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I am waiting for a book on managing Usenet to arrive, so that I can try and fine tune things and use less brute force, as I have never until about a month ago tried to do anything with Usenet other than use a news reader. I chose Network News because it is a tried and true technology and already has everything built into it to weed out duplicate articles, and it was designed to not require any sort of centralized management. It also can be used without any TCP/IP links at all via UUCP or some other method of batching articles and sending them. (USB sticks and SD cards come to mind, as well as traditional dial-up modem file transfers.)
I am waiting for a book on managing Usenet to arrive, so that I can try and fine tune things and use less brute force, as I have never until about a month ago tried to do anything with Usenet other than use a news reader. I chose Network News because it is a tried and true technology and already has everything built into it to weed out duplicate articles, and it was designed to not require any sort of centralized management. It also can be used without any TCP/IP links at all via UUCP or some other method of batching articles and sending them. (USB sticks and SD cards come to mind, as well as traditional dial-up modem file transfers.)
I have been monitoring downloads of the demo software package and so far there is only one IP that has downloaded the package. I was curious if it was you. If so I would love to get your feedback on it if you have had a chance to install it and play with the software.
There is much to add to this software and a lot of fine tuning that needs to be done.
==Plans==
A few of the things I would like to add to it include:
# a net: namespace in the wiki that contains wiki pages exported by other users on the network, and a way to tag various pages as being exported into this system.
# a NetNews administration control panel that allows for the creation of news groups, removal and blocking of news groups
and a mechanism for canceling articles (as the kids own the laptop they should be allowed to change the defaults and decide which traffic they will allow to pass through it)
# Various Wireless operating modes other than mesh and connected to external AP. In particular I want to add an ad-hoc wireless mode for compatibility with how I wish to use this system on regular PCs and laptops and a neat mode where the system acts as its own wireless access point with all DNS entries pointing to the web interface, so these devices can be used to serve up information and access to the system to many users at once that don't themselves have a copy of the software.
also to reduce network congestion an offline mode that does not broadcast the system as available for syncup or sync to other hosts should be available (but it should still map out current users on the network so we can view their wiki pages etc) that way they can decide when they want to do the transfers and possibly ease up writes to the flash.
# If I can figure out how I would like to implement some form of private encrypted electronic mail and a tool for managing those accounts on each node.
# Possibly move to the telepathy system rather than my crude UDP broadcast system and integrate this into sugar so it can all
show up on the network screen (Ideally I would like either an icon to show up that allows the browse utility to be opened to that host or to be able to hover over the hosts XO icon and see a list of exported web services on that machine and be able to click direct to each one) I would also like to add an activity Icon to open up direct to the localhost webpage.
Other than that I want to fine tune the existing configuration and find a much more efficient way of syncing the news spools than the heavy handed and very simplistic suck package, even if that means writing my own tool to do so. (avoiding all temporary files and writes to the flash other than transmitting or recieving articles we do not yet have, or have expired)
I also will move from the tradspool storage format (lots of files and directories) to the CNFS news filesystem which is a single file of arbitrary size managed by INN that operates like a ring buffer. once it will write past the end of the file instead of growing it writes to the beginning, overwriting the oldest articles.
other than all of that I need to of course write documentation once the design is more solid.
==Feedback==
==Feedback==
* I downloaded tn. I got in yesterday evening and posted one news item. But going to the neighborhood I get a page load error trying to connect to Bilbo's news or wiki: 'The connection was refused when attempting to contact nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn.' Seems like a certificate/security problem of some sort. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 15:54, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
* I downloaded tn. I got in yesterday evening and posted one news item. But going to the neighborhood I get a page load error trying to connect to Bilbo's news or wiki: 'The connection was refused when attempting to contact nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn.' Seems like a certificate/security problem of some sort. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 15:54, 26 June 2009 (UTC)