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To: Lost1 who wrote (630)	7/18/2001 1:59:05 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3937

This why I stopped and posted for---alternative SURF-MUsic= DeadBolt-- Voodoo trucker picture--- downinthelab.com just yer average Surf Band-- the sound --"GET YOUR hands OFF of ME, Dooood" Watongo-(beware you dirty hippy... downinthelab.com WATONGOoooooo! You don't Scare Me downinthelab.com The Story-- - Red Devlin rooted.com Texas Trippin' to Deadbolt's Zulu Death Mask Genre: Voodoobilly; think Link Wray licks with Boris Karloff vocals Last week, in a state of dire listlessness, I decided to drive up and down rural Texas State Highway 90A, hoping to find an attractive teen runaway looking for her showbiz break in the big bad city. I'd always heard half-whispered stories of delinquent cheerleaders at odds with the small town conservatism that 90A country villages tend to exhibit. About an hour into the trip and not seeing one attractive teen on the lam, I decided to listen to my new Deadbolt CD I'd picked up in San Antone called Zulu Death Mask. The title intrigued me, as well as the neat gimmicky cover that transformed a non-threatening African mask into a bloodthirsty spear-touting native at the flick of a wrist. The record initiated an ominous note as a surf-like haunted organ instro number called "15 Years" filled the dry Texas air, punctuated with occasional mumbles about some "old codger" from vocalist Harley Davidson. I'm assuming it was revenge related. In any case it sounded cool in a creeped out B-movie nudie-roughie kinda way. As the music went on, I found myself falling deeper and deeper into the spell of this strange twang/horror/surf/punk hybrid. It had all the ingredients: half-ass, but endearing musicianship, random, seemingly drunken lyrics, a nice steady drumbeat and decidedly apolitical, notably un-PC lyrics (that alone makes it noteworthy in these modern days of the whale-hugging, sugar-coated, don't hurt anyone's feelings crapola mentality -- which is why I pretty much only listen to instrumental twang and pre-1958 simpleton ballads). It was the perfect soundtrack for my flagitious foray. The CD was over before I knew it, and my stomach was grumbling loudly. I veered into a greasy spoon somewhere outside of El Rey, population in the area of 89. I brought the disc inside to study the liner notes over some huevos rancheros and Dr. Pepper. The huevos were especially greasy and the Dr. Pepper was syrupy. I can't really explain what it was that made me do what I did next, maybe the combination grease, sugar and amphetamines that I'd been popping for three days, maybe it was the influence of the corrupt music. But I suddenly jumped on the table, pulled out my .45 (non-working replica that is, if that'll make you feel any better) and screamed at the waitress in a banshee-like howl, "Turn the freakin' Selena off!" I then calmly walked over to the counter, waving my gun around at the simple country folk. There were two fat truckers , a geeky teen couple and an old codger in his 80's at least, plus the owner and his wife, a non-descript type. You know – hard-working, never got a fair shake. I then directed the waitress to put Deadbolt in their new fancy-pants CD jukebox (probably cost -'em a mint). As the music filled the air I could feel the tension, it was exciting and made my bennies pump even harder. I then announced that we were going to have a listening party. I had the waitress pull the blinds shut, turn the open sign over and sit tight. We listened to the entire disc, then I asked for their reactions. They were varied and unexpected, some refused to participate, others wouldn't stop, and what began as a potential hostage situation turned into a meat and potatoes blue collar round table. One of the ol' truckers piped up in a booming, cigarette-ravaged voice. He was embittered, he'd worked for Little Debbie snack foods for twenty three years, felt screwed over and seemed to find some sort of solace in the tune, "Burn, Little Debby Burn" A thinly veiled sentiment no doubt shared by millions who've lost loved ones to the Bitch Goddess Lil' Debbie and her sugar-packed, artery clogging wares. He especially felt moved by the lyrics, "burn, lil Debby, burn, hot little Debby burn, cakes and pies, deception and lies, hear you're givin' it to all the guys ... burn, lil' Debby, burn, fry, lil' Debby fry, thanks for all the sweets, now good-bye." He said he'd definitely buy the cassette, since his rig didn't have one of "them fancy, shiny record players." Then the old codger spoke up, he proceeded to go on and on about draft dodgers, then explained how he enjoyed the song "Watonga," especially the part, "one day you'll turn around, Watongo will be there, holding a hippy's severed head ... by the hair." He literally squealed with delight when Harley mumbled the lines about "Watongo sees through his hand, he sees that hippie begging on the street. A smelly, dirteeee hippie" in a drawn out luxuriating tone over the twangy bass. Seems the old fella thought all musicians were hippie types, and it was a life- changing revelation that after all these years he was proven wrong, restoring his broken faith in the youngsters of America. His time-ravaged face bore a faint smile. The geeky teen, a debate student no less, immediately earning a place on my sh_t list, was concerned with the seeming pre-occupation with hand/arm abuse, citing the lines from "Creepy and Weird." "The party, it's going real nice, I stick my hand in a bucket of ice, pull it out and I got frostbite, break my thumb off, oh baby that's all right, my Tiki mans eye light up, I drink banana ... beer from a cup" and the line "I'd stick my hand in a deep fryer baby" from "Burn lil' Debby Burn" respectively. I mentioned that he might have a point and cited the line from the exceptionally great "Voodoobilly Man," (from the Tiki Man LP), "I'm cruel, so cruel I'll eat a dead rat, yeah, I'm mean, I'm an animal, oh yeah, I can chew my own arm off, can you do that?" This only added fuel to the fire as he became quite affected that the youth listening to this "garbage" might mimic the bands abuse of appendages as "cool." I told him to can it already.............. downinthelab.com hey also been listening to George Jones and Merle-- good stuff and some jazz but another time-- Come oN FEETs- 25 miles from home and my feets hurting -- but I got to KEEP on WALKIn... I GOT TO WALK on-- COme on feet -dont fail me now 10 miles to go-- (Edwin Starr) gone

To: Lost1 who wrote (630)	7/19/2001 9:11:57 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 3937

Bearshare comparisons from Google thread by Yousuf Khan groups.google.com Hi, I've had a chance to try out extensively about five different Windows Gnutella servant applications, and I have had a chance to come to a conclusion about them. I find a lot of people just try out one of the applications and never bother to check out the others out there. There are a lot of differences, and not just in features, but also in how well they connect to the network; which is surprising, as they should all be equal theoretically. I've tried Newtella, Bearshare, Gnotella, Limewire, and Gnucleus. Newtella: very primitive, avoid. It is restricted to only downloading music files; you cannot search all of the universe of other files available on the Gnutella network. This focus on music would be great if they added some music-specific features, such as playing music as it downloads, or viewing the internal header info MP3 files, but it doesn't do any of this. Nor is it particularly a good searcher on the Gnutella network, I just eventually found that it was coming back with zero matches, when another servant would come back with tons of matches. That was enough for me, got rid of it. Bearshare: simple interface, no frills, but too much advertising. I tried this servant after Newtella -- it was a night and day difference. So I had thought I had found the perfect servant. It was so much better than Newtella that I didn't think anything could get any better -- I was wrong. You had the ability to search for any kind of files not just music. The section tabs on the interface were logically and intuitively arranged (e.g. upload, download, connections, setup, etc.). I did get annoyed by the constant updates that kept coming out; no sooner would you download the latest version than the next version would already come out, and you'd get an annoying message telling you to download that latest version which you couldn't turn off. One thing they kept doing with the upgrades was adding more and more commercial features to it, like advertising popup applications that kept running in the background even when Bearshare wasn't running; these things would at random times popup a web page with an ad for some product in it. I didn't even know how these webpages kept popping up until I looked in my process list and found something running in the background. I used it upto 2.2.4 before I said the heck with this, and uninstalled it permanently. Avoid. Gnotella: getting better, but still buggy. No advertising on this servant, I liked it already. It had some good features, like categorized searches, and multi-window searches. With categorized searches you can search for specifically such things as music files (mp3, wav, wmv, etc.), or image files (jpg, gif, bmp, etc.), or video (mpg, mov, avi, etc.), without having see matches from other categories. Multi-window separated searches simply means you can have multiple searches going, and each of the searches will report their results back into their own individual windows, not all mixed together. In Bearshare, you didn't have this feature, all search results got dumped into the same window and it got confusing. You have upto 3 separate search windows. Another great feature of Gnotella is the ability to apply personalized skins to it. Bearshare also seems to get less hits during searches than Gnotella. However, Gnotella is still in beta, and as such you will often find wierd bugs cropping up out of nowhere, causing application crashes. Fortunately, the application crashes seem to take down the Gnotella itself, and nothing else: this is a good feature for people using Windows 9x/ME, but irrelevant for people using Windows NT/2000. Because of the bugginess, I had to give up using it, but I'd go back to it again without hesitation as they stabilize the code. Limewire: Java interface, very pretty, and pretty stable. This is the most unique Gnutella servant implementation, it is programmed in Java rather than in a Windows-native compiler. You'll notice the unique Java look and feel right away, if you've used a lot of Java applets in the past. The best looking Gnutella servant of them all. Offers a lot of good features, such as categorized and multi-window searches, just like Gnotella; actually it goes one better than Gnotella as it allows you to have more than three searches going simultaneously, each one in its own window. One annoying thing about it is that because it is a Java application, there is a bit of separation between this and any other Windows applications you might be running; for example, you won't be able to cut and paste text from an Internet Exploder webpage and this applet; also, I noticed that my scroll mouse's scroll wheel doesn't work inside this applet, you have to use the traditional up and down arrows on the scrollbar; again, this is likely because of the fact that it is a Java applet and it runs in its own virtual machine separate from the rest of Windows -- what the underlying Java virtual machine won't support, this application won't support either. Also sometimes the Java virtual machine may crash if you run it too long: this is an issue for the people who write the virtual machine, not the applet itself. Gnucleus: not pretty, but a workhorse that gets the job done. This one offers multi-window separated searches, but not categorized searches. This also seems to offer the best network connections of them all; for some reason the searches return the highest hit rates, and it seems to connect to its peers very quickly compared to all of the others. As soon as I connect to the network with this program, I often see that there are people already beginning to download from me within seconds. As such, this is the ideal servant for a pure upload server; you can leave this program running, go off to work and people can sponge files off you to their hearts content while you're gone. It even offers some server-oriented speed filter features not available on any other servant. For example, if you have a DSL or cable connection, and you don't want some 56K modem user trying to download multimedia files that will take several hours to download, you can set minimum speed limits. This servant was programmed under the Gnu GPL license, so we can only imagine that it will be the basis of better and better features in the future as the Gnu community works on it en masse. Just some final notes about all of the clients. Some of the clients can do recursive directory searches, i.e. they can search through subdirectories for files, while others can't. Newtella and Bearshare can't, everything else can. Gnucleus can even include subdirectory path names in the search criterion. Overall, I'd suggest that Gnotella and Limewire are the best overall servants, with Limewire coming out on top for stability. Gnucleus is the best servant as a server. Bearshare, if you're okay with the advertisements, you can go for it. Avoid Newtella. [my comment- still reading --