I need to agree here. I was skeptical also, but Vidalia is running fine, with no bugs, and is more feature rich and complete. Makes it much easier to run a node and so forth. Good job on including Vidalia, and I can't wait to see improvements. By the way, I am running WindowsXP SP2 and Vidalia, like I said, no problems at all.
Oh yeah, and Vidalia Onions are absolutely delicious :P I can't believe he had to look them up? :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anothony Georgeo Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Vidalia --- Charles Finley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my opinion Vidalia has too many bugs to be released in a package > that is supposed to be stable. Can you describe these bugs? I run Windows XP Home and Vidalia v.0.0.4 has shown zero bugs so far. TorCP on the other hand was pretty buggy, especially when you used it to configure a server (it crashed everytime). > I immediately went back to using TorCP, as it is stable and > predictable. See my statment above. > Vidalia messed up me server settings, and my comments I had made in > the torrc file. When Vidalia starts for the first time it reads your torrc and imports your config settings into a new 'torrc' file it creates. Your original torric is now called 'torrc.orig.x' (where 'x' is most likly '1'). The new torrc file uses all the settings from your original torrc (which were imported by Vidalia). When you use Vidalia to cinfigure Tor (ie. to become a server) Vidalia updates the torrc file it created with this new configuration setting. Registry keys are also used by Vidalia in Windows XP to save configuration settings. When you configure Vidalia two reg keys are updated (along with the torrc). These reg keys only contain configurations supported through Vidalia (eg. no 'bandwith rate limiting', this would be in the torrc). Note: Vidalia seems to use these keys as a 'master' config setting and as a 'backup' for the torrc. If the torrc uses the server nic "A" and the reg keys use server nic "B" Vidalia will use server nic "B". HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\vidalia HKEY_USERS\{Dynamic-Long-ID-Number}\Software\vidalia > Vidalia has the potential to become a good program, but the decicion > to include an unstable release of Vidalia...[snip] I am very happy with Vidalia and I like where it is going; v.0.0.5 looks good. The creator of Vidalia is open to suggestions and feature requests. I requested a feature in Vidalia that shows your private (local) and public (exit node) IP addresses when you mouse over the system tray icon. Within an hour the author of Vidalia wrote to me and said he would impliment this in v.0.0.5. > [snip]...together with a stable release of TOR > wasn't very smart, in my opinion. Tor is not stable and will not be stable for a long time. Hell, the first Tor GUI I uses was called "TorControl" and then came "TorCP" and now "Vidalia". I must say with each succession the GUI's have progressed leaps and bounds. IMO Vidalia is a great GUI with alot of potential and an author who is very motivated. > Also, it would be good to know why a GUI to TOR is > called Vidalia? Where is the connection between the > names? Vidalia is an onion. Tor is a client/server program which uses the Onoin Route II to anonymize/secure traffic. The connection lies in that Vidalia is an onion and Vidalia is used to control Tor which utilizes the Onion Route II. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
