I have heard it said several times over the last few years that Freenet 0.5, known as Freenet Classic Opennet, is dead. This is untrue. As a matter of fact, freenet 0.5 is once again being developed. I have started learning Java programming specifically so that I can contribute a much needed new update of […]
It’s no secret that my finances are, shall we say, less than optimal. I’ve been working on improving the situation for some time and I am making progress even if it is *slow* progress. Enter the would-be Mrs. Helpful. While Mr. Helpful is in town she spends most of her time trying various ways to […]
I have updated the freenet install archives on my freenet page. This update included two things. 1, I updated the default bookmarks so that they now point to the current editions 2, I replaced the seednodes.ref file in each archive with a current one I’m planning to do more updates on this page soon. [tags]freenet, […]
I know that I keep tossing things into the wish list but I figure that there is absolutely no percentage in being conservative with a wish list because who knows, maybe someday something from it will strike somebody as the perfect gift idea. Or, to put it another way, “If you’re going to dream, dream […]
Last month I wrote that I’m Done With Dofollow Comments, explaining that I believed that this blog was being penalized because so many of the urls in those dofollow comments were pointing to what search engines in general and Google in particular refer to as “bad neighborhoods” and that I was going to disable the […]