[WBEL-devel] Curious thing with the bittorrents...

[Jamey Fletcher]

I just downloaded, a few mins ago, the linuxlobbyist .torrent file, and 
started a client - and let it go through the original files - I'm using 
the BT3.3 btdownloadcurses.py client - and it reported no errors...  But 
then it immediately bailed out reporting permissions error - which sounds 
like it may have tried to write to the files - which I would suspect might 
mean the client doesn't actually report errors when it says "verifying the 
downloaded files".

I *really* need to see what else is out there for the bittorrent world...  
And perhaps write some documentation...  *sigh*  I love how, when you use 
the gui download client, without any parameters, the help box runs right 
off the top & bottom of the screen.  Scroll bars, anyone?

As it stands, the .torrent files on the download page are feeding out 
straight from the whitebox server the ISOs residing there.  But people 
reporting better results from the linuxlobbyist torrent - I say, go for 
it.

And what's this about digital fountains?  Is this what's being used now on 
UseNet for .PAR2 files, where even if you have missing sections, the 
sender doesn't have to regenerate the exact parts that are missing, they 
just generate new parts to send?  Or something like that?

I've been out of school too long.  (BTW, I *HATE* python!  Exact 
whitespace should *NOT* be part of any language except those really 
screwed up ones like brainfuck and the one that is *NOTHING* but 
whitespace.)

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