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muTorrent does the same and changes default search engine
"We are among many products that support the production and distribution of our free software through advertising..." http://forum.utorrent.com/topi...
That's one way developers of free software get paid ...

you downloaded utorrent from cnet. utorrent doesn't install conduit. Stop with the bullshit,

uTorrent, at least at some point in time, did offer Conduit with the installer from their website. Here is a post from a moderator on the uTorrent Forum:
http://forum.utorrent.com/topi...

We are among many products that support the production and distribution of our free software through advertising. In cases where an advertisement is for an installed product, our requirements include: 1) The user must accept the offer; 2) The user must be able to easily revert to a state prior to the offer install. We also offer a premium product as an ad-free option.

You may have inadvertently accepted an offer from one of our partners during your installation of BitTorrent/uTorrent or when updating to the latest version of our clients. If that’s the case, don't worry - here are some easy instructions for reverting to your original settings.

PC Users

If your home page and default search was changed to Bing you have Conduit Search Protect. If it changed to Yahoo then you have installed software from Spigot. See the instructions below based on which search engine you are seeing.

Conduit Search Protect

Conduit Search Protect is one of the offers PC users can receive. To remove Conduit Search Protect and revert to your original settings, follow these steps.

In the Windows control panel, go to uninstall a program. Look for “Search Protect” by Conduit and select Uninstall.
When the uninstall dialog box appears, simply check the “Go back to my original home page and default search settings” box at the bottom, and then click Uninstall.
Your default search engines will revert to their original settings.

Spigot

First, go into the Windows Control Panel and select UnInstall a Program or Add/Remove Programs. Locate and uninstall Spigot Search Protect. Then revert each affected browser back to your desired homepage and search engine settings with the following steps.

Chrome

In Chrome you can set the default search engine, home page, and new tab behavior on the Chrome Settings page. For more info, see these links:

Set your default search engine
Set your homepage
Set startup preferences (including new tab behavior)

Firefox

Set your Home Page
Set your New Tab page
To change the default search engine in Firefox, simply click the icon next to the search box and choose your desired site.

Internet Explorer

The method for changing your settings will vary depending on your current version of Internet Explorer. Follow these links to view instructions on Microsoft’s site.

Change your Home Page (you can select your version of IE via the tab to the right of the page)
Change your default Search Engine
Change your New Tab settings

Mac Users

Mac users can revert to their original settings by uninstalling the Searchme extension from each affected browser and then resetting the homepage manually. For more info, please view these detailed instructions.

Safari

Under Safari’s Preferences menu, select Extensions.
Locate the Searchme extension and select Uninstall.
Go back to the General Preferences tab and select the Default Search Engine and Homepage you would like to use.

Chrome

Under the Window menu, select Extensions.
Locate Searchme and click the corresponding trash can icon.
Once the extension has been removed, open the Chrome menu and select Preferences.
On the settings page that appears, select the homepage and default search provider you would like to use.

Firefox

Under Firefox’s Tools menu, select Add-Ons.
When the Add-Ons page opens, click Extensions.
Remove the Searchme extension.
To revert your search engine, simply click the search engine icon next to the search box and select the provider you wish to use.
To revert your default home page, open the Firefox menu, select Preferences, and select the General tab. Here you can select the home page you would like to use.

Just google "utorrent download" instead of making posts stating that you wonder about it, and you'll see that the latest version for Windows is 3.2 http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/

And BTW fucking Macs, how I hate them so. Windows version of utorrent won't work with WINE. I upgraded to the newest version of WINE, and find out that my 1.5 year old Mac needs to have a not-free OS upgrade to be able to run the newer versions of WINE, an upgrade that makes my desktop more iPad like.

If only they had some sort of forum for discussing unimportant things unrelated to utorrent. Like your antivirus of choice, or bragging about how fast your internet connection was. In sort, some kind of forum where users could chat.

>>>(I'm too stoopid to figure out Torrents, and my DSL is only 1400kbps down

Heh... my DSL is only 700k and I download tons of TV shows/movies. Torrents are easy. You download the *.tor file from isohunt.com, and then load the file into your web browser or http://www.utorrent.com/ Easy.

Here's where I get 90% of my music (the other 10% I actually go to shows). Requires a Torrent client plus Monkeys Audio, libFLAC and Shorten codecs but that's no biggy - the links are there...

My god, Wine has no use whatsoever

Forgot to link: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=40516

Incase you really prefer utorrent to vuze. Seeing that you have two servers I'm going on a limb and saying you can script this :P.

As claimed by an admin in the forums a similar feature (manually marking some peers/IP ranges as local) is on the todo, but it's been pushed back repeatedly.

There's a much bigger issue with uTorrent that the developers seem to refuse to solve, or even acknowledge.

This issue has been fixed since version 1.7x.

One of the features that I've been anxiously awaiting is the "Local Peer Discovery" feature in uTorrent 1.7x. Basically, it uses a multicast to discover bittorrent clients that are active on your local network. It can determine if they are seeding or leeching a torrent that you're interested in. If it's available on the network, it will try to use it as a peer, and download it at massive speeds.

[...]

I can think of a couple of really great uses for this. The first is a scenario that I run into at work occasionally. I'll try to download a video or file that a co-worker wants to see as well. Instead of competing for bandwidth, we can now both download it at the same time, and share the pieces quickly and automatically.

The other great use that I'm really excited about is LAN parties. For those of you that don't know, a common LAN party problem is that everyone wants to get a copy of a game off of one computer. Everyone tries to copy it at one time, effectively rendering the network and the hard drive useless. The current solution is to copy it to some computers, and then have people get it from the copies. It works, but it's manual, and it's not fun.

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You can also do it this other way if you want.

enable peer.resolve_country

And then, there is always PeerGuardian if you're looking for something else still.

since when a torrent is illegal? its just an ascii file with some Bencode encoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode

download a .torrent file
open it with: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=31306 Bencode editor
and tell me when you find the k1ddy pr0n seal clubber W4rez.

disclaimer: you won't.

Zend Studio is based on Eclipse, which is written in Java, with portability in mind from the start. So it's not a very good example of "Windows software [which] can run on Linux".

And I don't think wine is a poor way to run windows software under linux. More and more software developers recommend using wine to run their windows software under Linux (Spotify works really well under wine/linux). And I played WoW under wine for years without any issue.

I don't trust uTorrent -- it's militantly closed source, and I've heard that the developers have conflicting interests, although admittedly, I can't remember the details right now.

http://www.utorrent.com/faq/#faq2

Allow me to introduce to you mutorrent, poor chap.

The article mentions hadoop which is an open source version of google's map-reduce template(I think you can call it). This is great and all but it is a fairly static mechanism and hardly the end-all of distributed computing. Shouldn't university students be working on the next generation?

Download uTorrent: http://www.utorrent.com/downloads To find torrents to run, use google and add filetype:torrent to your search For example, you can get all the Linux ISOs you want by searching for: linux iso filetype:torrent open the torrents with utorrent and, if it's seeded properly, you just have to wait.

Oh, right, links. All links go to screenshots page, unless the home page has some.

Linux:

1. Transmission (Linux, OSX, BSD, Solaris)
2. Deluge (Linux, mediocre Windows port available)

Windows:

1. uTorrent (Windows, Mac beta port available)

Other supported named entities: ¥ ¦ © ® ± ¼ ½ ¾ × ÷ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ø ù ú û ü ý ÿ.

Great. So in a Slashdot post I can type an eth (but not a thorn, bizarrely), or a y with an umlaut, but I can't type the name of this popular piece of software. Anyway, you should know from how long it took you to type that post just how painful entities are!

In addition, I have frequently had occasion to try to quote text either with more than the usual range of Western European accents (e.g. for Eastern European names) or even in another language -- because that's the type of geek I am, a language geek. Are you really going to claim that it is the more sensible choice not to support copying and pasting in such cases?

When a major software vendor starts talking about WINE support, then we have a real trend. Not before.

It's not worth a major software vendor's time and money to have to support WINE. That includes ensuring it works for the current version (which software sometimes won't due to regressions), setting up technical support to support the WINE-supported version, etc. It would cause more headaches than it's worth for the fairly small number of customers who'd bother with WINE.

But... sometimes you get a surprise.

http://www.utorrent.com/download.php (note what platforms it supports)

OK, perhaps not a MAJOR vendor, but still a very popular (the most popular?) torrent client supports WINE, that's a promising sign.

See http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=49813

"What is in 1.9:
uTP, the micro transport protocol. This UDP-based reliable transport is designed to minimize latency, but still maximize bandwidth when the latency is not excessive. We use this for communication between peers instead of TCP, if both sides support it. In addition, we use information from this transport, if active, to control the transfer rate of TCP connections. This means uTorrent, when using uTP, should not kill your net connection - even if you do not set any rate limits.

What was in 1.8.1:
uTP, but connection attempts were not initiated by default, and there was no control over TCP as described above. You can enable it, but likely you will see the uTP connections not transfering much data, because they are pushed out of the way by TCP."

This sounds like congestion control of some sort to me.

This article (And the summary, of course) is spinning this way out of control.

This is taken DIRECTLY from the guys behind uTorrent:

This UDP-based reliable transport is designed to minimize latency, but still maximize bandwidth when the latency is not excessive. We use this for communication between peers instead of TCP, if both sides support it. In addition, we use information from this transport, if active, to control the transfer rate of TCP connections. This means uTorrent, when using uTP, should not kill your net connection - even if you do not set any rate limits.

Source: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=49813

Hey look at that, this actually stops uTorrent using more Bandwidth than you have. If your ISP sells you an 8Mbit connection and you use all 8Mbit of it, surely that's all well and good? If the ISP can't handle you using all 8Mbit, then they shouldn't sell you it. Simple-as.

If (And it's a big if) this actually does cause any kind of "Internet meltdown", it'll be because the ISPs oversold on what they can actually deliver - it's not your fault, my fault or uTorrent's fault.

Hopefully ISP's will either stop overselling their bandwidth or update their infrastructure to cope.

Progress++;

According to their FAQ, utorrent is not open source and likely never will be, which the GGP states as a requirement.

Internet speeds are plenty fast for trading BD rips ... Even at full quality they are only about 30Mbps on average

I think you meant to say they average 30 gigabytes. Sure, this torrent of Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End is 30.38 gigabytes.

So 30.38 gig is 31,109.12 megabytes. If you are really getting continuous download speeds of 10 Mbps, that works out to 1221 kilobytes per second, or 1.2 megabytes per second. 31,109.12/1.2=25924 seconds, or a little over seven hours.

Not bad I suppose if you are getting those speeds. You could get it while you sleep.

The local cable monopoly provider gushes in the marketing materials for their "Extreme" package "With an extremely fast download speed of up to 10 Mbps ..." which - again - would be 1221 kilobytes per second, but I have that package and I never see speeds like that. What I do get is pretty consistent 150 - 300 KB/s, with bursts of up to 450 KB/s, usually at the beginning of the transfer. Other's mileage may vary, but I would be surprised to see 1221 KB/sec sustained for the duration of a 30 gig download, my ISP's marketing propaganda notwithstanding.

Oh, and they cap me at something like 100 GB of throughput per month. The (slower) DSL alternative I was using before gave me more (I think 200, maybe?) but even that would get you fewer than seven movies per month, if you did nothing else on the Internet.

Storing them would be costly, too, unless you delete them as soon as you watch them, or burn them to discs (are there even burners out there yet? I'm not really up on the subject). I don't know. Maybe there are faster options with higher caps that I am not aware of, but I don't think it's quite there.

As much as I like uTorrent, I don't really think it can be considered as "FTW" because it doesn't support UDP trackers.

The use of UDP trackers is a great way to relieve the load on popular tracker servers, because they are bogged down by the large number of stateful TCP connections. Btw, The Pirate Bay supports UDP tracking.

You're being throttled for torrent packets, this should not directly cause connections to drop for any other protocol. What is likely happening, is a combination of ISP traffic shaping bittorrent connections, and your connection log maxing out your linksys WRT54GS router's memory. The throttling causes your torrent client to try to connect to far more peers than it would otherwise try to connect to... this causes your router's connection log to balloon, quickly using up your router's memory, which causes it to drop all new connections. This is a well known problem: http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#Special_note_for_users_with_Linksys_WRT54G_GL_GS_routers Update the firmware on your Linksys WRT54GS to the latest Tomato. This will prevent your router from causing other connections to drop or time out. Then start using the latest uTorrent beta, with protocol encryption on. This might help with the throttling, it worked for me with Rogers as my ISP.

My off hand guess, Bittorrents. I've noticed with the WRT54G that I had for a while would have problems if you're running multiple torrents, and don't have any cap on how many inbound and outbound connections there can be (IE, overnight runs where you don't need to use any of your bandwidth :-) A reboot always fixed the problem - I assume it's either running out of memory, or running out of ports to work with (since each connection has a timeout of an hour, IIRC)

Here's the issue that causes that. http://utorrent.com/faq.php#Special_note_for_users_with_Linksys_WRT54G_GL_GS_routers

The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for one) have a severe problem where they track old connections for FIVE days, which causes the router to hang when using P2P apps, or any software that generates a lot of connections. DHT only aggravates the situation because of the number of connections it generates.

I updated my DD-WRT firmware to the newest one and set the the TCP timeout to 300 and things seem fine now.

Wrong

From the uTorrent FAQ: "The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for the latest DD-WRT and HyperWRT Thibor) have a severe problem where they track old connections for FIVE days, which causes the router to hang when using P2P apps, or any software that generates a lot of connections. DHT only aggravates the situation because of the number of connections it generates."

Does NOT apply to WRT54G/GS v5 and up.
HTH

Some routers (notably the WRT54GL , which I have), keep connections open for a very long time, effectively using up your available connections - more here.

Some routers (notably the WRT54GL , which I have), keep connections open for a very long time, effectively using up your available connections - more here.

use DHT... Trackerless torrents. http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#What_is_DHT.3F They'll still go after individuals... But thankfully I'm outside their jurisdiction...

see

http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#I_get_tons_of_hashfails_on_my_torrents_and_the_torrent_never_finishes

http://forum.utorrent.com/

Director of Interdiction Development
MediaSentry Div of SafeNet
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SFNT; Computer & Network Security industry)
September 2004 -- November 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Lead team of software developers and systems engineers developing interdiction solutions for P2P networks.
Designed and deployed new Linux based 300+ host distributed infrastructure for p2p decoy distribution with automated command, control and monitoring. Designed and deployed network of filtered eDonkey servers. Managed roll out of new BitTorrent interdiction infrastructure. Implemented multiple p2p file trading clients on hosts utilizing VMware.

After more in-depth analysis...we've determined that the new version DOES affect our interdiction in a negative way. They've added a new "bt.ban_ratio" field that takes into consideration how many good pieces a client has uploaded.
[....]
We still see a lot of hash_check fails...but now the only peers getting banned are ours. This also affects MediaSentry's interdicted torrents. They are no longer effective on the newest version either.

I simply use EZTV to find the torrents and RSS feeds, uTorrent to download them automatically with its built in RSS reader, and XBMC on my Xbox to watch them comfortably in my living room.

Probably not:

http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#What_are_.C2.B5Tor rent.27s_system_requirements.3F

I get the feeling that it isn't even written to MFC, but directly against various Windows APIs.

• EditPlus Programming editor
• IrfanView Image viewer with effects and image manipulation capabilities
• Putty so I can SSH to my Gentoo from winblows
• Ability Spreadsheet as opposed to the spreadsheets in microsoft office, open office, and gnumeric
• Proxomitron Web-filtering proxy
• Flashpaste Copy/Paste on steroids
• WinRAR as opposed to winzip
• uTorrent as opposed to azureus and other java based boulder-weight crap
• mIRC IRC client
• DVD Shrink Rip/decode/encode DVDs, etc.
• Tail for Win32 Wish tail under linux was this good
• RealAlternative as opposed to realplayer
• Virtual Dimension Virtual desktops, as opposed to microsoft's power toys

I like Opera, modo, foobar2000, VLC Media Player, 7zip, Pidgin, Process Explorer, uTorrent, TCPView, Foxit Reader, and WinDirStat.

What's happening here is that Bittorrent (the company) has become fully decoupled from bittorrent (the protocol). They have very little leverage over the latter; about all they have is the rights to the name "Bittorrent," and the 'reference implementation,' which won't be worth its weight in electrons once they start messing with it.

Although, apparently, soon it may be also a sin to use uTorrent since it's not Free.

From the article:

From the summary:

Yeah, I know I'm selectively quoting from the summary (i.e. another line says "allows the end user to control torrent downloads remotely".I also understand that I'm splitting some hairs here, but there is nothing new on the cell phone. So do we consider it to be bringing capabilities to a phone every time a new web application is built or an old host app has a new web front end built for it? Nothing has changed on the phone. That's the *point* of building web-based apps - dodge the client.

And (also from the summary a "giant leap forward"? I don't think so. The utorrent web interface allows me to remote control my torrent downloads from any browser which can render the page, and has done so in public availability since sometime last year. I haven't tried to use it from my phone, but there's got to be a phone-based browser out there capable of doing so. Anyone?

I think it is neat that someone is doing this. Can we just take some of the hyperbole out of summaries? (I can hear the 'you must be new here' comments already).

From Sept 2006 the announcement on utorrent's web interface and remote control:
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=14565

And a BitTorrent client for mobile devices, article dated mar 13th 2007:
http://torrentfreak.com/symtorrent-bittorrent-on-y our-mobile/

Nothing to see here ... nothing new, anyway.

torrent clients already have encryption to prevent ISP blocking.
http://www.utorrent.com/

The new owner of uTorrent is BitTorrent, Inc.

So uTorrent is now owned by Bram Cohen, the one who wrote the protocol.

Its mentioned here so I guess theres some truth to it:
http://utorrent.com/faq.php#I_get_tons_of_hashfail s_on_my_torrents_and_the_torrent_never_finishes

you pay, you get added crap. you *cough* and you get the movie without crap. interesting dilemma.

No dilemma. No dilemma at all. The only reason there isn't more downloading going on is because there aren't more people that know how to do it. I mean, my goodness, if everyone that had a broadband connection knew how to install a BitTorrent client, head over to TorrentSpy or Mininova or The Pirate Bay and download stuff and knew about codecguide.com's Codec Packs so they could play all that media without any problems on their Windows boxes, why, I think we'd see a lot more people watching crap-free entertainment.

You see, these are people that have long been accustomed to selling whatever they please, because they knew we had no choice but to accept it no matter how they chose to present it. If we wanted a movie, we took whatever they threw at us. That's changed, for now, and lawsuits, the DMCA and the rest aside, I don't think they've fully come to grips with that.

don't you love it, when you but a DVD, you get all the bonus commercials you HAVE to see before you can start the movie?

I've bought a lot of DVDs over the past eight or nine years. Lots of them. I like movies, I do. But I have to say, watching purchased DVDs has become similar to the experience I get at the local movie house: i.e., disappointing and not what it used to be. And both groups complain that sales are down. Cripes, what does it take to give these people a clue? The media companies dis their customers when those customers have alternate means of receiving their products (in this case, means that provide no revenue) and they expect sales to increase? Give me a break.

It would surprise me if Sony executives ever got down from their ivory towers (or whatever the obviously isolated spot where they store their upper management) and spoke directly with typical consumers of their products to see what, if anything, said people like about Sony products. Oh, I'm sure Sony's marketing drones have plenty of "focus groups" and "surveys" and all the rest of the trappings of modern marketeering ... but they don't seem to be paying much attention upstairs.

Media Marketing Rule #1 should be "if the customer BUYS THE DISC it should PLAY."

This is not rocket science. This is about good business. It's about continuing to have a business.

I noticed by BT bandwidth drop to about 2kB/sec on rogers until I downloaded uTorrent and turned on packet encryption. Then it promptly went back into the 2-300kB/sec range.

Several people have already mentioned flashing the Linksys with the latest DD-WRT firmware, and I second that. But, I would like to point out an obscure problem that will strike you if anyone at your location is using P2P software like any BitTorrent client (Azureus, uTorrent, etc.) What happens is that the routers aren't designed to handle dozens or hundreds of short-term transient IP connections which occur with these applications. The connection cache on the router gets filled up sometimes within just a few hours and then CRASH!!! The important thing here is that this will also happen with the DD-WRT firmware unless you find and follow the instructions to change a couple of obscure network settings. The first time I tried using a WRT54g with the DD-WRT firmware I gave up after a few days because the router was so flaky I had to reboot it every couple of days. Once I found these settings I tried it again and it's been working for weeks now with no problem.

I have to assume that out of 6 male college students on a fast connection, at least one will be heavily using bittorrent or some other P2P apps that will definitely trigger this problem, and it may well be the only reason that you have to reboot your router all the time. Here are some links, first to the uTorrent FAQ page where I first found a reference to the issue, and then to a page on the DD-WRT site talking in detail about this issue. Both pages have instructions for correcting the settings with the DD-WRT firmware.

uTorrent FAQ
DD-WRT: Router Slowdown

One of the nicest features these open firmwares give you is access to increasing the transmit power of the router's antenna. By just increasing mine by about 25% above normal I was able to get four bars throughout my apartment where I used to sometime lose the connection entirely. If the reason you have two wireless routers is because the one router can't cover the whole apartment, this will solve that issue.

Others have asked already why you need two wireless routers. Besides spreading the signal out I can't really imagine any reason if you're all going through one cable modem. If both routers are set up on the same channel (most default to channel 6) then they will be interfering with each other much more than any outside routers are. Heaven forbid if both routers are set up with fully identical information and you are trying to use the other router as if it were a range extender. That would probably cause additional problems as both routers would be competing to log in the same wireless card at the same time. In any case, just ditch the other router unless you know what you're doing and have a specific reason to be operating two routers in the same area. To have any chance of not interfering with each other you'd have to put one on channel 1 and the other on channel 11.

Applying the DD-WRT firmware may seem kind of scary since there are all those notes about how you can brick your router, but it's really no big deal. Just print out all the installation instructions beforehand along with the instructions for recovering from a bad flash. Before you do the flash DISABLE your wireless card entirely so that it will be impossible to even attempt the firmware update over a wireless connection. That is really the main thing that causes bricked routers. If you avoid doing that and follow the instructions about first only applying the MINI version of the firmware to the WRT54g, you will be fine and you will end up with a much more useful router.

Now, if anyone there has a Mac they can download iStumbler or MacStumbler (I don't recommend the Mac Kismet unless you know how to remove kernel extensions from the command line in safe mode). Run one of those for about 10-20 minutes and it will give you a pretty clear picture of how many routers are nearby and what channels they are using. Pick a channel for your router t

I hate DRM ruins everything. Next we will have to pay for Rum and Planks.

No helping the terrorists is closer to this...

http://www.utorrent.com/ run it from a USB stick and it leaves no bit torrent evidence on the PC. add to that portable Firefox and they cant pin any evidence on you by inspecting your hard drive.

I am incredibly evil.