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    Get Google Chrome OS, Now

    At Long Last, The Pirate Bay Shuts Down Its Tracker

    More Tips for Torrenting Your Brains Out

    µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don't Have To...What?

    This Movie Theater Tells It How It Is

    µTorrent iPhone App Rejected, Heads Over to Cydia

    Bram's Cube Takes the Rubik's Cube and Makes It Devastatingly Hard

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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/20/09

    In reply to Get Google Chrome OS, Now
    Probably a dumb question, but can I somehow convert this VMware file to work with parallels, or should I just compile the damn thing?
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    Image of Vroomtrap Vroomtrap
    11/20/09

    @lostarchitect: Paralles converts VMware and Virtual box files natively.
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    11/20/09

    @Vroomtrap: Great, thanks!
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    Image of PN - gooapplesoft PN - gooapplesoft
    11/20/09

    In reply to Get Google Chrome OS, Now
    I get the feeling that as soon as this os gets polished up it will have a very good market in the netbook/smartbook department.
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    Image of blash blash
    11/20/09

    In reply to Get Google Chrome OS, Now
    Runs abominably slow in VMWare for me. Probably just my host machine though.

    What they have right now is very rough and basic - essentially just a Chrome browser for Linux - but I can see what they want to do and it's very promising.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/20/09

    In reply to Get Google Chrome OS, Now
    For all those suspicious of the torrent, Lifehacker explained better how this VMWare image was possible:
    [lifehacker.com]
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/20/09

    In reply to Get Google Chrome OS, Now

     
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    Image of blash blash
    11/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Fortunately, I can run it in a sandbox. Your trap just got smashed *tee hee*.

    (I <3 the poster though)
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    Image of SWC Oxcart SWC Oxcart
    11/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: it has to be fake; your taste buds could never repel an actual OS of this magnitude.
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    11/20/09

    @SWC Oxcart: Big mistakey?
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    Image of blash blash
    11/20/09

    In reply to Get Google Chrome OS, Now
    Rapidshare links pretty please?
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    Image of Louis. Louis.
    11/20/09

    @blash: It's available for download on gdgt. Not sure if you need an account, but what the hell:

    [gdgt.com]
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    11/20/09

    @Louis.: Thanks, that's good enough. University doesn't like torrents unfortunately :(
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/18/09

    In reply to At Long Last, The Pirate Bay Shuts Down Its Tracker
    So they shut down the tracker but are still running? Proof that you can hang them again and again and they'll keep on breathing.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    11/11/09

    In reply to More Tips for Torrenting Your Brains Out
    Anyone have any clue when Demonoid's web side will be back up?

    (and I meant "side" because the tracker is back up)
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    Edited by GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy at 11/11/09 7:13 PM GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy was starred GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy was unstarred
    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    11/12/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking: I think you meant "site" instead of "side"

    Last year it took 2 months to get the site back after the tracker came back. Thats all the info anyone knows since the site admins stay quiet about these things. #torrent
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/11/09

    In reply to More Tips for Torrenting Your Brains Out
    Awesome!
    I just got today an obscure, hard to find, out of "print" japanese app-thing which I was looking for over an year now thanks to torrents!
    Bit surprizing even, considering how torrents aren't exactly good for rare and obscure stuff... but it had one single lonely active seed, took almost a day for 500Mb file, but it's here now!

    And no, it's not porn... or it would've been easy to find.

    Also: c'mon Demonoid!
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    Image of MavrixWK MavrixWK
    11/11/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I feel like demonoid is a comatose patient that we all cling to its hand hoping it wakes up. #torrent
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    Image of KingKash KingKash
    11/02/09

    In reply to µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don't Have To...What?
    so whos with me in terms of staying with the current version even when the new one comes out??

    this is like azureus, i mean vuze.... all over again, except not as bad (yet!) #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    11/03/09

    @KingKash: The misconception is that this is a bad thing when in fact it allows you to download faster.

    If you max out your upload (on normal dsl/cable) your download speeds suffer. Most people don't know enough about their connection to cap the upload speeds correctly.

    This feature is about doing the work for you. Anyone that uses their connection for anything time sensitive knows that if you are downloading a torrent you have to throttle it or else your other applications won't work. #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    Image of addicuss addicuss
    11/02/09

    In reply to µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don't Have To...What?
    this really makes no sense to me. Maybe I'm missing something but a client that slows itself down when there's congestion is different from a client being slowed by congestion how? #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    11/03/09

    @addicuss: Because in most cases you're slowing yourself down. #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    Image of oldtaku oldtaku
    11/02/09

    In reply to µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don't Have To...What?
    I've been using the beta, it works great. This makes sense: your upload speed needs to be throttled to 5-10kbps less than your upload ceiling (this allows for some extra traffic like browsing) or everything just chokes; including the download side because it needs the uploaded acks. You can get a 2-10x dl speed increase by doing this depending on just how bad things are.

    For years I've done this manually by measuring my upload speed occasionally and using iptables to limit uploads. But hard numbers assume some things about things upstream that you can't guarantee hour to hour. uTorrent 2.0 detects it and throttles back so things don't pile up.

    The bottom line is it's better to ease off slightly and keep all your packets than it is to have someone else deciding which of your packets to randomly drop. #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    11/03/09

    @oldtaku: Well said.

    Most people don't realize that a fully saturated outbound results in a massive ding in your inbound, not to mention some serious latency.

    It's more for the user, not the ISP. #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    Image of CommentingpointlesslyisMeh CommentingpointlesslyisMeh
    11/02/09

    In reply to µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don't Have To...What?
    Give an inch they will take a mile. You know what would work way better or alongside this? Charge 5 bucks a month and give it to the ISP's to leave torrent users alone. Bribery I say, is worth billions. I'd pay 5 bucks to have clear torrent downloading channels through my ISP #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    11/03/09

    @CommentingpointlesslyisMeh: If you're in the US your ISP shouldn't be messing with your BT. #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    Image of Thee Sea Thee Sea
    11/02/09

    In reply to µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don't Have To...What?
    I'm guessing you people are only running bittorrent and nothing else at all on your networks? #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    11/02/09

    @Thee Sea: Who are you calling "you people"? #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    Image of djdare djdare
    11/02/09

    @Thee Sea: I'm not sure what you mean, you people. And I neither admit nor deny any claims regarding the usage of bittorrent clients.

    Actually yes, I use Transmission, and I have it set to throttle uploads at 50 KB/s and uploads at 100 KB/s during the time that I want to use my network for other stuff. Although even at that speed the internet is pretty sluggish. I had 10 megabit internet through Charter, but it wasn't that much of a step up, so I went back down to 5 megabit. My ping times in this apartment are just abysmal no matter what I try. Even without torrents up, it feels sluggish compared to my last place. I let Transmission bust it's balls at night when I'm sleeping, and during the day when I'm working, but in the evening, I use my network for watching stuff I've downloaded wireless from my externals, so I usually have to keep everything pegged like I mentioned above or else vlc gets choppy. #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    Image of Thee Sea Thee Sea
    11/02/09

    @djdare: What I'm trying to say is that this is an auto throttle to make sure you aren't completely raping your own connection by instantly jumping to the highest up/down speeds your ISP provides and instead offers a slight cap so you can do things like browse the internet and play games without it feeling like dialup all over again. #utorrent20betatorrentudp
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    Image of Qu33f_Machine Qu33f_Machine
    10/08/09

    In reply to This Movie Theater Tells It How It Is
    Yes, I pirate movies. But even if I couldn't I would just wait until it was on DVD/Blu-Ray and rent it. It isn't so much that I can watch the movie on my time (which IS nice) it is the fact that they are charging way too much. Plus, why don't they sell beer in theaters?!
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    10/08/09

    @Qu33f_Machine: They do at the Muvico near me. They have 21 and older VIP theaters too where they serve you alcoholic beverages as well as good food.
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