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§ ita § - Jun 14, 2005 2:17:35 pm PDT #3363 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I prefer the ones that run once and download multiple torrents because you can shut the whole shebang down and restart it again later without having to find where you left the silly torrents and start back up again one by one.

Azureus did rock, but now I'm bitter.


§ ita § - Jun 14, 2005 2:27:38 pm PDT #3364 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Unrelatedly:

RSS Question:

I want to change the way I'm doing the feed. Currently, there's a chron job that checks for updates and pre-pends them to the XML file stored on disk.

Instead, I'd like to have the file dynamically generated on request -- like an index_rss.php that on the fly serves up the RSS for the last X items. I've found this works for some clients (like the Abilon News Aggregator), but Bloglines couldn't care less. I'm serving it up with the mime type of text/xml, by the way.


DCJensen - Jun 14, 2005 2:29:53 pm PDT #3365 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

OTOH? With Bittornado one bad torrent don't spoil the whole bunch, girl.

It might be too early for MJ references.


§ ita § - Jun 14, 2005 2:30:28 pm PDT #3366 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

With Bittornado one bad torrent don't spoil the whole bunch, girl.

Does it spoil the bunch on Azureus or ABC? I hadn't noticed that.


DCJensen - Jun 14, 2005 2:35:04 pm PDT #3367 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

On Azureus sometimes bad torrent froze the whole client in Windows. At least for me it used to be a problem, but they probably fixed that a year +ago, I suppose.

Because of early Azureus issues on my Windows machine, I've been using tornado since it was not named tornado.


Gris - Jun 14, 2005 4:08:53 pm PDT #3368 of 10003
Hey. New board.

I'm a big Azureus fan on a Mac at least.

Not because it's good, really. Takes a lot of memory and whatnot. Just because everything else really sucks.

I have hope that, someday, Bits on Wheels will be good. Right now, it's just sort of starting to get there.


Consuela - Jun 14, 2005 6:15:01 pm PDT #3369 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm so happy I have the Buffistas. Now every time Azureus tells me to update, I sneer at it and go on my merry way. Azureus is my bitch.


Hil R. - Jun 15, 2005 6:03:35 am PDT #3370 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I've got a laptop (Dell Inspiron 4100) and when I started using it today, every couple of minutes the screen will dim, as if it's going into powersave, and then brighten again about 30 seconds later. I've got it plugged in and the battery is fully charged, so I'm pretty sure it's not a battery issue. The stuff that's changed recently is that I've installed a new wireless card (which I don't think would affect anything) and that I had the computer in my backpack for awhile, which I'm thinking could have jostled something loose or something. Any ideas what to do?


§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 6:48:58 am PDT #3371 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's not just a USB hub -- it's cute and talks too.


tommyrot - Jun 15, 2005 6:52:16 am PDT #3372 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

it's cute and talks too.

But Hello Kitty has no mouth - how can it talk?

Kitty is also able to speak Japanese and English in response to keyboard input.

What does it say? "Argh! I'm a fucking USB hub! Kill me now!"