John Richard Moser spake thusly on 218814416 ::
> OK, I had issues with bittorrent recently. Changing my tune.
>
Whew! For a moment there you had me thinking you believe BitTorrent was
the greatest thing since sliced bread...
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Op dinsdag 06-11-2007 om 22:38 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Caroline
Ford:
> They don't tell you they block it until you have it installed.
Which means they broke the contract, and you don't have to stay with
them for a year...
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Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> The error checking in the TCP/IP layer is usually sufficient, but not
> always. The checksum is short enough (32 bits, if I remember correctly)
> that errors can creep in. I have had it happen at least once to me.
> Unfortunately, the errors are more likely the more you down
On 06/11/2007 Caroline Ford wrote:
> You'd choose MS Office over a program you can only get via bittorrent?
> Those were almost my choices
>
I don't think you can download and use msoffice without either paying
/or/ using a peer-to-peer network, so you're right, they're beating us
on this side,
Caroline Ford wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:14 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
>> Caroline Ford wrote:
>>> Some ISPs block bittorrent of course. Vodafone UK is one of them. I had
>>> great problems downloading openoffice.org for windows as they *only* use
>>> bittorrent as a distribution mechanism
> Caroline Ford wrote:
> > Some ISPs block bittorrent of course. Vodafone UK is one of them. I had
> > great problems downloading openoffice.org for windows as they *only* use
> > bittorrent as a distribution mechanism.
>
> You should browbeat such an ISP, not cave in to their draconian will.
>
On 07/11/07 07:14, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Caroline Ford wrote:
>
>> Some ISPs block bittorrent of course. Vodafone UK is one of them. I had
>> great problems downloading openoffice.org for windows as they *only* use
>> bittorrent as a distribution mechanism.
>>
>
> You should browbeat such
Phillip Susi escribió:
> Anthony Bryan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an
>> XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file
>> (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error detection/recovery
>> (checksums) and other
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:14 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Caroline Ford wrote:
> > Some ISPs block bittorrent of course. Vodafone UK is one of them. I had
> > great problems downloading openoffice.org for windows as they *only* use
> > bittorrent as a distribution mechanism.
>
> You should browbea
On ti, 2007-11-06 at 17:12 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> In my 12 years of extensive Internet use, and several years prior to
> that of using BBSes, I have NEVER had a download corrupted. It seems to
> me that the sophisticated error detection and correction measures in the
> underlying links ar
Caroline Ford wrote:
> Some ISPs block bittorrent of course. Vodafone UK is one of them. I had
> great problems downloading openoffice.org for windows as they *only* use
> bittorrent as a distribution mechanism.
You should browbeat such an ISP, not cave in to their draconian will.
Vigorously com
Anthony Bryan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an
> XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file
> (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error detection/recovery
> (checksums) and other stuff.
In my 12 years of ext
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> John Richard Moser escribió:
>>
>> Anthony Bryan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an
>>> XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file
>>> (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error d
On 11/4/07, John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Anthony Bryan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an
> > XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file
> > (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error
To follow up on my original post, Agostino Russo (Wubi author) pushed
for metalinks at UDS Boston and it sounds like they should hopefully
be ready for Hardy:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/140458/
On 11/5/07, Aaron Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Anthony Bryan wrote:
>
> > Anthony Bryan wrote:
> I usually get slow speeds on BitTorrent. I download via HTTP (using
> multiple mirrors) and then seed the torrent for the rest.
As do I. There are several files that have left me stranded for so
long that I ended up just using HTTP and discarding the
nearly-complete torr
John Richard Moser escribió:
>
> Anthony Bryan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an
>> XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file
>> (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error detection/recovery
>> (checksums)
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 23:50 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
>
> Anthony Bryan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an
> > XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file
> > (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic er
Anthony Bryan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an
> XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file
> (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error detection/recovery
> (checksums) and other stuff.
Bittorrent.
>
> I
Hi,
Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an
XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file
(mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error detection/recovery
(checksums) and other stuff.
It makes things simpler for the user, since they don't
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