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Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released
wintermute1974 writes "After sitting at a stable release of 3.4.2 since last spring, Bram Cohen's official BitTorrent client has been upgraded to version 4. In addition to its existing, rock-steady functionality, BitTorrent now sports a new queue-based UI. The revision details are on the BitTorrent site. Packets are now marked as bulk data too, which is significant considering that about a third of all Internet traffic is currently torrent data."
You should just change the name of your OS to "Photoshop" and shut the fuck up already.
BT is a piece of crap. The reason there's so much BT traffic is because everyone is trying the same few downloads over and over again. Between disappearing seeders and disappearing trackers. BT is doomed. Maybe I'm just spoiled after using Napster 5 or 6 years ago, but I actually expect P2P programs to work. Too many kids are now using BT, and they're completely happy with that garbage.
/. back a newer protocol that works. We need something.
Our time would be better spent pushing something that works rather than pushing something that doesn't. It would be nice to see
Also already Layer7 Firewalls can classify and demote packets... but they are a lot more CPU expensive. If I were a sysadmin, this would run on all packets just to classify outbound traffic. (would be less expensive than a proxy, I think).
About Speed and ISPs. I don't know how often I say this. "What do you mean by FAST internet". I was talking with my sister and she was complaining how the asianet net connection was slower than the previous dialup. For my sister, "fast" internet means that Yahoo Mail shows up quickly. Being the gullible geek, I booted up the box with a knoppix I had handy and looked into the network. Ended up increasing positive DNS TTL - to get internet "FAST" :).
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
You PC users might not mind using a slow, ugly, unpolished client like Azureus, but we Mac users prefer something with a little more class, thank you very much.
Is this thing good for downloading porn?