Stroustrup's talk on C++0x

[Bill Baxter]

Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
> Saaa wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> I somehow doubt this will ever happen :D
>> http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/82481
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Am I the only person who actually uses... BitTorrent, as my BitTorrent 
> client?  :)
> http://www.bittorrent.com/download
> 
> I haven't had any issues with it, though that doesn't mean no one will.  
> Azureus/2.x is good too... the new version is an abomination.  (In My 
> Humble Opinion)
> 

Well the troubleshooting links pointed to by utorrent were spot-on.  It 
takes you right to a place that can give you step-by-step instructions 
about how to set up a huge number of different broadband routers.  The 
others I tried just said vague things about needing to open up a port 
without suggesting how -- or suggesting I talk to my "system 
administratior".

That said, now that thanks to utorrent I've got the hole punched through 
my firewall, probably any client will work fine for me.

--bb