DL a 3 MB file? What if it takes three days to complete a file? Folks are not out to get you when a DL goes into "awaiting sources". It happens to me half the time.

Move on!
Do something else.
Maybe... get a life? Well I did say maybe.

Remember there are any number of reasons that lines go down and disruptions by ISP are common.

To answer the posters question, I own tons of vinyl that I can't/don't feel like wet - transferring myself. I bought the copywrited legal versions of over 140,000 tunes over 40 years.

I use Limewire to DL files that I own in another format for my own listening pleasure.

No, I can't DL all the songs since whole volumes are found only on vinyl. I can find most all the songs I personally listen to and it's so much fun "on the hunt" for an elusive file. :D

I can see my work here is done.

And Limewire is still a POS.

[aside: Peerless, have you grokked brainerd? http://www.newtechusa.com/PPI/pressroom.asp#interview]

trap_jaw, if you'd be kind enough to reply, why do you bother with Limewire?

Too bad there aren't more bugs to keep us busy.

I initially bothered with LimeWire because I had to learn Java, so I was looking for an interesting open-source project that was written in Java to write a little code.

I like the idea of the open-source movement so I remained with LimeWire, especially since it's probably the best Gnutella client that runs on Linux.

I'm not using LimeWire very often, except for the purpose of testing. I don't tend to find the content I want on Gnutella and when I upload stuff to Gnutella it is not reshared. So long I am trying to help making Gnutella a little better although it might be a little like fighting wind mills, given the attitude of certain vendors releasing badly written clients which fail to implement important new features (but add useless ones like proxy support instead, - God, I have written a proxy patch for LimeWire last year already.).