OT: Windows is too expensive - Page 2

geoschmo · #11 March 5th, 2007, 03:18 PM

So I'm having a fit trying to download this Ubuntu iso. Tried twice just a straight download and it crapped out after an hour or so and said the file was corrupt. I tried the Bit Torrent thingy and had the same problem. Got almost done downloading and then said it was corrupted and I had to restart. I thought one of the advantages of bit Torrent was it would pick up where you left off? Why is it wanting to start downloading again from the beginning? I must be doing something wrong. This is the first time I've tried using BitTorrent for anything.

Fyron · #12 March 5th, 2007, 03:27 PM

Which bit torrent client are you using? uTorrent usually works well. Which torrent are you using? The i386 desktop is probably what you want, right? Unless you are building a 64bit AMD system, though its not strictly necessary to use the AMD64 version. I've queued up the i386 ISO to see how it goes.

geoschmo · #13 March 5th, 2007, 03:51 PM

I was using Bit Tornado, but I downloaded uTorrent and am giving it a try. The Utorrent client seems a bit more familier to me than the Tornado one. We'll see if it does a better job.

I think mabe the reason it didn't pick up where it left off before was I hadn't saved the .torrent file, just clicked and opened it. If I understand it correctly now saving the torrent file to your pc is what allows you to resume a download after restarting? Or maybe not. I guess I'll see.

Yes, I am downloading the x86 iso, not the 64 Bit.

capnq · #14 March 5th, 2007, 07:52 PM

I couldn't get uTorrent to run on my antiquated system. I had to use Azureus to get the all-versions patch for SE IV.

AgentZero · #15 March 5th, 2007, 08:05 PM

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capnq said:
I couldn't get uTorrent to run on my antiquated system. I had to use Azureus to get the all-versions patch for SE IV.

That's odd. I started using uTorrent because it used less resources than Azureus.

Computers make no sense!

Fyron · #16 March 5th, 2007, 09:52 PM

Geo:
Were you trying to resume a broken download from IE/FF? If so, that might not work, because they tend to delete failed download files. If a partial .iso existed somewhere on disk, you should be able to point the torrent at it and get the client to keep whatever pieces of that file pass the hash checks, thus reduce the amount it has to download from the swarm.

You don't necessarily need to save the .torrent file to disk before opening it in a torrent client. You can redownload and restart the same .torrent and resume a partial torrent download (or reseed a completed download), so long as you point it at the existing .iso file (or whatever the torrent contained). Note that most clients save a copy of the .torrent files for future references.

AZ:
Its not so much about resources, as about win32 APIs. If a program is only designed to work with win2k/xp, it probably won't be able to run on win9x no matter what type of system is running the OS. win2k/xp have a lot of system APIs available that were not present in win9x.

Suicide Junkie · #17 March 5th, 2007, 11:40 PM

uTorrent runs just fine on 98se for me.

Baron Munchausen · #18 March 6th, 2007, 12:24 AM

I use utorrent on Win 98 myself (not even 'SE'!) It works great.

Kamog · #19 March 6th, 2007, 01:43 AM

What happened to OS/2? A long time ago when I was in university, some of my friends used OS/2 instead of Windows and thought it was great. It looked pretty good but I never used it. Then gradually I stopped hearing much about it and it somehow disappeared.

Fyron · #20 March 6th, 2007, 02:23 AM

Development of it stopped some time around the turn of the century.