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Popular ideas Here are the latest ideas about Deluge BitTorrent Client that have been approved.

Share storage and bandwidth to contribute to upstart or community-run websites  
Written by EsKva the 7 Apr 10 at 22:42. New
Many much-needed websites ask users for support (Wikipedia, Manybooks, Wikileaks to name but three), and some even for server capacity to mirror them (like Ubuntu itself).

I'd like to help, but tech wise I can't do much aside from trying to seed bittorrents of any updated Ubuntu disc image I download for as long as they're in demand. This got me thinking that it'd be cool if bittorrent could be used to contribute similarly on whole web pages and not only on specific, individual files.

I'm guessing for this to work, multiple platforms would have to learn to play together. There are probably also security and legal issues in abundance, but it'd be cool. And we could all get that warm, fuzzy feeling of being useful without really doing much.
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Solution #1: The server "wraps" HTML pages for users to cache, browser-plugins retrieve
Written by EsKva the 7 Apr 10 at 22:42.
User-wise, it could work like this:

If an internet site that I like asks its community for help, I could “admit it” into a given section for approved sites in my settings (of the bittorrent client or perhaps the Ubuntu One setup or wherever), and state the limits for my assistance (stuff like “up to this many kbits/sec, that much disk space, so much traffic/day, and you can keep stuff there for no more than this many hours”).

The website could then, when in need, automatically place popular pages on its allocated area of my hard drive (and files/elements within them) and set up a “wrapper” of some sorts to instruct its visitors – using browsers equipped with an appropriate plugin – that the requested material lay on my computer (or that of others).

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Modify deluge to use the New Notify-OSD  
Written by lorenzo1985 the 23 Feb 09 at 16:37. New
The new notify OSD is here
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD

Personally I'm impressed, it looks good! And it's certainly a nice step to improveing the look and feel of ubuntu which is in places a little lacking. But in order for it to work well the common programs that people use need to do things like notifications consistantly.

However the wiki does not metion any intention to modify Deluge-torrent to use the new Notify-OSD
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Solution #1: Spend some time modifying the deluge package to include support for notify-OSD
Written by lorenzo1985 the 23 Feb 09 at 16:37.
Spend some time modifying the deluge package to include support for notify-OSD

However this is complicated by the fact that the current methods of notification will need to be supported due to that deluge is cross-platform and and other distributions do not support ubuntu's notify-osd (yet (hopefully)).

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