Carl Franklin

.NET Wonk

Stay Calm, People!

Interbridge Technologies, the ISP that hosts franklins.net, Mondays, Pwop, and .NET Rocks! is in a TEMPORARY lame mode bandwidth-wise. It has to do with a fight between upstream providers that resulted in one pulling out before the other one was in place. However, this is expected to end in a couple days, I've been told.

Meanwhile, please use the MSDN mirror for .NET Rocks! and try use bittorrent for Mondays. I'm afraid it's the best we can do.

Worse case scenario is you do something else for a couple days. You can make it for a couple days without your fix, can't you?

I have been assured that we will be back in spades very shortly.

Posted: Jan 24 2005, 04:24 PM by Carl Franklin | with 25 comment(s)
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Comments

Denny said:

Ahhh..... thats what happened!

Ok Thanks, I was starting to wonder if *MY* isp was linking to you via tin-cans-and-cheap-string :-) very mucho slow....
# January 24, 2005 5:37 PM

Carl Franklin said:

No, it's us. We'll be severely limited here for another 2 days or so.
# January 24, 2005 5:39 PM

Denny said:

WOW!!! OK first 6 minutes

RORY IS BACK!!! No More Mucus discharge!!!

Carl: I hope you do not suffer like he did!
# January 24, 2005 5:56 PM

MK said:

I might be completely blind... I don't see a RSS feed for a .mp3.torrent file for DNR. Is there one?
# January 24, 2005 10:00 PM

Nicholas Sing said:

eeeeeek sry carl wrong stream!!!
# January 24, 2005 11:39 PM

Mike said:

Thanks for explaining.
# January 25, 2005 12:18 AM

Jon Galloway said:

The torrent for the DNR show worked like a charm for me.
# January 25, 2005 3:26 AM

Mr Dunn Lowd said:

Just use the bit torrent, I can hear a crystal clear, mucus free, Rory!!! There aren't any bit torrent links for the old shows so go on over to Microsoft (they might just have some bandwidth). They are wmv files (it's the Microsoft way) which plays havoc with the buggy firmware on my MP3 player but hopefully your one works.

Founder and Chairman of the
<<NO WEB SERVICES FOR FOUR SHOWS!!!!>>
Foundation.

I think that TD had a few too many Karlovackos or spent too much time in the sun. Or he's started his own rival .net show and wants to shoot this show down.
# January 25, 2005 7:28 AM

flipdoub said:

Hey bittorrent guys, about how long did it take you to download this file and what was your transfer rate? Just testing some of my code.
# January 25, 2005 12:21 PM

Peter Stathakos said:

Good thing I'm a show behind as usual... Thanks for the heads up Carl.
# January 25, 2005 12:53 PM

PS said:

Flipdoub,
Are you writing your own Torrent client? Did the guys at Nimiq ever get back to you on fixing it to work with the DNR torrent?
# January 25, 2005 1:10 PM

Carl Franklin said:

I didn't know nimq didn't work with our torrent. Can you point me to a blog post or something?
# January 25, 2005 1:15 PM

PS said:

http://www.nimiq.nl/2005/01/10.asp#a501

Check out the comments.
# January 25, 2005 3:14 PM

Carl Franklin said:

Cool. I didn't even realize Geoff left a message up there. Well, I haven't heard anything new from them, but maybe Geoff has.
# January 25, 2005 3:18 PM

flipdoubt said:

PS, they never got back to me beyond what they posted in the blog comments you've linked to. I was able to use .NET Reflector's FileDisassembler to decompile and step through the whole thing! It's not a DNR problem. There is a logic error in the regular expression Nimiq uses to read the target file's name out of the torrent. So Nimiq tries to write the download to a file with colons in the name.

I'm not really writing my own torrent client as much as I am shopping for .NET torrent libraries that actually work. I was working on a podcasting client / enclosure aggregator of my own before this whole bittorrent bug bit DNR. Once I get out of the planning stage, you should be able to find the client at http://sourceforge.net/projects/podcastanet.

I've been chatting with the project lead of Bittorrent.NET, which looks very promising.
# January 25, 2005 11:55 PM

chaime said:

Hi Guys,

We'll fix the Nimiq bittorrent problem as soon as possible. Keep in mind it's being developed in my free time and I really don't have a lot of it at the moment. So unfortunately fixing Nimiq bugs just has to wait, but thanks again for pointing it out.
# January 26, 2005 7:59 AM

Mike said:

Gack! Downloading from MSDN includes a 2,500 word EULA!!!! Ooops (or "pwop" in this case), I forgot: nobody reads these things anyway. Yes, Next, Next...
# January 26, 2005 11:07 AM

Carl Franklin said:

Is it in C# or VB.NET?
# January 26, 2005 12:45 PM

flipdoubt said:

Carl,

Are you asking chaime or flipdoubt?
# January 26, 2005 1:21 PM

Carl Franklin said:

I guess I'm asking anyone who'se working on Nimiq. I don't know who the people involved are yet.
# January 26, 2005 1:23 PM

Jason said:

Use WinRar to extract from the MSDN download .exe (right click Extract Here) no EULA popup no next,next. ;)
# January 26, 2005 1:26 PM

flipdoubt said:

That would be Carl. I'm just a hacker.
# January 26, 2005 1:53 PM

flipdoubt said:

Um, a tired hacker. I meant chaime. You're Carl.
# January 26, 2005 1:54 PM

chaime said:

Carl,

Nimiq is written in c#
# January 27, 2005 9:06 AM

Mike said:

Carl: I believe the slow download speed issue has returned. I downloaded last week's DNR AAC format fine on Friday but today the dowload is crawling again for the 1/31 DNR show. Thanks.
# January 31, 2005 1:29 PM
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