Entries Tagged 'P2P' ↓
August 9th, 2007 — P2P, Technology,Softwares & Computers
Do you remember when you downloaded these x264/HD torrent file baited by the wonderful cinematic experience?
After sweating your Internet line, you try (in vain) opening the files.
HD movies are basically high definition, high resolution format which looks gorgeous. You can detect wheat and chaff from the file size. I’ve seen some 1080p torrents which are more than 35 GB in size. Most the 720p x264 will come ~4.4 GB.
This goodness after extraction will be in .mkv (or .mp4) format. How do you play this .mkv file? VLC player will play it but sometimes you won’t get sound and only video. Plus the clarity is also not good.
So, here’s a guide that will help you live hard (not just survive) in the world of P2P and HD. 
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August 1st, 2007 — P2P
Having none to invite you at Private Torrent Trackers and checking the Private BitTorrent Sites daily under the pretext of doing research won’t do any good for your Torrent Client. 
You might act on a tip off or in ‘I’m feeling Lucky’ state. Won’t life be easier if there’s automatic tracking tool?
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July 28th, 2007 — P2P
Do you know that you can use P2P for educational purpose also? There are thousands of resources for Medical, Engineering, Information Technology students. These are things which you otherwise can’t afford or get in the bookstore.
Sometime back I featured Top 10 Private Torrent Trackers, which was well received. So I thought we’ll explore the possibilities in other spheres of interest.
Our Reader, Lisa Frengetti brought this topic in the Private Torrent Tracker article. She was helpful and in fact wrote the contents (with screenshots) which you are going to read. Thanks a lot for the help, Lisa.
One common characteristics of these educational sites are, we have less leechers and hit&runners. Even if the seeders are less for any torrent, the speed is awesome.
I’ve attached a screenshot of the categories and topics of these torrent trackers for your interest.
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July 18th, 2007 — P2P, Potpourri
This is what Muggles do when they’re bewitched by spells.
And yes, this period is bumper time for Harry Potter fans. The finale of the book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows and the fifth installment of the movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hits you within a fortnight.
Even though the OOTP (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) has released last week, in the UAE it’s releasing this Thursday only. The book releases on Saturday. I’m waiting (just managing) but there’s a lot of distractions in various forms which threaten to spoil my Harry Potter things this week.
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July 13th, 2007 — P2P
The latest stable version of our favorite P2P client, µTorrent is finally available for our downloading bliss. 
After 5 months of development, we finally have Version 1.7 stable.
The major changes include:
- Vista Support
- Removal of the 65,536 piece limit for torrents (faster speeds)
- Option to auto update to beta versions
- Local Peer Discovery (if more than one PC from your LAN is connected, then there’s no effect on speed)
- New treeview-based add torrent dialog (makes it easier for selective downloads)
- Doesn’t force an immediate recheck when download path changes, checks on next start
- And hundreds of bug fixes
Still the feature to Ban peers is not included.
I’m currently using the 1.7 version and all these days I was using the Version 1.6.1. One issue that I’m facing in my Laptop is when I open µTorrent, the icon disappears. Otherwise it’s good release and there’s no issue with the speeds.
Download 1.7 Stable | Version 1.7 Change Log | µTorrent
June 8th, 2007 — P2P
Every time a new torrent client comes, the same thing happens. 
Turns out to be lame. This time it’s the turn of Tribler.
Honestly I never knew this one before TorrentFreak featured it. Then was on Digg, Lifehacker and Techcrunch. Enough hype.
Let me run through the list of ‘features’ the Tribler boasts off and the reality..
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May 19th, 2007 — P2P
Yeah! I can hear leechers shouting the new utorrent versions sucks.
All the fuss because they can’t cheat Private Torrent Trackers!
I didn’t read this anywhere or didn’t notice in the list of changes. Just I tried out the new version of the utorrent client and noticed that the new beta is bad for leechers.
The following information is not good for you to use and try it out. That’s why I waited so long time for utorrent guys to fix it. If you have a slow broadband connection, then you should Public Trackers or other sources (like direct http links or usenet) only.
How to fool Private Torrent Trackers and avoid maintaining ratio
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