Re: torrent
You need a torrent client installed like transmission for starters. https://transmissionbt.com/ On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 2:07 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Nevermind. I'm not away from my linux machine. I made a mistake. > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 1:00 PM Michael wrote: > >> fyi I'm away from my Linux computer. >> >> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 12:50 PM Michael wrote: >> >>> What do I open a torrent with to download the file? Here is the file: >>> /home/kali/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-live-everything-amd64.iso.torrent >>> I seem to remember that you just need to double click it and the >>> download starts; but when I do that the 'open with' window opens. Or >>> wait do I remember that the download starts automatically? >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
Nevermind. I'm not away from my linux machine. I made a mistake. On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 1:00 PM Michael wrote: > fyi I'm away from my Linux computer. > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 12:50 PM Michael wrote: > >> What do I open a torrent with to download the file? Here is the file: >> /home/kali/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-live-everything-amd64.iso.torrent >> I seem to remember that you just need to double click it and the download >> starts; but when I do that the 'open with' window opens. Or wait do I >> remember that the download starts automatically? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
fyi I'm away from my Linux computer. On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 12:50 PM Michael wrote: > What do I open a torrent with to download the file? Here is the file: > /home/kali/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-live-everything-amd64.iso.torrent > I seem to remember that you just need to double click it and the download > starts; but when I do that the 'open with' window opens. Or wait do I > remember that the download starts automatically? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: torrent
Only feeds what you are torrent-ing from someone else (or what you HAVE torrented from someone else), or at least that's what we all believe J From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:55 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: torrent but what are you feeding? I mean does it know what is on your computer for you to upload or else do you feed what you have of what you are downloading? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Carruth, Rusty rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote: Torrents share as well as download. That is, while you are downloading you are also feeding others. Also, you can download from more than one feeder at a time. Which means that, theoretically, you can totally swamp your download bandwidth J. I'm sure there's more. Rusty From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:46 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: torrent how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
what about changing the connected peers, does that do anything?:-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: but what are you feeding? I mean does it know what is on your computer for you to upload or else do you feed what you have of what you are downloading? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Carruth, Rusty rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote: Torrents share as well as download. ** ** That is, while you are downloading you are also feeding others. ** ** Also, you can download from more than one feeder at a time. ** ** Which means that, theoretically, you can totally swamp your download bandwidth J. ** ** I’m sure there’s more. ** ** Rusty ** ** *From:* plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael Havens *Sent:* Friday, January 25, 2013 10:46 AM *To:* Main PLUG discussion list *Subject:* torrent ** ** how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
Back to the original question, downloading from a torrent is better because it doesn't swamp the source server. If you have a feeble server, but a high-demand and large file to serve, providing a torrent download shifts the server load from yourself to your users, where they nearly all download from each other, and all you do is tell them where to find each other. As a user, downloading a torrent can be better because that feeble server in the example above may be crawling along at a snail's pace, while the peer-to-peer download torrent is crusing at mach speed. With a torrent, the more popular a file, the better the results. Tom -- To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. - Dr. Robert Muller On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
With bit torrent files are broken up into a whole bunch of chuncks. These chunks then have checksums run against them and put into a torrent file. When you grab the torrent file your computer grabs chunks of the file from everyone else that is downloading the file, not just the server. It doesn't grab then from start to end like a normal download it grabs them out of order and in parallel. Your computer can verify that people are sending you unaltered chunks of the file by comparing the checksums of the received chunks to the original checksums in the torrent file. If they match, the chuck is kept, if they down, the chuck is downloaded from someone else until it does match the original checksum. Because of the way that everyone that is downloading the file is also participating in uploading to other people downloading, Torrents really shine when you have a rush on a particular file. In the old days, when the latest version of a distro came out you might as well wait a while before downloading it, because you were going to get less than a modem's worth of speed... it could and would take days to download the ISO. Then along came torrents and everyone could now download parts of the ISO image from everyone else. With bittorrent in the picture this means that the first day a distro comes out is now actually the best time to download since there is a lot more total available bandwidth than later on when it's not in such high demand. Brian Cluff On 01/25/2013 10:45 AM, Michael Havens wrote: how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for purposes OTHER than sharing copyrighted files. -jmz On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- http://home.joshuazeidner.com/ (602) 492-5749 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
Have you ever hosted a server where a thousand people want to download something? Torrents are great when you're in that position. /ran a FOSS mirror for six months On Fri 25 January 2013 11:01:49 Joshua Zeidner wrote: It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for purposes OTHER than sharing copyrighted files. -jmz On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Ryan Rix http://rix.si signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
Bittorrent is simply a way of efficiently moving large amounts of data from point A to point B. There is nothing about it that promotes copyright infringement, any more than just downloading something off a webpage though HTTP... unless you are saying that doing things efficiently is inherently dishonest. Brian Cluff On 01/25/2013 11:01 AM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for purposes OTHER than sharing copyrighted files. -jmz On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com mailto:bmi...@gmail.com wrote: how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- http://home.joshuazeidner.com/ (602) 492-5749 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
Well, one difference is that if infringement _is_ committed, it's two different violations under the law for torrents, and one for HTTP downloads. Because torrenters download *and* upload, they can be charged not only with violation by using the content without permission, but also for distributing it (a charge with much higher penalties). And another niggling thing: Linux is copyrighted. BSD is copyrighted. Every creative work made in the US is automatically copyrighted.) So torrenting definitely deals almost exclusively with copyrighted material. But not every copyright belongs to a total dick, so... ;-) Torrents are definitely a faster download for small projects (and often projects hosted on servers which reside far, far away). The Blender Open Movie projects are a good example here. The idea that torrents exist exclusively to facilitate infringement is ridiculous. On Jan 25, 2013 2:03 PM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: Bittorrent is simply a way of efficiently moving large amounts of data from point A to point B. There is nothing about it that promotes copyright infringement, any more than just downloading something off a webpage though HTTP... unless you are saying that doing things efficiently is inherently dishonest. Brian Cluff On 01/25/2013 11:01 AM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for purposes OTHER than sharing copyrighted files. -jmz On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com mailto:bmi...@gmail.com wrote: how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --**- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**orgPLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.**phxlinux.orgPLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discusshttp://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- http://home.joshuazeidner.com/ (602) 492-5749 --**- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**orgPLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discusshttp://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --**- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**orgPLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discusshttp://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
And? All files are copyrighted. That doesn't mean that all Torrenting is illegal. Blizzard and Riot games and a number of other, mainstream developers, use Torrent systems to deliver updates to their games so that the load of getting the files is shared amongst all the users. Those files are copyrighted, yet don't meet what I think you really meant with this statement... It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for purposes OTHER than sharing copyrighted files. -jmz On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com mailto:bmi...@gmail.com wrote: how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- http://home.joshuazeidner.com/ (602) 492-5749 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
