Thanks for letting us know what fixed it so others can try that before asking the same thing.  :hug2:

I tried Google and Bing before posting here.

Some thoughts about seed boxes though:

1st: why pay a monthly fee for a seed box when you have a decent (1 MBit/s[nb]even a speed of of 512 KBit/2 = 64 KByte/s is enough to get permission to upload 2 new torrents at the same time[/nb] ) upload speed?

2nd: what to do with your downloaded data files? I currently have more than 4 TB of data available for seeding, a seed box with such storage capacity is waaaayyyy more expensive than the starting 12 EUR/month, and you need at least a capacity of several GB to be able to seed torrents over a longer time.

3rd: The use of seed boxes may prove very unfair towards other users with limited upload speed because the BitTorrent protocol is designed to prefer peers with a better upload spee so using a seed box may result in unfair behaviouir towrds (so called) slow-liners.

Bottom line: I don't like seed boxes very much (unless you carefully control your ratio management and don't try to over seed torrents) - but because we don't forbid seed boxes (and won't do so for the overview-able future) I can only recommend: be careful with using a seed box.

I can't wait for RIM's Blackpad, so I can crunch numbers on the subway in excel…lol

Seriously though, I am interested in how is will stack up against the Ipad.

@kg87:

I dont believe this is a good idea at all.

I assume your view is that of a consumer? If you were to invest in a company would you buy Intel or AMD?

Do you use a "download accelerator" program or your browser's download function?

In my browser (Opera 10.61) I can configure to save downloaded torrent files directly to a folder on my LAN - a folder which is "observed" by uTorrent automatically. This way I can download torrent files, click on save in Opera's open/save dialog and the rest is done automatically by uTorrent (on another computer in my LAN). Chalk it on my laziness that I selected this solution - it works OK for me for 99,… % of all my torrent downloads. It is a rare case when I have to work "manually" for a torrent download 🙂

^ So, what did the technician say was the problem?

Dear aaliass,

Thank you so much for your help. Yes, this is what I lookd for. A colleague of mine showed me the function but she is not able to do it either, her son did it for her when she wrote her books, and she thought she would be able to help me but she buggered up my word document  ;D

Thanks again. I tried everything step by step as it is described and now I am reporting to you that I MANAGED!
(I'm developing in computing slowly but steadily – thanks to you, guys for your help!)

@looselips:

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I did move the ifo/bup files to a new folder but didn't know what to do after that.

LOL - read my posting again, slowly not in a hurry:

@mgr:

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move (from the VIDEO_TS folder) all files with an IFO extension (*.IFO) to a safe place elsewhere (not to damage them) and copy or rename all files with extension .BUP to the same name with extension .IFO **(copy .BUP .IFO)
…

As said before: you can upload that torrent for me (hint: name it something like damaged rip - for mgr only) and send me a PM 🙂

I understand that, but that's not what I meant.

The files are there, even though I deleted them.

When you delete a file, it should disappear from the hard drive screen and show up in the recycling bin.  In my case, the files are still showing on my hard drive and not in the recycling bin.

Hi SimonSaid,

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I have tried lynx, elinks and w3m, no luck with any of them 😞

I'm not into linux so I don't know what would be better to use. I'll try to find that auto-refresh option!

Cheers

Technically it's S-ATA but everyone just uses SATA.

SATA is the new way of connecting components inside a computer.  Well, not new exactly, it's already on it's 3rd generation.

Serial ATA {don't know what ATA stands for} is much faster and more stable than PATA or Parallel ATA, which is being phased out.

Another good thing about SATA is that the the cables are much smaller than their PATA counter parts.  This helps keep the inside of your computer tidy which increases air flow, so you get an extra bonus there as well.

You need to obtain Microsoft's "hotfix" for this.

Instructions and a link to download the hotfix is available from this page: hxxp://support.microsoft.com/kb/840781

(Click on "View and request hotfix downloads" at the top of the page to get the hotfix).

Check the file sizes of your converted files, chatman. The ISO standard for DVDs does not allow any single file to exceed 2 GB in size (that's why the 3.65 GB original was split into two files in the first place). Although a standard DVD can hold up to 4.7 GB of data, no single file on the disk may be greater than 2 GB.  Even a long play DVD movie of 4.7 GB is stored on the DVD as a collection of smaller "chapter" files. You don't see that when the movie plays, because the files are usually called sequentially, without any prompt from you.

Your burner program may be refusing to write to the DVD because it can't, if you are trying to burn files > 2 GB. Some burner programs won't warn you of this ahead of time, and will attempt to burn the first 2 GB of data to the disk, then the program will hang or crash.

@raphjd:

If you keep your computer fully updated with the previous automatic updates, it should only take about 15 minutes {including below}.

It will need 1 automatic reboot and 1 manual full shut down to finish.

cool, thank you 🙂

@trentreviso:

^ Thanks, twinkletoes!

I left the other place at the request of a moderator, who felt I was too opinionated.

We like opinions here.

The only people that are "asked to leave" are people that break the forum rules; ie flaming.  I only know of 1 person who was banned for that in 3 years.

hello. yes, technically you got the point about proxies. no worries, you may use them for anonymization of your transfers. however, there may occure some transfer problems because of the sake of BT protocol which is designed to accept only one connection at a time from the same IP address. nonetheless, some clients have this option variable (like uTorrent) and you can enable or disable the allowance of multiple connections from the same IP address but also you have to be accepted by the other side. uTorrent in default is set to reject multiple connections. this shouldn't cause a big harm to a swarm, still in the theoretical model of all peers with the same IP address this would cause freezing of all transfers.

@trentreviso:

@Halfang:

I have used mac os x, and linux (ubuntu, badger something? about 3 years ago). And I still prefer windows over those ones.

I think Breezy Badger  may have been back before I was born!

that one 😛 flaming hell, 5.10, released 2005-10-13

I FEEL OLD NOW THANK YOU

I don't know about other countries, but in the UK, you can get a cheap OEM version of an operating system by buying it with another computer part; ie a new hard drive.

If you need to upgrade your computer anyway, this helps save a bunch of money on the full cost of the operating system.