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  • A Andy_L_J

    What are you all using, and why?

    I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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    Snowman58
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    µTorrent primarily. One feature that has not been mentioned yet is the ability to selectively download files within a torrent. For example you may want to initially download only the nfo file to see if you really want the rest of the files, etc. I also use Free Download Manager's torrent plug in at times because I put it on every machine so it is available.

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    • A Andy_L_J

      What are you all using, and why?

      I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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      DaveX86
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      uTorrent.

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      • D dighn

        Azureus, the version before they turned it into that abomination "Vuze". I think it's still available. But now I just run rTorrent (console mode client) on my Linux-based file server.

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        Mycroft Holmes
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        I'm using the Vuse version and it works Ok it just tries to look like WMP/tunes type UI. Too apathetic to change!

        Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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          I'm using the Vuse version and it works Ok it just tries to look like WMP/tunes type UI. Too apathetic to change!

          Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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          Lost User
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          You can change it in the settings you know (you get the real Azureus UI back yay)

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          • A Andy_L_J

            What are you all using, and why?

            I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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            Lost User
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            Vuze - partly because there is quite a lot of content there.

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            • A Andy_L_J

              What are you all using, and why?

              I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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              peterchen
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              µTorrent[^], because it allows solves just one problem, and does that one thing right: when clicking a torrent link, I can download that thing to my disk.

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              • L Lost User

                You can change it in the settings you know (you get the real Azureus UI back yay)

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                Mycroft Holmes
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                Too disinterested to bother, I use it to get TV shows from TVTorrents and thats about it. I have no interest in watching low quality movies and I prefer to actually pay for software (games etc). I'm the sort of person who buys a CD changer, sticks 5 discs in and forgets about them. Pisses off the other half to the point where she changes the discs.

                Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                • 0 0x3c0

                  I prefer uTorrent. It's lightweight and seems to have a low memory profile. My only quibble is that it always minimises to the taskbar when I press the close button

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                  Ray Cassick
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                  I second uTorrent... And you can stop it from minimizing to the task bar in the options area. Just un-check the 'close to tray' option.


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                  • M Mycroft Holmes

                    Too disinterested to bother, I use it to get TV shows from TVTorrents and thats about it. I have no interest in watching low quality movies and I prefer to actually pay for software (games etc). I'm the sort of person who buys a CD changer, sticks 5 discs in and forgets about them. Pisses off the other half to the point where she changes the discs.

                    Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                    Lost User
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                    You can download high quality movies as well these days, just takes longer.. (though the quality is not worth the extra time IMO, it's not like the movie actually becomes any better)

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                      You can download high quality movies as well these days, just takes longer.. (though the quality is not worth the extra time IMO, it's not like the movie actually becomes any better)

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                      Mycroft Holmes
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                      I don't watch that many movies and we have one of those DVD delivery subscriptions which meets most of our needs. Any really good ones I want I buy as bluray movies. I'll not download hi def movies, takes too long. Did I mention I have a dramatic lack of patience.

                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                      • A Andy_L_J

                        What are you all using, and why?

                        I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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                        Chris Losinger
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                        bitTorrent is there a reason why not?

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                        • A Andy_L_J

                          What are you all using, and why?

                          I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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                          Jeff Circeo
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                          Vuze... not a fan of the media part but it downloads fast.

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                          • A Andy_L_J

                            What are you all using, and why?

                            I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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                            Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji
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                            Transmission (on Fedora 10) The big problem I see here, that it sometimes says: Too many files open, and takes a Pause by itself.:mad:

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                            • A Andy_L_J

                              What are you all using, and why?

                              I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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                              NormDroid
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                              uTorrent, clean UI.

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                              • A Andy_L_J

                                What are you all using, and why?

                                I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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                                Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                FDM[^] is my choice. It handles all the downloads (along with torrents).

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                                • L Lost User

                                  I use µTorrent (yea that's a µ, a mu, not a u, just press Alt Gr+M) But I use Azureus sometimes when I need someone quick, it's much faster (but it has a tiny file cache so it rattles my hdd too much for seeding - if I want to do something in the foreground as well, which is pretty much always)

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                                  OriginalGriff
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                                  harold aptroot wrote:

                                  yea that's a µ, a mu, not a u, just press Alt Gr+M

                                  Only works when set to a US keyboard layout - standard UK ALTGR key combos by default are € and ¦ only. You can add accents to this with the UK Extended keyboard, but µ is still not available. Use ALT+0181 on the numpad to get µ.

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                                  • A Andy_L_J

                                    What are you all using, and why?

                                    I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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                                    Lost User
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                                    I use BitTorrent

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                                    • A Andy_L_J

                                      What are you all using, and why?

                                      I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly I don't know what all the fuss is about with America getting it's first black president. Zimbabwe's had one for years and he's sh*t. - Percy Drake , Shrewsbury Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife

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                                      Russell Jones
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                                      I use torrentflux. It sits on my NAS Box (NSLU2 running debian) and I can connect to it from anywhere via its html front end. If I'm at work and a new version of a distro that I want to use comes out I can set it to download from the office and it's done when I get home. I'm currently doing some testing for Ubuntu 9.10 so it saves me loads of time to have the latest image downloaded and ready to roll by the time I get to my desk at home. It also means that in the early hours of a release when traffic is heaviest I can get the thing downloading and set to seed and hopefully help improve the bandwidth available to people who are trying it out.

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