Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-19 Thread Sharrea Day
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:35, Tom Brinkman wrote: Keep an eye on that link below. When you see downloaders drop off to just a few, and there's still enough 'connected complete' people, then it'd probly be OK to abandon BT then. I've kept mine up since getting the iso's last Wednesday.

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 19 October 2003 01:20 am, Sharrea Day wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:35, Tom Brinkman wrote: Keep an eye on that link below. When you see downloaders drop off to just a few, and there's still enough 'connected complete' people, then it'd probly be OK to abandon BT then.

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 16 2003 11:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: As I started off with, this bittorBS is new to me, never been a fan of p2p anyhow. There's a growin consensus of docs, FAQ's, an smart BT people tho. Use the list archives, cooker, expert, an newbie, Club links, plus Google for

RE: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Tony S. Sykes
] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong On Thursday October 16 2003 11:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: As I started off with, this bittorBS is new to me, never been a fan of p2p anyhow. There's a growin consensus of docs, FAQ's, an smart BT people tho. Use the list archives, cooker

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:56:22 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 11:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: As I started off with, this bittorBS is new to me, never been a fan of p2p anyhow. There's a growin consensus of docs, FAQ's, an smart BT people tho.

RE: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Lee, Just start it as you did the first time. It will check the file is there and just serve it. Tony. -Original Message- From: Lee Wiggers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong On Fri, 17

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 07:56 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: [..] When BT froze (not BT's fault), I rebooted to change some bios settings for the ram. I've since learned why BT wouldn't start up again after I rebooted. My connection is dynamic, and my IP had

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 08:18 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: [..] We stayed up for 24hrs but it was slowing down my office connection to the point where I had to shut it off this morning. How do I turn it back on for uploads over the weekend? Lee The same way

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:56:22 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just another comment: Over 4,400 people have gotten the complete iso's, but only 318 are currently still online to upload them to others. Thanks for reminding me. I had rebuilt and installed the 15 kernel this

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday October 17 2003 09:15 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I stayed on at least 24 hours after mine finished. I suppose I could fire it back up again, but what should we class as a reasonable time to keep it up? Tony. Keep an eye on that link below. When you see downloaders drop off to

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday October 17 2003 09:18 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: We stayed up for 24hrs but it was slowing down my office connection to the point where I had to shut it off this morning. How do I turn it back on for uploads over the weekend? Lee Edit...

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 17 October 2003 10:15 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I stayed on at least 24 hours after mine finished. I suppose I could fire it back up again, but what should we class as a reasonable time to keep it up? I left mine up until I uploaded 2x more than I downloaded. I thought that was

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread s
On Friday 17 October 2003 04:08 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 10:15 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I stayed on at least 24 hours after mine finished. I suppose I could fire it back up again, but what should we class as a reasonable time to keep it up? I left mine up until I

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Roland Hughes
The only way I could get bittorrent to work was find Java client (asus) and run it at work on a xp box. It took a long time to start but finished up and I have let it keep running for day's. Last I looked I had 70+ people connected and up loading. I throttle it down during the day and open it

[newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
This mornin I got up and was readin my email. Much of which was down on bittorrent (sux!), much of which was very positive. So what'a heck, I started a 9.2 iso torrent after checking here, http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/ to see how many givers and getters were online.

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: This mornin I got up and was readin my email. Much of which was down on bittorrent (sux!), much of which was very positive. So what'a heck, I started a 9.2 iso torrent after checking here, http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday October 15 2003 02:48 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: So I was wrong. Bittorrent does make sense for getting Mandrake iso's. Specially since Mandrake depends on donated mirror space and bandwidth, and torrent goes easy on both. And since the reduced upload rate makes my