With my old BitTorrent PC down for the count [hey, one of the two big drives is working, but it's loud, 95% of the data was on the drive that's dead, and I'll have to load up all those shows on some computer, and I don't have the time tonight], I’m testing running Xtorrent on my main Mac. Why? There was a Jeff Tweedy show I wanted to grab.

The early result tells me that I don’t want to run this on a machine that I’m also using—Xt doesn’t slag the mini, but the CPU levels are running pretty high, and I expect I’d get a bunch of spinning beachballs if I kept it up. But I do have Misty’s old iMac, and I bet it’d run it just fine. [In case you're curious, I purchased a license for Xt from my previous use of it: I bought both the multi-computer household license but also the lifetime upgrades. I believe in the software that much. Thanks to Alex for pointing me to it.]

If this goes well, I expect to have all my PCs as closet hangar queens by the end of the month.