Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
Nigel Henry wrote: > Up to a few hours ago, when I found out that my torrent download hadn't > completed, there were many folks still seeding, and was able to complete the > download. > > I've attached the .torrent file as well, as it's only 9.9KB. Thanks! I just downloaded it very fast, so some people are still seeding. I'll try to do so for a while too. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On Thursday 05 March 2009 21:54, Jake Peavy wrote: > On 3/5/09, g wrote: > > Jake Peavy wrote: > > > On 3/3/09, Steve Searle wrote: > > > > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > > > > > Dammit! Missed it. > > > > > > Does anyone have a copy they can email me? The site says we can share > > > > with > > > > > friends ;-) > > > > email > > > > are you aware that file is approx 130,919,531 bytes? > > That had not occurred to us, Dude. > > Is it still being seeded? Does anyone have a tracker? Being a first time user of bittorrent, I'm not sure if this is what you want. Anyway, in Transmissions tracker tab, I have the URL below, which is prefixed by "Tier" 1. http://www.linuxformat.co.uk:6969/announce Up to a few hours ago, when I found out that my torrent download hadn't completed, there were many folks still seeding, and was able to complete the download. I've attached the .torrent file as well, as it's only 9.9KB. Nigel linux_format_116.torrent Description: application/bittorrent -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On 3/5/09, g wrote: > > Jake Peavy wrote: > > On 3/3/09, Steve Searle wrote: > >> > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > > > > Dammit! Missed it. > > > > Does anyone have a copy they can email me? The site says we can share > with > > friends ;-) > > > email > > are you aware that file is approx 130,919,531 bytes? > That had not occurred to us, Dude. Is it still being seeded? Does anyone have a tracker? -- -jp When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear. deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
Jake Peavy wrote: > On 3/3/09, Steve Searle wrote: >> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > > Dammit! Missed it. > > Does anyone have a copy they can email me? The site says we can share with > friends ;-) email are you aware that file is approx 130,919,531 bytes? -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Steve Searle wrote: > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > > Steve They also have a "Linux Starter pack" (Beginner's guide to setting-up & using Ubuntu Linux, 130 pg PDF) for download- http://www.tuxradar.com/linuxstarterpack, at the companion website http://www.tuxradar.com/. That one does not have a d/l time limit. Jay -- Registered Linux User # 483705 @ http://counter.li.org/ (openSUSE 11.1, i686) Smolts Profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_b541a450-9bc1-45fd-beab-d46ee43a0108 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On 3/3/09, Steve Searle wrote: > > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > Dammit! Missed it. Does anyone have a copy they can email me? The site says we can share with friends ;-) TIA -- -jp I hope if dogs ever take over the world and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas. deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > A word on terminology: BT clients (and torrent sites) talk about Seeders > and Leechers. The only difference between the two is that Leechers are > still downloading part of the torrent, while Seeders have finished > downloading. Both types are uploading. Sometimes "leecher" is also used to refer to a pure leecher who does not upload anything. Sadly, the terminology is not completely unambiguous. Of course, a pure leecher will get throttled to bad download rates, both as a kind of sanction for uncooperativeness and for practical reasons (it's more useful to use one's limited bandwidth to push bits to someone likely to redistribute them to many more members of the swarm than to a dead end where they'll only benefit a single person). When you have the choice, BitTorrent is not a good protocol to use if you only want to leech without uploading, e.g. if you are behind a firewall which only allows you to download and not upload. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 01:51 +, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: > > > > I'll have to look further into this. It appears that I'm downloading using > > torrent, but not giving anything back (seeding). > > > > Nigel. > > > >From what I've seen, you have to complete downloading a file before it will > start seeding. At least that's what happened when I downloaded some iso > images recently. Both Ktorrent and Qbittorrent can upload parts of a torrent without waiting for all of it to download, which is fairlt important to how BT works. If your client isn't doing this then check the settings. You may be limiting it for bandwidth reasons. A word on terminology: BT clients (and torrent sites) talk about Seeders and Leechers. The only difference between the two is that Leechers are still downloading part of the torrent, while Seeders have finished downloading. Both types are uploading. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
I'll have to look further into this. It appears that I'm downloading using torrent, but not giving anything back (seeding). Nigel. From what I've seen, you have to complete downloading a file before it will start seeding. At least that's what happened when I downloaded some iso images recently. Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Nigel Henry wrote: >On Wednesday 04 March 2009 22:06, phil wrote: >> Nigel Henry wrote: >> > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:05, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: >> >>> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-on >> >>>l y >> > >> > I havn't seen a Linux Format mag since I moved to France in Sept 2004. >> > No money for the sub. >> > >> > Seeing the link above, I thought, "that's worth going for". Clicked on >> > the hi res download, only to find it was torrent, which I've never used >> > before. >> > >> > I had to go and collect bread, and other stuff on my bike at the local >> > town, so sometime later, and back at the ranch, I fire up F10, which I >> > know has Ktorrent on it. Click on "Help" in K torrent, but no help >> > files. Doh! . I'm sort of used to this with KDE, although I use it all >> > the time, but is annoying when you want to try a new app, but there is >> > no info on how to use it. >> > >> > Anyway, that aside, I see another app in KDE's Internet menu >> > "Transmission". That may be a Gnome app, but at least it's got info on >> > how to use it. I'm on dialup, but I drag the .torrent file into >> > transmissions main window, and get the torrent downloading the file. I >> > don't think there is a hope in hell of it running to completion before >> > Linux Format remove the link, which is a shame, as it would have been >> > nice to read a Linux Format mag again. >> > >> > How do these torrent downloads work, for instance with this PDF >> > download? Say for example If I get 90% of it downloaded, before I lose >> > the torrent link. Am I likely to be able to open the PDF, and view some >> > of the pages, or am I going to have all the pages, but bits and pieces >> > missing from each of them? >> > >> > I suppose whichever way this goes, I've learned a bit about torrent, and >> > the next time I need to use it I'll be a bit more clued up. >> > >> > Nigel. >> >> no matter if lxf remove their seeding server myself (and i'm sure many >> others) will keep seeding it for a while which should allow you to >> finish your download :) >> >> phil > >Thanks for that info Phil. So I may get it completed after all, which would > be nice. > >I know I'm on dialup, but it's odd that the "Transmission" app is not > showing anything being uploaded, but the downloading is using all available > dialup bandwidth. > >Gkrellm shows some stuff being transmitted, but all below 1K. > >I'll have to look further into this. It appears that I'm downloading using >torrent, but not giving anything back (seeding). > >Nigel. With your limited landline bandwidth, it may not start seeding until the download is done. What you see going out are probably just the acks and block requests to fill in the blanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. -- George M. Cohan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 22:06, phil wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:05, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: > >>> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-onl > >>>y > > > > I havn't seen a Linux Format mag since I moved to France in Sept 2004. No > > money for the sub. > > > > Seeing the link above, I thought, "that's worth going for". Clicked on > > the hi res download, only to find it was torrent, which I've never used > > before. > > > > I had to go and collect bread, and other stuff on my bike at the local > > town, so sometime later, and back at the ranch, I fire up F10, which I > > know has Ktorrent on it. Click on "Help" in K torrent, but no help files. > > Doh! . I'm sort of used to this with KDE, although I use it all the time, > > but is annoying when you want to try a new app, but there is no info on > > how to use it. > > > > Anyway, that aside, I see another app in KDE's Internet menu > > "Transmission". That may be a Gnome app, but at least it's got info on > > how to use it. I'm on dialup, but I drag the .torrent file into > > transmissions main window, and get the torrent downloading the file. I > > don't think there is a hope in hell of it running to completion before > > Linux Format remove the link, which is a shame, as it would have been > > nice to read a Linux Format mag again. > > > > How do these torrent downloads work, for instance with this PDF download? > > Say for example If I get 90% of it downloaded, before I lose the torrent > > link. Am I likely to be able to open the PDF, and view some of the pages, > > or am I going to have all the pages, but bits and pieces missing from > > each of them? > > > > I suppose whichever way this goes, I've learned a bit about torrent, and > > the next time I need to use it I'll be a bit more clued up. > > > > Nigel. > > no matter if lxf remove their seeding server myself (and i'm sure many > others) will keep seeding it for a while which should allow you to > finish your download :) > > phil Thanks for that info Phil. So I may get it completed after all, which would be nice. I know I'm on dialup, but it's odd that the "Transmission" app is not showing anything being uploaded, but the downloading is using all available dialup bandwidth. Gkrellm shows some stuff being transmitted, but all below 1K. I'll have to look further into this. It appears that I'm downloading using torrent, but not giving anything back (seeding). Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:05, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only I havn't seen a Linux Format mag since I moved to France in Sept 2004. No money for the sub. Seeing the link above, I thought, "that's worth going for". Clicked on the hi res download, only to find it was torrent, which I've never used before. I had to go and collect bread, and other stuff on my bike at the local town, so sometime later, and back at the ranch, I fire up F10, which I know has Ktorrent on it. Click on "Help" in K torrent, but no help files. Doh! . I'm sort of used to this with KDE, although I use it all the time, but is annoying when you want to try a new app, but there is no info on how to use it. Anyway, that aside, I see another app in KDE's Internet menu "Transmission". That may be a Gnome app, but at least it's got info on how to use it. I'm on dialup, but I drag the .torrent file into transmissions main window, and get the torrent downloading the file. I don't think there is a hope in hell of it running to completion before Linux Format remove the link, which is a shame, as it would have been nice to read a Linux Format mag again. How do these torrent downloads work, for instance with this PDF download? Say for example If I get 90% of it downloaded, before I lose the torrent link. Am I likely to be able to open the PDF, and view some of the pages, or am I going to have all the pages, but bits and pieces missing from each of them? I suppose whichever way this goes, I've learned a bit about torrent, and the next time I need to use it I'll be a bit more clued up. Nigel. no matter if lxf remove their seeding server myself (and i'm sure many others) will keep seeding it for a while which should allow you to finish your download :) phil -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 21:41:55 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > How do these torrent downloads work, for instance with this PDF download? Say > for example If I get 90% of it downloaded, before I lose the torrent link. Am > I likely to be able to open the PDF, and view some of the pages, or am I > going to have all the pages, but bits and pieces missing from each of them? Torrents don't pull in bytes in order. So pieces could be missing anywhere in the file. Restarting the torrent should pick up where it left off though. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:05, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: > > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only I havn't seen a Linux Format mag since I moved to France in Sept 2004. No money for the sub. Seeing the link above, I thought, "that's worth going for". Clicked on the hi res download, only to find it was torrent, which I've never used before. I had to go and collect bread, and other stuff on my bike at the local town, so sometime later, and back at the ranch, I fire up F10, which I know has Ktorrent on it. Click on "Help" in K torrent, but no help files. Doh! . I'm sort of used to this with KDE, although I use it all the time, but is annoying when you want to try a new app, but there is no info on how to use it. Anyway, that aside, I see another app in KDE's Internet menu "Transmission". That may be a Gnome app, but at least it's got info on how to use it. I'm on dialup, but I drag the .torrent file into transmissions main window, and get the torrent downloading the file. I don't think there is a hope in hell of it running to completion before Linux Format remove the link, which is a shame, as it would have been nice to read a Linux Format mag again. How do these torrent downloads work, for instance with this PDF download? Say for example If I get 90% of it downloaded, before I lose the torrent link. Am I likely to be able to open the PDF, and view some of the pages, or am I going to have all the pages, but bits and pieces missing from each of them? I suppose whichever way this goes, I've learned a bit about torrent, and the next time I need to use it I'll be a bit more clued up. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
Yep, that's where I got my copy of Fc10. Saved a load of download time :-) Been quite a few interesting articles and comments too. - Original Message - From: "Paul W. Frields" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only Pity they didn't do this with the previous issue, check out the cover: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/covers/115-big.jpg -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only Pity they didn't do this with the previous issue, check out the cover: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/covers/115-big.jpg -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug pgpHfoncvl4nF.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
Kam Leo wrote: > You might make it clear that the download is a PDF the latest issue of > Linux Format magazine. would be difficult to send mag thru internet. :) plus, html would not do lxf justice. > By the way, it's the first time I have heard of > this magazine which I learned from Google search is UK based. live and learn, die and forget. lxf has been around a few years. issue 116 = 10 yrs 8 months. they also run 2 and 3 special issues. lxf covers new distribs, new programs, reviews, q & a, etc, plus include a monthly dvd. [started with cd] last i read one, 6+ months, minimal ads. over all, a good read. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Steve Searle wrote: > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > > Steve You might make it clear that the download is a PDF the latest issue of Linux Format magazine. By the way, it's the first time I have heard of this magazine which I learned from Google search is UK based. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
