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Deluge Torrent – Another cool Linux GUI Torrent Client (supports protocol encryption)

Deluge Torrent is yet another opensource GUI torrent client available for the Linux platform. What sets it apart from others is —- it is one of few GUI clients which supports the BitTorrent protocol encryption to avoid the traffic shaping effect policy set by the ISP.

Written in python, Deluge-Torrent supports loads of feature comparable to Azureus, another popular bittorrent client use in Linux operating system.

Among the features supported by Deluge-Torrent are :

  • DHT support
  • uTorrent Peer Exchange
  • Protocol Encryption
  • UPnP and NAT-PMP
  • Proxy support
  • Support for Private Torrents
  • Torrent creator
  • RSS Broadcatcher
  • Ability to minimize to system tray
  • Network Activity Graph

The ability to access uTorrent Peer Exchange is a nice feature because Deluge can interact with thousands of utorrent users across the worlds and exchanging peer information effectively with them.

Screenshot

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Resource-wise, Deluge-Torrent is more friendly in processor and memory consumptions compared to Azureus. Its clean and simple user interface makes it the easiest GUI Bittorrent client to use in Linux platform that supports protocol encryption.

Deluge-Torrent can be downloaded from its official website – http://deluge-torrent.org/, Ubuntu users can obtain Deluge-Torrent from the unofficial Ubuntu One-Click Installation portal – GetDeb.net.

[tags]utorrent,bittorrent,torrent,deluge,azureus,opensource,linux,ubuntu.debian[/tags]

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Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon going to include GUI Xorg.conf configurator

Great news for Ubuntu Linux users, now you don’t have to manually edit Xorg.conf file to change the graphic card and display driver perimeter.

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) is going to include a GUI configurator which aims to make it simpler for users to configure X Windows. The new configuration panel also has a ‘fallback’ feature which guards against X Windows failure to start after tweaking its config.

Here are screenshots of Xorg.conf configurator running on Ubuntu Gutsy

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Xorg Ubuntu mypapit #2

[tags]ubuntu,gutsy,gutsy gibbon,xorg,xwindows,opensource,linux,x11[/tags]

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Free Linux Games download List

If you are searching for any games playable on Linux platform, then stop. I’ve found a website which list freely available Linux games for you to kill your time with. The website provides you with the game title along with its genre and the URL to download the Linux version of the game (most of it available in Ubuntu Linux repository).

tux mypapit

So if you’re a kind of guy who like to play games a lot, then I suggest you pay The Linux Gamers’ Game List a visit for a comprehensive list of Linux games.

[tags]Linux,ubuntu,games,open source,opensource,free,freeware[/tags]

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How to use FTP filesystem on Ubuntu using CurlFtpFS

Some web hosting company do not offer shell access (SSH or Telnet) to your shared hosting account for security reasons, making it a bit harder for you to do regular file maintenance for your web account. Although the use of regular FTP client is adequate for most cases, some people still prefer to manipulate files directly using standard Unix tools (probably because of old habits).

Fortunately, there’s CurlFtpFS which allow you to mount remote ftp account as a standard filesystem on your Linux operating system.

Using CurlFtpFS
First of all you need to install CurlFtpFS, which in case of Ubuntu or Debian based operating system is to run ‘sudo apt-get install curlftpfs‘.

Alternatively, you can use Synaptic to install CurlFtpFS.

Assuming you’ve successfully installed curlftpfs, all you need to do in order to mount ftp locally is to to run these commands. 

mkdir hostr
sudo curlftpfs -o allow_other ftp://user:pass@ftp.example.com host

user:pass is the username and password to log into ftp account.

After that, you can change your working directory to the mount-point and use the regular unix utilities to work on the files that normally accessible on the FTP protocol. After you’re done, you can unmount it by running the usual “sudo umount [mountpoint]” command

Using CurlFtpFS in fstab
You can add curlftpfs to fstab for automatic mounting by using this line :

curlftpfs#user:pass@ftp.example.com /mnt/host fuse rw,uid=500,user,noauto 0 0

Note: Please refer to CurlFtpFS website for further reference.

Thanks for reading this post, hopefully this will get you started to use curlftpfs FTP based filesystem in your Linux operating system.

[tags]filesystem,linux,debian,ubuntu,curl,fuse,mount,unix[/tags]

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WordPress 2.2 was finally released

After being delayed for almost a month, WordPress 2.2 was finally released on 15 May 2007. Please refer to my previous WordPress 2.2 post for my personal thoughts about it.

The next WordPress release will be on September 2007, unless if they discovered a critical bug which needs to addressed immediately.

Please read the official release announcement from the official WordPress blog for further information.

[tags]open source, opensource,wordpress,blog,blogging[/tags]

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How to open Office 2007 OpenXML in OpenOffice.org

As you probably know, the latest release of Microsoft Office 2007 uses OpenXML as its default document format. While it is similar to OpenDocument (ODF), it is not currently supported by OpenOffice (in contrast to previous *.doc MS Office binary format).

Workaround for OpenXML files
The first alternative is to download Novell’s version of OpenOffice.org and install Novell OpenXML translator add-ins which enables OpenOffice to open Microsoft’s OpenXML files.

Another alternative is to use docx2doc service to convert OpenXML files to the previous Office 2000 doc format. The service costs USD2 per conversion, and you only need to pay upon successful conversion.

The final and most obvious alternative is to use (or ask somebody with) Office 2007 for converting OpenXML files back to the old Microsoft Office format (*.doc, *.ppt, etc), or use odf-converter add-ins for Microsoft Office to convert OpenXML files.

These are method currently known to me for opening OpenXML in GNU/Linux operating system, please suggest other alternative if you know one.

p/s : Hang on tight, the official OpenOffice.org project may implement OpenXML support in future release, until then, you may want to tell people to avoid sending you document files in OpenXML format.

Credit to Najmi for mentioning some of the solutions

[tags]openoffice,openxml,openoffice.org,microsoft office,docx,office 2007,microsoft[/tags]