On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:59:10 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > can see whats happenning from the office, the pub etc. > vnc through an ssh tunnel, or using the web interface from Ktorrent. > When your connection is maxed out by the torrent you are simultaneously downloading and uploading, ssh is laggy enough let alone trying to run vnc. > > The other is > > to have a light program that doesn't even need a gui, or X or all the > > paraphenalia, so you can put it in an old quiet machine in a corner. > > ktorrent's web interface satisifes the first need, but not the > > second. > Could one not start, perhaps several instances of the bittorrent-curses > version in an ssh and screen session to satisfy this one? Screen has > the advantage that one can disconnect, yet keep that fact secret from > the console based app. except that rtorrent is vastly superior.
