Stroustrup's talk on C++0x

[Jb]

"Saaa" <empty at needmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>> D programming people who don't understand torrents...
>>
>> :-).  I think it's a firewall issue.  I read the troubleshooting infos 
>> that come with a couple of bittorrent clients, and they all point to 
>> firewalls as the problem.  One bittorrent client actually managed to 
>> cause all networking on my machine to shut down whenever I tried to turn 
>> it on. There's probably some way to get it working but... no thanks. Wake 
>> me up when there's a client that works as seamlessly as Skype.  And no, 
>> I'm not going to install a whole browser just to try out its bittorrent 
>> client.
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> I somehow doubt this will ever happen :D
> http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/82481
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> I can only recommend utorrent and tell you its probably not your software 
> but hardware firewall which needs tinkling.
> I had to forward a port, but if I understand it correctly: newer routers 
> with upnp will work without any hassle.

I second the uTorrent recomendation. By far the best client i've used.

@ Bill, if you do try it, open the 'Speed Guide' from the options menu, you 
can test to see whether the port is open / forwarded correctly from there.

jb