Recently I found myself in-front of an stranger’s Linux box. I needed to unrar a file from my email account but I didn’t have any unrar tool installed and I couldn’t install one. I googled a little and I found this wonderful web page.
an “online uncompressor”. It supports many file types (7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS) and files up to 100MB.
Hope you find it useful too!
Cheers.
Harvard University’s The Clean Energy Project is alive!!!
For all of you out there that doesn’t know what the hell I’m talking about, let me say that The Clean Energy Project is a volunteer and distributed computing project that uses BOINC to find new materials for the next generation of solar cells and later, energy storage devices (see here for more).
I always wanted to help in this project but since it was created there haven’t been much action, but now I’m glad to have found that it is on-rails under the World Community Grid umbrella.
If you still don’t have any idea of what I’m talking about, please take a sec and visit the links in this post to find out about BOINC, The Clean Energy Project & the World Community Grid.
There are a lot of projects that needs your help to continuing their work. All you have to do is install BOINC and donate some of your CPU idle time. :)
Cheers!
I have a PC that I use as server running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and I wanted to install a command-line torrent client and run it as a service to download & seed stuff with no need of a monitor or X attached to it (because I don’t have any of them :P ). So after trying a few clients I decided to stick to Transmission, Ubuntu’s default torrent client.
To get this working, this is what I did:
1) In order to use it as a service, you have to download transmission-cli package which has the transmission-daemon & transmission-remote bins.
2) Before this, I added a new apt sources to the /etc/sources.list because Ubuntu’s sources has a very out-of-date version. So open /etc/sources.list and add the following lines:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bortis/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bortis/ubuntu hardy main
Then update & install.
3) You should now have the client intalled. But to use it as a service / daemon, go to:
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/HeadlessUsageDebian
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/HeadlessUsage/General
and follow the instructions.
Remember to set the correct permissions to the TRANSMISSION_HOME & TORRENTFOLDER directories to allow writing & reading to the user you set in USERNAME.
I had some problems with transmission populating the default config file “settings.json”. What I did was to manually create the file and add this default content:
{
"blocklist-enabled": 0,
"download-dir": "\/shares\/internal\/PUBLIC\/Torrent\/work",
"download-limit": 100,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"encryption": 0,
"max-peers-global": 200,
"peer-port": 51413,
"pex-enabled": 1,
"port-forwarding-enabled": 1,
"rpc-access-control-list": "+127.0.0.1",
"rpc-authentication-required": 0,
"rpc-password": "",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-username": "",
"upload-limit": 40,
"upload-limit-enabled": 1
}You can find out what options for this config files are available at:
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EditConfigFiles
Hope it helps, cheers!
Este es mi primer blog, de hecho, mi primer post (ever!). La idea es probar WordPress y vaya que me ha impresionado hasta ahora. Mas adelante definire las categorias y demas. Por ahora alcanza con probar un poco cada cosa…
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