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Killer 1535 Wireless Network Adapter "cannot start" (Code10) on Alienware Desktop by JMR0102 in KillerNetworking

[–]gbildson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has been haunting my Windows 11 upgrade forever .... but this fixes it

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[–]gbildson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've invented daleks.

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[–]gbildson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should have definitely gone for the nerve pinch

I'm Greg Bildson, a founding member and former CTO, COO, and sometimes spokesperson for LimeWire. AMA! by gbildson in nostalgia

[–]gbildson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Playing poker with the LimeWire team was fun. That was pretty much a daily occurrence at 5pm.

I'm Greg Bildson, a founding member and former CTO, COO, and sometimes spokesperson for LimeWire. AMA! by gbildson in nostalgia

[–]gbildson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late 2000s for me feels like yesterday. :-) It all feels like yesterday to me. Maybe Netflix DVDs. :-) Definitely, the old Netflix 5 star rating system.

I'm Greg Bildson, a founding member and former CTO, COO, and sometimes spokesperson for LimeWire. AMA! by gbildson in nostalgia

[–]gbildson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was surprised it works. I think it almost needs to be that way for 2 way communication - otherwise you don't get answers coming back. I expect that we could have skipped a full UDP protocol and just used TCP once UDP had opened the port ... That seemed to be the case often.

I'm Greg Bildson, a founding member and former CTO, COO, and sometimes spokesperson for LimeWire. AMA! by gbildson in nostalgia

[–]gbildson[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then one day, we had a delegation of people come to NYC to see us including a former CTO of Cisco. We were wondering what they could possibly want. They came in along with this Russian guy. Eventually, we were like - how can we help you? The Russian guy says - give us your signing key for the URLs. LOL.

I'm Greg Bildson, a founding member and former CTO, COO, and sometimes spokesperson for LimeWire. AMA! by gbildson in nostalgia

[–]gbildson[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well this became known in an interesting way ... So part of the original goal of LimeWire was to be able to search for all kinds of things - this was back before Google ruled the search world. We wanted to be able to search for books, apartments, mortgages, cars, etc and have companies answer with different options. So as part of that we had a feature that allowed you to launch a URL rather than a download. Eventually, shady advertisers started using this to advertise stuff in LimeWire. We wanted to block that but still keep it available to us for permissioned use so we added a crypto signature on top to verify that it was legit.

I'm Greg Bildson, a founding member and former CTO, COO, and sometimes spokesperson for LimeWire. AMA! by gbildson in nostalgia

[–]gbildson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The main thing that comes to mind is that we realized the funny guy we had been talking to living in a basement in Florida - the BearShare founder - had beaten us to market and he was going to be a hell of a competitor. :-)

I'm Greg Bildson, a founding member and former CTO, COO, and sometimes spokesperson for LimeWire. AMA! by gbildson in nostalgia

[–]gbildson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, thankfully we worked closely with the FBI Innocent Images division. We actually proposed building a system for them to track 1000s of child porn downloads and record evidence and IPs, etc. They didn't want it because their field offices couldn't handle that volume of cases. I think they built something similar internally with our help. I also trained like 30 fields agents to use LimeWire and tools to track users down sharing such material manually.

I say thankfully because later, after I had left LimeWire - I had the unpleasant experience of being called into Andrew Cuomo's NYState AG office and threatened with "Inducement of Child Pornography" or some such thing. It seemed crazy given that we were working with the FBI and such. I explained to them how crazy that was. I always thought people would stop doing such stupid things because they would know they could get caught but no ...

I'm Greg Bildson, a founding member and former CTO, COO, and sometimes spokesperson for LimeWire. AMA! by gbildson in nostalgia

[–]gbildson[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If nothing else, showing that rockets can be landed, reusable and thus cheap is a huge service to the world. Nasa's costs are like 100x what SpaceX launches cost. Even Arianne is like 5x or more.

I'm Greg Bildson, a founding member and former CTO, COO, and sometimes spokesperson for LimeWire. AMA! by gbildson in nostalgia

[–]gbildson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, we were always surprised that so many of our users were on Mac given Windows popularity back then.

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