Hallo hallo.

[realqueenbetty.livejournal.com]

Rammstein BT time.




The guitarists Paul Landers and Richard Kruspe-Bernstein. This is so damn cute.


I nearly died when I saw this one. Shame that there's no tongue involved...


Richard and Christoph Schneider on the set of the Du Riechst so Gut video. Lovely.


Paul gets a mouthful. XD


No BT, but this is so goofy I just had to share.



By the way, who here has seen Constantine? It was lacking in substance IMHO, but they sure as hell made up for it with those tension-laden scenes between Gavin Rossdale (Balthazar) and Keanu! They look damn good together. Does anyone have screencaps they want to share? Plzkthx.

Betty

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[lie-and-smile.livejournal.com]

Lol, Engel *is* a sexy track. ^^ And thanks. I'll go check it out.

[realqueenbetty.livejournal.com]

I love that damn song. Yeah. Hail Bram Cohen!! Here's an interesting factoid: Bittorrent file transfers account for a third of all web traffic worldwide. A third! That's freaking nuts!

Betty

[lie-and-smile.livejournal.com]

My fav. is Mein Herz Brennt, but *shrug* to each his own.

And what exactly *is* bittorrent used for? (I feel very dumb for asking this, but anything technical eludes me.)

[realqueenbetty.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My favorite on Mutter is probably Sonne. Awesome track.

It's just a P2P client, which, for the most part, means users download from one another off their PCs instead of a server. Servers, by the way, are special computers where websites and their content are stored. You download, or "leech", bits of files from other users and at the same time upload what you have to others who need what you've got. It's a rather efficient system for large file transfers.

The problem with this system is that you can get "stuck" if there's no one uploading, or "seeding", the parts you need, but that doesn't happen too often with popular files. See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent) for more info.

Betty

[lie-and-smile.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. I think I know what you're talking about now. (hehe)

"Servers, by the way, are special computers where websites and their content are stored." Haha, you make it sound like they have learning problems...*laughs*

[realqueenbetty.livejournal.com]

Okay, cool. :D

They're just special because they offer more storage and more reliable processing capabilities. So if computers were students, they'd probably be gifted.

Betty

[realqueenbetty.livejournal.com]

BTW, I think the RIAA may have caught on to Bittorrent. I'm hoping they don't do to it what they did to Napster, but I doubt they'll be able to attack something that's so disseminated. Muahahaha.

Betty

[lie-and-smile.livejournal.com]

Well, how are they going to be able to in the first place? *shakes head* And who really cares that much?

[realqueenbetty.livejournal.com]

Well, Bittorrent requires the use of servers called trackers (not to be confused with the sites that are also called trackers, list the number of seeders and leechers, and allow download of torrent files) that keep track of seeders and leechers and tell the individual instances of Bittorrent where to get and send bits of data from and to. If they shut all of these down (pretty difficult task considering how many trackers are foreign), BT is pretty much done. Some torrent files are hard enough to find as it is. :/

The RIAA is pretty powerful and they've raised a big stink about P2P programs before. The MPAA also has a bone to pick with BT, what with the popularity of pirated movie downloads. Those two together spell serious trouble for BT.

Betty

[lie-and-smile.livejournal.com]

Um...hehe, that was actually a rhetorical question, but thank you anyway. ^^

[realqueenbetty.livejournal.com]

Oops. The number one problem with communication over the internet: you can't determine intent through tone. XD

Betty

[lie-and-smile.livejournal.com]

Haha, but the internet does have it's uses, ne? ^_~

[realqueenbetty.livejournal.com]

Like piracy. XD

Betty

[lie-and-smile.livejournal.com]

Hehe, e-x-a-c-t-l-y....^____~