On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Pamela Jaye Ashworth wrote:
> I was writing a "hi, I've been here but haven't posted before" when I
> pulled my laptop towards me and tossed my external drive to the
> floor. I'm in a less good mood now, as I don't have a backup of my
> backup and i'm hoping my external is still alive.
Mmmyeah, that's no good. Hope it's OK. I usually keep stuff like that
either on the floor or in other places they're unlikely to fall from.
> I've been using ktorrent on (obviously) kde on suse 10. something and
> I like it cause it's simple (but gives you enough info) - but I
> dislike it cause it can't be paused (also it seems to start minimized
> and I can't find a setting to turn that off)
>
> we have VOIP here, so.... whenever we want to use the phone, we have
> to shut the thing off.
Some routers have PoS (quality of service) -- I think that's it -- which
lets you assign priorities to packet types.
> this would be fine if it was running on a normal monitor and
> keyboard, but it's running on a machine playing back on a television
> with a remote keyboard/ mouse combo.
I have a system like that, and I pretty much gave up trying to use the mouse
and drive everything with the keyboard. Probably easier in XP (which it
runs) than X.
> my brother installed some other bittorrent/gnutella client that's
> Even Worse Than This (it saves things to a hidden directory I forget
> the name of, I forget how to even run it (it runs from the web
> browser and it forget its name or location),
If you can use "find" or "locate" or even "ls -R" to get the name of it,
maybe you can convince a file manager to go there initially. Or make a link
to it with a sane name. That is, if you otherwise prefer that client.
> we also have frostwire, which is almost as hard to control - ktorrent
> *is* the best of the 3, aside from the lack of a Stop It For a Few
> Minutes key. (half the time I cant find the mouse curson on the
> screen with this setup)
>
> my Windows bittorrent client has a Pause key. (and I can get my mouse
> to it, as I can find my mouse cursor on my laptop, but it's a laptop
> and not good for torrenting)
killall --signal SIGSTOP ktorrent
<conversation>
killall --signal SIGCONT ktorrent
Like ^Z / fg
Make scripts that do them and assign them hotkeys or put them on big
buttons, whichever's easier to activate.
> Does anyone know of anything kde-ish client that's about as simple as
> ktorrent but has a pause key? I could spend hours digging thru stuff
> at sourceforge but I figured you all might know.
Dunno about KDE, but "Deluge Bittorrent Client" has pause.
> (if I could find a simple gnutella client, that would be nice too,
> but one problem at a time)
Can't help you there.
--
There's a term for those who fantasize that the world works in
precisely the way that produces maximum convenience for them,
despite years of evidence to the contrary. The term is "Morons".
GA in <fp0m8j$lb0$1@reader2.panix.com>
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