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Entries from February 2018.

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+ The SysVinit upstream project just migrated to git +
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+ 18th February 2018 +
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Surprising as it might sound, there are still computers using the +traditional Sys V init system, and there probably will be until +systemd start working on Hurd and FreeBSD. +The upstream +project still exist, though, and up until today, the upstream +source was available from Savannah via subversion. I am happy to +report that this just changed.

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The upstream source is now in Git, and consist of three +repositories:

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I do not really spend much time on the project these days, and I +has mostly retired, but found it best to migrate the source to a good +version control system to help those willing to move it forward.

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As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

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Using VLC to stream bittorrent sources @@ -38,9 +84,10 @@ the most efficient ways to distribute large files on the Internet, and Webtorrent is a variant of Bittorrent using WebRTC as its transport channel, allowing web pages to stream and share files using the same technique. -The network protocols are not identical, so a client supporting one of -them can not talk to a client supporting the other. I was a bit -surprised with what I discovered. Looking at +The network protocols are similar but not identical, so a client +supporting one of them can not talk to a client supporting the other. +I was a bit surprised with what I discovered when I started to look. +Looking at the release notes did not help answering this question, so I started searching the web. I found several news articles from 2013, most of them @@ -314,12 +361,39 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address

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