Re: Cheapest quiet way to download things...

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon -

if you're slow, I'm slower ... 'not heard of that !

Chris



On 14 Jun 2007, at 16:25, seniorsimon wrote:

> I've recently discovered the joy of torrents. ( I know, very late for
> a member of this group) and I am now looking at a way to quietly have
> a machine on all the time to do the downloading.
> The main pc is too noisy and running a 350W PSU seems silly for a
> simple job.
> I've currently got a NSLU2 running which is great as it only consumes
> 9W of power all the time and is silent.  However the torrent clients
> available for it aren't liked by some of the private sites such as the
> box cos they don't deliver accurate stats.  Cross compiling a good
> client for the slug is way beyond my current knowledge, so I'm
> thinking a small quiet pc that can a standard linux distro.
>
> Question is, is mini-itx my only option, and whats the cheapest I can
> get a headless machine for?
> Or should I just get an old laptop and use that instead?
>
> Anyone else got any suggestions for things they have done?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon