| isoHunt.com network changes | Posted by IH on May. 1
Some changes are underway for accessing isoHunt.com. We are testing alternate DNS servers which we changed over 2 days ago, and we are planning on changing bandwidth providers tomorrow.
So, in relation to
certain countries/ISP
not able to access isoHunt.com properly, please report whether this changes things for better or for worse. I would like to hear both sides, whether you couldn't access isoHunt before but now you can, and vice versa.
During networking changes, we don't expect any downtime longer than say 10 minutes so no worries
EDIT 5/1/08 07:38 UTC (SecretSquirrel):
The network routes seem to have been changed already, with much better routes to much of the world (and lower latency). Please let us know if you have connectivity issues
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| BeleniX 0.7 released | Posted by SecretSquirrel on Apr. 17
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We're happy to announce that v0.7 is ready and a _BIG_ leap ahead of 0.6. Changes include more devices supported, quicker boottime, very simple installer and ZFS root when installed to hard disk.
We expect a pretty big surge of downloads in the next week or so. BeleniX 0.7 will be released tomorrow on belenix.org.
The torrent is at
http://isohunt.com/torrents/belenix+0.7
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One of BeleniX's developers wrote us this email yesterday, so we thought we'd help out by seeding it on one of our machines and posting this post right here on the front page. If you
tried BeleniX 0.6
and found it lacking, give 0.7 a try
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| Rick Roll'in | Posted by SecretSquirrel on Apr. 1
Happy April Fool's day, we'll take it down at 1 after midnight PST (GMT- on the 2nd ish :-p
Aftermath:
This was the video
we rickrolled you with, and we are pretty much responsible for the 1M views on it. Hope you enjoyed the 80's! Along with Youtube's own rickrolling on their frontpage and elsewhere this year, I think we've officially killed off the
rickrolling meme.
I hope?
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| Announcing partnership with Myka.tv | Posted by IH on Mar. 31
You may have noticed banner advertisements we are running for the
Myka
for the last few days. On their website you would see a special offer with isoHunt, which includes $10-15 discount off the Myka, $25 coupon for movie downloads, and a
free isoHunt T-Shirt
with your purchase.
I've looked at their specs and talked with
Dan,
the creator of the Myka. They seem to have done everything right for a set-top device like this with hassle-free hook up to the TV - with it you'll be able to download straight to the Myka via BitTorrent or from files on your PC, all with standard protocols (802.11b/g or ethernet), codecs (MPEG-2 and all the variants of MPEG-4), resolutions (HD or standard), and is BitTorrent certified. In my opinion, this is Apple TV as it should have been, unhampered by various restrictions with iTunes (and it comes with 500G version to boot, bigger than any Apple TV version). I'm very excited with this device, it'll truly bring internet media to the living room. The Myka being an embedded device will also save a lot of power compared to regular PCs, and likely play videos smoother than most PCs, with the Myka's hardware decoding of advanced codecs such as H.264.
Dan from Myka
is on this forum, so any question you have he'll be happy to answer under this topic.
If you've been following our news, there isn't much of any commecial products I've really vouched for, and I do think this is a real deal. Unfortunately I don't have a prototype to test with yet, but when I do I'll write more about it. TorrentFreak has also written
a good overview
of the Myka. So what are you waiting for,
pre-order now for the low low price of $289!
(and up)
</infomercial_sarcasm>
UPDATE:
No, this is
not
a April Fool's joke, it's real.
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| New music highlight: ALTered Zero | Posted by IH on Mar. 27
From
the torrent Release
Aaron has posted on isoHunt:
| Aaron (ColdmaN5) wrote: |
| ALTered Zero's debut album, "Untitled" is a collection of twelve tracks that range from unpredictable, to confrontational, to strangely beautiful. This is an album for those fed-up with the mind-numbing sameness of most bands, who are either making music solely for the money, or following in the footsteps of such an act, trying to emulate their successes while the music plays second fiddle to fame. |
They are releasing their music under
Creative Commons,
and using a similar "pay what you will" model for their music as that pioneered by
Magnatune, Radiohead and Trent.
I strongly believe that this is one way to go for making internet distribution viable. There are estimates that
Radiohead may have made up to $10M
from their name-your-cost album In Rainbows, and it shows that if there's art fans appreciate, it's not necessary to resort to draconian and anti-consumer tactics like DRM or even set a price. With extra perks, many fans have shown willingness to pay above cost of a normal CD.
So check out
ALTered Zero's latest album
and support this model of distribution.
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