I’m a big torrent user, from grabbing TV shows that I missed to seeding back stuff like LUGRadio and various Linux ISOs and have always used btlaunchmanycurses.bittorrnado.

But because I seed various things at different speeds depending on the ratios of the tracker, etc. and if I’m superseeding or not I run multiple copies of bittornado – and this does suck up quite a bit of RAM so GingerDog suggested I try torrentflux.

It’s web-based and while it was quite a bit of faff to setup (it requires MySQL – which wasn’t a problem but I wasn’t happy installing on my torrenting server, which is low on RAM anyway, I had to set it up to use a central MySQL server inside the my network – no biggie) the hard part was deciding on various classes of torrents to a central location with the various speed setups right, etc.

Once it was all done, I also had a whole bunch of hastle symlinking the various NFS mounts into the right places but eventually it all worked – because my torrenting setup is quite complex, I want the torrented down podcasts to my player IPTV to go into my Video storage area automatically and still be available to seed, but not have to have two copies on the network, etc….

I think it’s all working now, after a day of various fiddling, and it appears the overall RAM usage is lower – so that’s a start, but I’ll see if it leaks like a rusty bucket, which bittornado – while maybe not leaking RAM – certainly soaked it all up….

I don’t like the interface, but it’s easier to use than swapping files from place to place and having it all running in screen…. but, for now, I think torrentflux is staying.

-Dx

PS. If this post doesn’t make any sense it’s because I’m still getting over the tail end of this fortnight long bug/cold/manflu/birdflu thing, honest….

So, there’s been quite a bit of uproar recently about this Boot Camp thing from Apple but the biggest “uproar” appears to be over on the Apple forums (as covered by cnet).

I wonder, did someone remove the word “beta” from the Apple user vocab?

Oh-no! You put a beta product that intentionally screws with your boot-process on your system and now that booting isn’t working perfectly you want someone to kill?

Serves you fucking right, you bunch of muppets. See me, see me have no sympathy?

You sit and point and laugh and mock and say, “Why do you use that beta-software, it’s so unreliable” to us folks who choose Linux as our primary, and then go jump both feet first into Apple’s own beta-swamp, and now don’t like the fact you got some dirt on your orange sunglasses….

Please, you have no sympathy here, just move right along…. *sigh*

(as an aside, I can completely see why Apple have let this out the door early — not because of public demand, or to boost share prices but to save them some time and money…. How does this save Apple cash, you ask? Think about this, “apple authorised versions” of Windows running on your shiny new MacBookPro rather than the EFI hacks over at http://onmac.net/ has proper support for things like cooling and thermal reporting — meaning that you’re not gonna get homwbrew versions melting the shiny DuoCore and a metric fuckton of returns for faulty hardware, because the user screwed them up by maxing out the CPU and not having the fans on, or whatever….)

No, really, I am – and it was all barbobot’s idea….