wTorrent is a web interface for the rTorrent bit-torrent client. This post shows you how to get it working in ubuntu or another similar debian derivative. This presumes you already have working copies of rTorrent and apache2, and they are running on the same computer.
To get wTorrent running you need the following:
If you have one of the older Buffalo Linkstation Pro NAS drives (pictured below) and it is running out of space, you can simply upgrade the drive. It really isn’t that difficult if you are used to upgrading bits in your computer. Might be a little daunting if you have never opened your computer though. 
I just upgraded the drive in my LS-500GL, replacing it with a 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green drive, which didn’t take very long at all (except for copying all the data across). What’s more … it is much quieter than the old 500GB Samsung drive that was in the Linkstation, which is a bonus!
What you need to do is to
… and that’s it!
So, lets proceed …
Read the rest of this article »
The New York Times has an account from a former Microsoft Vice President, Dick Brass, on why the company is no longer an innovator.
It’s an interesting read.
I got Firefox 3.6 in a Lucid alpha update on 27 January. The problem is that it wouldn’t start. I tried it with a new profile, which made it work. So I ran firefox with the -safe-mode argument and disabled all add-ons. Then in firefox, I tried each add-on to figure out which one’s weren’t working, and left them disabled.
To do this, open up a console and run the following:
firefox -safe-mode
You’ll see the following dialog box:
Select the first checkbox (Disable all add-ons), and press the Make Changes and Restart button.
When Firefox starts up, go into the Tools->Add-ons menu. And try enabling each add-on and restarting firefox. If it starts, then the add-on is working. If it isn’t, run firefox in safe-mode and disable the last add-on you enabled.
In my case, Adblock Plus, Better Gmail 2, Better GReader, Firebug, FoxyProxy, Ghostery, HttpFox, NoScript, Nuke Anything Enhanced, and User Agent Switcher were working. DownThemAll, Greasemonkey, and Stylish were not.
click image to enlarge.
Mozilla have released the new major version of Thunderbird. It has huge improvements in the interface. First of all, the inboxes of all your mail accounts are grouped together and they’ve been moved to the top. You can also view a collated list of emails from all your accounts by clicking on the top level Inbox.
Gmail users will love this version of Thunderbird. Setting up a new Gmail account is as simple as entering your username and password. You can see all your tagged emails in separate folders too.
The POP3/IMAP account setup process has also been totally simplified where it asks you to enter just the email address and password, then tries determine the server information from that. Even when it can’t autodetect the server, it populates most of the information in the manual setup window.
The main user interface is now tabbed like firefox. opening an email now shows it in a new tab instead of a new window. Search results are also displayed in a new tab.
The search feature is one of the most improved features in Thunderbird 3.0. The search results look similar to a web search with the title and summary of each email matching your search. Additionally it also allows you filter the search results based on a number of criteria, all without having to rerun the search.
And last but not least, being a sister-product to firefox, it has a huge number of add-ons.
All in all it’s a great email client. Its available for Linux, Windows and Mac. Get it at Mozilla Messaging.
Another canon demo video shot by Vincent Laforet. This was shot at night, using only available light.
If you are getting the VirtualBox can’t operate in VMX root mode
error dialog shown below …
… it is because you have the kvm and kvm_intel kernel modules enabled. You will need to unload them using the following commands:
sudo modprobe -r kvm_intel
sudo modprobe -r kvm
You should now be able to start your Virtual Machine.
If you want a permanent solution, you need to disable full virtualisation for qemu/kvm using the Boot-up manager. You can do so by following these steps.
1. Install the Boot-up Manager:
You can do this via the Software Center, where you can find it in the System Tools section:
Alternatively, you can install it by typing the following in a console:
sudo apt-get install bum
2. Start the Boot-up manager from the System > Administration menu.
3. Untick Full virtualization on i386 and amd64 hardware and click Apply.
Note: VirtualBox will still run under full virtualisation provided your system supports it.
If Firefox no longer starts up after you installed an add-on, what you can do is start Firefox in safe mode and just disable that add on.
To do this, open up a console and run the following:
firefox -safe-mode
You’ll see the following dialog box:
Press the Continue in Safe Mode button. Once Firefox has started up, go to the Tools->Add-ons menu and disable the one you just installed. Click the Restart Firefox button, and it should start up fine again.
This site’s most prominent words according to wordle.net.
Your browser doesn’t seem to understand the APPLET tag.
According to the site’s blurb:
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
