For the past week or so (what are a couple of 12-hour periods here or there between friends?) isoHunt has been “sick” when accessed from certain regions - but perfectly fine from others.
At the moment, users are being redirected to a tongue-in-cheek “isoHunt is Sick” page, letting them know that isoHunt’s hardware and software services [...]
Tag Archive for 'bittorrent'
isoHunt’s Extended “Temporary Downtime” From Certain Regions
Published by February 24th, 2008 in Blogosphere 6 CommentsHotlinking of Vista Recovery Disc Disabled
Published by January 20th, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software 8 CommentsThe Windows Vista Recovery Disc ISO image that we published a couple of days ago has been a hugely-popular success - thank you all for your interest and your links. Unfortunately, we’ve had a lot of people (*cough* Chinese download sites *cough*) hotlinking the image directly, and as a result we’ve been forced to take [...]
Recovering Corrupted Downloads the Right Way
Published by May 3rd, 2007 in Guides, Software 4 CommentsYou don’t have an OC-48 or even T3 in your home. It takes you 24 hours+ to download the latest DVD image of Ubuntu or Windows Vista. Or maybe it “only” takes you 12 hours+. Either way, you’ve just finished your download to realize that its corrupt: the crc32 and md5 hashes just don’t add [...]
Several independent torrent clients, most notably µTorrent and Azureus, have created “peer exchange” protocols that allow for clientless torrent downloads. By means of the now-standard DHT trackerless peer-exchange format, these clients (and others) communicate with one-another and ask for info about new peers to download from.
Long story short, they let you download torrents with dead/no [...]
