Posts made by MrMazda

Yes… More specifically, in recent times, we have seen a huge influx of serial cheaters attempting to abandon one account, then create another. By closing the signup to make it invite-only, we have effectively closed the door to this option.

Yes… The request board is where you want to post your inquiry. That being said, you do need at least THREE forum posts to be able to see this board. It would appear as though this inquiry gave you your third forum post, so you should now be able to see the requests board.

Google is a highly functioning retard….. More or less...

As for getting into IRC, there's a little secret to it. I found I have to use the secure SSL IRC in order to login. You can do so with just about any ordinary IRC client. My recommendation is XChat, as it is available for just about any platform for my second favourite four letter "F" word, which is also my "favourite price"….. FREE

The server info you will need is as follows:
Server: irc.gaytorrent.ru
Port: 6697
Channel: #gaytorrent.ru

You can program XChat to automatically login as you if you reserve your IRC nick, as well as to automatically join the IRC channel directly on startup. If you require further assistance with it, I'd be more than happy to assist you.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, for users who are running Ubuntu or any Debian based Linux distro, you can use the apt repository to install XChat, instead of having to use a tar ball to install it. To do this, please use the following command

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install xchat

If using Ubuntu, this package is also available directly in the Ubuntu Software Centre just the same.

It would appear that you may have stopped the torrent at some point and restarted it. Once you stop a torrent, your torrent client will still acknowledge the full amount seeded from the beginning of it being added to your torrent client. The tracker however will only show how much you have uploaded on that particular session. Once you stop then restart the torrent, the session is refreshed and the tracker count goes back to 0. You would need to look at your overall ratio to be able to tell, but the problem comes in when you're dealing with numbers that are over 1 TB. 1 TB = 1024 GB, so it takes a while to make up the difference when the gap in the numbers is that large.

From the sounds of it, it sounds like your router is not properly forwarding the correct port (46317) both in TCP and UDP from your router through to your computer. In some cases, UPnP can accomplish this, but from my experience, it's always best to manually forward said port to ensure that it is properly configured to forward your torrent traffic to you.

A lot of people do not realize that they're behind both a DNAT (Destination Network Address Translator) and SNAT (Source Network Address Translator) on their connection, as this is often built into the modem itself on most common setups these days. What happens is your ISP will assign a public (WAN) IP address for your connection. This IP is generally assigned straight to the modem. This will mean that you will get say 24.212.250.201 (a random IP address for this purpose), which will be acknowledged by the modem. Your modem/router will then assign an IP address on a private subnet to your computer (say, 192.168.1.100). When your computer makes a connection out to the internet, the SNAT automatically converts your computer's IP of 192.168.1.100 to 24.212.250.201 before sending it out to the internet so that the internet knows how to route back to your connection.

The problem comes in here where the rules for the DNAT are missing. Unless your computer manages to negotiate with your router VIA UPnP (which can be hit or miss sometimes), your router will receive the connection request on TCP or UDP port 46317, however since it does not consistently have the DNAT rule in place to forward those connections to your computer and there are now follow-back paths from open connections in which to route to your computer with, the signal does not make its way back to your computer, and thus, incoming connectivity is lost. Forwarding these ports however varies from one router setup to another, so in order to give you more specific instruction, I would first need some basic information about your network's setup.

Also, please be aware that there is such a thing as a DHCP lease time. In a nutshell, when your computer requests an IP address from your router, it will obtain a DHCP lease, which binds the IP address to your MAC address for a predetermined period of time. If this lease should expire or the power to the router device is lost, the IP address goes back into the pool for another device to potentially claim. For this reason, sometimes these settings will need to be adjusted when this change occurs. There is however a way to get around this. Some routers will allow you to add a static DHCP reservation to bind your internal IP address to the MAC address of your computer. This is the recommended option if it's available, as this does not require changing settings on your computer should you ever move it (which is often the case with a laptop). The other option of course is to manually set an IP address for your computer outside the DHCP range on your router. This will ensure that another computer or device doesn't come along and steal your computer's IP address with all of these forwarding rules set into place.

Negative…. The only way to erase a thank you from a torrent is to hop into your Dr. Who telephone booth and blast yourself back in time.

It would seem that you have downloaded two torrents today, so I'm at a bit of a loss to explain exactly what is happening here. When you click the torrent, then go to the "Trackers" tab, do you notice an error message by chance?

I'm in a bit of a toss up on this one…. It's a debate between two different ones really....

The first: Max Hardcore (as seen below)

This is mainly because he's just as twisted as I am with respect to how he rolls with things…

And the other..... Peter North (as seen below)

This one is largely due to the nature of his massive member

Chances are that the torrent was removed due to a DMCA notice submitted, but it's really hard to say.

Yes… From what I have seen, the problem does resolve itself.

Very interesting… It doesn't even seem to be showing me the option to add more. Perhaps it's because the torrent was uploaded back when there was a 10 picture maximum?

This seems very strange as I have approved as many as 25 new pictures on an existing torrent. I'm not sure exactly what the limit is or how it is applied, but I do not think there is a limit any longer. Just out of curiosity, which torrent are you speaking of?

I can tell you with certainty that your problem is going to be with the fact that you're changing out an external port range for an internal port number and vice-versa… This makes for a recipe to get signals crossed as there is variation in the ports that are used. Also, make sure that this forward rule is in place both for TCP and for UDP ports as torrent clients use both.

My suggestion would be to use the standard method of port forwarding and using just the single port that your torrent client requires, as the majority of us do. When you leave a port range forwarded to a single port, it creates a much more complicated situation than you really need to, ESPECIALLY if you do not have both the DNAT and SNAT properly configured to convert the packets on the fly.

A few things…..

First, the HTTP error 502 is an intermittent issue that has been known to happen from time to time. Rest assured that the problem does resolve itself in time.

Second, I had to reset your passkey in order to maintain your account security. See, in the screenshot that you attached to your post, you included your announce URL, which includes your passkey. This passkey is yours and yours alone, and is used to identify your user account to the tracker. Since there is no way for me to remove the image you posted, I had no other option but to reset your passkey so that it is not posted in public.

This will mean that for all torrents that you are downloading or have downloaded, the .torrent files will no longer work and will need to be redownloaded in order to continue to seed and download content.

@Shirobara:

How do I get/use a VPN?

I would be inclined to signing up with PureVPN. That's who I'm with, and I've never had any complaints.

In answer to your questions…..

1. If the uploader shows as "Anonymous", chances are that staff can determine who the uploader is, otherwise, if it says uploaded by (Unknown), then it's from a user account that has since been purged from the system, and thus the points would go nowhere instead of to a user.

2. Yes

3. Yes

4. No… I was curious about this myself and tried it out on several occasions. The points will be added as though you gave them on the "Thanks By" section, however will not affect your total in any way.

Ummmm…. Not to sound like a Negative Nancy or a Debbie Downer, but since when does WildTangent have anything to do with Microsoft or Windows? WildTangent is a company all of its own, which caters to the Windows market. Unless you specifically download and install one of the WildTangent games, you will not have it on your computer, as this is NOT a part of Windows and has NOTHING to do with Microsoft.

In my case, preferring a lower resolution has more to do with my video card than anything else. See… I'm on Linux running a particular ATI Radeon HD card that ATI has yet to release a proper update for, and thus, I'm having to run on the standard open source Xorg video drivers, which cannot always handle higher resolutions with a higher video bitrate. As for others, I cannot really say, but I would imagine that hard drive space has a lot to do with it.

Sadly, I get a lot of that these days… Most of the cellophane to digital media conversions that I do nowadays are for people who either have home videos that you simply cannot get anywhere else, or are from people that I used to dance with at the dance studio before my accident who want the videos of their competition performances converted over to a digital format. Speaking of conversions, I find it strange that I'm getting more requests these days for converting vinyl to MP3 and/or Audio CD.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.... The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

If you're interested, I have the means of converting cellophane of any format to a digital video file.  :cheesy2: