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| Thread ID: 79595 | 2007-05-25 06:23:00 | Dear Mods: | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 553065 | 2007-05-27 08:40:00 | What do you use torrents for? Most Linux ISOs and other open source applications are available much more easily via ftp servers. This thread has gone well off topic, but just for the sake of answering your question, I use them for Linux distros to test/play with, open source software to test/play with or use full time, some music which is released onto torrents by the actual artists and is therefore legal to DL, short movies again released by the actual creators and the occasional game CD or other software CD that has gotten scratched or damaged and is unreadable so I get a copy and use my legit keys for it... and as Bletch and Jan said... reduce the server load... Nothing illegal here people... move along :) AB, basically torrents are small files that contain information about some data (software, movies, music etc) that the torrent creator has decided to make into the torrent, open the torrent in a torrent program such as uTorrent and then you download the data that the torrent was outlining, most people think of torrents as illegal, but in actual fact torrents are NOT illegal, it depends on the data the the torrent contains, such as a pirated copy of Vista, games, movies, music etc Thanks Foxy, sorted :D Now, back on the ad topic people :p |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 553066 | 2007-05-27 08:57:00 | Not so. It is getting more common for the developers of various Linux distributions to offer bittorrent over ftp or http protocols. Small files are easily obtained via ftp/http, but the large distros can run into gigabytes. In the past trying to get a connection to a server or even mirror hosting the ISO was difficult if it had only just been released. I generally use bittorrent for distro downloading myself. I agree with Bletch, someone has to pay for the costs for the server data usage so why not contribute by not adding to that burden. Ah yes I stand corrected. I was just wondering, as I was looking for a Kubuntu 7.0.4 download just yesterday, and the only sources I could find for the CD ISOs were ftp/http. I see now that the DVD ISOs have bittorrent. I was wanting to download via Bittorrent for the reason you mentioned above. Citylink can probably afford an extra 700MB of bandwidth though :P |
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| 553067 | 2007-05-27 22:54:00 | For this morning's installment: .fairfax_nav, #jcornerSmall, #jcornerBig, #advert-banner, #header, #navigation, .tfoot, table[width="160"], td[width="170"], td[width="300"], div[align="center"] a[target="_new"], img[alt="PC World Forums"], embed[name="jcornerSmallObject"] {display: none;} |
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| 553068 | 2007-05-27 22:59:00 | Dear restless natives, has the offending ad gone or what? I haven't checked PF1 for a few days and am wondering what all the fuss is about. | Scott Bartley (836) | ||
| 553069 | 2007-05-27 23:02:00 | The ultra-wide one has gone - this morning's CSS was kind of a reflex action to seeing yet another damn ad. The code has also been getting more and more sneaky. Have the powers that be considered google text ads? In my humble opinion, they'd do a far, far better job. Alternatively if you were asking for donations to keep PF1 ad-free, you can count me in. |
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