I’m having trouble posting with ecto. Seems to be a problem at my end, too. I can’t post at all anymore, it freezes after parsing the document. It used to post, and then get some sort of a fail on server connection, but I don’t even get that far now.
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
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I’ve started using BitTorrent, or rather a couple of different clients, since I got ADSL, but what I really want is a fire-and-forget client for the NSLU2.
This is what should happen.
- Monitor a certain directory. If a .torrent file is added to this directory, add it to the queue.
- When a torrent is complete, move the file(s) to a completed directory. Send an email, or something. Perhaps add an item to an RSS feed. Remove the .torrent from the download queue, but keep it seeded.
- When neither of the other computers is turned on, download the next .torrent in the queue.
- If the download total of the running torrents is less than 80% of the available, start the next .torrent in the queue.
- If more than one .torrent is running and bandwidth use is greater than 90%, then stop the lowest in the queue that is running.
- Have a nice web interface that allows for changing the queue order.
There is a torrent ipkg for nslu2, which I’ve downloaded, but I may write my own. It’s show day tomorrow, so that might be a good start.