Re: On rtorrent

["Michael M." <debian@writemoore.net>]

Rogério Brito wrote:
> * I *do* use a powerpc here all the time with Debian. A quite old
>   PowerMac 9500/180MP with a G3 replacement card and rtorrent is indeed
>   available for etch here.

Well it is here now, too.  I don't know why it appeared to be broken 
before.  Perhaps I hadn't updated/upgraded recently enough, or I just 
caught it at a bad time.  Anyway, it installed without complaint ... so 
now I just have to learn to use it!

> I happen to live quite well with a i386 desktop that is driven
> completely by Free Software (I don't have non-free currently listed in
> my sources.list file).

I have some non-free codecs and fonts, but I'm not sure I have anything 
else.  I haven't even installed (or tried to install) Java, and Flash, I 
guess, is out of the question on ppc.  But I have to boot into OS X 
frequently anyway, because the monitor will not sleep under Debian 
(nVidia card, unfortunately).  So if there is some flash website I want 
to see, I just wait and look at it with Camino.

> Oh, BTW, if you have any suggestions for the vrms package, I'd love to
> know. :-)

Heh!  I didn't even know there was such a thing.

> If you don't know about moc (which is a superb audio player), I'd
> recommend it, since you mentioned this intention of using more curses
> applications.

No, don't know that one.  I use http://www.last.fm though, and it has 
(open-source!) plugins only for a limited number of audio players, all 
of them GUI.

> And I frequently use w3m, links and lynx for surfing the web (I still
> haven't made up my mind---all three have their strong and weak points).

What about elinks?  I thought I might try that.

> Definitely a worthy goal. And while you are at it, it may perhaps make
> sense to put all your mail on your computer under an IMAP server. This
> way, you can choose if you want to read your e-mail in your own computer
> with mutt, with Thunderbird or from a friend's place with another
> graphical MUA.

I use IMAP now, with an email host called MailSnare ( 
http://www.mailsnare.net ).  They're a nice bunch, very good service and 
reasonable.  I don't know if I would give them up, as the service 
doesn't really cost very much for my modest needs, and I like them.  But 
I'd like to learn how to do it myself, anyway, just for fun.  I would 
never go back to POP, though ... I'm too used to the convenience of IMAP.

Thanks for getting me to take another look at rtorrent!

--
Michael