Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-13 Thread Paul McNett
Terry Reedy wrote: > While the above is not directly on-topic for c.l.p, it does suggest > possible design considerations for users of the socket module and packets > built on top ;-). > -- including Solipsis, which is such. I contributed to the thread going kind of off-topic, so I'll just follo

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-13 Thread Terry Reedy
>>On Wed, 11 May 2005 22:48:31 -0400, rumours say that "Terry Reedy" >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >>>play an online action game, which sends a constant stream of update >>>info. >>>Then, curious what would happen, I logged on, from a different computer >>>but >>>through the same rou

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-13 Thread Jp Calderone
7On Sat, 14 May 2005 02:28:57 +0300, Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 11 May 2005 22:48:31 -0400, rumours say that "Terry Reedy" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: > >>> and what if both computers >>> wanted to participate on the port 6000 fun? > >>Recently, I

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-13 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Wed, 11 May 2005 22:48:31 -0400, rumours say that "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >> and what if both computers >> wanted to participate on the port 6000 fun? >Recently, I had one family member use my purchased account to logon to and >play an online action game, which

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-11 Thread Terry Reedy
"Paul McNett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sure, that's how it is here in the US too. You have a modem/router > supplied by the cable or DSL company that provides DHCP and NAT for > outbound traffic. Comcast supplied me with a DHCP cable modem that comverts whate

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-11 Thread Paul McNett
Aahz wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[1] Although, some ISP's are taking it upon themselves to drop or reject >>port 25 traffic. A wrong but understandable stopgap solution to the >>problem of peoples toy machines getting infected by malware

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-11 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ville Vainio wrote: >> >> FWIW, In Finland all home *DSL and Cable internet connections (that I >> know of) are connected "directly" to the internet (in the sense that >> all ports are open). Blocking is reserved for the modem

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-11 Thread Paul McNett
Ville Vainio wrote: >>"Paul" == Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Paul> Only, I couldn't hear what they said back to me because I > Paul> don't have UDP port 6000 open on my firewall and forwarding > Paul> to my laptop (and don't want to do that either). > > Paul>

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-10 Thread Heiko Wundram
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 08:02, Ville Vainio wrote: > FWIW, In Finland all home *DSL and Cable internet connections (that I > know of) are connected "directly" to the internet (in the sense that > all ports are open). Blocking is reserved for the modem, just the way > it should be... Same here, an

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-10 Thread Ville Vainio
> "Paul" == Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Only, I couldn't hear what they said back to me because I Paul> don't have UDP port 6000 open on my firewall and forwarding Paul> to my laptop (and don't want to do that either). Paul> It is a shame: peer to peer has th

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-10 Thread Jp Calderone
On Tue, 10 May 2005 19:27:00 -0700, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Joseph Garvin wrote: >> I was looking at this earlier today because I was curious how they were >> going to handle performance concerns (both due to Python and bandwidth). >> I'm having trouble understanding all of the deta

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-10 Thread Paul McNett
Joseph Garvin wrote: > I was looking at this earlier today because I was curious how they were > going to handle performance concerns (both due to Python and bandwidth). > I'm having trouble understanding all of the details -- what is the > significance of the use of a torus for the world space? Do

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-10 Thread Terry Reedy
"Joseph Garvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Terry Reedy wrote: > >>Today I followed a link to an interesting Python application I have not >>seen mentioned here before: >>http://solipsis.netofpeers.net/wiki/HomePage/. > I was looking at this earlier today becau

Re: Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-10 Thread Joseph Garvin
Terry Reedy wrote: >Today I followed a link to an interesting Python application I have not >seen mentioned here before: http://solipsis.netofpeers.net/wiki/HomePage/. > >"A peer-to-peer system for a massively multi-participant virtual world " > >It is a France Telecom R&D project, LGPL licenced

Solipsis: Python-powered Metaverse

2005-05-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Today I followed a link to an interesting Python application I have not seen mentioned here before: http://solipsis.netofpeers.net/wiki/HomePage/. "A peer-to-peer system for a massively multi-participant virtual world " It is a France Telecom R&D project, LGPL licenced, still in alpha, built on