Ok, after reading the article, I wanted to give BitTorrent a try. So I hit the website (bittorrent.com), and ran into my first problem - in RPM that works with Suse. So, off to google to try and find one. Found one, and used YaST to install it.
So now to try this thing out... um.. but don't I need to set some config somewhere to say where to store the files? or otherwise get it set up for my box? Back to google, found some instructions, but they don't work on my computer for some reason... hmmmm maybe if I try BitTornado. Nope, no go there either - apparently having python and the other prerequisites for BitTorrent aren't enough for BitTornado - now they want wxPython as well. I don't know enough about Python to figure things out when they go wrong (and something tells me they will... call it a hunch). So, nope, not installing wxPython. So at this point no BitTorrent for me. But it's late and I'm guessing I missed something stupid simple. So I'll maybe try again tomorrow. But in the meantime, any have any suggestions or links that might be useful? Bittorrent.com is rather sparse on documentation, and it looks like the other sites I found focus on RedHat/Fedora, Mandrake, or Debian. (My appologies for the quasi rant. I've just spent the past few days going through the same type of effort trying to get Drupal running - especially the navigation "features". Lots of documentation, but little of it for the current version which does things differently, or the docs assume other prerequisites are in place, but don't really explain what they are... Its crap like this that makes me really doubt open source - or my own skills.) Shawn On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:23, Jarrod Major wrote: > Hey Group, > > I read this article on Wired News today. Thought I would share. > > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 > > Very interesting stuff. I particularly liked the quote "There's upholding > the principle. And there's being the only knucklehead left who's upholding > the principle." I feel like this often, it was comforting to know that I am > not the only one. I have yet to partake of BitTorrent but I like the IDEA > of the technology. Content delivery is something I find interesting. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
