On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Homer Parker <hparker@gentoo.org> wrote:

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 03:32 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:
> So, yes, I think you do have an extreme irrational bias if you prefer
> a
> text-based email or torrent clients over a GUI equivalent.

Text based torrent clients are great for running on headless machines
in tmux or screen. Fire it up, mount the watch directory with whatever
method you prefer, drop your .torrent files in there.. Pretty simple
imo. So I guess I have an irrational bias towards text based torrent
clients ;)

Many popular torrent clients, uTorrent and Transmission for example, can run a webserver so you can control your download remotely with a web browser, see http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/control-torrent-client-mobile-phone/. Azureus/Vuze has plugins that allow the same thing.