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- briankeith, on 07/08/2008, -2/+61I love the idea but I'm not sure if I want to have an actual account on mininova, if you know what I mean.
- bigpixl, on 07/08/2008, -0/+57Great, another distraction at work.
/diggs while ignoring an excel document - inactive, on 07/09/2008, -3/+22I remote into my home computer from work to manage my downloads. Without mininova.
- DamageInc, on 07/09/2008, -2/+19This would be great for private torrent sites, but on large, attention gaining trackers like mininova, staying anonymous is key, and this definitely wouldn't work to your advantage.
- echelonist, on 07/09/2008, -1/+13If you do that, the terrorists win.
..by 'terrorists' I mean RIAA and by 'win' I mean // i n. - bradrichmond, on 07/09/2008, -1/+12Isn't this pretty much the concept of utorrents webui?
- lava, on 07/09/2008, -4/+14I just use hamachi.
/Edit... what happened to duggmirror? is it gone?
/edit nm, I'm an idiot. - inactive, on 07/09/2008, -11/+20***** THE RIAA
- inactive, on 07/09/2008, -1/+9I agree, I try and stay out of the big pirate site databases!
- Gullop, on 07/09/2008, -0/+7http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2008/07/08/new-f ...
- Homerr, on 07/09/2008, -1/+8Seems like it might be a red flag to the RIAA/MPAA.
- Changa, on 07/09/2008, -0/+5I just use remote desktop and download from home.
- smegball, on 07/09/2008, -0/+5Audiogalaxy used to allow us to do this... back when the Internetz didn't suck!
- pt4117, on 07/09/2008, -0/+5dynamic IPs change pretty quickly depending on your provider. I had SBC DSL, and it changed 3 times on me in 5 hours. I have comcast, and it won't change on me for months.
What you need is either hamachi, or dyndns. That way you'll always be able to access your machine.
And that is only if your company doesn't block outgoing RDP. - smith, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3If you don't want to get a Mininova account or use WebUI then make your own RSS feed. You can update it from work and host it anywhere.
- getsaf, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3Man, I remember Audiogalaxy.. That stuff was really cool.. Great idea from them, too bad their setup was pretty easy for RIAA to hammer down.
- cheeze_ballz, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3the more secure way to do this is to set up an ssh server inside your network, open the hole in the firewall to that, then port forward your rdp session thru your ssh session from work. this also gets around firewalls that block rdp.
- Retrospekt, on 07/09/2008, -1/+4MiniNova ***** rocks, they just gotta upgrade their servers.
- Sfear, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2This, as a general concept, is excellent. Whilst people on Digg generally represent the more tech-savvy crowd who can configure uTorrent's Web UI in a flash - RSS in the mainsteam is incredibly under-utilised.
If nothing else, this is a good example of a company operating in the 'illegal' space pushing the envelope in user experience which hopefully the more mainsteam sites will pick up on and implement for themselves. - inactive, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2BELL SUCKS!
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2I remote desktop to my home computer from work, then remote web connection from my home computer to my work computer, then the universe collapses.
- cesclaveria, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2actually I have find it better to use a personal feed, just point your client to download any torrent that comes to the feed. it is really simple.
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2@dgendreau
If you're going to install software on both machines you might as well just remote desktop and use utorrent on your home computer. Webui and presumably this remote downloading thing really shine when you don't have privileges on your work machine. - teethandeyes, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Audiogalaxy had the most amazing music selection. I have yet to see anyone else even come close. If there is something, I don't know about it.
- deevay, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2I'm staying anon on mininova at all cost even though this is soooo tempting
- Otto, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2No, not really. I mean, yes, you can expose your web interface to the world, but that's kind of a security problem waiting to happen.
Instead, this basically lets you have your own personal RSS feed. Then you have your client check that feed every so often and auto-download anything in it. When you add a torrent to the feed, your home system will go and pick it up sometime later. After you've set it up, you can just go to the site from wherever you are, add the torrents you want to the feed, and they'll get picked up by your home system later. No security problems, no need to open your web ports to the world. - inactive, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1cool stuff
- bobangitanov2, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1he got it.we win. you lose.
- ultrafez, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1But what about sysadmins that like to disconnect ssh sessions?
//really hates admins sometimes - dgendreau, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2"I mean, yes, you can expose your web interface to the world, but that's kind of a security problem waiting to happen."
Hamachi VPN pretty much fixes that problem. - Ravatar, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Also gets your ass fired quick.
- ultrafez, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1That's the general concept of Mininova's "Remote Downloading" feature.
- sd11208, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1***** them riaa in the ass, without baby oil bitches.
- Ebsy, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2you win!
..by 'win' I mean 'fail'. - Gullop, on 07/09/2008, -3/+3I don't think you get it.
- iofthestorm, on 07/10/2008, -1/+1You might as well have a personal RSS feed on your own personal web server...
- DesdinovaEL, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1oh oh....i KNOW what you mean...
- sexybobo, on 07/10/2008, -1/+1Torrent flux set up on a server at home. I just go to the website and upload the .torrent file and it starts downloading at home.
http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/ - Ravatar, on 07/10/2008, -2/+1iTunes is at about 8 million with their collection.
- alecks, on 07/09/2008, -7/+4Like it's so ***** hard to download all the torrents you want while at work, then email them to yourself...
Or email the URLs
Or tag them to del.icio.us
There's other options that don't require me getting an account on their site. - bound242, on 07/09/2008, -6/+1Don't create an account with Mininova, just open up a port on your home firewall to RDP your computer/server that downloads torrents. Even if you have a DHCP address, it only changes once every 2 weeks or so. Safe, reliable and fast.
PS. This is also a great way to IM without having the company you work for log your chats. - echelonist, on 07/09/2008, -9/+3Remote Downloading ? Revolutionary! ... Cause I used to WALK to the MiniNova corporate headquarter to get my torrent, you know.
/Remote Sarcasm. - Tyrghast, on 07/09/2008, -9/+2Doesn't change the fact that downloading a torrent from mininova is likely to give your computer AIDS... all hail Demonoid!
- derpoopflinger, on 07/09/2008, -9/+2pony up for your *****, quit being so damned cheap
/about to be buried for pointing out the obvious and pissing on a bunch of wankers cornflakes - chetanthaker, on 07/09/2008, -10/+2Im using feedz, Controlling ur torrentz
***** you RIAA/MPAA
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