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How I get my Geeknights
Firstly, let me get a little "Grr, you americans with your unlimited data!" out of the way.
My main Internet is a 3G HSDPA connection, and I get 3GB a month, which is REALLY not much, but thats not the point of this. The annoyance of the "Great Australian Bandwidth Cap" is that my ISP as a file mirror that I can request files to. These don't count towards my quota. This is handy for linux distros (they also have an ubuntu repository) but also for some podcasts. Luckily, I can download anything from TWiT, Revision3 or Geeknights. I assume its because you have the Creative Commons here. Anyway, I noticed that each episode I get mirrored has a good 10 other people who download it, so its cool to think that maybe I inadvertently introduced them to GN.
I thought about this because the topic of how people download the podcast was mentioned recently. Instead of just clicking the link, I have to copy and paste it and the entire post into a form. Unfortunately, I can't write scripts. *laughs*
My main Internet is a 3G HSDPA connection, and I get 3GB a month, which is REALLY not much, but thats not the point of this. The annoyance of the "Great Australian Bandwidth Cap" is that my ISP as a file mirror that I can request files to. These don't count towards my quota. This is handy for linux distros (they also have an ubuntu repository) but also for some podcasts. Luckily, I can download anything from TWiT, Revision3 or Geeknights. I assume its because you have the Creative Commons here. Anyway, I noticed that each episode I get mirrored has a good 10 other people who download it, so its cool to think that maybe I inadvertently introduced them to GN.
I thought about this because the topic of how people download the podcast was mentioned recently. Instead of just clicking the link, I have to copy and paste it and the entire post into a form. Unfortunately, I can't write scripts. *laughs*
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As for how I get the podcast, I let iTunes do it, because I have an iPod and am lazy.
I was restricted in that I needed a wireless solution and at the time what I went with was the best in that arena.
When given the choice I just let iTunes handle it as well, but I'm very rarely in sydney with access to the ADSL2.
That ISP file mirror stuff looks very useful, a good way to try and reel in those costumers who rather not have a bandwidth cap, yet do not wish to pay a lot of money every month. I doubt any bandwidth capping bastard ISPs would do that here.
Funny Answer: Through the new iBuzz!
Unfortunately, they won't mirror RSS feeds, I have to fill out the little form for each file. Though they do process torrent files, although they do have guidelines.
"Valid requests include:
* Any final release Linux or other O/S ISO distributions
* Useful utilities and tools
* Open source or freely redistributable software
* URLs starting with http:// or ftp://
* URL to a file - not to a site
Invalid requests include:
* Any material which doesn't fall into the valid requests category
* Any copyrighted material, or material from a site with terms and conditions that do not allow redistribution
* Game-related files (you can request these on GameArena)
* Hardware drivers (video/sound/motherboard) (you can request these on GameArena)
* Entertainment-related media (you can request these on GameArena)
* Files of less than 1 megabyte in size
* Any material that is exclusive for a site
* Files that require a registration process to download
* URLs with the '?' character "
I'm pretty sure its a case of, you request it, someone checks it, if it checks out it is mirrored. Another bonus is I max out my download speed when getting stuff from them!