Try this bittorrent mirror link; this torrent uses multiple trackers so even if the tracker is taken down it will still work, as long as there are seeds connected (or even once complete copy of the file across all the downloaders).
I read the wired article earlier today, and a DNS query for removeform.com spit out 5 IP addresses - all cable modem/DSL machines. Two were ATTBI, the others were some smaller ISPs. Obviously, the DNS providers shut down at least this particular domain. It was up earlier, though.
It's just the old tradeoff between CPU power (decompression time) and bandwidth usage (download time). Much easier (and more smartly) implemented on the server side with something like mod_gzip, like HungWeiLo said.
And graphic compression's been done before too, since around AOL 3.0 or so. Most people turn it off because it makes pages look like crap.
OT (and not trying to troll), but Windows Server 2003 surprisingly comes with pretty much every service disabled; you have to explicitly enable "server roles" to enable services like file sharing, VPN, HTTP, SMTP, etc.
I run Linux at home but work at a Microsoft shop, so I take what I get. I'm no Microsoft zealot, but it looks like things are shaping up a bit in Microsoft's latest generation of products. Or at least it looked that way until I found out about the new, another more different DCOM exploit.
Anonymous Coward wrote on Wednesday August 27, @02:37PM:
> There was a beta 2, this changelog is 'old'...
>
> RC1 is after beta 2. The plan is to have another RC and then final (mid-september)
You seem to be right, AC... Well, Mandrake's site doesn't seem to have a changelog for either RC then. Presumably they're just bugfixes of the betas; I don't know Mandrakesoft's feature freeze policy but features aren't generally added to release candidates...
- Rpmdrake now functional
- Upgrade from former versions now fully handled
- New windows are now conveniently centered
Urpmi and rpmdrake still complain about missing key. This issue should be fixed in the next beta.
Improvements:
- First version of Netprofile, the new network profiles manager designed for users who connect to multiple networks. Feedback is highly requested for this newly introduced feature.
- Complete rewrite of userdrake (user management) in Gtk2
- New bootsplash (graphical boot) with graphical design not completed
- Improved localization
- New font support for Indian
- Enhanced drakTermServ (terminal server configurator).
Got home to find my clocks flashing 12:00... Realized my DSL is out (problems connecting to the PPPoE server), so my ISP still has equipment out.
Tried to call a friend in Manhattan on her Verizon cell phone before I realized everything that was happening and kept getting "all circuits down", so obviously lots of things are messed up.
Watching some CNBC and CNN on the news, people seem to be going a bit insane here, wandering the streets in mobs, etc.
I noticed the website was going a little slow for me. Decided to check it out -- I'm in Connecticut too, so I know the local providers -- and found that the site is hosted in Hong Kong. Seems a little fishy to me.
host name : holotouch.com
alias name: www.holotouch.com
address : 202.85.141.141
Unless it's using the file you're downloading as data to send to others (like say you have 20% of it completed... other people request the file too, so your source file is used to fill their needs as well?)
This is correct. As soon as you download the first chunk of the file (256KB-1MB) you start uploading what you've downloaded so far to other clients. BitTorrent works on a file-per-file basis, unlike more traditional P2P apps.
You might find this page useful in explaining some things.
I still can't have filenames longer than 64 characters.:)
Sure you can, just use Romeo format for long filenames instead of Joliet. Adaptec EZ-CD 95 supported this format, but doesn't run on anything newer than Windows 95. NTI CD-Maker supports the Romeo format, and if it doesn't support your CD-R drive, you can always make an ISO with NTI CD-Maker and burn it with your preferred utility (I used to do this with my old CD-R drive). The Romeo format supports filenames of up to 255 characters, and is readable on Win95 & up and Linux, but supposedly isn't readable on DOS. Romeo format discs work with my MP3 CD player, and I've had no problems with them at all. I even made some Romeo format DVD-Rs, and these worked great, even though they probably violate all sorts of specs.
Are you behind NAT? Do you have port 6881 forwarded to your local machine? If not, set 6881/tcp to forward to your machine and restart the BT download. It should help download speed quite a bit.
This often causes problems on BitTorrent circles (and I would say it's biggest problem) to where people need other users to "re-seed" the file, or re-open the file on the network so users can download segments they didn't complete. So, in theory, only popular torrents work. If you have a website where you place your home-made MP3's up for download, via BitTorrent, and only a few people download them, then you'll have to "seed" that torrent forever, because the users downloading them stop sharing them by default after they finish the transfer.
Yes, but compare using BitTorrent to using pure HTTP or FTP distribution -- in both cases you need to continuously upload, but with BitTorrent your downloaders upload as well. Even a BitTorrent downloader with a fast download speed and a slow or limited upload capacity contributes positively when compared to pure HTTP or FTP distribution. Versus HTTP, BitTorrent wins.
BitTorrent has progressed quite far since 6 months ago. Under Windows, Mozilla picks up the registry settings from the BitTorrent file without any user intervention required, and works just as seamlessly as IE. In Opera, you just have to add a helper app for mime-type application/x-bittorrent with extension torrent for c:\BitTorrent\btdownloadgui.exe. Not too hard to do.
Bittorrent uses built-in SHA hash checking, so BT-downloaded files are going to have guaranteed integrity. It sounds like the original ISO was either bad, or that Knoppix released a newer ISO with a different checksum.
This is a known issue, not in BitTorrent, but in various USB DSL modem drivers and network card drivers. Linksys and Netgear have some known buggy drivers. Refer to the question titled "BitTorrent makes my machine blue screen! What should I do?" in the BitTorrent FAQ, and see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.buchanan/winmx/faq- restart.html for a page which also mentions this problem as it applies to WinMX, another P2P client.
Also keep in mind that you can resume a partial file download (say, a half-completed file downloaded via FTP) with BitTorrent. So if your FTP connections are too slow, just close the FTP session, and point the BitTorrent download to the partial file. It will hash-check what you've gotten so far, reallocate the remaining space, and resume downloading via BitTorrent P2P.
Slashdot Mirror
Try this bittorrent mirror link; this torrent uses multiple trackers so even if the tracker is taken down it will still work, as long as there are seeds connected (or even once complete copy of the file across all the downloaders).
I read the wired article earlier today, and a DNS query for removeform.com spit out 5 IP addresses - all cable modem/DSL machines. Two were ATTBI, the others were some smaller ISPs. Obviously, the DNS providers shut down at least this particular domain. It was up earlier, though.
I remember going to the mall once a couple years ago, and saw an error screen on one of the Webster Bank ATMs. It was running OS/2.
http://reptilian.net/BTX_Spec_1_0.pdf
http://web.newsguy.com/nstrom/BTX_Spec_1_0.pdf
This *could* be attributed to spyware; there are known spyware components that much around with domain resolving.
What's your ISP, btw? They sound pretty scummy, it's probably a good idea that others steer clear of them.
It's just the old tradeoff between CPU power (decompression time) and bandwidth usage (download time). Much easier (and more smartly) implemented on the server side with something like mod_gzip, like HungWeiLo said.
And graphic compression's been done before too, since around AOL 3.0 or so. Most people turn it off because it makes pages look like crap.
OT (and not trying to troll), but Windows Server 2003 surprisingly comes with pretty much every service disabled; you have to explicitly enable "server roles" to enable services like file sharing, VPN, HTTP, SMTP, etc.
I run Linux at home but work at a Microsoft shop, so I take what I get. I'm no Microsoft zealot, but it looks like things are shaping up a bit in Microsoft's latest generation of products. Or at least it looked that way until I found out about the new, another more different DCOM exploit.
s/either/this/
Anonymous Coward wrote on Wednesday August 27, @02:37PM:
> There was a beta 2, this changelog is 'old'...
>
> RC1 is after beta 2. The plan is to have another RC and then final (mid-september)
You seem to be right, AC... Well, Mandrake's site doesn't seem to have a changelog for either RC then. Presumably they're just bugfixes of the betas; I don't know Mandrakesoft's feature freeze policy but features aren't generally added to release candidates...
Changelog is here: http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3
Corrections from beta1 include:
- Rpmdrake now functional
- Upgrade from former versions now fully handled
- New windows are now conveniently centered
Urpmi and rpmdrake still complain about missing key. This issue should be fixed in the next beta.
Improvements:
- First version of Netprofile, the new network profiles manager designed for users who connect to multiple networks. Feedback is highly requested for this newly introduced feature.
- Complete rewrite of userdrake (user management) in Gtk2
- New bootsplash (graphical boot) with graphical design not completed
- Improved localization
- New font support for Indian
- Enhanced drakTermServ (terminal server configurator).
New software versions:
- KDE 3.1.3
- GNOME 2.3.5
- Evolution 1.4.4
- Openldap 2.1.22
- kerberos5 1.3
Got home to find my clocks flashing 12:00... Realized my DSL is out (problems connecting to the PPPoE server), so my ISP still has equipment out.
Tried to call a friend in Manhattan on her Verizon cell phone before I realized everything that was happening and kept getting "all circuits down", so obviously lots of things are messed up.
Watching some CNBC and CNN on the news, people seem to be going a bit insane here, wandering the streets in mobs, etc.
I noticed the website was going a little slow for me. Decided to check it out -- I'm in Connecticut too, so I know the local providers -- and found that the site is hosted in Hong Kong. Seems a little fishy to me.
host name : holotouch.com
alias name: www.holotouch.com
address : 202.85.141.141
inetnum: 202.85.141.138 - 202.85.141.201
netname: CHANMUIPING-HK
descr: CHAN MUI PING
country: HK
admin-c: CM600-AP
tech-c: DI16-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-HK-IS
changed: hostmaster@iadvantage.net.hk 20020507
status: UNSPECIFIED
source: APNIC
person: CHAN MUI PING IRINA
address: PO BOX 68015
address: KOWLOON EAST OFFICE
address: KOWLOON
country: HK
phone: +852-97585654
e-mail: icdsoft@icdsoft.com
nic-hdl: CM600-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-HK-IS
changed: hostmaster@iadvantage.net.hk 20020507
source: APNIC
person: DNS IADVANTAGE
address: MEGATOP,
address: Mega-iAdvantage,
address: 399 Chai Wan Road,
address: Chai Wan, Hong Kong
country: HK
phone: +852-22088333
fax-no: +852-22672237
e-mail: dns@iadvantage.net
nic-hdl: DI16-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-HK-IS
changed: hostmaster@iadvantage.net 20010807
source: APNIC
Unless it's using the file you're downloading as data to send to others (like say you have 20% of it completed... other people request the file too, so your source file is used to fill their needs as well?)
This is correct. As soon as you download the first chunk of the file (256KB-1MB) you start uploading what you've downloaded so far to other clients. BitTorrent works on a file-per-file basis, unlike more traditional P2P apps.
You might find this page useful in explaining some things.
I still can't have filenames longer than 64 characters. :)
Sure you can, just use Romeo format for long filenames instead of Joliet. Adaptec EZ-CD 95 supported this format, but doesn't run on anything newer than Windows 95. NTI CD-Maker supports the Romeo format, and if it doesn't support your CD-R drive, you can always make an ISO with NTI CD-Maker and burn it with your preferred utility (I used to do this with my old CD-R drive). The Romeo format supports filenames of up to 255 characters, and is readable on Win95 & up and Linux, but supposedly isn't readable on DOS. Romeo format discs work with my MP3 CD player, and I've had no problems with them at all. I even made some Romeo format DVD-Rs, and these worked great, even though they probably violate all sorts of specs.
Mandrake has issued an advisory for this issue here, although it doesn't appear that the updated RPMs have hit their FTP mirrors yet.
Are you behind NAT? Do you have port 6881 forwarded to your local machine? If not, set 6881/tcp to forward to your machine and restart the BT download. It should help download speed quite a bit.
A BitTorrent for the source ISOs should be coming tomorrow. Check in #bittorrent on irc.freenode.net for more details.
This often causes problems on BitTorrent circles (and I would say it's biggest problem) to where people need other users to "re-seed" the file, or re-open the file on the network so users can download segments they didn't complete. So, in theory, only popular torrents work. If you have a website where you place your home-made MP3's up for download, via BitTorrent, and only a few people download them, then you'll have to "seed" that torrent forever, because the users downloading them stop sharing them by default after they finish the transfer.
Yes, but compare using BitTorrent to using pure HTTP or FTP distribution -- in both cases you need to continuously upload, but with BitTorrent your downloaders upload as well. Even a BitTorrent downloader with a fast download speed and a slow or limited upload capacity contributes positively when compared to pure HTTP or FTP distribution. Versus HTTP, BitTorrent wins.
You forgot to use --responsefile. "python2 ./btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 100 --responsefile /home/random/src/redhat9.torrent" should do it.
BitTorrent has progressed quite far since 6 months ago. Under Windows, Mozilla picks up the registry settings from the BitTorrent file without any user intervention required, and works just as seamlessly as IE. In Opera, you just have to add a helper app for mime-type application/x-bittorrent with extension torrent for c:\BitTorrent\btdownloadgui.exe. Not too hard to do.
Bittorrent uses built-in SHA hash checking, so BT-downloaded files are going to have guaranteed integrity. It sounds like the original ISO was either bad, or that Knoppix released a newer ISO with a different checksum.
This is a known issue, not in BitTorrent, but in various USB DSL modem drivers and network card drivers. Linksys and Netgear have some known buggy drivers. Refer to the question titled "BitTorrent makes my machine blue screen! What should I do?" in the BitTorrent FAQ, and see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.buchanan/winmx/faq- restart.html for a page which also mentions this problem as it applies to WinMX, another P2P client.
BitTorrent takes a little bit of time to get up to speed, please wait a few minutes, and your download speed should go up.
Also keep in mind that you can resume a partial file download (say, a half-completed file downloaded via FTP) with BitTorrent. So if your FTP connections are too slow, just close the FTP session, and point the BitTorrent download to the partial file. It will hash-check what you've gotten so far, reallocate the remaining space, and resume downloading via BitTorrent P2P.
From the folks in #bittorrent on irc.freenode.net, here you go:
2 -2003-03-28-EN.iso.torrent
http://sfire.fallingsnow.net/torrents/KNOPPIX_V3.