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Last year, they (autodesk I believe) mailed the DVD to the main contact. So, I would think that this will happen again this year. It was right about this time also!

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Still, we would need a tracker to torrent the dvd.

Does anyone know of a free tracker without bad content for us to post stuff onto, or can sombody with more experience setup one on their server? I just can't figure it out.

I do like the idea of torrenting the animations dvd.

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I can probably get one set up. I doubt it'll be very fancy or anything like that, but it should work. I'll see if I can't get it up and running by the end of the day.

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Boy am I quick!

gefingerpoken.jpg.torrent

It appears to be working.. but I can't really test it outside of my LAN. If anyone has problems with it, let me know. If you want to put something on that tracker, it's located at: http://www.mehh.net:6969/announce Personally, I used Azureus to create that torrent, but anything should work provided you use that tracker. It's just the basic tracker that comes with Bittorrent so there's no super-special functionality to it. If it appears that it's being used for something illegal, (ie: absurd amounts of hits, weird foreign addresses, or I find it as the tracker in a torrent site), it's going down until I feel like finding/writing password protection and all that fun stuff.

[edit] It appears my server doesn't like file.jpg.ext .. it thought it was a jpeg. pseudo-fixed.
[edit2] Oh. The tracker tries to send out my local IP if I try and seed something from within the LAN. All seeding will have to be done externally. If someone wants to test the tracker, please, be my guest :)

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Thank you!!!!!! :cool:

I have our team's animation seeding now.

http://www.davidrinaldi.com/hsro/anim-mov.torrent.txt

Go ahead and try it! Just remove the ".txt" from the file once you have downloaded it.

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Mostly unrelated, but the Bittorrent thing got me thinking. Next year, can't we have someone set up a Bittorent of the manual right after it's released? I know the FIRST server is always slow around then, and I think that would help a great deal. Perhaps we could get Delphi AND FIRST to link to it.

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that would be cool.

(What does one need to download a torrent?)

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To "download a torrent" you need a bittorrent client. There's an official one, Azureus seems popular, and my favorite: bittornado.

All can be found quickly through google searches.

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Yeah, BitTornado is my favorite also.

Well, I have started seeding the animation again, since my computer locked up. I should put Knoppix on it. ;)

So, how is it working?

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Maybe we should make a new thread in a more popular forum room rather than this dusty old corner :) It appears that there is one active torrent with two seeders and 0 leechers. I'm also starting a better tracker page which should make stuff easier.

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I'm getting here from the portal. The New Post column. (By default on the right)

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OK...

I finaly decided to figure out how to use a tracker, and I installed BNBT on my home computer.

http://24.30.238.190:6969/index.html

Go ahead, and try DLing the Live-Linux CD I posted.

The next thing I need to do, now, is find out how to get one working with a Live-CD Linux distro. I do have a very small HD that could be used to store the site. (210 MB) :o

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Ok, this one should be more permenant.

http://hsro.us/tracker/
http://hsro.us/tracker/R1467_AVA2004.torrent


I am running FBT2 on a GoDaddy server. From my pov, it's working. But I need some people to DL it before I know for shure.

:(

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I can host files on my server I have sitting next to me, and I have 5GB free. If anyone can seed anything for a while as I d-load it I can host it from there.

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Oh, thank you!

I have it seeding right now. It should be working!

When you download it, just be shure the file has a ".mov" extension.