Anyone who is on a decent dedicated connection (or even broadband)
and wants to help out with the release of Plucker 1.6 next week and over the
next month or so (or until the downloaders calm down a bit), please grab the
following file:
http://downloads.plkr.org/plkr.org.torrents.zip
This file contains the .torrent files for the current 1.4 and 1.5
beta releases. When 1.6 is released next week, I will update this file and
notify everyone that wants to help, to re-download it (or just download the
individual .torrents themselves for the new releases).
Please download this zipfile, unpack into an empty directory, and
run your favorite BitTorrent client across the torrents in that directory,
and let it fetch the files to your local machine. Once you have the full
files on your local system, you are now a "seed" and have two options:
1.) Keep BitTorrent running to continue serving the files to other
BitTorrent clients requesting them (this is preferred, as it is
MUCH faster and scales much better than http, ftp, rsync,
gopher, etc.)
2.) Take the fully-downloaded files and put them up for http/ftp,
and notify -me directly- (at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) of the URL,
so I can link to it from the Plucker website, and so others can
grab the releases from there.
Plucker is getting immensely popular, especially in the medical and
pharmeceutical fields, and we're going to get hit VERY hard when we make
this release next week. The more people we can get to help redistribute the
files, the better it will be for everyone, even if it's over the next few
weeks. If any of the physicians or other entities on the list want to help
out with redistribution, please contact me directly, or use the above .zip
file and mirror the files themselves over BitTorrent/http/ftp.
If there are those on Univeristy connections, businesses, or larger
pipes who are allowed to run a BitTorrent client or mirror files, that would
be preferred. A few high-volume mirrors + the master Plucker site would work
out well for redistribution. Even many users on DSL or cable connections
will be a huge help in spreading the load of downloads around to everyone.
If you have any questions about BitTorrent, Plucker, or just want to
rant about something in general, feel free to discuss it here (please try to
stay on topic) or email me directly and I'll do what I can to help out in
any way that I can.
Thanks again everyone.
d.
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