proposal for making bittorrent usable

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Making Online Information Usable

Making Online Information Usable 10/11/2002 07:55 AM

Making Flash Usable for Users With
Disabilities

Making Flash Usable for Users With
Disabilities 10/15/2002 07:15 AM

"Making a bl0gosphere: Rejected proposal
to BlogTalk 2.0"

"Making a bl0gosphere: Rejected proposal
to BlogTalk 2.0" 04/13/2004 03:30 PM

BitTorrent is dead. Long live
BitTorrent?

BitTorrent is dead. Long live
BitTorrent? 01/05/2005 01:38 PM
ZDNet Jan 5 2005 5:09PM GMT

Most usable sites

Most usable sites 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
Question: Apart from Amazon.com, which are the large commercial sites you find the most usable? Any specific feature that jumps...

Yet Another Advanced Log Analyzer 0.7.2
(Usable)

Yet Another Advanced Log Analyzer 0.7.2
(Usable) 12/07/2003 04:12 PM
General log analyzer with a very detailed report.

Accessible Usable Web Design

Accessible Usable Web Design 05/26/2004 03:05 PM
Now that my exams are over, I can finally start to focus on my thesis project, which I think many... (223 words)

Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms

Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms

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Simple tricks for more usable forms

Simple tricks for more usable forms 01/22/2004 08:41 PM

My second article for SitePoint has been published: Simple tricks for more usable forms. It examines a whole bunch of CSS and Javascript tricks for improving the usability of web based forms without impairing their accessibility to clients that don't support those technologies. The article has already had some useful feedback on the forums, including the valuable observation that auto-selecting the contents of a form field when it receives the focus can have a negative effect on the usability of Unix browsers, where mouse buttons are frequently used for coping and pasting.

Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006?

Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? 09/02/2004 10:42 PM

Book Review: Usable Web Menus

Book Review: Usable Web Menus 06/26/2002 01:00 PM
Book review of the new glasshaus title, Usable Web Menus, authored by Andy Beaumont, Dave Gibbons, Jody Kerr, and Jon Stephens.

Re-usable, editable graphics in
OpenOffice.org

Re-usable, editable graphics in
OpenOffice.org 03/14/2005 04:04 PM
Have you ever wanted to brainstorm an intricate new system design using block diagrams on your Linux or Windows desktop? How about drawing an organizational chart, knowing full well that you will need to change it tomorrow? What you need is a program that makes it easy to create and edit line and shape objects. OpenOffice.org Draw might be just the ticket.

"Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms"

"Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms" 01/23/2004 05:24 PM

Planning a usable website: A three-step
guide

Planning a usable website: A three-step
guide 08/14/2004 06:53 PM
WebDevInfo Aug 14 2004 11:27PM GMT

Book Excerpt: Usable Shopping Carts, Pt.
3

Book Excerpt: Usable Shopping Carts, Pt.
3 01/03/2003 12:49 AM
You can save time and potential headaches by validating your site visitor's credit card number before sending it off to the payment gateway. Our concluding excerpt from "Usable Shopping Carts" shows you how to do just that; both PHP and ASP examples are provided. From glasshaus. 0102

More Usable Forms - Controlling Scroll
Position

More Usable Forms - Controlling Scroll
Position 09/15/2004 05:57 AM
WebmasterBase Sep 15 2004 10:18AM GMT

Common Principles: A Usable Interface
Design Primer

Common Principles: A Usable Interface
Design Primer 10/08/2002 07:10 AM

Book Excerpt: Usable Chopping Carts,
Chapter 7, Pt. 2

Book Excerpt: Usable Chopping Carts,
Chapter 7, Pt. 2 12/26/2002 11:55 AM
Part 2 of this excerpt series discusses a possible credit card form display implementation in PHP/MySQL. 1226

Use drag and drop to make Safari's
history more usable

Use drag and drop to make Safari's
history more usable 12/14/2003 02:18 AM
Sometimes I want to open multiple web sites that are stored in Safari's history file. Two limitations always made this inconvenient: Page Up and Page Down do not work in the bookmarks window, and the history doesn't remember ...

Apple Acts Hurt By RealNetworks Efforts
To Make iPods Slightly More Usable

Apple Acts Hurt By RealNetworks Efforts
To Make iPods Slightly More Usable 07/29/2004 01:23 PM
As expected, given a few days to look over the fact that RealNet works had made iPods just slightly more usable by coming up with a way that people buying songs in Real's download store could move those songs to an iPod, Apple has responded quite angrily, claiming they're "stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod." That's right. How dare they come up with a way to make the product appeal to more people!

New Advanced User Interface Design and
Usability Seminars Help Teams Deliver
Usable Software

New Advanced User Interface Design and
Usability Seminars Help Teams Deliver
Usable Software 03/14/2005 05:57 PM
New Cutting Edge Seminar Empowers Design Teams to Deliver Highly Usable Software [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]

BitTorrent

BitTorrent 06/09/2004 10:03 PM
The new BitTorrent 3.4.2 for OS X has an all-new GUI that makes it easier to keep track of multiple downloads.

BitTorrent 4.0.1

BitTorrent 4.0.1 04/02/2005 12:57 AM
The key to cheap file distribution.

BitTorrent++

BitTorrent++ 06/07/2004 04:32 AM
BT++ Back In Development

BitTorrent Will Not Go Away

BitTorrent Will Not Go Away 03/17/2005 03:08 AM
There was an article I read in Yahoo News from the Washington Post on BitTorrents. It explains that too many legit uses exist for BitTorrent for the service to be shut down. The MPAA is admitting that there are good and bad uses for BitTorrent and that they will only go after people that are helping users to download illegal movies. It's good to see a mianstream media outlet like the Washington Post understand the real concept and design behind BitTorrents.

This represents a shift from previous practices, in which the MPAA, the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) and other groups have tried to have entire products -- for example, the first Diamond Rio MP3 player or the networked ReplayTV (news - web sites) video recorder -- taken off the market.One reason for this change of heart may be that in BitTorrent, unlike many other file-sharing programs, legitimate use doesn't amount to a token minority. It's central to this program's existence. Developers of versions of the Linux (news - web sites) operating system were some of the first to jump on BitTorrent as a way to ship out vast amounts of data. A Linux distribution can easily span four CD-ROMs; instead, companies such as Red Hat offer BitTorrent downloads of their work.

No - 911 will not be available on
bittorrent - yet

No - 911 will not be available on
bittorrent - yet 05/27/2004 03:10 AM

The Doc Searls Weblog

Doc makes it very clear.  I just liked this story so much - I ran it anyway - but alas - it's true - it was fake....

Panning for gold in the bitstream 

Brian Dear says Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the Palme D'Or at Cannes, will be distributed via BitTorrent:

In a stunning move, controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore announced today that his latest film, "Fahrenheit 9/11", will be released by BitTorrent, the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing network.

From Brian's Denounce.com.

[Later...] Once again, we need to point out that Denounce is a satire site. Hence the name. Here's the disclaimer, from top right on the index page:

Recognized around the world as the best source for completely fictional news and information.

When you're not looking for a reliable, accurate site for industry news, there's only one place to go: Denounce.

All fake. All the time.

Founded in 1980. Eight years before The Onion. Deal with it.

BitTorrent v4.0.1

BitTorrent v4.0.1 03/25/2005 09:08 PM
BitTorrent is a protocol designed for transferring files. It is peer-to-peer in nature, as users connect to each other directly to send and receive portions of the file. However, there is a central server (called a tracker) which coordinates the action of all such peers. The tracker only manages connections, it does not have any knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed, and therefore a large number of users can be supported with relatively limited tracker bandwidth. [Freeware 3.6 MB]

She Bangs BitTorrent and RSS

She Bangs BitTorrent and RSS 03/06/2004 02:08 AM
I heart BitTorrent. It's a poor man's TiVo! In a single day, I was able to catch up on my Scrubs and Simpsons seasons. Frasier, Friends... they're all here. That, combined with RSS, makes for a wonderful broadband experience. Props to rayg for helping feed my new addiction. Now I can stay abreast of all of William Hung's appearances. Here's to hoping they give him a card in an upcoming GPK release. FWIW, Topps just announced an all-new 2nd series the other day. Too bad they don't have an RSS feed, eh?...

RSS baked into BitTorrent

RSS baked into BitTorrent 03/08/2004 11:26 PM

Dear Bay Area friends: I am coming to visit you! [Scripting News]

No - this isn't a Dave Winer lovefest - but I DID catch something in the subtext which said:

Bittorrent marketplace

Bittorrent marketplace 04/10/2005 12:37 PM
Prodigem, a legal torrent site, has announced a marketplace that will let you upload a file and sell bittorrent access to it. So, if you had, say, a video of your band performing its hit "Download Me, Baby, and Then Why Doncha Set Me Free?" that you wanted to sell, you'd upload it to Prodigem Marketplace and slap a price on it. Prodigem takes 10% plus the PayPal fee and passes the rest on to you. It's DRM-free once you've downloaded it: It's just a file that you can redistribute as you see fit. And they're contemplating an interesting licensing...

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.0.8

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.0.8 06/20/2004 11:55 PM

The BitTorrent Effect

The BitTorrent Effect 12/28/2004 11:11 PM
Wired News Dec 29 2004 2:44AM GMT

Professional BitTorrent?

Professional BitTorrent? 08/31/2004 04:28 AM
A startup, Atzio, is now claiming that they have the first peer-to-peer internet platform for television, apparently ignoring something like BitTorrent. Of course, the technology can basically be described as... BitTorrent with copy protection (how innovative). Plus, they only allow a select group of clients to seed material on the network, making it less likely that people will bother to download the software to make it possible for all this P2P television distribution. The company's own website, amusingly, claims it's having trouble handling all the traffic from the news of their launch -- which might raise some concerns from a company telling the entertainment industry they can handle the distribution of large files in great demand. Still, you have to wonder how effective this sort of solution is. The whole point of their system is you want more people getting and redistributing the content, but then they throw in this copy protection, which is almost laughable considering the system doesn't work if people aren't copying from you while you're copying from others. Besides, if you're a content producer, why bother paying this startup (and I assume they want money) to put your content on their network, when it's easier to just create a torrent, and get it out there -- where a lot more people already have BitTorrent clients.

bittorrent is nice, but...

bittorrent is nice, but... 01/08/2004 08:18 PM

...there's always a 'but' isn't there?

I had attempted to use BitTorrent a couple of times before, but never spent more than a few minutes with it, not enough to understand what was going on. Yesterday night though, I gave it a little more time and some tips from Russ and Matt I could get it going. I had to adjust some settings, such as the bandwidth allocated for uploads, which defaulted at 12 KB/sec and immediately started to suck up my entire upload capability (I set it at 7 KB/sec). I chose a couple of files (three actually) and let it download overnight. This morning, things were well on their way, two files done, the remaining one halfway through. But then it hit me: my transfers are limited!

I have a 4GB transfer limit (as it's common here in Ireland) on my DSL connection. So now I have downloaded, in one day, over 1.5 GB of data, and still have 1 GB to go. Then, there's the uploaded data, which also counts. EEk! By the time the second transfer is finished I will have spent over 75% of my monthly bandwidth allotment. With 60% of the month still to go!

Damn. I want to go back to my good old days of DSL in the Bay Area, where I had a symmetric 768 KB/sec DSL connection, with no transfer limits, at $40 a month. Okay, that's not realistic. :) But on the other hand, until transfer limits are removed (or at least raised) here, I won't be able to do much with BitTorrent. Too bad.

And, btw, this clearly has to have an impact on broadband usage. Forget about BitTorrent specifically, other types of media transfers are also quite heavy, and having that sword hanging over your neck (the sword being whatever they charge per megabyte after you cross the transfer limit) users will be more likely to treat broadband as a kind of always-on modem, rather than as true broadband. Ireland is great, for technology in particular, but it definitely needs some serious improvements to both infrastructure and access to that infrastructure (see my post on mobile handset costs yesterday) to be truly competitive. There's a qualitative jump (both on the supplier and the consumer side of a market) that happens when connectivity is pervasive, always-on, fast, and relatively inexpensive, and Ireland isn't there yet. Here's hoping we won't have to wait much longer.

BitTorrent for Dummies: On its way

BitTorrent for Dummies: On its way 03/19/2005 03:08 AM
My February 26 post pleading for BitTorrent for Dummies bore fruit. First, Travis Smith pointed me to the project, and then Kris Krug emailed me. Kris is one of the authors of the forthcoming book. One way or another, I'm...

BitTorrent 4.0.1 released

BitTorrent 4.0.1 released 03/27/2005 01:37 PM

BitTorrent 3.4.2 (Stable)

BitTorrent 3.4.2 (Stable) 05/15/2004 07:11 AM
A content delivery tool that makes distributing very large files possible.

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.010

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.010 06/25/2004 12:39 AM

MLDonkey and BitTorrent

MLDonkey and BitTorrent 05/09/2004 06:27 PM

I was looking through MLDonkey wiki when I ran into this technical yet compact explanation of how BitTorrent protocol works.  I already know how BT works but I thought my fellow geeks might find this useful since the diagrams at the official BT site aren't that useful:

It [BitTorrent] divides shared data (a single file or a directory) into pieces, typically of 256 KiB. A SHA-1 checksum is computed for each piece, and used to check the piece has been correctly downloaded. The checksums are stored in a .torrent file, along with filenames. The .torrent file also nominates a tracker, a Web resource that introduces peers to each other. Peers contact each other, learn what pieces they have available, request the rarest (least commonly seen) pieces first, and send requested pieces.

Just in case you are wondering, MLDonkey is a universal client of sort for many P2P networks including FastTrack, eDonkey2000, Gnutella, and Direct Connect.  It supports BitTorrent too but then BitTorrent is not really a network.  While MLDonkey is open source, it's written in Ocaml which is powerful but non-mainstream.

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NASLite 1.0 (NASLite-NFSG)

NASLite 1.0 (NASLite-NFSG) 08/10/2004 05:28 AM
A Network Attached Storage (NAS) server operating system.

NASLite 1.1

NASLite 1.1 06/08/2004 03:29 PM
A system for converting a PC into a dedicated workgroup file server.

NASLite 1.2

NASLite 1.2 06/17/2004 05:58 PM
A system for converting a PC into a dedicated workgroup file server.

NASLite 1.0

NASLite 1.0 05/26/2004 10:49 PM
A system for converting a PC into a dedicated workgroup file server.

NASLite 1.3

NASLite 1.3 07/14/2004 05:17 AM
A Network Attached Storage (NAS) server operating system.

NASLite 1.0 (NASLite-NFS)

NASLite 1.0 (NASLite-NFS) 08/03/2004 04:22 PM
A Network Attached Storage (NAS) server operating system.

NASLite 1.0 (NASLite FDU)

NASLite 1.0 (NASLite FDU) 09/25/2004 03:48 AM
A Network Attached Storage (NAS) server operating system.

NASLite 1.0 (NASLite-FTP)

NASLite 1.0 (NASLite-FTP) 07/06/2004 04:57 PM
A system for converting a PC into a dedicated workgroup file server.

NASLite 1.0 (FTPG)

NASLite 1.0 (FTPG) 07/09/2004 10:16 AM
A system for converting a PC into a dedicated workgroup file server.

NASLite 1.0 (USB Flash branch)

NASLite 1.0 (USB Flash branch) 03/19/2005 03:22 AM
NASLite is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server operating system designed to transform a basic computer into a dedicated file server. Utilizing highly optimized versions of Samba, uCLibc, BusyBox, and various other Linux tools, it provides SMB/CIFS, FTP, or NFS filesystem support. It accommodates multiple client OSes: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. NASLite offers SMART disk monitoring and large file support, and is incredibly easy to install and administer.

Everything you ever wanted to know about
BitTorrent

Everything you ever wanted to know about
BitTorrent 07/04/2004 06:59 PM

I have used BitTorrent quite a bit and really like it's performance for those big downloads. If you are not up to speed on BitTorrent this Faq is the place to start. [BitTorrent Faq]

Examining Bittorrent

Examining Bittorrent 12/19/2004 03:51 PM
Slashdot Dec 19 2004 2:12AM GMT

A new hope for BitTorrent?

A new hope for BitTorrent? 01/05/2005 08:14 AM
Unreleased Exeem could make BitTorrent more lawsuit-resistant, but questions remain.

Reviving BitTorrent

Reviving BitTorrent 01/06/2005 12:27 AM
CNET Asia Jan 6 2005 4:47AM GMT

BitTorrent t-shirt

BitTorrent t-shirt 06/29/2004 11:31 PM
There's now a BitTorrent t-shirt to complement your Buccaneer-American shirt.

How to Bittorrent Farenheit 9/11

How to Bittorrent Farenheit 9/11 07/08/2004 10:48 AM
Aliased BoingBoing reader "humboldt 11" provides instructions for obtaining a digital copy of Michael Moore's latest film:

1. download BIT TORRENT 3.4.2.exe (Link) and install
2. download Fahrenheit.911.CAM-POT(1).torrent (Li nk) on your desktop
3. open it with BitTorrent
4. start download
5. download "wrar330d.exe" (Link) open it
6. unpack the file "pot.911a.rar" in the CD1 file (as well as the "pot.911b.rar" in the CD2 file - this is why there are 36 parts on each desk. In order to assemble it, opening the file will automatically identify all the segments and put them together) this will create a "pot.911a" (and a "pot.911b") file
7. download "vlc-0.7.2-win32.exe" (Link) install
8. open "CD1.cue" from the "pot.911a" file

Link

BitTorrent 4.0.1 for Mac OS X released.

BitTorrent 4.0.1 for Mac OS X released. 04/02/2005 12:48 AM
MacCentral: Bi tTorrent 4.0.1 for Mac OS X released. I've been beta testing this for a while; it's like the old version but even better.

proposal for making bittorrent usable

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