Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/10/2012 Raphael Bircher wrote: I setting up a tracker now... http://rbircher.homeunix.org:6969 I gave it a try, but I could only get some bits from the first file (the source package); for the other running file download started but never progressed, and I got Torrent unauthorised for

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi all Am 21.09.12 15:35, schrieb Albino B Neto: Hi. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Issac Goldstand is...@volo-net.com wrote: +1 - I'm for it and willing to help seed :) +1 Would we be using our own tracker (does infra even have a tracker script?) or some third-party website's? I was

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Albino B Neto
Hi. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Raphael Bircher rbirc...@apache.org wrote: I setting up a tracker now... http://rbircher.homeunix.org:6969 Good. You are using a mirror, or downloaded and upload here ? -- Albino

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: In other words, for 99% of normal end users in a low bandwidth/high latency/unreliable connections, wouldn't a download manager over http be the better solution? Yes. Sun had one dubbed Sun Download Manager, written in cross

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Donald Whytock
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree stongly. Seeding torrents is a bandwith-intensive, and particularly upstream-intensive proposition. Most residential broadband links -at least down here in .AR- are limited to 512K to 256 Kbps upstream speed.

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi Albino Am 11.10.12 19:27, schrieb Albino B Neto: Hi. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Raphael Bircher rbirc...@apache.org wrote: I setting up a tracker now... http://rbircher.homeunix.org:6969 Good. You are using a mirror, or downloaded and upload here ? At the moment it is hand work.

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Albino B Neto
Hi On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Raphael Bircher rbirc...@apache.org wrote: I setting up a tracker now... http://rbircher.homeunix.org:6969 You are using a mirror, or downloaded and upload here ? At the moment it is hand work. But this is also only a temporary solution for me. I will

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Raphael Bircher
Am 11.10.12 21:13, schrieb Albino B Neto: Hi On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Raphael Bircher rbirc...@apache.org wrote: I setting up a tracker now... http://rbircher.homeunix.org:6969 You are using a mirror, or downloaded and upload here ? At the moment it is hand work. But this is also

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Albino B Neto
HI On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Raphael Bircher rbirc...@apache.org wrote: They are on now http://rbircher.homeunix.org:6969/index.tmpl?search=pt-BR Thanks (: You do statics about download of AOO ? -- Albino

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Issac Goldstand
I'm getting Torrent unauthorized for all but one of the torrents there... Are you sure that the tracker is set up properly? On 11/10/2012 10:39, Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi all Am 21.09.12 15:35, schrieb Albino B Neto: Hi. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Issac Goldstand is...@volo-net.com

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Raphael Bircher
You are right, only one download works, and searching for solutions is a real nightmare. If you have only torrent in the search string, you get pointet to all this stupid public trackers, or dummy questions from P2P Downloaders. I didn't find a Link to a good manual. This proves, BitTorrent is 98%

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: Dude...Are you citing yourself? Don No, I cited Vint Cerf agreeing with me wrt residential broadband should be symmetric (same upstream speed as downstream). That´s what really sets apart passive consummers of web info

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-21 Thread Albino B Neto
Hi. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Issac Goldstand is...@volo-net.com wrote: +1 - I'm for it and willing to help seed :) +1 Would we be using our own tracker (does infra even have a tracker script?) or some third-party website's? I was reading another email, we could start using a public

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-19 Thread Issac Goldstand
On 18/09/2012 02:13, Rob Weir wrote: I've recently seen a few requests for ability to download AOO via a torrent. something we do not currently provide. I see that OOo did this for legacy versions: http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/p2p/ According to the scripts on this page, it looks

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:13:24 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I've recently seen a few requests for ability to download AOO via a torrent. something we do not currently provide. I see that OOo did this for

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-18 Thread Donald Whytock
One good thing about bittorrent is that it's less dependent on a single source. There has to be at least one primary seed, but once the packet's out there a client has less need to reach that primary seed. A download manager may be able to handle resuming interrupted downloads (if the host is),

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 12-09-17, at 19:13 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I've recently seen a few requests for ability to download AOO via a torrent. something we do not currently provide. I see that OOo did this for legacy versions: http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/p2p/ According to the

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-17 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I've recently seen a few requests for ability to download AOO via a torrent. something we do not currently provide. I see that OOo did this for legacy versions: http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/p2p/ According to the

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-17, at 20:28 , Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: That said, I don't know many people coming writing in to thank us for the P2P alternative. AFAIK. There used to be. The lack now, if there is one, suggests the marketing alternative: to announce this so that people can use it.

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:13:24 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I've recently seen a few requests for ability to download AOO via a torrent. something we do not currently provide. I see that OOo did this for legacy versions: http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/p2p/ According to