Stroustrup's talk on C++0x

[Regan Heath]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 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.

uTorrent is my favourtire client, it is small, fast, fully featured but 
setup in such a way as to be simple enough to use if you're new at this 
sort of thing.

Torrents don't require you to have an open inbound port but without one 
you cannot receive connections from other peers.  You can still connect 
to other peers, unless they too have no open ports, in which case you 
cannot form any connection with them and as a result you may get lower 
speeds.

Just the other day I downloaded OpenOffice using a torrent, the download 
was fast, probably faster than getting it directly from any single website.

Regan