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Dummies Guide at using Torrents.
Posted by Mohammed Muchhala in Web on June 2nd, 2007
My friend Aman has written an excellent guide of how to download stuff using the latest in P2P i.e. torrents. Here are some of the important parts of the guide. The link to the article is at the end of the post.
Basics:
Firstly get a good client such as µtorrent or Azureus(Java), BitComet(C++) .Other Clients are not recommended!
The torrent file is not the file you aim to download, but a small file containing information where the bits of files are are located and information of trackers. Bittorrent isn’t linear though, it randomly sends and receives pieces from random users connected via the same torrent file.
Terminology:
- Leecher: That’s the guys that don’t have the complete file.
- Seeder: Those that now have the entire file, 100%, and therefore only function to upload to those that haven’t got the whole thing yet.
- Peers: All users connected to the same torrent. The more peers, the greater the speeds, providing there are enough seeders.
- Tracker: The centre when you start up the torrent. In short – it connects you to other users and is also the thing that sends you messages to your client.
Complete list of terminologies.
How to download:
Head over to your favourite Bit torrent website which mind you don’t host files but simply host the .torrent file.When you find a torrent file online, you download it to your computer. Its recommended to keep the actual .torrent-file on your hard disk, in case you need to restart it. Now open the .torrent file in your bit torrent client, and tell it the place you want to store it. It starts download the minute the tracker has picked up on you being amongst the peers. Most tracker needs AT LEAST a few minutes to pick up, so leave it alone for a while.
The stuff I have is very little and it would help you greatly if you read the complete guide: http://www.fudge.co.in/2007/06/01/torrenting-for-dummies/
Get the Yahoo! Mail Beta
Posted by Mohammed Muchhala in Uncategorized on August 29th, 2006
Yesterday, something went in my mind. I have all Gmail, Windows Live Mail Beta, I didn’t have Yahoo! Mail Beta. So I wanted it by hook or by crook! And so the hunt began and I found this very neat trick.
The whole things just worked perfectly for me, and I am in love with it. Its so good, so much better. The only major flaw is that it does not support Opera 9. The other drawback is that it take quite a long time to load, slightly longer than Gmail but much lesser than Windows Live Mail. And one more thing I might add is the labeling feature from Gmail.
So here’s the trick to get the “Invite for Yahoo! Mail Beta“. (Please use IE or Firefox)
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Configuring Multiple Home Pages in Firefox
Posted by Mohammed Muchhala in Uncategorized on July 7th, 2006
If there’s more than one site you always visit after starting up Firefox, you can set your homepage to open several tabs of different web sites at once automatically.
From Firefox’s Tools menu, Options, General, enter the addresses of sites separated by a pipe | as shown above. Or, you can open up all the sites in tabs and hit the “Use Current Pages” button.
BackUp & Restore Data in Outlook
Posted by Mohammed Muchhala in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2006
One of the biggest problems before an average Outlook user is “How to do I BackUp my Mails in Outlook?”, and its pretty important to regularly backup mails for that unfortunate day when windows breaks all hell lose, and there is no way out, but a format or worse a hard disk crash!!! So don’t fret because, here’s the showdown on how to do BackUp & Restore all your data in Outlook Read the rest of this entry »