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| MORPHEUS - DON'T DO IT |  | Category: Tech
Tuesday, March 5th, 2002 @ 09:20 pm
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Dumb Bastards
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I felt I had to post something due to my long absence. Its just that not much has been "post worthy" I suppose, or I haven't had the motivation to scribble down all my amazingly brilliant ideas and plans of late and share them with the world. Well, if only I had any amazingly brilliant ideas and plans as of late...
Basically I'm posting this to send a message to all ex-users of Morpheus: don't switch to their new client. If you're thinking about it, stop. If you already have, uninstall the fucker. Then download Gnucleus instead. Lemme give the skinny on why (of course, most of my friends read slashdot and already know, so this isn't going out to you).
Morpheus basically took the source code from gnucleus (which they offer freely), added a shitload of banner and popup ads to it, slapped their logo on it, and plunked it out there for everyone to download. In brief: if you download Gnucleus, you are getting the EXACT same thing as Morpheus, without the ads.
For those of you who haven't switched and don't know anything about it, basically Morpheus didn't pay their bill to the people that own the network that Kazaa & Morpheus used (which was much more reliable) so they got booted and had to switch to the gnutella network (free, less reliable, but impossible to shut down ala Napster).
As a side note, I downloaded the source code to Gnucleus for shits and giggles, and while skimming through it I thought up a feature I would like added to it. After a couple moments of perusing it, I think I kinda had an idea about how to add it, which I thought was pretty farking cool. The only problem is it requires Miscrosoft Visual C++ to compile, which I don't have. So, ptttb to them, they don't ever get to see the amazing advancements I'd be able to offer them.
On the same subject, I've been having a big time inkling into getting out of Visual Basic, and more into the "real" shiznit, mainly C++. I've been writing php for quite some time now, which is syntactically quite similar, so I think I have enough warm-up knowledge to embark on this voyage. Of course, I have no idea how to setup the cywin/gcc/fltk/etc sandwich I'd need to begin developing for free on a windows machine. I have gcc (the compiler) on my Linux machine, and I can do all the console (aka text mode) shiznits I want, its just that I don't have X-Windows installed on it, so I gets no GUI fun. The initial learning curve for these things looks like Mount-fucking-Everest from where I'm standing, so that will probably be on hold till someone can shove me ass deep into it all (**cough*john*cough**).
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