if I 've got some time tonight I'll upload my stuff and start a torrent of
what I got.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote:

> Bit torrent would be ok for sharing after the con but sharing during
> the event is harder because people seem to be happy leaving usb drives
> around but not their laptops.
>
> It would have to be on a private network as we wouldn't want to go on
> the main Shmoocon network and max that one out even though it might
> give more people access if they could leave their machines in their
> rooms collecting data.
>
> Robin
>
> On 10 February 2010 14:58, David Auclair <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This sounds like the perfect application for BitTorrent.
> >
> > Without getting into too many details, a group I know wanted to
> distribute a 5GB dataset to ~100 computers.  They distributed it via
> BitTorrent, and they maxed out the bandwidth of their network.  (all ports
> on the switches were saturated bidirectionally)
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]]
> >> On Behalf Of Robin Wood
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:22 PM
> >> To: PaulDotCom Mailing List
> >> Subject: [Pauldotcom] Shmoocon Rainbow Table Swapshop
> >>
> >> So, Shmoocon is over and the swapshop happened. Unfortunately it
> >> wasn't as successful as it could have been but for the first attempt I
> >> think it went OK.
> >>
> >> A number of people donated tables and others leached sets, the problem
> >> turned out to be that the initial donation was about 300GB and to copy
> >> that from one external disk to a second was taking up to 7 hours, when
> >> two people were copying that time shot up even more.
> >>
> >> When I get back home to the UK I'll do an inventory of what I
> >> collected and find some way to share it out to those who want copies.
> >> I'll also have a play with different methods of running the system to
> >> try to drop that time down to something more manageable.
> >>
> >> Thanks to Darren and Larry for donating hardware and the PaulDotCom
> >> crew in general for keeping an eye on the setup while I was running
> >> round doing other con activities.
> >>
> >> Robin
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