It's about time for

[Doombrain]

Another helpful topic, started by me.

[Peenyuh]

vileliquid = lesbian?

Yeah... if vile was a girl! DUH!

[LawL]

vileliquid = lesbian?

dudes have vin diesel looking cool in some pose as their desktop. or a tony montana poster on the wall. automatically gay?

Only if noone says (no homo).

[Deathshroud]

Any reason you use µTorrent under Linux?

Wondering if I'm missing anything. I've just been using Transmission, as it seems to do a fine job of saturating my link.

For whatever reason, Transmission on both my macbook and desktop, doesn't upload while its downloading. Plus, uTorrent is the complete package when it comes to torrent clients, and its runs out of the box under Wine. uTorrent supports DHT and peer exchange which I don't think transmission does.

Btw, I got that background from the link you posted, that site has good stuff, thanks!

[Therac-25]

For whatever reason, Transmission on both my macbook and desktop, doesn't upload while its downloading. Plus, uTorrent is the complete package when it comes to torrent clients, and its runs out of the box under Wine. uTorrent supports DHT and peer exchange which I don't think transmission does.

Btw, I got that background from the link you posted, that site has good stuff, thanks!

Ahh, cool. Apparently Deluge supports those things (ref), but not Transmission. Guess that's reason enough to switch to Deluge for me.

[vileliquid1026]

vileliquid = lesbian?

Yeah... if vile was a girl! DUH!

Ouch... not you too

[xer0s]

I thought there were several girls that posted here...

[LawL]

Another helpful topic, started by me.

Single greatest accomplishment of your entire life.

[MKJ]

frankly, yes

werent you the one in love with christian bale in batman?
homo

[Deathshroud]

For whatever reason, Transmission on both my macbook and desktop, doesn't upload while its downloading. Plus, uTorrent is the complete package when it comes to torrent clients, and its runs out of the box under Wine. uTorrent supports DHT and peer exchange which I don't think transmission does.

Btw, I got that background from the link you posted, that site has good stuff, thanks!

Ahh, cool. Apparently Deluge supports those things (ref), but not Transmission. Guess that's reason enough to switch to Deluge for me.

I would use Deluge but sadly it is written in Python, which is a scripting language. I'm not too fond of running something like that in the background, I'd rather use something which is fully compiled like C or C++.

[bitWISE]

I run Transmission on my mac, never had any issues. It has a built in, auto-updating, peer blocking option and otherwise its nice and simple. Works for me.

[Deathshroud]

I run Transmission on my mac, never had any issues. It has a built in, auto-updating, peer blocking option and otherwise its nice and simple. Works for me.

Yea, I liked Transmission but it just didn't work out for me. uTorrent has a Mac beta out if you're interested...

http://mac.utorrent.com/

[bitWISE]

Nice. I'll check it out.

[Transient]

I run Transmission on my mac, never had any issues. It has a built in, auto-updating, peer blocking option and otherwise its nice and simple. Works for me.

Deluge can do that, too. Regardless, now I'm interested in checking out Transmission...

[Therac-25]

I would use Deluge but sadly it is written in Python, which is a scripting language. I'm not too fond of running something like that in the background, I'd rather use something which is fully compiled like C or C++.

Huh? Seriously? Aside from python being compiled to bytecode anyway, this isn't 1994. Half the stuff on a Linux system is written in Perl or Python to begin with. Performance-wise, it's been years since compiled code had any significant real-world advantage to bytecode running in a VM -- and other than bash, all of the major scripting languages are exactly that.

Coding practices and API choices have a far larger impact on performance than whether or not it's native code. OpenOffice is native code, and Eclipse is Java, but a clean install of Eclipse is much more usable than a clean install of OpenOffice (at least here, YMMV).

[Deathshroud]

Depending on the application, running byte vs machine code can make a huge difference. But you are right, for the most part machines are more than capable of handling bytecode and maintaining response times. Coding practices do matter more than the language, but the fact that compiled languages run something like 40x faster is enough for me. Also, I wouldn't go so far to say that half the stuff on a Linux system is written in scripting languages, but there is a significant amount.

I suppose the real issue here is my experience with many Java programs has left me weary of scripting languages, and if there is an equal or better client written in a compiled language I won't even consider the others.

[Fjoggs]

Desktopthread turning into nerdfest

[Chupacabra]

cause only the cool people do desktop threads.

[Mat Linnett]

My MacBook at work:

[lvlshot]http://mungrul.shackspace.com/pics/desktop.png[/lvlshot]

[bitWISE]

I run Transmission on my mac, never had any issues. It has a built in, auto-updating, peer blocking option and otherwise its nice and simple. Works for me.

Yea, I liked Transmission but it just didn't work out for me. uTorrent has a Mac beta out if you're interested...

http://mac.utorrent.com/

Meh. I'm going back to Transmission for two reasons:
1) It shows me my up/down speed on the dock icon
2) It uses several methods to let me know torrents are complete (namely, a count of the number of completed downloads on the dock icon)

[l0g1c]

[lvlshot]http://members.cox.net/rei-ginsei/desktop.jpg[/lvlshot]

[Therac-25]

Work desktop. Some stuff open:

[lvlshot]http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/466845/work-new-closed.jpg[/lvlshot]

The background:

[lvlshot]http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/466845/work-new-open.jpg[/lvlshot]

[bitWISE]

Very sexy

[Deathshroud]

Therac, does your office all run the same Linux Distrobution?

[Therac-25]

Therac, does your office all run the same Linux Distribution?

Heh, hardly. Us developers are left to our own devices for development, so we get to do whatever we want on our desktop boxes (as long as we don't break the network or ask for help). Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, DSL, Fedora, LFS and RHEL are all in use on various people's boxes currently. As for deployment, we have various rpm-based distros that are deployed to as well.