super-structure

This evening I’m downloading the lastest distro of Xandros, which is my preferred flavor of Linux (mainly becuase it requires no knowledge of Linux, which is good becuase I have none). Anyway, their free ISO is downloadable as a torrent ($10 for the HTTP download). I origionally used good ‘ol BitTorrent for torrent files, but it started giving me shit and actually rarely ever finished downloading anything. I usually got error message that I wasn’t allowed to do this or that. Anyway, a few months ago I got Azureus for downloading torrents. Man, what a nice piece of software! You have much more control over sending and recieving the file pieces. Also, how else can you get cool visuals like the one above to display the swarm concept of torrent files?

Just for the record, I don’t find torrent the best way to get movies at home. It takes several hours to get a 30 minute TV show (on average, depending on the amount of peers) and I really don’t want to wait the days it would take to download a movie I can rent for $3 or even just buy for $15.