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Analysis of the best Azureus plugins
One of the coolest features about Azureus is that is has a plugin architecture, so folks can write addons for the program to make it even more powerful and cool than it already is. soulxtc has gone to the trouble of analyzing most of the biggies, and he's writing up the results in "Top Azureus Plugins Revealed". Wanna know what you should add to Azureus? Then read this article!
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Make a torrent file with Azureus
I've used BitTorrent a gazillion times, but I've never actually made a torrent file. I know, I know ...
shocking! I've never needed to, but more importantly, I didn't know how. Paul Stamatiou has a great explanation of the
process at "HOW TO: Make a
Torrent with Azureus". As you can tell, it focuses on Azureus, which is a great BT client, open source, and
multi-platform to boot. It's an easy-to-follow guide, with lots of pix. If you want to make your own torrent, start
here.
(Check out all of our posts on BitTorrent
and Azureus.) ...
Command line BitTorrent overview
If any of you have been reading this blog, you know I'm a huge fan of BitTorrent. Linux.com published a short guide
to using BitTorrent on the command line. If you're a command line junkie like I am, then you really should read
"BitTorrent for Linux". I still prefer Azureus, but
in cases where I don't have that proggie available, the commands discussed in this article will come in handy.
(Check out all of my posts on BitTorrent
& Azureus.) ...
KTorrent: BitTorrent the KDE way
As long time readers know, I prefer Azureus when it comes to BitTorrent GUIs, or I just use the command line. If I
know the URL of a torrent, I use:
btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate 350 --url http://[URL of BitTorrent file]
If I've downloaded the torrent file, I use this instead:
btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate 350 --responsefile /path/to/bittorrent/file.torrent
Another GUI you might want to check out, especially if you're a KDE fan, is KTorrent. It's BitTorrent with a yummy
pretty KDE intereface. There's nothing really remarkably innovative about it, except that it integrates with KDE, which
may be enough for many of you out there.
(Check out all of our posts on BitTorrent,
Azureus, &
KDE.) ...
Review of several BitTorrent clients
When it comes to Linux, I usually just use the command line for BitTorrent. If I actually download the .torrent file,
I use this:
btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate 350 --responsefile blah-blah-blah.torrent
If I instead have a URL, I use this:
btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate 350 --url http://domain-name-and-path-to-torrent
Otherwise I use Azureus. If I'm on Windows, I usually use uTorrent, which is small, fast, & powerful. But there
are lots of options, and Michael Calore at Webmonkey reviews several in his "BitTorrent Client Shootout", including some of the ones I
mentioned. If you're interested in variety, check it out. It's an easy and informative read.
(Check out all of our posts on BitTorrent,
Azureus, and uTorrent.) ...
A nice intro to BitTorrent
Those of you who have been reading this blog for any length of time know that I'm a HUGE BitTorrent fan - heck, I'm
downloading videos of a speech right now that I plan to use with one of my classes at Washington University in St.
Louis. eWeek has a nice article -
'A More Business-Friendly
BitTorrent' - that gives an overview of BT & why it works so dang good, as well as giving the briefest of
explanations as to the new features in BT 4.0, which just got released by BT's creator, Bram Cohen. These new
improvements should make their way into my BT client of choice, Azureus,
any day now. In the meantime, if you're looking for a nice 'n easy overview of BT for that BT newbie in your life, show
'em this eWeek article. It's a good'un.
(Check out all my postings on
BitTorrent.) ...
"Why isn't BitTorrent faster?", he asked.
I'm on a mailing list for web developers, & recently one of the guys on the list told he was using Tomato
Torrent (a BitTorrent client) on his Mac OS X box to download a 1.3 GB file, and it had taken almost a day so far,
& he was less than half way there. His point: "I thought the whole point of Bittorrent was to make the process
FAST. I could have FTP'd 1.3 gig much faster."
Here's my reply: ...
Open source software for Windows
One thing that people tend to forget is that open source isn't just about Linux. Apple uses open source stuff in
it's products - like it's kernel & web browser for instance - and even MSFT has released a couple of things as open
source (and I'm not talking about their b.s. "shared source" license, which doesn't even deserve consideration). In
addition, there's actually a lot of great open source software that runs on Windows. When I use XP, for instance, I
don't use IE; I use Firefox. I don't use Outlook or Outlook Express; I use
Thunderbird. I don't use Office; I use
OpenOffice.org. ...
