I've put a new bot online, which will send alerts when new torrents for your favourite TV shows are released. If you're on the Jabber network, you can connect to it by adding 'torrentbot@hubmed.org' to your buddy list.
Send 'help' to show the commands, 'list' for a list of all available shows ('alpha' to list them alphabetically), and 'subscribe showname' to receive alerts for a particular show.
There are plenty of good Jabber clients now, if you need one: Adium, Psi, Fire, Exodus, Miranda, Trillian to name just a few. Most of these work for other networks as well, though the specialised Jabber clients tend to have more features.
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You know what would be even cooler? If you set up a RSS feed. That would rock.
If you just want the RSS feeds, you can get them directly:
http://66.199.180.26/~tvt/tvt.xml
http://www.torrents.co.uk/backend.php
Alf! I love you!!!!!! (And I've subscribed to the Jabber bot too, it's pretty cool).
I'd look up "bit torrent" or whatever but suspect I'd find something of no interest.
1. Whatever it is, all people don't have it. It it relates to a JPG file why not post a JPG file? If it's a large "torrent" file than it's probably too large as a JPG also and the dialup folks will suffer in silence in either case.
2. It's likely associated in some way with Microsoft Windows. A few of us in this world go to minor or major efforts to avoid any association, depending on our level of disgust, with that operating system. It therefore is unlikely to run on my OSX or Linux boxes, right?
Steve, it would wise for you to look up things in the future before commenting on them.
1) This has nothing to do with JPG files. He's referring to digitized episodes of television shows which are between 300MB and 500MB. Bittorrent is a peer-to-peer file transfer technology - what makes it special is that if I wanted to download a certain 500MB file, I could start downloading it, and as soon as I had a few KB of the file, I would immediately start sharing it with anyone else downloading it (a swarming download). So each person is sharing it and simultaneously downloading it, which eliminates the load on a single server.
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/introduction.html
2) The original Bittorrent client is available for both OS X and Linux. But I suggest you use the Azeureus client which runs on any Java-compatible platform, including Linux and OS X, and is far more user-friendly.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
This is pretty cool. I just wish there were more shows available!
Hi,
is the bot still available?
Thanks,
Yes, but it's moved to torrentbot@hubmed.org as the jabber.org connection kept failing. I've updated the post above to the new address.