BITTORRENT SEARCH : 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 SEARCH : 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 SEARCH : 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 SEARCH : I just discovered BitTorrent. I heard it's great but so far I don't see why.I mostly look for movies. I haven't found any site that provides even atenth of what I can see on Kazaa.- Do you know of sites that provide more than 100 movies (suprnova.org hasnothing for me), or possibly (even better) a search engine?On Kazaa I share over 100 full movies of respectable quality. Doing so justrequires 2 clicks from me.- On BitTorrent, which is supposed to be a tit-for-tat soft, it seems to beimpossible to select a file or folder and share it.All the clients I've tried are a disappointment: crashes, poor usability- BitTorrent++ - 0.5.4 [alpha release] simply crashes on close- PTC opens a new window for every new download (and adds as many icons tothe systray)- BitTorrent-experimental-S-5.8.7 also opens too many windowsAs to download speed, I have experienced one 30 Kb/s along with 5 otherswaiting.This is my first day with BitTorrent so I am a newbie and my opinion maychange... But It IS really a pain in the ass to begin with. BITTORRENT SEARCH : Any advice, pointers... maybe a reliable client that would meet the demandsof a Kazaa user?Azureus works a treat, I have no problems with it and generally get betterdownload speeds and doesn't need the uploads throttling. It looks complexbut is piss easy, most of the info it gives is vaguelly interesting once youknow what it's doing but doesn't really matter.Don't listen to the mongs who will probably tell you it's crap.If KAZAA is your cup of tea, well.....I got fed up with Kazaa's spying, their renaming titles, their viruses. AND,the big companies are hitting Kazaa's users, now.I must have downloaded Fight Club at least 4 times under different names.Why don't you try this:Download Shareza.It supports BT's.Next time you go to download a BT, Shareaza will open and give you a niceGrapics User Interface and once you learn to use Shareaza you'll see youdownloads are alot faster.SHAREAZA:
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