tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27162974638592370422009-10-17T22:08:26.520-07:00Auferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13382258164869003438noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716297463859237042.post-4102264943204360862007-05-31T08:54:00.000-07:002007-05-31T08:57:00.182-07:00

Alright, during the next few weeks I'll be pretty darn busy with real life and after that it's time for some vacation. What this means is that this space will be obnoxiously quiet.Now, time to start praying for some good weather!See you end of June or thereabout. :)

Auferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13382258164869003438noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716297463859237042.post-52062456543704830812007-05-21T15:07:00.001-07:002007-05-21T15:09:02.118-07:00

I'm looking around for a hosting provider for Aufero and found http://www.one.com -- is there any reader that's had any experiences with them? Bad or good?

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Just a quick heads up. Aufero will support all kinds of downloading protocols in the end, but the first goal was to get BitTorrent implemented. Since day one Aufero's been using its internal BitTorrent (Mono) client, but I've been having trouble to get it to actually finish downloads. The problem is, I'd like to get a beta out soon so I had to look into alternatives.What happened was this: You

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I'm getting my ass kicked by Aufero today.Aufero has a database which contains all the data gathered over time, and due to it taking quite some time to build a somewhat large dataset (which is what you want) the database cannot be rebuilt from scratch every release. This means that anyone can pick up any version of Aufero at any time and take for granted that their database will always work with

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Warning: Contains rambling.People's taste, preferences, the vast amount and the variety of information on the Internet makes it impossible for any kind of software to cover.Err. Let's take a step back: Aufero gathers information about media by looking at your local network and on the Internet. In order to not wander around aimlessly it uses a set of reliable information sources. The types of

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It's been a while, hasn't it? To give you a quick run-down on latest developments: Aufero is still doing fine and I try to squeeze in as much time as I can, all in all there has been ten alpha builds released to testers. Due to the state of the builds there's not been much point in reporting problems since they're all over the place, so I will decrease the rate at which builds are released to

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I apologize for the silence of late.But to give you all a bit of a recap on recent events. There are early versions of Aufero in circulation since two days but unless you signed up for testing a few weeks back there should be no way to get it.That said, as the user-interface goes through polishing I will post some tidbits here and there up until the point where there is a public beta available

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After some months of writing Aufero (it's for Windows Vista only) I must say that I will not upgrade any desktop-machines at home to Vista. They will stay Windows XP. Luckily there is more to a machine than just on the desktop: Vista Media Center is great, the computer Aufero is running on will stay Vista. It will also stay hooked up to the television set in the living room.Why not on the desktop

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Less blog == more code.[*]

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Aufero's WizardHandler and Dynamic Screens is one of the components in Aufero that is very much stand-alone so I decided that I'd slap an LGPL license on it and share it. Besides, I needed a break from Visual Studio.For the uninitiated, LGPL is a license that permits you to use the 'library' as is, but if you modify the code to suit you you have to share it, and of course, you have to give

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It's getting out of hand, this is from a screenshot of my personal gmail account...

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I didn't expect the response I got (I mean, who the hell would want to mess around with alpha releases, right?), so I will unfortunately have to decline more signups to the first few releases. I'd like to keep the development until a "public beta" pretty streamlined for various reasons but also because it is in alpha stage and that means we're not only talking about teething problems here, we're

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This is only intended for users of Windows Vista Media Center, it will not run under Windows XP or any other platform.For alpha sign-up go to: http://aufero.informe.com/index.phpIt is a brand new forum that will be used for communication around the development of Aufero, so at the moment there are no posts at all but don't let that intimidate you. If you feel that you do not want to give out your

Auferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13382258164869003438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716297463859237042.post-4862861826187431182007-02-28T06:55:00.000-08:002007-02-28T17:25:18.738-08:00

Quick edit at the bottom.Every now and then (say every few days) Vista Media Center starts acting weird. Put in mind here that it's a completely clean install with all valid hardware. It's my testing machine and it only has Visual Studio and the VMC SDK installed on it.The reason its grieving me is not because I have to restart the application. No. As a Windows user I'm pretty used to that. The

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If so, you might be interested in a post I made over at DeviantArt looking for some help with Aufero. The post can be found here, but in case it gets deleted or whatever:Hi,I've been working on a project for some time now and it's getting to the point where it's time for an alpha release candidate (eg. does installer, deployment, etc work).Now, the project itself is something I started on when

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I got a question the other day and up to that point I hadn't spent a second thinking about it. The question was: "Why not Windows XP?" I was a bit stumped at first since I never considered writing Aufero for XP. Yeah, so why not? It's an easy answer: It just not fun to develop Media Center applications for Windows XP. I tried writing a few applications way back then and I always got stuck when I

Auferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13382258164869003438noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716297463859237042.post-18434006768179055082007-02-19T20:37:00.000-08:002007-02-19T20:42:45.495-08:00

I've been trying to find where I stated that Aufero was was Open[*], Shared[*] or Closed[*] source. But I can't find it. Still I heard that some people blogged it. Thing is, I intentionally avoided making a statement on this topic. And I will not do it now either.Don't get me started on open or closed source -- you should know how good I am at ranting by now. :)But, flossing in combination with

Auferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13382258164869003438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716297463859237042.post-50264263662694030652007-02-15T20:58:00.000-08:002007-02-15T22:33:04.649-08:00

Your spontaneous thought when seeing the word piracy is hardly what you just read in the title. And now you're already thinking it; oh god, another Jane Blogger that is going to defend her wrong-doings with some twisted view on reality.Wrong.I bumped into some speculation as to whether Aufero was intended for legitimate or illegitimate downloads. At first I was going to just ignore it and roll my

Auferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13382258164869003438noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716297463859237042.post-4702345834055971272007-02-14T13:02:00.000-08:002007-02-14T14:55:59.886-08:00

So, Aufero is moving along and will sooner or later reach a version 1 status. But, to be totally honest I am working on a future version (two?) of Aufero as well. The reason for this is simple: I don't think it is feasable to make Aufero do what I really want it to do in a near future (no dates said).Joost dot comSo what's in it for this future version then? In order to tell you that I'll have

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A part of the development of Aufero is inevitably analyzing torrents and naming of them. This means being able to guess what is tagging and what is actually a relevant part of the name during runtime. For instance, common words like the, is, go, have, from should be disregarded in many cases. Then we have what I call "torrent noise" which among a lot of other words can be r00, release, version.

Auferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13382258164869003438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716297463859237042.post-42135004783512365892007-02-12T18:05:00.000-08:002007-02-12T18:51:04.677-08:00

I'd like to say that there is no public download available. It's an application in development, but you might be pleased to hear that the backend is done and seems stable. What is left is the front-end (or user interface if you wish), and believe me when I say that it is a royal pain in the ass to write applications for VMC at this stage.So give it a little time. I will post a request for mature

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Seeing as there are very few Vista Media Center applications out there and people seem to be pretty starved, I figured I might as well start blogging about what I (prefer to remain anonymous for time being) am working on. To be honest, I have no idea if there even is any interest in anything like this - I wrote it primarily for myself.I have thrown together some quick ramblings (subject to change

Auferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13382258164869003438noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716297463859237042.post-18480212274374624332007-02-12T17:37:00.000-08:002007-02-12T18:21:03.553-08:00

What is Aufero?Aufero is primarily an information-gatherer with a BitTorrent client written for use with Windows Vista Media Center (VMC). It also provide users with the ability to "wait for", schedule and view new or already existing downloads on your computer (or network). You do this using your remote control sitting in your sofa. You can see it as a broad-catcher on steroids.- "Why leave the

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This is the blog.This is where you will find updates and news. You will, however, find the download elsewhere.Aufero

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