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 A: Faruque Sarker has been working on this as a Google Summer of Code project.<br>
 His changes are due to be integrated in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0.<br>
-For more information please take a look at ticket #68
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+For more information please take a look at ticket #68
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+**Q: Will this thing only run when I tell it to?**
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+A: Yes. First of all, it doesn't run except when you tell it to—you start it with `tahoe start` and stop it with `tahoe stop`. Secondly, the software doesn't act as a server unless you configure it to do so (it isn't like peer-to-peer software which automatically acts as a server as well as a client). Thirdly, the client doesn't do anything except in response to the user starting an upload or a download (it doesn't do anything automatically or in the background).
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