DC and ARP
by oBelIX
Cognitive class makes a lot more sense if you have had less than 10 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours. -CeG <oBelIX>
Before I start another post, I’d like to point out that this is not as much of A Random Post as it is A Research Paper post.
The whole of the last week went in writing a research paper on the BTP. Apparently, its a heck of a lot harder to write your work than to do your work. Seriously, it is really hard. The first draft that we wrote was pretty much crap (mostly because it was written when we had GRE). The second draft had some structure. Sadly, it was not appreciated by the general community. This draft had taken more than 12 hours to write.
Anyway, we rewrote this … It took another 12 hours. This time, we got the flow right. The only problem with papers is that they are constantly evolving. Days will go in just gathering the results and making graphs. (It feels very nice when you expect a hyperbola and get a hyperbola). Gathering results is a mind-numbing asinine job. Seriously … it sucks.
while 1:
Write a draft
Submit and get review
Make changes in review
Anyway, yesterday finally this thingie got submitted. Boy am I glad. Pretty much hadn’t done anything much other than work on this over the last two days. Oh, and I’d like to thank everyone who helped … especially the people who read all the stuff that we had written and found out mistakes. Seriously, We owe you one. If I was more of the Wooster / VVHB type, I’d write a poem but then, my literary talents leave much to be desired. So I will deisist.
I’ve seen a bit of Malcolm in the MIddle. Its pretty funny. And the sysadmin’s are constantly blocking DC++. Very Very irritating. Of course, we have seen an improvement in the way they are blocking. Atleast they are using their heads. Anyway people are already going back to FTP servers … its like going back to the stupid stone age. I would appreciate a reason for the blocking … so if someone is close with the sysadmin’s then please enlighten the whole of the IIIT community on why such an action is being taken. Otherwise, its going to be a cat and mouse game. They block it, we figure out a way to unblock it. They go around this. We go around it again.
Currently, they are blocking DC++ based on the authentication packet. They read each and every packet on the wireless router, check if the packet contains “$Lock=…” (DC authentication text). If it does, they drop this packet at the router. Which is why DC++ just gets stuck at “Connected”. It is waiting for this packet from the hub. You can try it yourself. telnet to a hub from 200, the authentication will reach you. telnet from a wireless PC, it wont. I still question the utillity of reading each and every packet but then who am I.
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PS – CS seems to be making a comeback.
PS1 – This is the end
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stressing ur point by posting it thrice ? 😛
and yeah best of luck the paper
You know what Prof. Bezawada said in class yesterday – that DC takes too much resource because everytime a user shares a new file, his filelist is sent to server and then the server(hub) sends his HUGE NEW filelist to all the connected clients!!!
LOL at him. If that was the case, then there woud not have been any need to download any filelist manually, as we do.
That is precisely my point. I think the profs are so brainwashed that they are unable to even understand how stuff works. They just believe whatever is told to them. Its sad.
There is no point arguing to the profs in IIIT. Only a few of them have any sense. There was this one prof. somtime back, who opted for one ISP because the same ISp was providing a free connection at his house. And that ISPs service was sooo bad that I thihnk they got it changed in sometime.
I guess somethign similar has happened this time.
Nothing can be done about the IIIT. The only thing that is in ur hand is to passout from it as soon as possible