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BitTorrent for Content Providers
snuvlorgin writes "ibiblio.org has entered the fray,
launching an enhanced BitTorrent site.
Among the torrent offerings (all legal) are
Linux kernels, distros, Project Gutenberg texts,
and the
ibiblio Speaker
Series, which includes videos of talks by Larry Lessig, Robin Miller, and Dan Gillmor. ibiblio developed and open sourced the Osprey and Permaseed software to make BitTorrent seeding reliable, persistent, and suitable for large-scale content providers. Yes, you can find these torrents later."
Why wouldn't you just change the port you're using?
You can set BT to whatever port you want, so I don't see that as a problem.
And the tracker has great stats for everything, from downloads to bytes transferred between peers.
Send email from the afterlife! Write your e-will at Dead Man's Switch.
Just in case Peachy's discouraged anyone from trying to submit their homebrew distrobution to Ibiblio.
From Ibiblio.org
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Contributing to ibiblio.org
If you are interested in becoming an ibiblio.org contributor:
1. Read the Collection Criteria to see if your interest will be served by working with us
2. Check out the services we offer contributors to see if we have what you need.
3. Hint: very few, if any, proprietary services will be provided, but many open source solutions are, can or will be offered on request.
4. Drop a note to help@ibiblio.org telling us:
* What your project will be
* What services you might wish to use
* How to contact you by phone (so we can work out any details and passwords)
* Anything else you think might be helpful
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One of the main things to be considered is keeping things up to date and making some sort of contribution to the public. It (should) be a given that the bigger distros will be properly maintained, as a good homebrew distro should, but a homebrew which is only a minor modification to an existing distro may not make the cut. If you've got a great modification, maybe you should see if it's more practical to distribute the modified packages instead of an entire distro.
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
Find some things like:
Clifford Lynch: Speech on Scholarly Communications
And write a friendly note to your IT staff explaining that you seem to be having trouble getting it, apparently because the ports are blocked. Explain that it is relavent academic material that you need to consult. (Try to find something specific to your major, and with an academic title.) Whenever you run across something like this that has legitimate scholarly merit that is relevant to your courseload, write another friendly note explaining how you need access to it.
Don't be abuse, don't be whiny, don't try to convince them you are smart or well informed. Policy is never decided by such a pissing contest. You would just be ignored. Just make polite, courteous explanations that you need legitimate access to specific resources.
They may or may not decide that the benefits outweigh the trouble. In this case, try to find a proxy to pass through...
Why don't we all show our love by donating to ibiblio: https://secure.ibiblio.org/gift/ ;)
I am sure they could do with some more quad-Opteron boxes
If you want a CLI tool for seeding, you could try libTorrent. It works great, uses little memory and is free
It's not immediately obvious, but S=seeds, P=peers, and PS=permaseeds. The key is that torrents don't go seedless when there are zero regular seeds. A permaseed keeps the torrent alive.