AutoPatcher December Update Wishlist

[VoodooX]

Post the torrent link........I have 3 t-1's and i'll let it run overnight to upload to all.

[VoodooX]

My upload is around 300-400k at least when uploading torrent files.

[Oddstar]

I'm sure with 3 T-1's the Torrent will move very quickly :)

[VoodooX]

No kidding....but I want to get it started before I leave here......

[freakyfriday]

i want a http link, just the update is fine :)

edit, sorry for the "?" wrong button

Edited December 17, 2003 by freakyfriday

[Oddstar]

Well I'm sure you'll get your chance...I'm ready to host along with some of the other mirrors I'm assuming...Just waiting on The Author Himself...

[.Joa]

:)

[Ruddy]

I just downloaded bittorrent to my machines at work. We've got a T1, and I'll leave them on all night.

I'm not sure what the upload will be, but I'll let them host tonight (only, because I don't have approval to leave bittorrent up...if I get approval later, I'll see what I can do to become an official host.)

Summary

#1 - I downloaded the program (and complete dir) on my 2 windows machines at work

#2 - I'll leave them on all night

#3 - we have a T1

#4 - What do I need to do now? (I've never used bittorrent before)

-Ruddy

[VoodooX]

once you get the torrent.....open it...it will kick off your torrent program...you'll see that it uploads while it downloads....I have 3 t1's so mine will u/l around 400k...after the d/l completes, leave the client open to keep uploading overnight.

[Ruddy]

Well, I run the btcompletedirgui.exe, and it flashes a windows, and exits...

have an idea what's going on? (Is this a cmd line tool?)

[VoodooX]

your best bet would be to get bit torrent 3.3, it prompts for a location, resumes downloads, and shows a gui graph of progress including d/l and u/l speeds

[Atticu5]

It can be a command line tool, but the easiest way to use it is by cliking on a link that leads to a .torrent file, or by opening a .torrent file.

[EDIT: Also since VoodoX is on the topic of other clients, I use Azureus... best client I've found so far. You can look for it on SourceForge.]

[DigitalFreedom]

calm down guys Flishfun and agent smith are out right now, lol the links will be up when there up, they have manypeople helping with torrents and servers atm, in fact i will be hosting it on my oc12 connection server :) just be patient guys

[Ruddy]

Thanks. I got Azureus installed. I'm just waiting to make sure the data flows.

[freakyfriday]

well i wanna get this downloaded tonight, going to reinstall my XP tommorrow, cause i installed longhorn 4051 to rip some files out.. i'll be back at 11:00 p.m

[FlishFun Veteran]

Well I'm back (finally), but AgEnTsMiTh is gone... which sucks, cause I don't know how far he got uploading... :/ Well... give me a few min and I'll see what I can piece together. :D

[kfreem02]

From browsing the last few pages it seems the developers could use a couple of new tools to streamline the deploy process. The following are common open source tools that Microsoft does not think you need.

Use rsync [ http://www.itefix.no/cwrsync or http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_pc1.html ] to transfer binaries to remote machines. The cool thing about it is that it compares source and destination files, and uploads only the differences. This means that last-minute changes to the 200MB package will take only a few minutes to upload once a baseline version is uploaded. You can also take advantage of this behaviour to reduce upload times of full releases as well, since future releases will likely contain a large percentage of binaries that appeared in the previous release. For this trick, simply copy the existing release on the d/l server to the new release name. Then rsync the dev machine with the new release name on the d/l server. Upload will complete in short order. ;)

Last is md5/md5sum [ http://www.fastsum.com/download.php ], a program that computes checksums on files based on their contents. Rather than relying on file size, this tool will also ensure that no corruption occurred during file transfer. If source and destination checksums match, then the files are identical.

Happy coding,

Kevin

[FlishFun Veteran]

Thanks (and welcome) kfreem02, I've already started using MD5 and will post those values with the links. :)

[Broadband]

To be perfectly honest I think the main deployment method should be bittorrent at first. It has built in hashing and error checking and additionally can get to an amazing speed.

The reason I suggest this is for the first few days the demand is going to be insane meaning direct link servers will be hammered into oblivion, however this works in favor of the bittorrent method. Once the amount of seeds drops and download speeds diminsh then offer them on the direct link servers until the next release at which point you'd repeat the process.

Just my opinion.

[tlyczko]

we all wait patiently and breathlessly for our opportunity to see flishfun's and raptor's magical efforts on our behalf...

and we look forward to offering our testimonials (perhaps a whole new section of the forum just for snaps and props and compliments??) to them and their numerous new contributors, testers, hosters, et al.

thank you,

:) tom

[FlishFun Veteran]

We will have torrent links, as we did before... in fact, I have all the links right here, right now... the problem is... they're not finished uploading yet. The second they are, all links will be posted. I can tell you it should happen in the next hour or two. :)

I wish to apologize for things that happened to delay the release, most are not my fault, though are personal so I never really went into them (family issues). Just know, that every second I've got has been put into this... and I feel bad that you've had to wait as long as you've had.

[oglop]

Filshfun,what's the status now :D

[Ruddy]

It seems to me that bittorrent is the way to go...espically as the first release, since the bitrate scales as the clients multiply.

I would like a direct link as much (or more) than others, but the bittorrent seems to be the only way to keep the servers from dying. (I can only imagine what the flood of users will be like)

[.Joa]

done yet? :p

[MightyYoo]

be patient(how ever u spell it), keep up good work Flishfun, getting releases out ain't always perfect ;)