Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.8.5 released

A new verison of Deluge is out. Version 0.5.8.5 Changes made to this version shown below, Fix force recheck auto scraping of tracker if it doesn’t report number of peers on reply fix web seed proxy preference Fix adding of duplicate torrents Fix timers for saving fastresume and uploaded memory Fix rechecking on start PnP fixes Fix possible libtorrent crash in storage Grab your copy here. Source: Deluge

2008-02-29 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Happy birthday Nuffnang

Happy 1st birthday Nuffnang. The name Nuffnang is no more a stranger amongst bloggers across Asia. From a humble beginng Nuffnang has grown considerably in past year. Almost every blogger I know is on Nuffnang now or has heard about it. The recent TV coverage really helped. Today, Nuffnang is a year old and to show it’s appreciation Nuffnang has put together the “Nuffnang Pajama Party” which is scheduled for the 15th March 2008. Initialiy it was scheduled for the 8th but that date later conflicted with our general elections thus the move. ...

2008-02-27 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

How to increase file descriptors max limit on Linux

Today my DBA reported that the server she was working on was spitting out “too many open files” errors and no new processes could be started. This is a common problem with DB servers with heavy transactions. In my environment there are 6 DB instances running on the server. No quite the optimized setup I would say. The fix was to increase the total file descriptors kernel parameter count in the /etc/sysctl.conf file. I doubled my limit from 8192 to 16384. ...

2008-02-27 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

How to install Microsoft Core Fonts on Linux

Most Linux desktop users don’t fancy the default fonts which ship default with Linux. Luckily there are a few ways you could easy enjoy Microsoft fonts on your Linux desktop. The simplest way would be to use the package manager to add distro specific packages to install the fonts. openSUSE, Ubuntu and many other distros now provide the fonts with a disclaimer which you will have to agree to before the fonts get installed. ...

2008-02-26 · 2 min · Danesh Manoharan

The Google Sari

[View full size.][1] [][1] Well, looks like Google influence is everywhere today. Just look at the latest offering from designer [Satya Paul][2]. Satya Paul is known for his new age and dynamic designs. The web 2.0 of the fashion world you could say. The sari seen above actually says Oogle and not Google but the search results that fill the sari surely is convincing. Hopefully Google doesn’t get ideas to start making uniforms for Indian woman now. ...

2008-02-24 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan