Snakes on a muthafuckin' Ruby
Sorry, I've been trying to work that phrase in somewhere all day, the title box was empty, and the video of the Snakes and Rubies event that was put on around a month ago is online for downloading.
The original event site had posted the slides from the talk which I didn't link to, but they're at the video download page. To warn you so you don't wig when you have it, this is propeller-head territory, but if you're interested in Python, Ruby, or programming languages at all it should be up your alley. It's very large, so if you can, go for the .torrent and do help seed. They've got a good pipe, and a few co-los are being thrown at it by nugget-san, but it all helps.
I really need to find a good Bittorrent for OS X guide, so those with an interest can at least go learn how to forward their ports and such.
Posted by drunkenbatmanJanuary 05, 2006, at 02:17 PM
Comments (13)
Posted by: Thomas Swift at January 5, 2006 05:50 PM
I use Tomato and like it!
Also, I will help seed once complete.
Posted by: Marcus at January 5, 2006 06:35 PM
My flatmate thought I was daft for not getting this, but I cannot be the only bloke. The title is from a movie titled Snakes on a Plane. August 2006!
Posted by: Aaron McFarlane at January 5, 2006 08:23 PM
You want fast Bit Torrent, I think Azureus is your best option.
Many trackers reject 6881 as a port. You should try something along the lines of 55680. Tweaking your settings is always a good thing, and there are details as to how to do this at Azureus' Wiki.
Really, good or bad mac citizen, it works. I'd rather that than something that shoots multiple superfluous sheets and drawers at me.
Posted by: Rhys Keepence at January 5, 2006 09:15 PM
After a long affair with Azureus, I have settled with ``Bits on Wheels'' [ http://www.bitsonwheels.com/ ]. With a bit of tweaking it is as fast Azureus.
Posted by: Jeremy at January 5, 2006 09:52 PM
Be careful with Bits on Wheels while it is a beautiful client it has some pretty glaring bugs, the most painful being that it will often not write data to the disk so though it claims the file is at 100% it still has a number of missing blocks and the only solution is to restart the download resuming over the previously downloaded file so it will perform a recheck cycle.
Posted by: peelmanG4 at January 5, 2006 10:00 PM
www.portforward.com is a great way to get the proper port forwarded, and BitVice has a great explaination of it (http://www.bitvise.com/port-forwarding.html). This centers around forwarding an SSH port, but it's the same principle, just different port numbers.
Some clients handle an open port better than others.
Posted by: Aaron McFarlane at January 5, 2006 10:44 PM
AFAIK Bits on Wheels doesn't include support for the Distributed tracker/torrent support.
If you've ever tried to download a torrent with very few seeds, you'll understand why this is the veritable "killer feature."
Posted by: jo at January 6, 2006 06:18 AM
How about http://torrent-station.com!?
Posted by: Jon Kantro at January 6, 2006 12:21 PM
@ jo
No. Torrent Station is crap and its shareware. Bits on Wheels or Transmission are the way to go. Tomato Torrent just doesn't cut it for me anymore.
Posted by: Stephan at January 6, 2006 04:42 PM
Have you seen this?
http://shakespeer.sourceforge.net/
Posted by: divinevelocity at January 7, 2006 05:21 AM
just heard from one of my mac-padawans that acquisition does torrents. hate getting up-staged by an up-start, but he's ready for the trials...
Posted by: Diego Barros at January 15, 2006 06:25 AM
Yes, Aquisition does do torrents and very nicely too.
There are a few options out there for Bittorrent clients on OSX.
Transmission - http://transmission.m0k.org/
My personal favorite client. Lightweight, but doesn't support every feature for clients. Still beta, just like the other project, Handbrake.
Tomato Torrent - http://sarwat.net/bittorrent/
Haven't used it, but I've heard that it's good.
Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Everyone's favorite Java client. It's decent, but it's not a good Mac citizen. If you have another box that you run Azureus on, take a look at the Azureus Dashboard widget at www.andrewdupont.net/azureus/. Works on local and networked machines.
Bittorrent Official - http://www.bittorrent.com/
The official client for Windows and OSX is here. I didn't like it much myself.
As for port forwarding, most Bittorrent clients allow you to specify which port it should use. You then just go to your router, enter that number (Bittorrent's default is 6881) and forward it to the IP address of your machine. It's quite simple and easy.
If you do use Bittorrent, please help out and leave the torrent running for a few days or at least until you've reached a ratio of 1:1. This means that you've uploaded as much as you've downloaded. Sticking around longer means that everyone will get faster speeds in the end.