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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Homer Parker <hparker@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 03:32 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote: |
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> > So, yes, I think you do have an extreme irrational bias if you prefer |
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> > a |
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> > text-based email or torrent clients over a GUI equivalent. |
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> Text based torrent clients are great for running on headless |
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> machines |
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> in tmux or screen. Fire it up, mount the watch directory with whatever |
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> method you prefer, drop your .torrent files in there.. Pretty simple |
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> imo. So I guess I have an irrational bias towards text based torrent |
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> clients ;) |
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Many popular torrent clients, uTorrent and Transmission for example, can run |
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a webserver so you can control your download remotely with a web browser, |
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see http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/control-torrent-client-mobile-phone/. |
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Azureus/Vuze has plugins that allow the same thing. |