Posts made by raphjd

As for the other person or is that moderator…well I have no further comment to mkae !!

I'm not sure if I should be offended or not. :-l

I'm not the "new owner" or even part owner, I'm just a moderator.

Tom, the site owner, is fiddling in the background making changes to the site in hopes of improving it. Plus he's been on the phone screaming at the server host to improve the service we've been getting lately.

I just looked at the site stats. Here's the currently active stats;

Torrents 1,306
Seeders 4,696
Leechers 1,844

There are almost 4 times the number of seeders as there are leechers on at the moment. Of course the numbers increase a lot at night and on the weekends.

This shows that overall the site isn't doing too bad.

The UK is facing a major retreat from truly "unlimited" broadband. There are a few companies that do still have it but the cost is outrageous, one company that has it is charging £100 per month with a £250 set up charge. Most UK companies are price gouging us to death. £25 a month for a 2 to 30gb cap is pretty common nowadays. The trend is expected to get worse.

I just switched from a horrible ISP to a "good" one. My new ISP is £30 a month for 45gb peak time {Monday thru Friday 8am to 10pm} and 300gb off peak. That's up to 8mb down with 1mb up. However, even though I live in the UK's oil/gas capital, we only get 4mb lines. That's almost 12x more transfer a month and 4x the upload speed for £10 more a month.

The complete opposite trend is happening in the oriental countries. While we talk about MB lines and caps, they are talking GB lines with totally unlimited usage.

As a fellow BTer and moderator, I too feel the frustration that many are feeling.

We {the staff} are trying to find ways of turning this site into a community, instead of just a porn site in the minds of the users. This would help with the hit n runners and make people feel more responsible for their actions. Of course there will always be scum, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

NOTE: The following only applies to files that come in a folder, not to actual movie files.

This is a very common problem.

This is caused most often by THUMBS.DB file being in the folder that the person is uploading, though a couple of other types of files can also cause this.

Older clients tend to read this file as being there, but being a systems file that is specific to the seeders computer you can't download it.

This in no way affects the actual file{s} you are trying to get.

Solution, update your client. uTorrent and Az {as well as a few others} have fixed this issue.

Do you think we download and monitor each and every file? Well, no we don't. I could if you would like to pay for me to get truly unlimited ADSL.

We can't physically force people to seed. We can only do a few things such as limit their ability to download. This in many cases gets people to seed because they want more porn.

It's a no win situation. If we remove the ratio caps, then the problem gets worse because no one will feel the need to seed. If we increase it then the problem gets worse because many people will get banned even though they are trying to do the right thing. Either way we constantly get complaints from 1 side or the other, but usually both at the same time.

To be honest, I would love to bitch slap some of the people around here. Some think this is a free porn site. Well it's not, it's a porn sharing community.

Personally, I would rather teach people how to be good BT citizens than ban them, but some people are just greedy and won't care no matter what we do.

Btw, the holidays are over so people can't use that excuse.

NOTE: Print this out and read it completely before starting this project.

Dust and especially particles of cigarette smoke can build up and corrode circuitry causing various problems such as computer lockups.

Computer fans pull a lot of dust inside the chassis. If undisturbed, the dust can interfere with ventilation, eventually causing parts to fail.

1. Make sure you do this in a safe environment, and have everything at hand and you are confident taking your pc apart.

2. Get any supplies you might need: a can of compressed air is essential. I got a mini cleaning kit from maplins and it had a mini battery powered vacuum cleaner, cd+floppy disc cleaners, cleaning fluids, and an anti-static rag. Also get a dust mask if you're allergic to dust (i am, and didnt buy one and this half killed me lol)

3. Turn off the computer and let sit for 1 hour for the parts to cool down.

4. Leave the computer plugged into the surge suppressor (if you have one)

5. Disconnect all peripherals {printer, speakers, mouse, Keyboard, etc} from the computer (except power lead as in step 3).

6. Remove the computer cover (see your owner's manual for instructions).

7. Ground yourself to the computer with the anti-static wrist strap by putting the crocodile clip on the chassis.

8. Spray compressed air on the fan blades, from a distance of 8-12 inches, power supply chassis, drive chassis and circuit boards, generally anywhere that has dust, it will go everywhere!! but aim the can upwards!

9. Gently brush off dust that the forced air didn't dislodge and spray it again when its loose.

NOTE: A big makeup brush works extremely well for this, just make sure it's natural bristles to reduce static. Also, synthetic bristles tend to not give if they get caught on something.

10. Brush any remaining dust out from the bottom of the chassis.

11. Spray the computer cleaning fluid onto an anti-static rag.

12. Wipe the inside and outside of the cover thoroughly.

13. Replace the cover and reconnect the peripherals.

14. Power up pc and check everything is ok, then if you have them, run the cd and floppy cleaning disks.

NOTES: Whatever you do, do not use a household vacuum (its safe on the outside, i did it on my vents, but never inside as there could be a risk of an ESD (electro-static discharge) and this is death to computer components. I used the mini battery operated vacuum to clean the inside of the case and used the brush to dislodge stuff but i still dont recommend going over and circuit boards with it.

Purchase high flow foam filters for your fans. These will help prevent dust from entering into the computer or from clogging your fans. Be sure to clean the filters once per month to ensure an ample supply of air.

The compressed air is fantastic for cleaning under your keyboards keys as well, turn it upside down and spray air in between the keys and see how much stuff comes out!!

Here are some pics to help:

Clogged Vents:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/computerclean/ventsbefore.jpg

Dirt Inside:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/computerclean/insidebefore.jpg

Other Dirt
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/computerclean/before.jpg

Air Duster Spray
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/computerclean/airduster.jpg

Clean Inside:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/computerclean/cleaninside2.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/computerclean/after.jpg

All back in place:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/computerclean/backinplace.jpg

Sort of makes you realise how much dust gets in there doesnt it?? And that cant be good for it! The fans on this computer are noisy as hell when running on high, and they come on a lot earlier than they used to these days, but after cleaning, wow, not come on once! Even i didnt expect such a massive difference. This will be especially useful for people overclocking there CPU's and/or graphics cards, you really need to keep them cool!!!

Note I take no responsibility if you arse it up, but come on, it's not difficult

Please get the newest VLC media player as a security issue was found. The newest release {4 Jan 07} fixes this issue.

You can find out more and get the new release at;

http://www.videolan.org/