The strange thing about is that on the laptop is vista home premium. Now I've been using XP for a couple years and my laptop properly for about a week and since it has vista I thought fuck it, why not have a play. Because in about 3-4 years everyone will be on vista anyway because that's what technology does. (No one still uses 95 do hey ;)) So yeah, me and the guy down stairs have one thing in common. DOWNLOADING. Now this doesn't cause too much of a problem because we can acknowledge seeding/speeds/bandwidth and accommodate fine. But the minor issue is that what we download sometimes is the same thing. Well, I say sometimes but about 80% of the time we download the same thing. So that's on average 2gb of data...twice.
We've been trying to combat the problem and the agreement now is that if he downloads it before I do he will tell me and I'll use a USB to get it off him.
We'll call me lazy but this is 21st century yeah, so without having a direct network I have found a little jem Hamachi.
This is by no means new and I've known about it previously before but it was not until today where I actually got to using it.
Hamachi is a VPN service that easily sets up in 10 minutes, and enables secure remote access to your business network, anywhere there's an Internet connection.
It works with your existing firewall, and requires no additional configuration. Hamachi is the first networking application to deliver an unprecedented level of direct peer-to-peer connectivity. It is simple, secure, and cost-effective.
It comes in two sets; Basic and Pro (What doesn't these days) Pro comes with 3 licenses:
Month: $4.95
6 Month:$23.70
Year: $39.00
And basic is free for home, private and public use. Anything business related has to be purchased.
No this thing is IMMENSE anything from file sharing to emulated LAN activity it's great. easy too use and pretty awesome anyhow.
Vista, all I've heard about vista is bad things, it doesn't do this, it does do that. Granted it has a few annoying quirks like the insistence of permission for everything you do. But I can see why, I mean if you download something that uses a background installer for a virus or something vista will be like HEY SUMMITS TRYING TO INSTALL YOU WANNA LET IT and you'd be like naaaaah. So yeah, it has a sexy GUI and and runs quite smoothly on my laptop. This system hog bullshit is pretty annoying I mean have you tried running XP on a 95 optimised machine? It's the future, stuffs going to need better hardware.
I know this seems a little far past the bat to be defending vista when it's been out long enough for acceptance but I just deemed it necessary some input.
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