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I don't know if certain clusters are more or less affected than others. It will be helpful to know if anyone is having any particular trouble with certain types of files/clusters.

Sounds like you're suffering from the current attack on the Share network. The network is being flooded with fake packets which is causing timeouts and errors. If you are using Windows 2000/XP/Vista 32-bit, the current solution is to install PeerGuardian2 and load a custom blocklist to block bad...

A screenshot of UEN Disconnector in action. Known bad nodes include: *.amazonaws.com *marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp *.nas945.p-tokyo.nttpc.ne.jp As can be seen in the screenshot.

I posted this message on another Share thread but realized it would be better to keep the info/discussion in its own thread, so apologies for the duplicate. Share users are reporting attacks on the Share network originating from AmazonAWS (and other) servers. The Share network is reportedly...

Most people drive automatic, but you can find stick-shift in Japan (and often for cheaper than automatic because they're harder to sell, since most people want automatic). Pedal order is the same, driver is on the right side of the car, traffic flows on the left side of the road, signs and...

I'm a foreigner and I've never been stopped while on my bike. Actually a few months ago a couple of cops did show up at my door, but it was because they were returning my stolen bike. They did ask me to come to the station and fill out a report, so that if the thief were to be caught he could...

Probably with some plugin, but I've never backed up my nodes, and I clear-and-re-add nodes regularly (about once a month). But honestly I've never had connection problems so I'm not even sure if clearing and re-adding nodes is doing anything for me. Might have to ask for a second opinion around...

Still works for me. Try clearing your nodes list and adding the latest/newest ones.

The really incriminating sites are ones that simply redirect you to other file hosts, but force you to click through their ads in order to get the desired link -- the most notable of which would be linkbucks. In many cases, it's simply a person reposting someone else's uploads, eg: they're...

If anyone's interested, the latest Firefox 3.5 RC2 shows the least memory consumption among all modern browsers (Opera 10, Safari 4, Chrome 3) -- at least when browsing among the Alexa 150 most popular sites: http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory It should go without saying though that once you...

I can't think of any girls who have done JAV and (easily?) switched over to mainstream. Care to suggest some names? In the meantime, these are a riot: sKxJRdzZp4M 4C-UAmtgJ7A Not former U15s, but still fun.

Except with Firefox, you can install the excellent dragdropupload extension, which will allow you to simply drag any file directly onto the file input field, and automatically enter the correct path-to-file. It will even autofill multiple file input fields if you drag-and-drop multiple files at...

Money. Girls don't have to do porn in order to enjoy having sex.

Please read through the thread. Everything you have said is normal, but there are additional tips on how to speed up your downloads or narrow your searches.

There's no way to hide your IP or hostname. The only way peers can even connect to you is if they have your IP (and in turn hostname). The best you can do is use a filter program like PeerGuardian2, which will block IP addresses of known organizations (government, anti-P2P, etc) from connecting...

The hard drive is standard, the fan is probably just an attachment that can be removed by taking off a couple screws. However if you want to move the hard drive to a different computer to use as the main hard drive, you will need to reinstall Windows. If your other computer already has Windows...

There's a tall divider in the middle, one side is for males, the other side for females. You can still talk to each other over the "fence", but no peeking. There might be some exceptions to this (and certainly if you rent a private onsen you can do whatever you like), but if you're a guy you'll...

Specifying an ID does not limit you to only downloading from that single person. Rather it simply matches files that were originally uploaded by the specified user, ensuring that you download the original file and not an altered copy (in case you were searching by filename). Even if you specify...

Well, it may technically not have been intended as a discussion about browsers, but different browsers do in fact render stylesheets differently, meaning what you see can be different from one browser to another despite using the same monitor/resolution. I personally do think the forum software...

This is purely anecdotal but seems fitting. One of my acquaintances has been married to a Japanese woman for a number of years. As a westerner, he's been loyal to her the length of their marriage (ie: no cheating). Which is weird to her, because there's somewhat of an idea that it's normal for a...

I doubt China's not stopping NK isn't simply out of a sadistic sense of humor. China has a lot of critics both inside and outside East Asia, and keeping NK in the spotlight is an excellent way to distract politicians, economists, and humanitarians from concentrating on China's problems. I don't...

You need an upload folder. But your upload folder can be empty. It is normal to only see 3-4 active nodes (in Test and Search states). Share will continually cycle through them to search for your requested files and any peers that may have them. Make sure your triggers (eg: the files you want...

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Preview images are generated via PHP scripts. While the page you're viewing might load, some of the PHP scripts that are called to load the preview images will fail because of the high server load (previously it was the FastCGI errors, now it's the 503 "Service Unavailable" errors) and your page...

If you're using Firefox and have the Greasemonkey script installed, try something like this: var z = document.getElementsByTagName('img'); for(i=0;i<z.length;i++) { if(z[i].width >= 800){ z[i].width = 800; } }

634,392,123 = 605MB of received data. Share always uses a little bandwidth while connecting to the network, as well as downloading and forwarding data to other users, so it is normal to see a lot of received (and sent) data even if no files are downloading. Please check your Triggers and...

If you don't need interchangable lenses, prosumer is an option worth considering. Something like the Canon Powershot G10, because it has the same DiGiC-4 image processor (which is what makes images produced from Canon cameras so clean/crisp) as found in the top-end Canons like the 1Ds and 5D --...

Yes Hasselblads are an absolute dream. Keep in mind though that when it comes to digital medium format, the digital back, camera body, and lens are all separate parts that you need to purchase. Hasselblad may kit them in their promos, which means you could purchase the digital back separately...

You have two options: 1) Transcode to a hardsub (preferably with a near lossless codec), then take the resulting hardsubbed video file and burn it to a DVD as normal. The subtitles will be permanently overlaid on top of the video, but this method may prove to be the least hassle. 2) Convert...

Just one thing real quick: remember that the real world is seldom anything like the internet world. This applies to perceptions of the openness of sexuality in Japan vs America et al, whether or not H-games that simulate r*** are well known, rule 34, etc. On the internet, the perception of...

Well as I had mentioned briefly, I personally would never be so audacious as to consider porn or violent video games a kind of "pressure release valve". Just as much as there may or may not be any definitive correlation between availability of porn and incidence of r*** (even before we begin...

One thing that hasn't been directly discussed: I understand the rationale certain activist groups hold against computer games that simulate r***; that is, out of a belief (whether founded or not) that it is at least indirectly correlated to incidents of actual r***. So what, if anything, are...

Actually Google is (finally) taking a number of their products out of beta right now. And if you look at the demonstration for Google Wave, you should take note that the project is fully open source, so it's possible to 1) freely modify the code for the purposes of addressing privacy concerns...

I've used rtorrent before on a previous headless Fedora box, and I liked it. I had rtorrent set to run on startup and monitor a local folder, which would automatically start the torrent once a new .torrent file was added, and would stop the torrent once it was removed. Coupled with Samba, I...

In the meantime, here's an interesting tech preview, announced just a couple days ago: v_UyVmITiYQ I can already envision that a lot of forum software will be rewritten to take advantage of Wave, and with the architecture of storing the "conversations" in a single location on Google servers...

Japanese authorities have been known to monitor P2P networks, including Share. Most of the attention is focused on copyright infringement (eg: TV shows, movies, music; just like in the West), but two users were caught uploading CP earlier this year...

Unless you never use uTorrent and ShareEX at the same time, you should not have them configured to use the same ports. It can cause a lot of interference and can slow down or break your connections. This is a general rule of thumb for most (if not all) P2P applications. If your router supports...

I'm going to ignore the fact that your Windows Firewall exception says port 44241, while your router config says port 34432, and say that your settings look fine (as long as your ESET firewall software isn't causing the problem). But I'm still not sure exactly how your network is set up...

When I mentioned solids/shades getting broken up into CMYK dots, I was referring to the printed material itself. So the CMYK dots would be there on the paper -- except color prints are almost always high quality (300dpi+, and with manga it's quite easy to achieve 600dpi+), somuchso that the CMYK...

Yes a bridge connection does not need port forwarding. However setting up a bridge connection correctly is a bit more complicated than simply using a basic router/hub mode, and if done incorrectly can break some network functionality. To explain it simply, bridging forwards data according to a...

Well for one thing, even a perfectly even/solid-shaded manga will end up with dots once it's run through a printing press. So one thing you can consider is to simply recolor the black dots to something that better matches the surrounding color, as a compromise between redrawing all of the shaded...

You're missing the point. Go back to your earlier post: It's not wrong to talk about JI and CP/AV, because the discussions do come up frequently. What I'm trying to say is that if you had taken some time to look at the past discussions about JI and CP/AV, you might have realized in advance...

I personally suspect the issue is IIS (admitted I'm an Apache fanboy when it comes to webserving; I've dealt with IIS before), which is probably fighting for CPU resources against MySQL. Theoretically speaking, though the forum may see as many as 5,000 users online at any given time, only a...

It should be a university degree or equivalent, ideally from an accredited institution (but whether Japanese companies or visa/immigration actually checks this or not is a different matter). It's actually pretty easy to find job listings for programming positions in Japan, I've seen quite a...

If you're willing to use Photoshop, I also recommend the polygonal lasso tool, as well as the magnetic lasso tool which will automatically trace hard edges. Another idea inside Photoshop: - Duplicate your original layer - Descreen as best you can using a combination of Reduce Noise...

Let me put it into simpler terms for you: There are a lot of people who's only interest in JI is seeing it shut down. And the way they go about it is to go around making baseless accusations that JI is nothing short of child pornography, and to make it sound like the girls who are involved in...

The biggest problem is that there is no single standard on how graphics are rendered on screen. There are big differences between the metrics of print and screen scaling/dimensions, and no standard way in how raster and vector rendering follows those metrics -- and in reality, there should not...

I'm going to give you a completely different point of view regarding the gap that divides Western (American) and Japanese culture. Not that it's compeltely accurate, it's just a different way to think about things: The West won the war. They were the victors. As a result, the last few...

Imagine yourself with a group of friends, joking around and playing jokes on each other all in good humor, as friends normally do. Along comes a stranger, who starts playing the same jokes on you and your friends because they want to join you and your friends, and (either from their own opinion...

Because the newspapers, especially the english translations, always make grand sweeping statements, and in particular statements which bait people into buying the papers. The same happens with sensationalist reports about the JI industry, as they always focus on a couple most revealing...