[Lancaster] Todays find!

[Martyn Welch]

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Hi Guys,

Found this today, thought I'd bring peoples attention to it:

http://www.tlm-project.org/

They are setting up bit-torrent links to ISO's for distributions.

For those who have not heard of bit torrent, it is a protocol for distributing 
data. Rather than just downloading (as with ftp or http), you also upload the 
file to others at the same time. This helps to share the bandwidth cost 
associated with distributing large files and decreases traffic across large 
networks (you download from those closest to you). 

Note: the protocol also tries to ensure that users upload as much as they 
download - if they don't peers in the distribution automatically throttle 
down the speed at which the offending user receives his download, so bear 
this in mind :-)

Martyn

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Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)

PGP Key : http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/~martyn/pgpkey.html
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