Re: [Marxism] The Cranes are Flying

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis, "I don't know. I have only been a programmer for 41 years and I
couldn't get Torrent to work."

This is pretty funny when you think about it. 

I'm not sure if Louis means he's never been able to get bit torrent to work
for him or if this particular link did not work. If the former, probably
most kids in the computer science department could help him. 

My 14 year old son had no problem figuring it out a couple of years ago.
Rocket Science it isn't. The only thing I can think of is that Louis might
be connecting through a university account. In the great tradition of
academic freedom and all that, a number of universities have capitulated to
media monopoly mafia pressure and put snitchware on their networks that
blocs bit torrent transfers and narcs to the network admin and the music
mafia.

As is inevitably the case in any conflict between hackers and creators of
copware, a number of bit torrent clients (but not the original bit torrent)
implement obfuscation formulas that prevent the packets from being
identified as bit torrent transfers.  

At any rate, I tested the link on the "latest 100 messages" interface and it
took me right to the download page rather than starting the download itself,
which is not what I intended but should not be insurmountably difficult
given that "download now" is written on a button in large, friendly letters
near the top of the page. So go ahead and download the file.

The other part of this in Windows is to have a program which knows how to
"talk" to other people's bit torrent program. There are many such programs.
Among the easiest to get started with is the current version of the Opera
web browser, which, when you click on a "torrent" file, automatically
downloads it and uses the info that file contains, which are the
instructions to the machine on how to download the bit torrent file, to
begin the main file transfer. 

If you're going to use Opera, go to the download link I provided and click
download now and Opera will pretty much do the rest.

If you're using some other bit torrent program, once that bit torrent
program is installed, double click on the ".torrent" file you downloaded a
little while ago. If you can't find it, download it again, when it asks if
it is okay to overwrite the old file say yes, and when you get the dialogue
box saying open or save the file, click on open. That should automatically
bring up the bit torrent program  and initiate the download through it.

Finally, there is a way to make bit torrent work really fast, which is to do
something called "opening ports". If your computer is connected directly to
the Internet (most unlikely) then the windows firewall is what you want to
adjust. If your computer is connected through a cable or dsl modem, these
usually have built-in, or are attached to, something called a "router". You
want to open the right ports BOTH on your machine (assuming you're running
windows firewall) and on the "router," which is actually a "physical"
firewall much more effective than Microsoft's. 

I don't know how to open a port on Microsoft's firewall since I don't use it
(if you're an experienced computer user, you don't need it if you have a
hardware firewall). Opening ports on routers requires you follow the
instructions for that specific router. 

Which ports to open you have to look up in the bit torrent program you use.
Good ones like micro torrent go through a whole tutorial and configuration
where you set the port number in the program and then the firewall.

Joaquin


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