Can any Orb fans help a fella out?

BIGINOIL wrote: No 5% downloaded now not 5% to go.

So I've probably just got the opening credits and a few seconds of Nick King's teenage arms flailing around!

ah fcuk knows then.I'll pop the VHS in the post tommorrow or Tuesday anyhows

Keep the faith Johnny.

I may be only 5% in, but that's 5% further than I was when I woke up this morning.

I'm sure I'll crack it.

Let's give it to Wednesday before we succumb to the old ways.

What else can you get on these things then? Feature films? Frankie? TV shows?

Corr, int technology BRILLIANT

BIGINOIL wrote: So I've probably just got the opening credits and a few seconds of Nick King's teenage arms flailing around!

Luckily, you won't have the misfortune of seeing that!

I *might* have a second copy of the VHS - trouble is my floor at the moment is rather messy, so it could be anywhere... :p

Crikey - I'm 25% through downloading Cream at the Albert Hall.

This is amazing.

I'm going to be a geek

Ahh it's MP3s, not a video. And it's crap.

Still, it's progress!

I'm a 21st Century Download Pirate Monkey

Notes from a man with a few terrabytes to his credit:

The progress in azureus or Utorrent (isn't it actually MU torrent? the U actually being a greek mu, no?) is, I fear, non linear. In other words it may grab a little bit from the start, then the next bit you get is from half way through,then a bit from somewhere else, etc etc. You can (in azureus at least) prioritise the first and last sections to enable you to preview the download (.avi files have their time index at the end and wont play right (or often at all) without it).

With regards to tuning for download speed.....set your upload to about 20k to start with, then basically tweak it until you find the point where it doesn't choke the inbound (when someone sends you a bit of data, they wait to hear your machine say "yup, got it", if your outbound connection is too busy, this receipt is delayed, so the other end waits before sending you any more). If Utorrent has a stats page, you basically want to set your outbound limit to the highest value (or a k or two less), that still gives a flat trace on the outgoing graph....if it starts jumping up and down, it's choking.

Of course the above assumes a quite active torrent, where the capacity is available to give your connection something to think about. On a torrent with low numbers of peers, you're in the lap of the fairies, but although it is hard to use such a torrent for tuning, it'll feel the benefits if you've already sorted things.

One other note re: azureus....do NOT set the incomming limiter to anything other than the "dead 8" ( ), I've discovered that the only thing it limits is the speed stuff is written to disc......in other words, if you have something running at 200KBps, and you throttle it in azurues to say 20KBps, it will actually still download at 200, but only write 20 a sec into the actual file, if you then lift the limiter again, it syncs it all up again. This is odd enough when you have 1 or 4 GB of RAM, where it can buffer till it's tits turn blue, but if you only have 128MB, Terrible Things will happen quite quickly.

BTW..... And as long as you do not download "another pathetic pile of shite for illiterate, inbread, seppo spastics", or $POPTARD's new album, the various organisations dedicated to making the whole world obey US "law", will leave you alone.....the do not care that I have downloaded the soundtrack to Joe 90, or the old William Woollard series "secret war". BUT, for extra safety, if your torrent proggy offeres it, switch on "safe peer". It collects a list of known pig filth and Govt IP addresses, and if any of those try to open a connection to you, they are told "fuck right off foreign cop!". Most handy.

It would appear that my 8 is well and truly dead. When you click on 'details', it says that the information is not available. So perhaps the host's pc is turned off, or perhaps he's not sharing any more (the link is 8 ('alive' 8 at that) months old.

I've left the thing turned on today, just in case it's starts getting shared again. I've also left my email running, changed the incoming message alert sound to a very loud woman's scream, turned my speakers to 11 and will be emailing myself at regular intervals during the time that my cleaner should be in. Anyone with my home email address can join in the fun. Just drop me an email

On the subject of that sharing site, there doesn't seem to be very much available until you remove the adult filter. Then there's loads of videos from that charity for poor women who can't afford clothes. Perhaps I'm not searching right. Will probably play with it again tonight.

I've got that torrent running and there's a seed on now, I'll stay on it 24/7 (non windows users can do that), so you cannhop on and off and I'll always have whatever you missed, tho my upload is a little pish.

Pirate bay has everything. I got Cloverfield there as well as the new Orb, after seeing both discussed here, but since both are worthy I'll buy em anyways...well when movie comes out. Thebox.bz has everything UK (so nice not to have to trawl through pages of US shows when you're after something for the literate), you may need an invite, I think I have ONE left if you want it. Best bit about thebox is you can buy ratio if seeding is too hard or you desperately need a real ratio wrecker (like me just downloading 7 series of Grand Designs). Just shows torrenteers are not all freeloaders, the makes could have had that money if they weren't livin in the 1840's.

For frankie, you want cheggit.net

BE WARNED, it has everything but kiddies, I mean E V E R Y T H I N G.....from soft as shit "look at my boobs" crap, to anal gang rape with a side order of scat, not my thing I might add, but knowing some of you lot....

What does seed mean? Is that a computer that has the files? And having the torrent running means that I'm downloading the files?

Anyway good stuff. I'll certainly have a look at those others when I get home.

I might try to share some stuff too, if I can work out how to do it.

Buring the bastards to DVD will be the next job.

BIGINOIL wrote: What does seed mean? Is that a computer that has the files? And having the torrent running means that I'm downloading the files?

Anyway good stuff. I'll certainly have a look at those others when I get home.

I might try to share some stuff too, if I can work out how to do it.

Buring the bastards to DVD will be the next job.

A seed is someone with the entire file, a peer is someone like you with some of it. Torrents work by distributing the demand, so if there are 50 seeds, you'll get a different wee bit from each, also, peers exchange bits each other don't have....bit like football stickers. Seeding is leaving a finished torrent open to share.

Things will work better if you have the right ports open on your firewall (you're more or less on your own there but most torrent sites have instructions that even Digi and other AOLers could understand).

Having a torrent running just means it's downloading, or seeding, or both.

Nero smart suite or whatever the fuck it's called usually does DVD's OK with no messing. If the files are in a fucked format, you can convert with AVS videotools.

It's working now!

5kb/sec ETA 7 days

half of nool's jumped on it....8 peers now. it'll speed up.

Finished downloading a film this morning but then when i went to play the thing it was one of those winrar fcukers that you have to "extract" the 20 files or something and then muddle around in the dark without a clue.Somehow i got the bastard playing though.Wonders never and all that.

LOL I was reading the wrong torrent, 5kbps it is then :D

Johnny, I usually don't download rarred media files, avi, mp3, mpeg all of those are "lossy" compression, and rar is "lossless", if you compress a file that's already lossy with lossless compression, you will never ever make it smaller, in fact it usually swells a bit. People usually do it to hide fakes (they say they do it to avoid traffic sniffers, but they can all look into rars anyway). Winrar is the dog's anyway, beats the shit out of winzip, especially at opening multiparters.

(rars are OK on usenet as they make a convenient splitter with error correction built in).

Alright Steve, that's enough for now!

BIGINOIL wrote: Alright Steve, that's enough for now!

lol It's the only thing I'm any good at, I always feel the need to do my bit for the species and all :D

Lemme know if you needs an invite for thebox, think i have exactly ONE left.

I don't know what that means (again). I didn't seem to need an invite.

I went home at lunchtime, went to box.biz, registered no problem and my computer is currently slaving away on T in t'Park 2005, several episodes of Later with Jools Holland (including the 200th one I missed on Friday) and the complete series one of Russel Brand's show.

Transfer speeds are excellent - hopefully some of them should be done by the time I get in.

I've got Nero so I should be burning disks in time for the weekend.

I wish I'd checked the file types. Some of them just said TORRENT, but that's not the file type, that's the transfer method you were wittering about earlier, isn't it?

DIGINOIL

Right I'm in your queue.

Who knows how I can play MPeg-4 files then?

For free I mean!

Dionne Warwick's Coke Habit wrote: Right I'm in your queue.

Who knows how I can play MPeg-4 files then?

For free I mean!

Doesn't Apple's QuickTime Player play them? (Can't remember off-hand).

Failing that, WinDVD is what I normally use (although the bastards have now been bought out by Corel)... There *used* to be a free (unlimited) player version available, but can't find it at the moment...

Quite like the title track of The Dream, reminds me of NO's Saville Show soundtrack.

I've been suspended from box.biz for taking and not giving.

Ah well it was good while it lasted.

Perhaps someone will download something from me and I'll be restored.

El Jarvo wrote:

Reverend Big wrote: I've been suspended from box.biz for taking and not giving.

Ah well it was good while it lasted.

Perhaps someone will download something from me and I'll be restored.

Leecher!

I had summat similar happen when I joined 'em. Think you only need to get your ratio up to 1.0 so it shouldn't take long.

Incidentally, I downloaded New Order Story from them yesterday. Not sure why, not like I haven't got it, and not like I'm gonna watch it ... but it's easily the most popular thing out of everything I've got seeded! Has got the highest upload rates by far. Was quite surprised by that!

Aye, grabbed it meself.

Col,You can toss them a few quid by paypal and bail your sorry leeching ass out.

Worth it for a site unplagued by seppo gibberish.

Maybe someone could help ME by downloading the Manchester Rock Family Trees and I Swear I was There. Oh and the Russel Brand Ponderland thing.

Or I'll just pay them, that's a top tip. I did wonder whether they'd smile more lovingly on those that 'donated'.

The Orb thing was sitting at 2 days remaining this morning, in case anyone has become a fan of this saga.

Reverend Big wrote: The Orb thing was sitting at 2 days remaining this morning, in case anyone has become a fan of this saga.

Let's face it, there's more chance of interesting new developments on that front, then any NO-related news...

Snorri xxx

Why does my Nero take 3 hours to burn a 2 hour film to disc? Is this normal? I knew it would take longer than the couple of minutes it does to burn music to CD.But 3 hours? What's going on!

Johnny, normal is for losers.

Don't aspire to normal

Reverend Big wrote: I've been suspended from box.biz for taking and not giving.

Never had you down as someone who didn't enjoy giving and receiving, Col...

Snorri xxx