BITTORRENT CLIENT : The PREFERRED method is through BitTorrent, because it scalesmuch, MUCH better than http does, and is about 6x faster for people whoare downloading it. I'd rather get my downloads at 300-475k/sec. vs.100k/sec., wouldn't you? With http and ftp, and traditional filedistribution mediums, the more people requesting a file, the SLOWER itgets for each person already connected. With BitTorrent, the more peoplerequesting a file, the FASTER it gets for everyone connected. Your"opinion" of its merits really doesn't matter. Oh, and do you think OUR bandwidth is free too? We have to payfor this out of our own pocket as well, and BitTorrent helps offset thatso others can continue to download it at a reasonable speed. Try saturating your pipe with 3-5gb of uploads, all day, everyday for one website (among dozens of sites hosted on the same pipe, eachwith THEIR own downloads), and see if you don't come up with alternativedistribution means to help spread the saturation around. BitTorrent helps,even if you disagree with its use. BITTORRENT CLIENT : Try visiting the homepage sometime, and click on "download",before spouting off some baseless drivel about the technology being"stupid", before you really learn about why it is being used and how ithelps. 190 people currently seeding Plucker seem to disagree with you, andwe've served 12.7GiB over BitTorrent since we've started using it, androughly 23,084,694,533 bytes over http this month, thus far.Points duly noted - thanks for pointing out that a standard download is available. But my download speed is limited by the ADSL plan I'm on rather than things at your end, and no matter how many sources of BitTorrenting I can link up to, the incoming speed can never exceed the throttled limit on my end. And yes, I realize you have to pay for your bandwidth too, but it was the apparent lack of choice that I was criticizing - I'm sure the last time I did visit the website (some time ago now I admit) BitTorrent was being pushed as the way to get Plucker. Sorry if I misunderstood. BITTORRENT CLIENT : Also, with BitTorrent, - if I leave things ON at my end after my download finishes, then my monthly limit of data will be reached quite quickly. Yup - here in good old Australia, we have capped speeds and monthly data transfer limits as well as high prices. Some poor girl recently forgot to turn off her P2P music-sharing client for a few hours, and ended up with a bill of over $10,000 for the month. Excess data is charged at 18.5 cents per Mb - believe me - it soon rattles up to big numbers. And that's 2-way data transfer - every web-page, banner-ad, email, request for a web-page - the lot! Updated hourly on the server for each release tag + torrent stats provided through rrdtool graphs and server-side pipe monitoring.On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:07:52 -0500, "John D. Newsome" wrote:Previously on comp.sys.palmtops.pilot, The Plucker Team said:; Plucker 1.6.1 is now available, and follows closely on the tails; of Plucker 1.6, and closes a lot of open issues reported by users and; other developers working with Plucker and Plucker projects. BITTORRENT CLIENT : A thread to discuss a FAQ for alt.binaries.torrents, Here's a simple FAQ I just tossed together. Suggestions?(Info for User)=================================== =================BitTorrent is a protocol designed for transferring files. It is peer-to-peer in nature, as users connect to each other directlyto send and receive portions of the file.However,there is a central server (called a tracker) which coordinates the action of all such peers.Shad0w's experimental client: burst!: Official client: Frost's Experimental client: Small metadata file which the BitTorrent program Opensto get file.A server on the Internet that acts to coordinate the action of BitTorrent clients.======================================== ============File info==================================== ================Include if possible link to site with info on post.Tagging:Optionally, some idea of the source for certain classifications.#CAM#, #DVD-RIP#, #VHS-CAP#, etc. for movies... #PUBLISHED#,#SCANNED#, etc. for e-books... and so on.Also, e-books have their own set of naming standards that, among otherthings, indicate format (html, txt, lit, etc.) and, if they arescanned, version numbers showing how well proofed they are. I think apointer to the a.b.e-books FAQ is in order for that info: it'scurrently at BITTORRENT CLIENT : One question that I'm sure is going to come up a bit is "How do I usethese torrents?" (Save them someplace, double-click and let Windowshandle it from there. Or associate them with your client in yournewsreader's configuration and just launch them -- can do this inAgent, not sure about others.)Recently, I tried to get an html document from SuprNova that was namedwrong, *.html.torrent. Clicking on it opened the torrent file in mybrowser. I copied it to my desktop, renamed it to *_html.torrent andTHEN double-clicked. Maybe an attachment naming rule explaining thisoddity so it can be avoided.Maybe the most frequently asked trouble-shooting questions in theofficial bit-torrent FAQ should be duplicated in the a.b.torrents FAQ,just to save people some jumping around... for instance, the mostlikely reason people can't connect to a tracker (blocked ports).There will be some people who will stumble into the bit-torrentuniverse for the first time through the news-group. An awareness ofthis fact while writing the FAQ will help smooth their experience.
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