[OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

phil happyharrysco1 at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Mar 4 21:06:45 UTC 2009


Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:05, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +0000, Steve Searle wrote:
>>> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only
> 
> I havn't seen a Linux Format mag since I moved to France in Sept 2004. No 
> money for the sub.
> 
> Seeing the link above, I thought, "that's worth going for". Clicked on the hi 
> res download, only to find it was torrent, which I've never used before.
> 
> I had to go and collect bread, and other stuff on my bike at the local town, 
> so sometime later, and back at the ranch, I fire up F10, which I know has 
> Ktorrent on it. Click on "Help" in K torrent, but no help files. Doh! . I'm 
> sort of used to this with KDE, although I use it all the time, but is 
> annoying when you want to try a new app, but there is no info on how to use 
> it.
> 
> Anyway, that aside, I see another app in KDE's Internet menu "Transmission". 
> That may be a Gnome app, but at least it's got info on how to use it. I'm on 
> dialup, but I drag the .torrent file into transmissions main window, and get 
> the torrent downloading the file. I don't think there is a hope in hell of it 
> running to completion before Linux Format remove the link, which is a shame, 
> as it would have been nice to read a Linux Format mag again.
> 
> How do these torrent downloads work, for instance with this PDF download? Say 
> for example If I get 90% of it downloaded, before I lose the torrent link. Am 
> I likely to be able to open the PDF, and view some of the pages, or am I 
> going to have all the pages, but bits and pieces missing from each of them?
> 
> I suppose whichever way this goes, I've learned a bit about torrent, and the 
> next time I need to use it I'll be a bit more clued up.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
no matter if lxf remove their seeding server myself (and i'm sure many 
others) will keep seeding it for a while which should allow you to 
finish your download :)

phil




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