26 Oct, 2007  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in BitTorrent, Linux, Software

What is Deluge?

BitTorrent Client for Linux, Mac, and now Windows. Works on almost all desktop environments. KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Windows and others. Deluge is lightweight with low system resource requirements and this makes it standout better when compared with others.

Deluge boasts an extensive list of features applied through the use of plugins. My favorite would be the full stream encryption feature which disables my ISP’s throttling capabilities on BitTorrent traffic.

  • Web UI
  • BitTorrent Protocol Encryption
  • Mainline DHT
  • FAST protocol extension
  • µTorrent Peer Exchange
  • UPnP and NAT-PMP
  • Proxy support
  • Web seed
  • Private Torrents
  • Global and per-torrent speed limits
  • Configurable bandwidth scheduler
  • Password protection
  • RSS
  • And much more!

Changelog for version 0.5.6

Download below;

Source, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Windows

Source : WingLoon
Source : Deluge

26 Oct, 2007  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Cool Stuff

Look at the lady in the picture below. Is she spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

We use both sides of our brains to understand what we see, feel and smell. In this example your brain will either tell you that she is spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise. If you use your right brain then she would spin clockwise and if you use your left brain you’ll see her spin anti-clockwise, this is what most people see but I saw her spin clockwise initially.

Can you change the direction she spins? The answer is yes. Concentrate and you might pull it off, I did :)

So what does this all mean? Read on to find out but not till you have done the above.

Source : news.com.au

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25 Oct, 2007  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Malaysia

See more here.

See more here.

Some really cool photos by Malaysians. Azli Jamil and Kazzie

24 Oct, 2007  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Linux

The “last” command. Not many people I know use it but there are a quite a few things one could do with it often. Let’s look at users, shutdowns and reboots.

The “last or lastb” command is typically used to show a listing of the last logged in/out users. To view when a particular user last logged in run “last [username]“. See output below.

[root@nosebleed ~]# last danny
danny    pts/1        ftmtj1s.crib     Wed Oct 24 16:51   still logged in
danny    pts/0        python.crib      Wed Oct 24 16:10   still logged in
danny    pts/0        ftmtj1s.crib     Wed Oct 24 14:44 - crash  (01:07)
danny    pts/0        python.crib      Tue Oct 23 16:59 - 17:22  (00:22)
danny    pts/2        python.crib      Tue Oct 23 16:25 - down   (00:32)
danny    pts/1        python.crib      Tue Oct 23 16:09 - down   (00:47)
danny    pts/1        python.crib      Tue Oct 23 16:09 - 16:09  (00:00)
danny    pts/0        ftmtj1s.crib     Tue Oct 23 13:22 - down   (03:34)
danny    pts/0        ftmtj1s.crib     Mon Oct 22 01:18 - 01:43  (00:25)
danny    pts/0        ftmtj1s.crib     Sun Oct 21 01:34 - 21:06  (19:31)
danny    pts/0        ftmtj1s.crib     Sat Oct 20 13:58 - 14:01  (00:03)
danny    pts/0        ftmtj1s.crib     Fri Oct 19 16:52 - 00:23  (07:31)
danny    pts/0        python.crib      Fri Oct 19 11:49 - 14:15  (02:25)
danny    pts/0        python.crib      Thu Oct 18 15:27 - 15:37  (00:09)
danny    pts/0        python.crib      Thu Oct 18 15:22 - 15:23  (00:01)
danny    pts/1        192.168.0.65     Thu Oct 18 15:13 - 15:18  (00:05)
danny    pts/1        192.168.0.65     Thu Oct 18 14:38 - 15:13  (00:35)

Each time time the “reboot” command is executed the “reboot” user logs in. Running the “last reboot” command would then show the last reboot events. See out put below.

[root@nosebleed ~]# last reboot
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-8.1.14.el Wed Oct 24 15:51          (01:28)
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-8.1.14.el Tue Oct 23 16:59         (1+00:20)
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Thu Oct 18 14:30         (5+02:27)
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Wed Oct 17 02:05         (1+11:36)
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Tue Oct 16 23:00         (1+14:41)
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Tue Oct 16 21:05          (01:52)
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Fri Oct 12 22:27         (3+16:41)

If you only need halt and shutdown information. Running “last -x | grep down” will do that. See output below.

[root@nosebleed ~]# last -x | grep down
shutdown system down  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Tue Oct 23 16:58 - 17:22 (1+00:24)
danny    pts/2        python.crib      Tue Oct 23 16:25 - down   (00:32)
danny    pts/1        python.crib      Tue Oct 23 16:09 - down   (00:47)
danny    pts/0        ftmtj1s.crib     Tue Oct 23 13:22 - down   (03:34)
shutdown system down  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Thu Oct 18 13:42 - 16:57 (5+03:15)
danny    pts/3        ftmtj1s.crib     Thu Oct 18 13:28 - down   (00:12)
danny    pts/2        ftmtj1s.crib     Thu Oct 18 13:11 - down   (00:30)
danny    pts/1        192.168.0.65     Thu Oct 18 00:51 - down   (12:49)
danny    pts/0        192.168.0.65     Wed Oct 17 22:08 - down   (15:32)
shutdown system down  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Tue Oct 16 22:58 - 13:41 (1+14:42)
root     tty1                          Tue Oct 16 21:06 - down   (01:51)
shutdown system down  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Tue Oct 16 15:09 - 22:58  (07:48)
danny    pts/0        192.168.0.65     Tue Oct 16 15:04 - down   (00:04)
shutdown system down  2.6.18-8.1.10.el Fri Oct 12 22:25 - 15:08 (3+16:43)

Hope this helped, drop me a comment if you need info.

22 Oct, 2007  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in WordPress

The first maintenance release for WordPress 2.3(Dexter) was released a few days back. WordPress 2.3.1.

This release covers over 20 bugs. The list of bugs fixed can be viewed here.

  1. Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
  2. A login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than
  3. their WordPress Address is fixed
  4. Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
  5. Link importer fixes

The Danesh Project is running 2.2.3 as I have not found a good reason to upgrade yet. Maybe in a month or so. For now I have it running on my Dev machines at home.

How’s your experience been with Dexter?

Source : boren.nu