Doing some Prodigem upgrades. Should be down for about an hour tonight.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 04:29 PM in software | Comments (0)  

Last night on Prodigem, the master torrent seeding process died, so I used the opportunity to upgrade to BitTorrent 4.0.0. What a difference. It looks like Bram fixed it so that when you are starting up multiple torrents at the same time, instead of them all trying to resume simultaneously, it instead starts them one at a time. For Prodigem this is huge, because with the previous version it would try to simultaneously compare hashes on over 100 torrents which would cause me to start thrashing and completely hose the server until the startup completed. Better yet, 4.0.0 caches these hashes so I now only have to pay for this startup cost once instead of each time I'm forced to restart btlaunchmany (not often).

A bit of bad, though, which I haven't really explored. With 4.0.0, the output statistics formatting has changed so I'll have to update Torrentocracy to handle this. It also seems like these statistics no longer include the download time remaining which would be a bummer.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 05:33 PM in software | Comments (0)  

John Miller was gracious enough to provide an update for Torrentocracy for Myth's recent DB api changes in Myth 0.17. Thanks! CVS has the update. As the link above will show you, the myth community is still generally ridiculously scared of uttering the word torrent in the same sentence as Myth. Alas, this poor attitude combined with my lack of time for the project will only hurt development. Given that there are still some outstanding problems which need fixing and the likelihood that there are many out there that could easily fix these, it's quite a shame.

Also, Larry Silverman has provided alternative screen resolution numbers to make Torrentocracy look correct on 1024x768 resolution:

torrentocracy.cpp:
/* Rewritten for 1024x768 resolution */
void Torrentocracy::setupContentBrowser(bool expanded)
{

if (expanded) {
contentbrowser->setFont(QFont("Arial Narrow", 14));
contentbrowser->setHScrollBarMode(QTextBrowser::AlwaysOff);
contentbrowser->setVScrollBarMode(QTextBrowser::Auto);
contentbrowser->move(38,290);
contentbrowser->resize(942,400);
contentbrowser->setContentsPos(0,0);
}
else {
contentbrowser->setFont(QFont("Arial Narrow", 12));
contentbrowser->setHScrollBarMode(QTextBrowser::AlwaysOff);
contentbrowser->setVScrollBarMode(QTextBrowser::AlwaysOff);
contentbrowser->move(38,485);
contentbrowser->resize(942,210);
contentbrowser->setContentsPos(0,0);
}
}

By Gary Lerhaupt, 01:46 PM in software | Comments (0)  

I got a note today reporting a problem with the Torrentocracy app on MythTV 0.16 and pointing me to a Torrentocracy wiki which also states the same:

QObject::connect: No such signal QTextBrowser?::insertItem(QTextBrowser?*)
QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed')
QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'torrentocracy')
Segmentation fault

So don't panic when MythTV suddenly quits when starting Torrentocracy on MythTV 0.16!

This is troubling but also interesting because I'm currently running from Myth CVS 0.16.20041005-1 with no problems at all. I'm using qt-3.3 as well. If anyone has any info to help narrow this down, please drop me a line.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 09:53 PM in software | Comments (9)  

I've never heard of LionShare before this, but the Internet2 folks just announced it's going open source. Developments like these are always welcome, and with a lot of heavyweights behind its release and an academic focus, it will be interesting to see where this goes.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 11:34 PM in software | Comments (0)