Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-29 Thread jallan6977
Good advice, but my budget is terribly limited. I want so many things for my vegetable garden that no matter how much I want the linux system up and running, I must get what I can fo free. I am still dlding move. I am almost half way there. Besides this dld has taught me several things

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 23:00, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 01:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What has happened to our torrent sites? I can not connect to peers. What do we use now that has the excellent resume upon lost

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:26:07 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Mandrake's own bittorrent gui. It doesn't seem to have any problem with resuming. How do you invoke Mandrake's own bittorrent gui, Anne? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:42:33 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not mean that, Anne; I meant how do you call it from the command line? I don't recall doing that at all - as far as I can remember, requesting a download just pops up the gui if it is installed. I could be

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 Dec 2004 11:46, Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:42:33 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not mean that, Anne; I meant how do you call it from the command line? I don't recall doing that at all - as

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Anders Lind
Thanks, Anne. But, do you know the name of the program? Paul I am not Anne and I haven't followed the convo but Azureus is a GUI client for Bittorrent that works really great. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread SnapafunFrank
Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:42:33 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not mean that, Anne; I meant how do you call it from the command line? I don't recall doing that at all - as far as I can remember, requesting a download just pops up the gui if it is

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Q.H. Wang
I installed it through Software Management of MCC. You just need to search bittorrent there to install it. Mine is 10 the official. HTH. Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:39:11 +, Q.H. Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed it through Software Management of MCC. You just need to search bittorrent there to install it. Mine is 10 the official. Thanks to all. Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread jallan6977
I did find and dld Azureus. I also had to dld Java. That took an hour. I will try it out soon. I previously found Internet Download Manager which also Has good resume ability. It lets you edit the file types it will handle. I added iso and img suffixes to the list and it is working.

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread jallan6977
You could be very right. Unfortunately, I haven't installed mandrake yet. My local guru and friend advises against it. I don't want to make him less happy so, I will wait until he builds my new system in a couple months. Meanwhile I am trying to dld Man Move so I can get my feet wet.

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread SnapafunFrank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could be very right. Unfortunately, I haven't installed mandrake yet. My local guru and friend advises against it. I don't want to make him less happy so, I will wait until he builds my new system in a couple months. Meanwhile I am trying to dld Man Move so

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 02:00 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could be very right. Unfortunately, I haven't installed mandrake yet. My local guru and friend advises against it. I don't want to make him less happy so, I will wait until he builds my new system in

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Steve Goodey
On Tuesday 28 Dec 2004 18:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could be very right. Unfortunately, I haven't installed mandrake yet. My local guru and friend advises against it. I don't want to make him less happy so, I will wait until he builds my new system in a couple months.

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 01:30 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could be very right. Unfortunately, I haven't installed mandrake yet. My local guru and friend advises against it. I don't want to make him less happy so, I will wait until he builds my new system in a couple months.

[newbie] torrents

2004-12-27 Thread jallan6977
What has happened to our torrent sites? I can not connect to peers. What do we use now that has the excellent resume upon lost connections etc? Without something us dialuppers haven't a snow balls chance. I would like something I could kill the connection then resume the next night before

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 27 December 2004 01:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What has happened to our torrent sites? I can not connect to peers. What do we use now that has the excellent resume upon lost connections etc? Without something us dialuppers haven't a snow balls chance. I would like

Re: [newbie] torrents

2004-12-27 Thread Kenneth
Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 01:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What has happened to our torrent sites? I can not connect to peers. What do we use now that has the excellent resume upon lost connections etc? Without something us dialuppers haven't a snow balls chance. I