The Rogue Science torrent tracker is now operational, and to commerate this feat the first torrent if The Encyclopedia of Explosives and Related Items volumes 1 to 10 in a rar file. 657 MB of pure knowledge! Get it now while the getting is good!

PATR 2700, the Encyclopedia, Federoff, the Bible of Explosives, call it what you will as it has many names. There are few enough books in existence that cover a topic such as explosives, let alone do such a good job as to be a must have reference for anyone in the field. The Encyclopedia is the single greatest work on explosives period. Get it, copy it, distribute it far and wide.

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Wow I must say I am quite impressed. In about 12 hours the file has been successfully downloaded 4 times, and we have 8 leechers and 4 seeders.

I have started a thread at filesoup about the torrent, so you can get it there if you want. You need to sign up to see it but the thread is http://www.filesoup.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=63629

I was cruising direct connect a few days ago and somebody had it available. I guess we will know the file has truly reached critical mass when some asshole starts selling it in a lame anarchy compilation.

There are many other torrent sites out there that I am unaware of. I would appreciate the help if anyone would submit this torrent to those sites.

I am unable to download. Anyone having the same problem?

rational

The download has resumed but the file is way too big. Meg could you divide the files into parts so that download will be easier. Downloading a gigabyte of information at one go is way too much.

rational

You don't need to download it at one go. When you save the .torrent file you can always pause or even cancel the download and continue at a later time. Or where's your problem?

I am sorry. I am new to torrents. Have just read a FAQ on them. Thanks.

Mega: "I would appreciate the help if anyone would submit this torrent to those sites."


Okey dokey Boss. You got it...

Nice to have us back... and nice avatar, btw.

So, what exactly do I need to do in order to be able to view it? I'm completely ignorant about these torrent thingies, and all the obvious things I try (like clicking on the links ;)) don't seem to work...

Mr.Cool: First, save the little torrent file on your hard drive. Then you have to get a special downloader from here:

http://bittornado.com/

When you have installed that, THEN you click on the tiny torrent file you have. A new download will start (which can be resumed or paused).

Everytime I click on the link
Get the torrent here:
www.roguesci.org/torrent/Encyclopedia of Explosives and Related Items vol 1-10.rar.torrent I get the message "The page you requested was not found."

How should I download it?

My download is proceeding at a very slow rate at only 2-3 KB/s. It says 85 hours left to finish download. Man this is taking long! I am using a cable connection but it slow. The download was comparative faster yesterday with speeds of 5 KB/s. It seems that as more members are trying to download the files, the speed is getter lesser and lesser. I wonder how some of the members have managed to finish download on the first day itself. What type of connections are you guys using? DSL?

It seems that as more members are trying to download the files, the speed is getter lesser and lesser.

The idea behind bittorent is that it should get faster as more people download it. Maybe you are behind a firewall? Try opening your ports.

No, I don't think I am behind a firewall. Atleast I do not have a firewall running on my system. Maybe my service provider is using one. Could you tell me how I can open the ports?

Thanks Corona. I'll see if I can get it to work now...

When the first torrent file was started for PATR , I managed to
succesfully download the whole file using several different and slowass
regular dialup portals . The process took several days but the file
did come through intact . So have confidence that it can work in
spite of some reports of corrupted files and such , which are always
possible for downloads . Still , the Bit Tornado Client did work nicely
in resuming the many interruptions with efficient saving and keeping
the integrity of the file until it was completed . One thing I noticed
was that sometimes the activity would appear to slow nearly to a
halt , and that this could be resolved by simply waiting for a few minutes
usually when it would pick up speed again , and if not , then stopping
the download and closing out the Bit Tornado Client , then reconnecting
and resuming would restore the download / upload activity again .

There was one "glitch" about the PATR file that I can report . The
clipboard viewer creates mangled captures of any content which is
attempted to be excerpted for reference in discussion , so it is not
convenient to "post a page or passage or chart" as an export in any
file type conversion for web viewing for example .

If there is need to transcode any portion of the encrypted pdf to
unencrypted pdf format , Open in Acrobat > Print to file using Adobe
Generic PostScript Printer ( rename Windows default .prn file extension
to .ps file extension ) > Open the generated .ps file using GSview / GhostScript >
From within GSview , Print to Acrobat PDF Writer .
The PDF output file is the transcoded accessible file which has
been "ripped" from the original encrypted PDF "wrapper" . Now any
OCR or file type conversion , compression , editing or whatever may
be done conveniently unhindered by the 128 bit encryption .

This should make it possible to excerpt and collect the pages of special
interest as a smaller faster "reference file" for personal use . If the
clipboard capture feature works properly on your PATR file , this strategy
may not be needed . But the clipboard viewer / capture tool was
"crippled" somehow in my downloaded PATR file so I came up with
this method as a workaround .

WHEW! I finally finished the dl, but when I extract The .RAR archive, allthat is in it is a 444 KB file called "EXPLOSIVES" in a folder "Federoff CD 1".

When opened, the file says that the index cannot be found, and when any link is clicked it says "file XXXXXXXXXXXX.pdf does not exist.

I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced a problem like this. I hope that there is an alternative to re-downloading. :(

I have not downloaded the complete file yet, but when I try to open whatever has been downloaded it shows the same error as you have stated. Now I am afraid my download will also end up like yours.
Can anybody help us?

Have you tried repairing the archive? Also, since you havent downloaded the entire file, you should recieve an error saying "unexpected end of archive".

I finished downloading the entire archive last night after having to resume 4 times. Everything went smoothly, no errors at all.

Suggest you create one "save to" folder for the Federoff download ,
and call it something like PATR Torrent , and let the download complete
before opening the folder . Extract here and open the folder for CD 1
and burn it's contents onto a CDR , and then do the same for the folder
labeled CD 2 . Then try to open the files from the CD's you have burned .

For some reason , I had trouble too with opening the freshly extracted files
directly from where they sat in the download folder , but the pdfs opened
nicely after they had been burned to their respective CD's . Go figure .

Once you have the files burned on CD , you can copy the separate
pdf's from there into a folder you create for them in "My Documents"
for example , and when you open a volume stored on your hard drive it
will open much faster for reading than it will open from the CD in a CDROM .
These are pretty large PDF's and the time to open a file even on a 50 X CDROM
is really slow , so I recommend copying the files to a folder on the hard drive
for faster viewing .

I do not have a CDR. Any alternatives to copying on a CD?

I just rechecked the original file folder where I first saved the
original RAR file and the extracted files are opening fine now .

I have no idea what was the snag the first time I tried to open the
pdf's , but the problem has seemed to clear itself . I first thought it
may be related to the .iso file type for the original , so I just burned
the files to a CD and then had no problem , and didn't give it further
thought until now . Thinking back now , these files are so huge that
it takes a few minutes for them to be fully decompressed and ready
to read .....and the files may not have been yet ready to open when
I first tried to open them .

rational611: "Any alternatives to copying on a CD?"

Use either Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120. These make your computer think there is an extra CD drive installed. Daemon Tools has read all of the images I have thrown at it so far and as far as my computer is concerned, it thinks I have burnt a CD and am installing from that. Haven't had to waste time burning a CD since long time now.

And please guys... if the download hasn't completed, its useless to try and look at the partial you've got. Torrent downloads come down the tube scrambled. Meaning that partials are a mess and you can't really see a half downloaded movie, for example, like you can with Kazaa.