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Internet pipe thing. What happened?

ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
edited March 2008 in Games and Technology
So you may remember a while ago there was this thing announced that let you send files to people over the intertron, and it just appeared like a shortcut or a drive on your desktop. What happened to it? Googling obvious finds nothing of use, and I'm pretty curious.

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  • AHH!AHH! Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    sounds like a virus to me

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  • ronzoronzo Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    It was called Tubes

    Its either been shut down, or in the process of shutting down

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I thought you were talking of all the cut fiber lines underwater..

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  • warder808warder808 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Lets hear about cut underwater fiber lines. I heard a little news blip about this but thats all.

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  • LA:LA: United StatesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Sky drive?

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  • nomenome Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    ArcSyn wrote: »
    I thought you were talking of all the cut fiber lines underwater..

    Last I heard, there were 4 lines cut and they still couldn't figure out what was causing it. They had at least (maybe) ruled out anchors from boats. Anyone have more recent info?

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  • vdanhalenvvdanhalenv Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    it wasn't anywhere near 50° S 100° W was it?


    *shivers*

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    ronzo wrote: »
    It was called Tubes

    Its either been shut down, or in the process of shutting down
    Thta's a damn shame. I could use sometihng like this. Oh well.

    Anyone know anything similar?

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  • vdanhalenvvdanhalenv Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    ben0207 wrote: »
    ronzo wrote: »
    It was called Tubes

    Its either been shut down, or in the process of shutting down
    Thta's a damn shame. I could use sometihng like this. Oh well.

    Anyone know anything similar?

    Hamachi is somewhat similar

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  • FightTestFightTest Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    As a disclaimer I have no interest in this kind of thing so I've never checked it out myself, but being a fan of Digg/Rev3 stuff I've heard Kevin Rose plug http://www.pownce.com a lot and from what I understand it's supposed to be what you're talking about.

    Never looked at it further than the front page though so I have no idea how/how well it works.

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  • Unearthly StewUnearthly Stew Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    warder808 wrote: »
    Lets hear about cut underwater fiber lines. I heard a little news blip about this but thats all.

    They just wanted to test how saltwater worked as a medium for delivering internetz.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Result: Really fucking poorly.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2008
    ben0207 wrote: »
    So you may remember a while ago there was this thing announced that let you send files to people over the intertron, and it just appeared like a shortcut or a drive on your desktop. What happened to it? Googling obvious finds nothing of use, and I'm pretty curious.

    Sounds like you want WASTE or some other private darknet solution.

    Hamachi works too.

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  • HallowedFaithHallowedFaith Call me Cloud. Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    warder808 wrote: »
    Lets hear about cut underwater fiber lines. I heard a little news blip about this but thats all.

    http://www.ilovebonnie.net/2008/02/12/the-submarine-cables-a-complete-guide-to-the-2008-internet-outage/ - Standard seemingly unbiased news. Good for info.

    http://twilightpines.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=121&Itemid=67 - Crazy tinfoil version.

    http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/who-cut-the-cab.html - Logical explination.

    I love the internet.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Echo wrote: »
    ben0207 wrote: »
    So you may remember a while ago there was this thing announced that let you send files to people over the intertron, and it just appeared like a shortcut or a drive on your desktop. What happened to it? Googling obvious finds nothing of use, and I'm pretty curious.

    Sounds like you want WASTE or some other private darknet solution.

    Hamachi works too.

    1: Is there a filesize limit on Hamachi? And is it any improvement over just using MSN to exchange files?

    2: Is there a Mac port?

    3: Where is the Mac port?

    4: Give me the Mac port.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2008
    Oh right, you're one of them Mac terrorists. Sorry, Hamachi is windows only. But it's essentially just a "VPN for dummies" thing that you then talk standard Windows SMB shares or whatever over.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Echo wrote: »
    Oh right, you're one of them Mac terrorists. Sorry, Hamachi is windows only. But it's essentially just a "VPN for dummies" thing that you then talk standard Windows SMB shares or whatever over.

    pretty sure it runs on linux too

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2008
    Hay, so it does.
    Hamachi is currently available for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista. Console versions of Hamachi are also available for Linux and OS X.

    Might want to give it a spin then, Ben.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I'll have a play with it and see if I can use it then.

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  • mspencermspencer PAX [ENFORCER] Council Bluffs, IARegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    If you don't just need transfer but also persistent storage (like for backups, or for uploading from one machine and downloading to another) you could try Jungle Disk. I haven't used it but heard an episode about it on Security Now ep 123.

    http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm (and scroll down)
    http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-123.txt

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