Bill’s Mind

May 5th, 2007

In the world of file sharing, BitTorrent is huge. There are dozens of clients for every mainstream operating system, heck there are even gadgets that download torrents without a computer! Everyone’s uploading and downloading all sorts of stuff, good and bad, but there is one thing I feel compelled to address and that is the ‘Super Seeder’ option. Your client may or may not have it, and if it does, I command you to STOP USING IT! The name is very misleading, as it doesn’t magically make your crappy DSL or cable modem upload faster. It actually uploads slower in most cases, believe it or not, as it uses a much stricter algorithm to decide how much bandwidth each peer gets, a very shaky form of leech protection that ends up preventing everyone else from uploading much. If you’ve ever been on a torrent that moves really slowly and everyone’s at the same percentage, chances are it’s a super seed.

May 4th, 2007

I’ll be attending the Future of Online Advertising in New York City on June 7th and 8th, a two-day event for online advertisers and bloggers, featuring an all-star panel of speakers including Jay Adelson of Digg fame, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net and many many other top dogs of the industry. If you plan on going, email me for a 10% discount code ;)… Read the rest of this entry »

April 29th, 2007

I’ve been using a neat little utility for the past week called Synergy. It allows one keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers over the network, in an extremely intuitive way. You still need a monitor on the extra computers… Synergy kind of merges all your machines into one huge desktop… Read the rest of this entry »