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2010
15
Sep

uTorrent for Linux

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uTorrent

When I used to use Windows XP, i was in love with uTorrent.
It was a small light-weight torrent client and with low memory usage. I was just fond of it for all my torrent related activities.

But when I shifted to Ubuntu I missed uTorrent very much. People said that it was possible to run uTorrent in Ubuntu using Wine, but I didn’t give it a shot and moved to Transmission instead.

Just a few days ago I found that uTorrent had released a native client for linux. I was overjoyed and moved to try it out.

First head over to the uTorrent Downloads page for the linux native client and download it.

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2010
15
Sep

Laptops without Operating Systems

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Today morning when I was out for some work, I was handed out a pamphlet for Toshiba laptops. Initially I didn’t go through the same.

But by chance when I glanced through it, to my surprise I found that Toshiba was giving something which brought a smile on my face.
There were some laptop model which came with no Operating System.
This No Operating System thing is what made me happy. At-last here was a manufacturer who was proving laptops without the burden of an OS.
Being a FOSS supporter this is indeed good news for me since I would have eventually removed the proprietary Operating System (Windows XP or Windows 7 as is bundled) with Ubuntu (my favourite).

The pamphlet also mentioned the prices of some. The prices are of course exclusive of taxes.

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2010
05
Feb

AVI files, DVD players, 0.99GB and Ubuntu

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DVD Video

Most DVD players now-a-days support the AVI format. So it is highly convenient to watch downloaded content on the TV after burning it to a DVD±RW.
But while playing some downloaded content I observed a pattern. Files which are more than 1GB in size always had a problem with playback.
The playback would take time to start/stop/pause.
In-case i wanted to rewind or skip the file would screw up in that the audio/video lost synchronization.

This pissed me a lot until i thought about it. The answer was very simple. DVD players are made to read VOB files which have a maximum file size of 1GB (1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes). The maximum size that I have seen on DVD is 0.99GB. Hence files with more than 1GB size always posed a playback problem.

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2010
05
Feb

How to queue torrents in Transmission

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Transmission

I have been using Transmission bit torrent client for quite some time. Its powerful, runs in the background, is processor friendly ( maximum that i have seen it use is 5% that too on a P4 1.7GHz system with more than 75 torrents).

But what I find it lacking is its ability to queue torrents. Still at version 1.83 1.92 (which is what I am using currently) and no queuing … :( .Only the Mac version supports queuing.

So in search of the holy grail I landed up at this Transmission discussion forum thread and found this queue script.

Even though the script worked well, I found that the script had some short comings.

I had added a bunch of torrents to seed them, when I found that the script (scheduled to run at an interval of 5 minutes) stopped the newly added torrents which were being verified or were scheduled to be verified before seeding.

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2009
12
Dec

Replace Pulse Audio with ALSA

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Replace Pulse Audio with ALSA

With the launch of Karmic Koala, the Ubuntu developers have forced the Pulse Audio down our throat. The net result being a lot of my apps have broken their voice.

For instance just after I upgraded to Karmic, and tried to play my Music collection on Exaile, Rhythmbox, Banshee I saw a strange thing.
The first song would play perfectly fine. Next the OSD would show that the second song has started playing. The progress bar would also confirm that. But there was NO SOUND. It was dead silent. No amount of tinkering solved the problem.

A little searching also suggested that that Pulse Audio was the culprit.

So the only option was to ditch Pulse Audio in favour of ALSA.

The following steps show how to do it :
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