2010 February
GameCube - Case Mod
While the GameCube never got nearly as popular as it’s competition, it did still provide a few games that made it worth having. Even more so nowadays considering you can find one for an insanely good price! For those of you who still have one of these babies lying around, I’m going to show you how to mod your case.
Usenet - Downloading
Without the aid of tools such as search engines, it use to be quite hard to find what you wanted on Usenet. You had to watch and wait for posts to come by, so you’d subscribe to a group and monitor that group. Nowadays, you can simply go to a search engine and search for what you’d like to find. Simple!
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Usenet - Introduction
Usenet is widely used all over the internet, but when you ask the common person, who knows about P2P(BitTorrent, etc) file sharing, they don’t know what it is. It seems even though it’s used all over, it’s only used by select groups. Generally, all these people fall into the “Techie” group. A lot of older people, who are technically inclined, know what it is but only what it was generally used for in their time.
Peer-to-Peer - Downloading
P2P is really more of a network structure, or rather, a protocol than it is a tool or service, but often that’s what people see it as. When people think of all the programs they use to download files, they usually don’t associate that beneath the hood, most of what people use is all under the same concept or service: P2P. Though this is not always the case, as there are others out there like Usenet, which we’ll talk about in another series.
Peer-to-Peer - Introduction
Peer-to-Peer(also known as P2P) is one of the most known ways of sharing files across the internet. BitTorrent(also known as BT) is probably at the top of the list when it comes to sharing files, simply because of ease, no cost, and a highly dedicated community. It’d be a shame if you didn’t know how to use these tools because a lot of products actually now have a BT mirror to make downloading faster(and cheaper for them) because you’re collectively downloading from a large number of people.