Great news for all who want to download files in a more secure way

[Lucian]

Here is a very interesting new product called mandrake move. Why am I telling the file sharing community about this? Here is why. This is the first portable operating system I have ever seen. What it allows you to do is take all your files anywhere you go on a keychain. This USB harddrive keychain allows you access your files from any computer anywhere. To top it all off, this setup runs on Linux so you can access you files with a degree of security. The Linux OS runs on the CD, you put the CD in drive, you restart the computer and your OS will start up, you then connect your USB keychain to the USB port on the computer. You can download music, movies, whatever from any computer anywhere and its completely annonymous because the files are stored on a keychain, not a harddrive and that keychain is with you.

So the RIAA is screwed if a product like this becomes popular.
Here is the URL for the product to anyone who is interested.


http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove/

[shawners]

I saw it earlier on the net. How much can the keychain hold and how much it cost?

[notbob]

that isn't all that useful

you could use dcgui with it, but you could never make a minimum share with it (or store a lot of files with it)

[Lucian]

im sure you can buy a more expensive key which stores more files, but we arent all rich.

[knowitall]

I checked out the link you provided and it seems to me that you are a little confused about how this thing works. The USB key does not allow you to download and store all your music or movie files. You need a lot of storage, especially for movies, and the key does not provide that. It stores configuration files and personal data for use with the OS. I think you are confusing this with the USB flash memories that are becoming so popular. Plus, if you think about it, what good would a device be if you could only connect to one other computer at a time to download music, movies etc? Personally I like the fact that when I download from the net there are thousands of others on at the same time. It makes finding stuff so much easier.

[fernandez]

That sounds interesting. Flash drives are still expensive though, but I think that will change soon.

Take a look at this, a 1GB flash drive.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/1gb-flash.html

[DemonusAE]

I see where this can lead. To be honest, it's not a bad idea. It's just not practical yet. Needs alot of work, but I do like the general concept.

[notbob]

at one point there was a direct connect that ran completely from a zip disk

it died off quickly--i wish i still had it (and a zip drive)

this is sort of interesting, but not really useful yet

[Malicious Intent]

Call me stupid, but I dont get it. The danger is giving away the IP address of the computer that you download from. How can this help? If you are on a network that usually blocks ports or has an anti-p2p firewall, how will this help?

[isus]

tigerdirect has 2gb flash... for $600.

anyway, i'll pass on this, first of all, it's not a new idea, using someone else's computer, just putting the files you dl on something portable (pen drives, hard drives, cd-r's...).

linux is nice and all, but a lot of networks don't have any support for it (and if they do, it's barely functional). so the better idea would be to go get windows 98lite, install it on the pen drive, install klite, winmx, or whatever, and then set up the bios to use the usb drives first.

the only other problem is the fact that no matter the os, be it linux or windows, everytime you used a different computer, you would hafta wait for entirely new drivers to load... and on a usb connection, that's 11mb/s. which translates into about 1.4mB/s... that's really slow. slow as in, my 1994 computer with an 850mB hard drive and pentium 100mhz and 24mb ram goes faster than that.

[kiwibank]

DOWNLOADing music is awesome, before i use to walk into a record store and have to shop lift it from the shelfs.. Now i just download it.. saves gas, saves time, and saves me the trip to the jail

ha,ha,ha - very cool.

[origin]

guys come on now even if there is 2 gig flash cards, in the p2p world how usefull would 2 gig be thats like barely any space what 2 movies? and especially with that price tag they can dream on about actually selling that product.

l8

[notbob]

tigerdirect has 2gb flash... for $600.



the only other problem is the fact that no matter the os, be it linux or windows, everytime you used a different computer, you would hafta wait for entirely new drivers to load... and on a usb connection, that's 11mb/s. which translates into about 1.4mB/s... that's really slow. slow as in, my 1994 computer with an 850mB hard drive and pentium 100mhz and 24mb ram goes faster than that.

the drivers are on the cd, so they go on at 32x or whatever

the pen drive saves installed apps and desktop settings

[isus]

the drivers are on the cd, so they go on at 32x or whatever

the pen drive saves installed apps and desktop settings
(i was talking about not even using a cd... just running everything from the pen drive)

[Lucian]

linux is nice and all, but a lot of networks don't have any support for it (and if they do, it's barely functional). so the better idea would be to go get windows 98lite, install it on the pen drive, install klite, winmx, or whatever, and then set up the bios to use the usb drives first.

Do some research. Linux works with just about every type of Network and usually works better with Windows networks than actual Windows. Type Samba into google.

[isus]

Do some research. Linux works with just about every type of Network and usually works better with Windows networks than actual Windows. Type Samba into google.
i mean p2p networks. yes i know that linux works on all types of protocols...

but i have yet to see a winmx client for linux, or ares, or so many others. the ones they do have are edonkey2k and gnutella... bt too. i don't think they have any real ft support...