Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:03:16 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: gui-free torrent Message-ID: <20051109160316.GA77611@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <17265.45910.586450.774376@roam.psg.com> References: <17265.5879.629471.751326@roam.psg.com> <20051108213051.GC31355@puck.firepipe.net> <17265.7248.597551.784115@roam.psg.com> <20051109080513.GB40612@xor.obsecurity.org> <17265.45910.586450.774376@roam.psg.com>
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--fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:29:10PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote: > >> but putting just a client on a headless at the westin makes > >> no sense, as i'll still have to slurp the data over the dsl > >> to get it on the laptoy. > >>=20 > >> it's the server that will be a win over in the land of > >> bandwidth. > >=20 > > OK, what are you actually asking for..the above didn't make > > any sense to me :-) >=20 > my office is my laptop. everything is on it, compilers and > tools, research data and code, mail back to the late '70s, ... > hard disk is cheap. i wander around with my laptop, but it is > usually in low-bandwidth environments, e.g. my home dsl, a > meeting wifi, t-mo at a fourbucks or untied red rug, ... >=20 > i want to fetch data to it that is available as a torrent. i > feel obliged to also serve what i eat (the opposite of eating > our own dog food?:-). i.e. i feel socially responsible to let > the stuff i download be uploaded as well. to do this today, i > run azureus on my laptop. >=20 > this is not a polite thing to do on a home dsl line, a wifi > meeting, ... where bandwidth is shared and not plentiful. >=20 > i also have a bunch of servers in a rack in seattle's carrier > hotel (the westin building (not westin hotel), 33 floors of > racks and screaming fans), and about 450mb of bandwidth to > that rack (yes, half a gig). >=20 > it seems to me that the best operating mode would be to have a > torrent client/server in the rack. then, when i want some new > file, i can ask the torrent client in the rack to fetch (and > subsequently serve) it. when it has been fetched, i can rsync > it to my laptop, burning the scarce bandwidth only once. >=20 > for that, a pretty simple gui-free client/server would seem > appropriate. rtorrent looks a fit, but i am having my usual=20 > 'the moon is in klutz' problems. >=20 > make sense yet? you asked. bet you'll never do that again. > :-) Sounds like exactly what Will suggested is appropriate, then. Kris --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDch3DWry0BWjoQKURAh1pAKC8U/TAWKpOYLyYC78N5sKWa/06lwCgwWsW EcRx0K7JjEzqo621zzYfT44= =BUWK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7--
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