The 22 Chaos Communication Congresses has viedos of most of their events online now. (bit torrent) These are some hard core videos about security, cryptography, voip phreaking, xbox hacking, even css!

fair warning: about half are in english, the rest are german - look for the ‘en’ (english) at the begining instead of ‘de’ (deutsch, - german for ‘german’)

[via boingboing]

[update]
ok, so, there are 100 english torrents and 34 german ones. i found this by doing a quick windows search for -en- in the folder where they were, then subtracting that number of files found (100) from the total number of files (134).

then i did [Ctrl] + a then [enter].   bad idea.

every time you click on a .torrent file with azureus (the best bit-torrent client out there, imho) installed, a new copy of azureus is started by windows. this new copy checks a local port on your computer to see if azureus is already running. if it is, then the new copy of azureus sends the .torrent to the old copy of azureus, then closes itself.

but when you click 100 files, they start 100 new instances of azureus. each of these wants to check that same local port. about two made it through. the other 98 all got nothing and decided to stay running. of this 98, about half crashed.

the remaining half threw about 6 errors each, all something along the lines of ’some other program is taking resources i need!’ well, duh.

anyways, after my laptop (yes, i did this on my lapy..) sat there for about 10 minutes complaining, i managed to close down most of the running coppies of az. the ctrl-alt-delte menu took care of the rest.

moral of the story: when you want to open up a torrent of .torrents (heh), open up one copy of az, then fo the the File > Open > Torrent file… menu. from there you can drag and drop all 100 of your torrents and it will parse through them withough opening up 100 coppies of itself. give it about 5 seconds to finish this, then click ok.

[update 2]
so i have azureus set to automaticaly zero every file upon creation. that means that if i have a .torrent for a 500mb file. it makes a new file on the hard drive and fills it with 500mb’s worth of 0’s.

this is great for avoiding file fragementation, but, obviously, takes up disk space before it’s actualy neaded.

so back to my 100 .torrents. about 80 of them took up about 33 gigs of space. the other 20 threw errors because there was only 61 mb of free space left on my hard drive

moral of the second story: get a bigger hard drive.

April 22nd, 2006 | 1337