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  1. Here's the hotlink by AIX-Hood · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on More on the iTunes Cell Phone

    The link: http://www.aixgaming.com/gallery/ihome_pics

  2. Pictures of the RZR by AIX-Hood · · Score: 1 · on Cingular-AT&T Wireless Merger Complete

    I came back from the recent digitallife show with pictures of said RZR: http://www.aixgaming.com/gallery/digital_life_2004 /aaz and I really loved it. I was saddened by the 30+ great looking Motorola phones however as they were all GSM and TDMA and none worked with my current Verizon service. Seeing as my co-worker's new Cingular phone is the only one out of the group's (Sprint/Verizon) phones to work in our basement datacenter, I may have to give them a try and pick up one of these snazzy models while I'm at it.

  3. Re:Bittorrents of Trailers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Appleseed World Preview Minireview

    appleseed trailer torrent

  4. Re:Not intended to be used for illegal distributio by MrAngryForNoReason · · Score: 3, Interesting · on BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed

    BitTorrent is used extensively for distribution of new game demos and game/movie trailers. It is perfect for anything that has high first day demand. It is no more suited to illegal file trading than ftp, http or any other protocol.

    They mention Suprnova in the article but not Filerush or any of the other hundreds of sites offering torrents of legally shared content. I mean torrents of media are posted all the time on /. after hosting servers buckle under the strain.

    Why do people always jump on the infringing uses of software and try and make out like that is the whole story.

  5. I Love BitTorrent by ChaosDiscord · · Score: 3, Informative · on BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed

    I'm a bit fan of computer games. So I download a game demo or so a week. Modern games are big, and so are their demos. Sucking down a 500MB demo from various download mirrors sucks. Because of the huge bandwidth costs to serve the files the various mirrors force me to sign in, view ads, wait in queues, use Windows only spyware filled download programs (I often download in Linux in the background while doing Real World). Software publishers themselves generally don't release the demos themselves (because of the cost), they offload it onto one of these icky download sites. This entire process sucks.

    Then came BitTorrent. If I can find a good source all is well. The software works great under Linux, it's open source, no spyware, and if the file is popular instead of waiting in line the download actually goes faster. BitTorrent is just about the only thing I do that saturates my cable modem bandwidth. Pulling down a huge demo in less than an hour is great. No longer do I fire off a download, then let my computer work on it for the rest of the night.

    Now if software publishers would realize the joy of BitTorrent and release the torrents themselves everything would be better.

    As a way to illegally share content BitTorrent isn't so good. But as a way to acquire legal but big content there is nothing like it.

    It's damn good software. It was worth a donation to Bram.

  6. Re:Menu Fix? by eddy · · Score: 1 · on Desert Combat Mod Developers Sign Commercial Deal

    What's wrong with the fix we have now?

  7. Babylon 5 game out also by AIX-Hood · · Score: 2, Informative · on Science & Industry 0.97b Half-Life Mod Release

    Since we're talking about games on a slow news day, there's also a Babylon 5 game which a lot of people are downloading. It seems to have been done by a Russian guy who is ending the project and is putting out what he's got. Link and info are here: http://www.aixgaming.com/filerush/download.php?tar get=ifhsetup.exe

  8. Filerush has it by tycage · · Score: 5, Informative · on Slashback: Matrix, Terminology, Topology

    Filerush has a torrent of it up. Also a traditional mirror, take your pick.

  9. Filerush has it by tycage · · Score: 5, Informative · on Slashback: Matrix, Terminology, Topology

    Filerush has a torrent of it up. Also a traditional mirror, take your pick.

  10. Another Mozilla 1.5 BT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Three New Releases (And Other News) From Mozilla

    Another Mozilla 1.5 BT
    http://www.aixgaming.com/filerush/

  11. Bittorrent by Toasty16 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Has P2P Become a Passing Fad?
    Bittorrent is currently the most viable legal method for large scale P2P. Just look at the network traffic that a site can sustain using Bittorrent's "swarm" download method. With it, a relatively small site can host a half-gigabyte file and transfer 1.31 terabytes of data!

    On the other hand we see how the traditional client/server system can break down if it has a significant user base and not enough bandwidth. The new Steam client hasn't allowed me to connect to a game since I installed it six hours ago. Who knows how much more data could have been transferred if all the Steam users were connected to each other and sharing their cache through a P2P network?

    The next step in P2P would be to combine the swarm downloading of Bittorrent with a persistent P2P network like Edonkey2000. The Achilles Heel of Bittorrent is that it can only transfer one file at a time, and the only way to download multiple files is to open multiple instances of Bittorrent, which drains upload speed, a precious commodity among home broadband users. Some work is being done towards this goal but it currently deals with upload rates for individual downloads, and doesn't manage multiple downloads.

    P2P is definitely the future, and I predict its popularity will continue to rise as more consumers sign up for broadband and start sucking down large media files like full albums and movies from corporate sites who aren't prepared for the broadband explosion.