Dargens File Sharing on TV

See latest look and feel here. Still a lot of work to be done. Now Chinese New year is done we should make faster progress during the year of the Boar (pig).

If you want to download MP3s or videos try Dargens share your life, share your files, be intimate.

Joost Invites to Give Away to Dargens File Sharers users

I have two joost invitations to give away.

I will give them to two users who leave a comment here.

If there are more than two by the 7th March 2007 I will give the invitations to the user that gives the best reason for getting an invitation.

If you want to download MP3s or videos try Dargens share your life, share your files, be intimate.

New Logo for Dargens MP3s and Movies

Logo not finalised but we will use this one until we come up with something better.

New Look for Dargens

OK no more changes. All out of time. This will be the look for the beta.

itsDargens.com Person to Person Download Service Back Online

ItsDargens.com is back online.

Looking to have new look and feel up by end of Tuesday Chinese time.

Then sort out bugs and get working Beta by end of week.

Aim of the site is to allow people to download files from their old or new friends person to person rather than via internet.

This will make transfers quicker and more private.

The site will also list groups of people and the type of files they are sharing in both a public and private searchable index.

Nearly There With New Look

Nearly there for Dargens the file sharing meeting place website.

Aiming to have beta ready for 15th February.

Make new friends - be intimate share your life - share your files!

How to Install Ruby on Rails on CentOS 4.4

I thought that others might find it useful if I listed how I re-installed Ruby on Rails on to my server after its recent disk failure.

The steps:

1. Ruby
2. Gems
3. Ruby on Rails
4. Mongrel
5. Website
6. Configuration of Rails
7. Apache http configuration

Ruby
change directory to a temporary and get the Ruby rpm files from the web:
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-1.8.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-devel-1.8.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-docs-1.8.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-irb-1.8.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-libs-1.8.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-mode-1.8.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-mysql-2.7-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm (NO NEED TO LOAD IF YOU HAVE A DB)
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-postgres-0.7.1-4.el4.centos.i386.rpm (NO NEED TO LOAD IF YOU HAVE A DB)
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-ri-1.8.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
Use rpm –ivh packagename to install


Gems
Download latest Gems:
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17190/rubygems-0.9.2.tgz
tar zxf rubygems-0.9.2.tgz
cd rubygems-0.9.2
sudo ruby setup.rb


Ruby on Rails
Install rails
sudo gem install rails

Install mysql bindings
sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-include=/usr/include/mysql\ --with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/mysql --with-mysql-config

Update to latest version of Rails.

Mongrel
sudo gem install mongrel

change directory to the root directory of website then:

mongrel_rails start -p 4000


Website
FTP the contents of the Ruby on Rails directory to the root of the public http directory on the server.


Configuration of Rails
If you already have a database for your Ruby on rails application dump it then use phpmyadmin to create a database then upload the dumped database.

Then update the config/database.yml file onthe sever for user, passwords, socket and database name.


Apache http configuration
I use Direct Admin on my server so it is easy to change the apache configuration.

You may have to change httpd.conf to include the proxy module first take the # from these lines:
#LoadModule proxy_module modules/libproxy.so
#AddModule mod_proxy.c

Then add the following lines to the http config file:
ProxyPass / http://www.itsdargens.com:4000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.itsdargens.com:4000/
Backslash very important!




Links
http://railswiki.involution.com/index.php/Main_Page

Feb 2007 Pizza On Rails

PizzaOnRails

Went to Pizza on Rails last night. Very good met loads of interesting people working on loads of interesting project some of which weren't covered by NDAs so could be discussed. More motivated than ever now. see www.pizzaonrails.com.

We're Going Cuckoo About Look of Site

Still have not got the look and feel as we want it. Trine has been pulling her hair out - we are aiming to launch a beta 15th Feb 2007 so we are running out of time. P2P F2F file sharing is complex enough without a poor website.

itsDargens / kerjodando p2p Server Down

The its Dargens website and kerjodando p2p server are down due to an issue at our host company Netrino ltd.

We received the following messages from them:

25th Jan 2007

Dear Customer

As you are no doubt aware, last year both Redbus Interhouse, the company from which we purchase most of our data centre space, and Telecity were both acquired by the investment group 3i to form TelecityRedbus, the single largest data centre operator in Europe. Since the date of the sale, wholesale prices have increased rapidly, partly due to the monopoly on space now held by the company, but also the scarcity of available space in the centres themselves with demand for space now far exceeding supply.

When we renewed our contracts last year, we were subjected to a significant price increase which saw our costs double overnight. We were determined not to compromise the excellent value of our dedicated servers and colocation space, and kept our retail pricing static despite the huge cost increase. We were able to achieve this partly because of the volume discounts we had negotiated on IP transit, but also by making savings numerous savings within the company. One of the savings was with our freelance staff which, we will be the first to admit, has had a serious affect on the quality of the support we have been able to give in the last year. Despite our best efforts to improve the situation, many customers have commented that the support we are currently able to offer is not as effective as a year ago, and this is something we are determined to change.

Once again, we come to renewal time for the first of our three data centre contracts and have found prices to increase by a further 60%. We have negotiated hard over the last month since we received the renewal price, but have been unable to achieve any reduction in this rate. We do not wish to be forced into making further savings to compromise our operation any further, and are also concerned about raising retail pricing in line with the costs as it would seriously upset the the excellent value our range of services offers.

After much contemplating, we have this week signed a deal with a new data centre provider, Blue Square Data, to relocate a large proportion of our operation to their flagship facility, Blue Square House in Maidenhead. The site is one of the strongest of the new data centres, with technical facilities of the same standard as the Docklands operations but at a price which offers far better value and will allow us to restart our investment in client support without having to make increases in our retail pricing. As contracts with Redbus expire over the coming year, we will be relocating the majority of servers currently housed in Redbus facilities to the new facility. Once a significant number of machines have moved, we will be relocating our London office to the Blue Square facility itself, giving us an on-site presence during office hours and ensuring any problem which requires attention to a physical server can be actioned far quicker than at the present time.

We will keep our two points of presence in Docklands ensuring we are able to take advantage of the IP transit deals we have negotiated, and have commissioned 2 x Gigabit circuits between the POP's and Blue Square to give a fully resilient backhaul to Docklands.

Your server is currently located in the area covered by our first contract, which expires at the end of the month. We therefore intend to relocate it to the new facility on the evening of Friday 26th January. The server will be shut down some time after 10pm and moved to the new facility where it will be reinstated on our new network node. We expect all work to be complete by 4am, although we aim to have no server offline for no longer than 2 hours. No IP address or other configuration changes are needed - the server will continue to operate as normal once active in the new building.

If you have any queries about this move, please drop us a line either by replying to this email, or calling on 0207 670 1670.




28th Jan 2007
It looks suspiciously like the disk in this machine is about to die. I might be able to rescue it for long enough to copy the files off, but to do so I need your root password as I can't even get as far as single user mode. Please let me know what it is if you would like me to attempt a rescue, if not, I think a reload with a new disk is the best solution.


30th Jan 2007

I've been over to the data centre this evening myself to try and get this working. It appears that /boot is corrupted, most probably due to the disk in your server failing. I'm going to have Luke take a look in the morning to see if he can work out a way of getting it to boot so you can recover data, but it is most likely that the disk will have to be replaced and a fresh OS installed.

I will update you once I have spoken to Luke. In the mean time, it would be sensible to ensure your backups are close at hand so that you can restore sites as necessary should a rebuild be needed.

Anonymous P2P in Work Place and University | Websense bypass | Web proxy avoidance

As an experiment I tried to use kerjodando p2p file sharing client in my work place behind the firewall and a websense proxy.

A difficult environment for p2p file sharing similar to that faced by many university students.

Kerjodando p2p (an ANts p2p mod originally developed by Italian student Gwren, Roberto Rossi) connected and I could upload and download files.

Moreover the connection was secure, encrypted and "anonymous" (friend to friend so IP address hidden as file location not linked to IP address as in ordinary file sharing applications).

Generally, to connect to a p2p file sharing network you need to meet three conditions:

1. Your IP address needs to be externally visible to the internet
   
2. You need an open communications port
3. You need access to the internet to upload and download
   

Kerjodando p2p met these three contions as follows:

1. When you click on a swarm "start" link at the swarm index site http://www.itsdargens.com/ the p2p client automatically downloads and sets up your external IP address even if you're behid a firewall, NAT or proxy.
2. Kerjodando p2p spoofs SSL and uses port 443. So if you can surf the internet then it will connect and you can file share. Port 80 and 443 are used for web surfing.
3. Again if you can surf the internet via a browser you can file share. You just need to set-up kerjodando p2p in the same way that the browser was set-up. In my case I looked in the Options|Advanced|connections and found the proxy port and address. I then entered these into kerjodando's proxy setting.

The great thing about this is that while you're file sharing it looks like you either using VOIP, SSL FTP or a secure connection to a website.

So all those students at Zeropaid.com who think that they have been locked out of file sharing now can do it in a secure way.

I am currently testing kerjodando p2p on this page click START KERJODANDO to download the Java client and connect to the test swarm.

You can also set up your own swarms to test.

There is no need to register or log in to use this website.

Ruby on Rail For Faster Downloads Updated

The website has been updated. Should be easier to connect to download faster.

Also, new "look and feel", see above, done by a new web designer. She is from Shanghai and I think her design show promise.





Do the following to download test MP3 / video and share your files.



Click of link HERE >>>>then download Thingy opens (yes to all questions) >>>>>connect>>>>>>search>>>>>download small file>>>END






You can look at "Test Swarm" page on Dargens here with out opening the download Thingy.



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itsDargens.com New Bit Torrent type Ruby on Rails Website

Well its working - a new Bit Torrent type anonymous p2p website.



What I have done is to added a Bit Torrent type tracker to an existing anonymous p2p client (ANTs p2p, open source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANts_P2P )
this allows users to specify who they want to connect with.

Say if you were into ANIME or HENTAI and you wanted to share files and proxy files with others with a similar interest then you would go to itsDargens.com and create a swarm stating that.

You would send that swarm address (like a bit torrent link) to those who you wanted to join swarm.

Also other users could join the swarm by searching itsDargens.com say for ANIME or HENTAI so finding your swarm page.

To connect to your swarm a user just clicks the START link on your swarm page and it launches ANts p2p but with a filter that only allows them to link to people who have also clicked on that particular link.

After that it is the same as ANts p2p (searching and downloading) except that it is much FASTER and fairer as you provide proxy resources for those that share your interest!

Also, if you want to set up a private swarm that only you could invite people to then you would set your swarm as private.

The search would then not publish a link to it. You could then invite users to join by telling giving them the secret private link by email or private message.

Also, you can join up to two swarms at the same time if you register as a user.

This allows swarms to be linked forming a huge network of content that can be accessed anonymously.

For test see http://kerjodando.blogspot.com/2007/01/dargens-f2f-p2p-social-network-file.html

For itsDargens.com see http://www.itsdargens.com/

Would you help me to test this - just a few minutes of you time needed to download ANts p2p connect to a swarm then give me some feedback on ezzy.elliott@gmail.com

Also, if you have any suggestions for categories such as music adult Hentai etc please let me know.

Thanks in Advance bloggers

Issues Found During Test

I've just been trying kerjodando p2p at a few Internet cafés and I found these three issues:

1) When you click the " click here to start kerjodando: start " (on the test itsDargens.com page ) it gave an error. To get it to work I had to do "save as" and then open downloaded file.

2) Once the client was open it took a long time to connect so in the end I did "Connect to Neighbour address" in advance mode.

3) Dargens did not check that I had the latest version of Java installed.

Once I connected I could download MP3s and videos faster than bit torrent.

Hope these hints are helpful to alpha testers.

Dargens F2F P2P Social Network File Sharing Site Now Up for Alpha Testing

I would like to invite you to help me develop a new website.

It really look horrible at the moment but we are working on this.

Hopefully, this ugly version works.

Help me test just have a go for a couple of hours.

Click on link below:

http://www.itsdargens.com/swarm/show_one/66e9b69841ab84096cd197c88419cec3


Then

"click here to start kerjodando: Start " on page.

ITS A BIT LIKE BIT TORRENT.

This is the first open test so probable won't work - please feel free to send feedback.

Happy New Year.

Thanks Team for Working So Hard in 2006

I would like to thank all the kerjodando / Dargens team for all their hard work during 2006.

I would especially like to thank Vicent the developer (English) who has had to learn Ruby on Rails to be able to code the website. Vicent has also directed the coding /implementation of the website "look and feel".

I also would like to thank Trine, whose day job is being a professional stylist, who has added a new dimension to the team as well as designing Dargens website.

And lastly I would like to thank Gwren who wrote the original client ANts p2p.

During the first quarter of 2007 I would like to finish the website AND update the client (ANts p2p) to make it small, faster and give it a new web/html user interface.

So Happy New Year everyone.

P.S. I found an interesting article about the original ANts p2p client.

Making Some Progress Towards Ruby on Rails Beta Website

The developer Vicent said by email yesterday that,

All the functions have been finished, EXCEPT that:

1.Validation the input
2.Error process
3.Look and feel not in place so site is very ugly
4.RSS feed
5.Ajax(user register,user login)

So please don't pay attention to the ugly page, only look at the functions.

and there are two items in one page(list swarms)

here is the url:
http://211.103.102.214/index/index

To test this page as it is p2p I need alpha testers.

If you can help please email me on ezzy.elliott@gmail.com .

2nd Draft of Look and Feel Still Disappoints

Still not remotely what we asked for but neater and more airy.

Look and Feel Disappointment

Just got the first draft of look and feel from "web designer". Very disappointed. Further drafts can only be an improvement.

Dargens FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

How do I download?

This guide will show you how to get started with Dargens.

Installing

1. Go to a "swarm page" that interests you either by using the search function or clicking on a link (swarm page address / URL).
2. To download you need to have the latest version of Java (most modern browsers have it installed if not can get it from here).

3. Click on the launch swarm button this will automatically download and install the latest version of p2p client (kerjodando) and connect you to the swarm.

Downloading

1. Wait a few minutes for the p2p client to connect to other users in the swarm
2. Click on the search tab and enter the name of the content that interests you

3. To download right-click on file in search result and select download

4. Leave p2p client connected to continue privately sharing .
   

Other info

To connect to more than one swarm at a time join and get an account. You can then bookmark any interesting swarms you find by clicking on the "swarm bookmark" button.

You can then get to your bookmarks by logging in to your account page. You then can select which swarms you want to connect to when the p2p client is launched.

You can create a swarm by clicking the "make swarm" button and creating a "swarm page".

You cannot change or delete a "swarm page" once created.

Send the "swarm page" address (URL) to your friends, relative, colleagues and so on by email or communicate it by other means.

They can then join your swarm by clicking on the link to go to the "swarm page" and then launching the p2p client by clicking the "launch swarm" button.

You can keep the "swarm page" address (URL) private by selecting private and giving contact information instead (optional) when making the "swarm page".

Private swarm page address (URL) are hidden in search results.

Keywords

Swarm - a group of online friends who share pictures, videos, music, documents and other electronic media.

Swarm page - a page that describes a swarm using words and a picture.

Swarm page address - the unique address (URL) of a swarm page
e.g. www.kerjodando.com/FLKJFLDJFDIO25FJDLFJFKJFLD34LFDDKFJ

Java - plug-in used by browsers and mobile phones to run games.

P2p client - a small application that allows users to connect to and share files with other who share common interests.

Bookmark - to save the address (URL) of interesting swarm page to your account.

Private swarm page - swarm page where address (URL) is not shown in any search results.

Public swarm page - swarm page where address (URL) is shown in search results.

Privately sharing - all users' identities hidden during file sharing (IP addresses cannot be linked to files being shared).