{"id":835,"date":"2003-09-07T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2003-09-07T13:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/technodonkey\/"},"modified":"2003-09-07T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2003-09-07T13:38:42","slug":"technodonkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/technodonkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Technodonkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why it&#8217;s taken me so long to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nongnu.org\/mldonkey\/\">MLDonkey<\/a> I don&#8217;t know &#8211; but what a find. It&#8217;s a P2P filesharing client that can talk to all the major networks including Gnutella (Limewire etc), Fasttrack (Kazaa etc), Direct Connect (DC) and&#8230;that type of thing. What I love most about it is that it isn&#8217;t just a graphical app &#8211; it runs as a daemon. You can control it through a telnet interface, or a web interface or a GTK-based GUI front end. So even if you close the GUI (or it bombs) the downloads continue. There&#8217;s a nice MacOS X port too. I&#8217;m still not sure how they got FastTrack support into it &#8211; last I heard it was pretty closed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, and as if this wasn&#8217;t geeky enough, I&#8217;ve been running a <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfoto.tripod.com\/screensaver\/jpg_screensaver.html\">HAL9000 <\/a>screen saver on the iBook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why it&#8217;s taken me so long to find MLDonkey I don&#8217;t know &#8211; but what a find. It&#8217;s a P2P filesharing client that can talk to all the major networks including Gnutella (Limewire etc), Fasttrack (Kazaa etc), Direct Connect (DC) and&#8230;that type of thing. What I love most about it is that it isn&#8217;t just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}