Slashdot Mirror

Ok, I guess that some might consider that two words, but ever since I downloaded RedHat at the maximum speed of my ADSL, while RedHat servers were overwhelmed, I've been a fan.

Take a look at f.scarywater.net for BitTorrent goodness.

Try the following bittorrent link if the mirrors are too slow: http://f.scarywater.net/Kipling_2003_prank_-_Pac-M an.torrent.

Because Redhat 9 ISO's are still available on BitTorrent via http://f.scarywater.net.

It's stupid to clog up Kazaa (a low-bandwidth solution given the number of leechers and lack of swarming 2.0 clients) given the massively superior alternative to legally distributing a few large files that is BitTorrent - it works so much better because you're forced to do your share of uploading (or your download speed is crippled).

Here are some nice graphs of BitTorrent's network traffic before and after RH9. Now that is some bandwidth!

http://f.scarywater.net/graphs.html

Yeah, it's not quite on topic, but I figured someone should mention it...

As of this posting, 26 hours after it began being distributed via BitTorrent, 5400 people have received copies of the ISOs using that protocol, and over 11 terabytes of data have been transmitted over that torrent.

There are now also torrents available for the source and documentation ISOs. To download either set, please visit f.scarywater.net.

Here is a bittorrent link, even though I found the mirrors to be quite fast for knoppix. I'll look forward to tomorrow when redhat 9 is released with bittorrent. That will be fun.

Download Bittorrent
Download Knoppix 3.2

The same .torrent (though this time not garbled :) is avaiable here and here ... Guess something went wrong on the server side ;)

Hey, why don't you contact the guy who runs the Scarywater Slashdot bittorrent mirror and have him torrent your file? You wouldn't need web space for it, just the upload capacity of your own computer for as long as it takes to completely upload it once, and more people would be able to get it.

animatrixlgfinal_dl_mov.torrent

Since the main site seems to have been hit hard by this slashdotting, try getting it from this BitTorrent site; Please leave your download window open as long as possible after finishing the download to help out others getting the file.

BitTorrent is a peer to peer file swarmer. You can get the client from http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html; it is Free, open, and does not contain ad/spyware; versions exist for *ix, win32, OS X, etc.

animatrixlgfinal_dl_mov.torrent

Since the main site seems to have been hit hard by this slashdotting, try getting it from this BitTorrent site; Please leave your download window open as long as possible after finishing the download to help out others getting the file.

BitTorrent is a peer to peer file swarmer. You can get the client from http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html; it is Free, open, and does not contain ad/spyware; versions exist for *ix, win32, OS X, etc.

Bit-torrent was on slashdot quite some time ago. Here is a place to download some Anime (unlicensed in the US). Notice how seven or eight terrabytes have been served over the last couple months. 250 gigabytes have been served today. The load on the server is almost non-existant. And the load on the server would remain the same if slashdot posted the link to its front page. The current video released today is averaging 8.21Mb/s as everyone downloads it at once. My DSL connection is maxed out as I download. Now, that's video on demand.