Bit torrrents tricks

clipped from lifehacker.com Top 10 BitTorrent Tools and Tricks 8. Download BitTorrent in Your Browser 7. Manage Your Video Downloads with Miro 6. Speed Up Your Downloads and Outwit Your Traffic-Shaping ISP 5. Remote Control Your BitTorrent Downloads with uTorrent's WebUI or Transmission's Clutch 4. Set Up a TV Season Pass with Ted or TVShows 3. Search the Best of the Best with YouTorrent 2. Transmission 1. uTorrent Honorable mention update: I completely forgot to mention PeerGuardian2, a freeware IP blocker designed to protect your privacy from blacklisted IPs (like anti-P2P groups who might want to track your activity). It's not a sure thing, but a lot of people consider it a reassuring layer of protection.

ssh authentication on debian

clipped from www.howtoforge.com How To Set Up SSH With Public-Key Authentication On Debian Etch Preparations On Our Client (Desktop) System apt-get install openssh-client mkdir ~/.ssh chmod 700 ~/.ssh cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "A comment... usually an email is enough here..." scp -p id_rsa.pub remoteuser@remotehost: ssh remoteuser@remotehost mkdir ~/.ssh chmod 700 ~/.ssh cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys mv id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh logout rm id_rsa.pub ssh remoteuser@remotehost cd /etc/ssh cp sshd_config sshd_config.orig nano sshd_config /etc/init.d/ssh restart Be careful: if you disable password authentication, then you won't be able to log in with passwords! Only key-based authentication will be available!

Un petit potager

clipped from frugaldad.com How to Build a Square Foot Garden (2) 2cu ft. bags of Miracle Grow Garden Soil (for flowers and vegetables) - $13.54 There were more frugal recipes here for soil, such as 1/3 compost, 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 vermiculite. However, I could not find the ingredients packaged locally and the individual ingredients bought separately at the larger home improvement stores were more expensive the bags of Miracle Grow.

Fix desynchro with vlc

clipped from lifehacker.com If you've spent hours ripping a DVD or downloading a video just to find—when all's said and done—that the audio and video aren't matching up, reader Will suggests using video-Swiss-Army-knife VLC's desynchronization feature to sync up the audio. In the VLC Preferences, click on Audio and then tick the Advanced options checkbox; there is an Audio desynchronization compensation setting that allows you to set a positive or negative time delay between the video and audio tracks in milliseconds. I find unsynchronized video/audio unbearable, and have been known to delete files without watching them for it. It never occurred to me that there would be such a simple solution! Fix Desynchronized Video and Audio with VLC

wikipedia caserne

clipped from lifehacker.com Geek to Live: Set up your personal Wikipedia What you'll need Free WAMP server software and MediaWiki Install MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia. Configure MediaWiki. Visit your brand, spankin' new personal wiki at http://localhost/mywikipedia/.

personal wiki

clipped from lifehacker.com Run Your Personal Wikipedia from a USB Stick Download the XAMPP Lite .EXE installer from here. Double-click on the file to extract it, and choose your flash drive's drive letter as the destination (not a subfolder.) A folder called xampplite will be created on your thumb drive. Install and Configure MediaWiki

Network diagnostic tool on ubuntu server

clipped from www.howtoforge.com Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) On Ubuntu 7.10 Server Some of the issues that NDT can identify on your network, include: The slowest link in the end-to-end path (Dial-up modem to 10 Gbps Ethernet/OC-192) The Ethernet duplex setting (full or half) If congestion is limiting end-to-end throughput Duplex Mismatch Excessive packet loss due to faulty cables An example of the output that you can expect is shown in the image below.