Friday, December 31, 2004
Exeem "Successor" to Suprnova Announced
Exeem "Successor" to Suprnova Announced: "Exeem is pretty much what was rumored earlier: a blending of the tracker, the BitTorrent client, and decentralized indexing. It's Windows only. It's in beta now, and will be out at some indeterminate date in the future."
LokiTorrent fights MPAA legal attack
LokiTorrent fights MPAA legal attack: "The latest peer-to-peer site to come into the legal crosshairs of the motion-picture industry promised this week to fight, and put out a virtual hat to finance its legal fund.
LokiTorrent, a Web site and index of files available through a peer-to-peer technology known as BitTorrent, posted a letter from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) on its site on Tuesday. The letter states that the MPAA has filed suit in district court in Texas against the site and demands that Loki Torrent cease linking to video files that could infringe on studios' copyrights."
LokiTorrent, a Web site and index of files available through a peer-to-peer technology known as BitTorrent, posted a letter from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) on its site on Tuesday. The letter states that the MPAA has filed suit in district court in Texas against the site and demands that Loki Torrent cease linking to video files that could infringe on studios' copyrights."
Thursday, December 30, 2004
The BitTorrent Effect
Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect: "Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen's blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo. For free video-on-demand, just click here."
BTSlave
BTSlave BTSlave is a “slave repeater”. A BitTorrent repeater is a client that only downloads data when no one is interested in the data it already has. Repeaters can achieve very high upload/download ratios, and they help the other peers in a torrent download faster. The “slave” part means that the repeater has as it's main goal helping out it's “master” -- your usual BitTorrent client.
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Formatting table in BTQueue
BTQueue 0.0.18 allows all you to specify your own table layout very easy. Basically, BTQueue has 3 tables for displaying brief information of torrents, connected peers, and all possible peers. The last table of all peers is introduced in version 0.0.18 to help you to verify the tracker action. This post aims to give you an overview to modify these format to meet your need.
First, you have to know the basic. A table consists of a set of columns. What you can do is to rearrange column order, hide some of them, justify alignment, and cut too long text. Technically, a column can be represent by its alignment, optional maximum length, and its column name in form cd,ssss or c,ssss. c represents alignment where l and r stands for left and right, respectively. d is an optional number to limit maximum length of this column. In case of a column is longer than the limit, it will be cut off. The next field, ssss, is the column name.
First, you have to know the basic. A table consists of a set of columns. What you can do is to rearrange column order, hide some of them, justify alignment, and cut too long text. Technically, a column can be represent by its alignment, optional maximum length, and its column name in form cd,ssss or c,ssss. c represents alignment where l and r stands for left and right, respectively. d is an optional number to limit maximum length of this column. In case of a column is longer than the limit, it will be cut off. The next field, ssss, is the column name.
Torrent Table
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| id | Identification Number |
| title | Torrent name. Usually, the first file or directory |
| progress | Progress in percentile |
| dlsize | Downloaded size |
| ulsize | Uploaded size |
| totalsize | Total size |
| eta | Estimated remaining time |
| dlspeed | Download rate |
| ulspeed | Upload rate |
| seeds | Number of seeders in bracket and number of connected seeders outside |
| peers | Number of leechers in bracket and number of connected leechers outside |
| btstatus | State |
| ratio | Shared ratio |
| activity | Current activity |
Spew Table
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ip | IP address |
| rport | Remote port |
| cc | Country code |
| direction | Connect direction |
| uprate | Upload rate |
| downlrate | Download rate |
| dtotal | Downloaded size |
| utotal | Uploaded size |
| completed | Progress |
| client | Client |
| netname | Network name |
Peer Table
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ip | IP address |
| rport | Remote port |
| cc | Country code |
| client | Client |
| netname | Network name |
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Rsync wrapper for windows
Rsync wrapper for windows provides a zip including rsync, cygwin, ssh, and their dependencies.
WINrsync
WINrsync: "WINrsync is a frontend to rsync. That means it shows a nice window with buttons and stuff, and lets you browse an rsync server and stuff like that. When you have finished setting all the options you want and click 'Download', it will fire up rsync with all the options you selected. So you just point and click, and let WINrsync do all the tough work remembering how to type all those options.
So, it doesn't add functionality. But it will let many more people use this genious way of transferring files."
So, it doesn't add functionality. But it will let many more people use this genious way of transferring files."
Monday, December 27, 2004
Suprnova's eXeem beta review and screenshots
Mitosis Gold: Suprnova's eXeem beta review and screenshots: "Bit torrent websites are doomed. The trackers they offer make them nice, fat targets for the MPAA/RIAA and they're potential single pionts of failure due to hardware and/or bandwidth issues. Can P2P survive? Only if it evolves."
Quote of The Day
Australian IT - Hollywood struggles with BitTorrent (Alex Veiga in Los Angeles, DECEMBER 27, 2004): "'Someone else was doing something with BitTorrent that I had no knowledge of,' Mr Cohen said. 'It's not being done on any machines I have any control over...what do you want me to do?"
Bram Cohen.
Bram Cohen.
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