Disk Buildup

[mase]

alright, this is my first time using torrents.. I was downloading [something], which is around 3.45GB.. I finally downloaded it which took a few days.. I went to install it, and says I have no disk space left! I had over 20 gigs left on my C drive before i downloaded it.. I looked in uTorrent program and it uploaded about 19GB.. Howcome it did that? I only downloaded 3.45gb.. i need help =(

[alcaholjunkie]

µTorrent and other BitTorrent clients upload as you download, and would continue to upload once the file(s) have downloaded until you stop it.

A 3.45GB download shouldn't of used up the 20GB you had free on your Hard Disk though.

[mase]

yeah and thats the problem, i guess theres other files somewhere that i don't know of which is killin me lol.. no idea what happened and i dont know what to do

[Animorc]

The amount uploaded have nothing to do with the size of the torrent or the amount downloaded. It just uploads until you stop it.

You could do a search on C:\ for files bigger than 45 MB that was edited this day. You should be able to find the things using your HDD space then.

[mase]

ok I will check that out.. yeah and i understand that uploading won't build up my HDD.. we'll see what I find.. and to regards of what I downloaded.. It contains 7 Winrar files (UT2004), and should I be putting those on Cd's or DVD's? They are under .ISO and from what I understand thats a DVD thing.. soo is putting them on a DVD and then installing from there the best?

edit: alright thanx for the info =\ great help here

edit2: and when u guys re-direct a post to another forum, make sure you notify the person. That was pretty rude

Edit button's there for a reason, try using it instead of triple posting.

[1c3d0g]

Huh? :/

[ScubaSteve]

you may want to edit your first post and remove the name of what you downloaded.

[mase]

im not as stupid as you think, i know there is a stupid little edit button, but i decided not to use it and post 3 messages.. have a problem with that? thats what i thought.. usually these forums come with some pretty cool people and all i have been coming up around with are idiots..

[Ultima]

Erm, his name is right on the edited post (hint: Firon). Please refrain from name-calling. There is a problem with triple-posting: it's annoying. It shows you lack forum etiquette. I get the feeling you're going to say "I don't care" or something to that effect, but you know what? Moderators are here to make sure that things go well in the forum.

Edit: I see you edited that part about coward out...

[Firon]

Yep, it is.

- Please avoid language which can be deemed offensive to other users.

Discussions about downloading copyrighted material is highly discouraged, and under no circumstances are links or specifics to be brought up. Examples of this include talking about what you downloaded a few days ago on KaZaa, what you're downloading using BitTorrent currently, or what you're trying to download (even if it's a problem you're asking about). Linking to such content, as vurlix said, is not permitted.

[...]

-Please don't double post

-Please don't bump threads.

Forum Content Rules

Good to see you're "not stupid" and didn't read the stickies like a good little boy.

PS: these are general etiquette rules that are good for just about EVERY forum

[mase]

name calling is good and i will not refrain from it.. and in regards to the name in italics, its not very visible.. maybe it should be or i wouldn't have missed it..

[Firon]

Would you rather I use READ THE FORUM RULES - FIRON instead? that's pretty visible

edit: jesus TAG FAILURE

[Ultima]

@mase: Wow you talk about moving threads from one forum to another without notification as rude, but you seem to be behaving hypocritically. Nice job. Be on your way now. (BTW, I don't understand what decision we have to make. I for one could care less what you do, you just make yourself look like a fool. As for working on the website... I don't see where that comes into play anywhere in the discussion. If you can't read italics, then you must have a problem, and should probably be the one crying.)

@Firon: lol I saw your mistakes as you corrected them xD

[Firon]

I had to edit like 10 times, that was such a pitiful failure XD

I hate bbcode, I can do XHTML so much better!

@mase: whoops, your double post magically disappeared, wonder how

[splintax]

I agree, bbcode sucks, mostly because my ] key is broken but my <> keys are fine.. as well as easier to reach

[1c3d0g]

I heard the reason that many PHP forums are switching to BBCode is because BBCode is considered "safer" than regular (</>) markup, but of course I have no idea if this is true... :/

[splintax]

well, if you had full access to HTML, you basically give complete control to the user, i believe they could then use script to spawn popup windows and all sorts of stuff if they were so inclined...

the idea behind bbcode is that it is totally separate from HTML, but there is no reason that you can't just code your PHP to reject all tags except a few, and that would be a lot better IMO (this is how they do it on Slashdot)

[Animorc]

There's no difference (talking about security) between </> and [/] if you just convert the < and > to < and > first. It would require a bit more of the CPU though so it's unnecessary.

[1c3d0g]

I think it was something about worms/viruses exploiting some HTML code...but then again I'm not an expert in this field, so... :|

[splintax]

There's no difference (talking about security) between </> and [/] if you just convert the < and > to < and > first. It would require a bit more of the CPU though so it's unnecessary.

Um, what?

If you convert <> to <>, then you don't have an HTML tag. I imagine that a script that searches for all text between <>s, and replaces <>s with <> unless the content is b, u or i would use up roughly the same amount of system resources on the server..