Wednesday, 9 April 2003

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It's raining bits, hallelujah!

BitTorrent was plodding along quite nicely in relative obscurity until an article published by the BBC claimed that it was the cause of wide-scale piracy of the movie The Matrix Reloaded. The story spread throughout the internet like wildfire and reached its zenith of exposure when it was linked by Slashdot. In effect the BitTorrent homepage and a large number of supporting 'tracker' sites were 'slashdotted';...

Wednesday, 2 April 2003

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Dude, where's my DLL?

How often have you tried to run an application only to be told you're out of luck because some obscure DLL file is missing from your system? These messages can arise as a result of faulty installations, because you've accidentally deleted an essential component yourself, or even if the software author has forgotten to include the file altogether. Rather than re-install the troublesome application...