On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 23:10 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Steve Cook wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:28 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> >> BTW, anyone else had trouble with CD burning after upgrading?
> >
> > Yep!
> > just spent an 'orrible evening trying to get Hardy to do something
>
Hi,
Pete Stean wrote:
> I've started to observe behaviour over the last couple of weeks that
> definitely indicates that BT are throttling torrents at peak
times, at
> least in my part of London - from early morning right through to
early
> evening on weekdays, popular torrents will saturat
>
> To be honest, I think that if I pay my ISP a reasonable amount (£25
> atm), as long as I don't take the micky with the amount I download, I
> should be able to utilise whichever services I require.
>
> I'm still shaped heavily despite spending all that cash and
> transferring less than 10 G
>
> Indeed ISPs don't care about port numbers (and why should they?). They
> inspect packets and throttle bandwidth hoggers (this is termed packet
> shaping). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping
>
> I'm glad they do this because that means that most people's primary use of
> the internet i
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Mark Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Indeed ISPs don't care about port numbers (and why should they?). They
> inspect packets and throttle bandwidth hoggers (this is termed packet
> shaping). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping
>
This would be why my
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Pete,
> >
> > Pete Stean wrote:
> > > I've started to observe behaviour over the last couple of weeks that
> > > definitely indicates that
Chris,
Chris Rowson wrote:
> Also, try enabling encrypted connections in your bittorent client. Some
> ISPs perform packet inspection and will throttle your bandwidth when
> they see bittorent related packets flying by. Encrypting your bittorent
> traffic hides it from them
Which BitTornado,
Steve,
Steve Cook wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:28 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> BTW, anyone else had trouble with CD burning after upgrading?
>
> Yep!
> just spent an 'orrible evening trying to get Hardy to do something
> sensible with CD-RWs.
I've seen a bug reported about this, but no solu
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:28 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> BTW, anyone else had trouble with CD burning after upgrading?
Yep!
just spent an 'orrible evening trying to get Hardy to do something
sensible with CD-RWs.
steve
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Pete,
>
> Pete Stean wrote:
> > I've started to observe behaviour over the last couple of weeks that
> > definitely indicates that BT are throttling torrents at peak times, at
> > least in my part of London - from early morn
Andrew Oakley wrote:
> The secret is, prior to upgrading, slim down your install to official
> packages only.
[snip]
> Most upgrade horror stories appear to be related to packages not in the
> official Ubuntu repos.
That's great advice from all you guys - it's really appreciated.
--
Stephen
Pete,
Pete Stean wrote:
> I've started to observe behaviour over the last couple of weeks that
> definitely indicates that BT are throttling torrents at peak times, at
> least in my part of London - from early morning right through to early
> evening on weekdays, popular torrents will saturate my
Stephen O'Neill wrote:
> I have been very tempted to do a fresh install too - tracker never
> seemed to work for me and I'm convinced that I'm not getting 100%
> shinyness having upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy and now Hardy through the
> various hacks/workarounds that I've done along the way.
>
> W
No Steve, if it's not to much trouble to reconfigure your system the
way you want it, I would do a fresh install.
>From my experience last night, a fresh, newly-installed Hardy using
the release CD is far and away faster and slimmer than the accreted
mass I'd accumulated over a couple of months. H
Stephen O'Neill wrote:
> Tony Arnold wrote:
>> I've been the same and am sore;y tempted to re-install from scratch.
>
>
> I have been very tempted to do a fresh install too - tracker never
> seemed to work for me and I'm convinced that I'm not getting 100%
> shinyness having upgraded from Feisty
2008/4/28 Stephen O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> What do others think? - am I being needlessly paranoid, will I do the
> 'fresh install' and end up being disappointed given that everything
> currently seems to 'work'? Maybe 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'?
>
> --
After going Gutsy>Hardy, I
Tony Arnold wrote:
> I've been the same and am sore;y tempted to re-install from scratch.
I have been very tempted to do a fresh install too - tracker never
seemed to work for me and I'm convinced that I'm not getting 100%
shinyness having upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy and now Hardy through the
v
I've started to observe behaviour over the last couple of weeks that
definitely indicates that BT are throttling torrents at peak times, at
least in my part of London - from early morning right through to early
evening on weekdays, popular torrents will saturate my connection but
will start slowing
On 28 Apr 2008, at 16:23, Tony Arnold wrote:
>>
>
> I've always used BitTornado, which has been good enough for my meagre
> requirements. I've never been that impressed with bittorrent, direct
> downloads have always seemed faster to me. Maybe it's the client I'm
> using.
I would suspect its
Pete,
Pete Stean wrote:
> Just as a slight aside I've been on Hardy since Alpha and installed
> updates as I've gone along. I seem to have accumulated all sorts of
> niggly little problems but last night decided to bite the bullet and
> re-installed clean from the Hardy release ISO (having my pers
Just as a slight aside I've been on Hardy since Alpha and installed
updates as I've gone along. I seem to have accumulated all sorts of
niggly little problems but last night decided to bite the bullet and
re-installed clean from the Hardy release ISO (having my personal
files under /home in a separ
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Stephen O'Neill wrote:
| I *think* that I just have broken sound now ... nearly there :)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/213206
... led me to ...
$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset
... which seems to have made my sound better
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Stephen O'Neill wrote:
| I now have Hardy... been having 'fun' so far though
I *think* that I just have broken sound now ... nearly there :)
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Stephen O'Neill
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> I now have Hardy... been having 'fun' so far though - lots of xorg and
> xserver dependency/conflict problems during the upgrade to start with. I
> had to uninstall
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I now have Hardy... been having 'fun' so far though - lots of xorg and
xserver dependency/conflict problems during the upgrade to start with. I
had to uninstall the nvidia-glx-new package, upgrade packages (xorg-core
installed at this point) then re-in
Stephen O'Neill wrote:
> Had a go last night but gave up as various things kept timing out and
How I upgraded Gutsy was to download the alternate install CD, and
install from that. Make sure you tell it NOT to download updates whilst
installing.
Once that's done it doesn't have much more to dow
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> Seriously you lot - will you stop upgrading so I can have a go? :P
>
> Had a go last night but gave up as various things kept timing out and
> now I apparently have 5 days 18 hours and 13 minutes remaining. I may
> just
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Seriously you lot - will you stop upgrading so I can have a go? :P
Had a go last night but gave up as various things kept timing out and
now I apparently have 5 days 18 hours and 13 minutes remaining. I may
just be a little more patient and wait a few
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