Archive for 'Linux' Category

rtorrent packages for ubuntu gutsy

16 September 2007

The latest available version in gutsy for rtorrent is 0.7.4. But I’m using a private tracker with, somehow, bizarre rules. One of those is that they just accept the latest stable version of any kind of client.
So, I’ve packaged libtorrent and rtorrent. If you also need them use my repo (namely, add this to your […]

Contribute to the Open Source today!!!

7 September 2007

So, what do I have behind this flashy headline? People using any kind of free software should have felt that they could give something back to the community, but not always this people is ready to prepare a patch or document an application. Besides, people is lazy, and some really amusing project can seem boring […]

Lighttpd rewrite in wordpress

17 August 2007

Permalinks are the good thing (TM) and are easy to remember. Nevertheless, they are not that easy to configure in lighttpd. I’ve found some rewritings on the net, but none of them were working for me. Probably the issue is using Gengo… I’m not really sure. But after all the hassles, short and easy […]

Ubiquity Crypto Support

14 August 2007

Ubuntu is a Debian based Linux distribution (well, maybe you knew this already). And with the success of the first one, features get into Ubuntu faster than in Debian, that has more ‘conservative’ releasing methods (do you remember how long did they need to migrate to X.org? and what about the 3-years woody life?)
With this […]

Amazon Web Services: EC2

30 May 2007

Most of the people that needs to manage with lots of information and bandwidth already know the existence of Amazon S3. It provides a developer-friendly and simplistic usage-based storage solution (oh yeah: please Amazon, hire me). Anyway, it’s probably nothing really new aside from the pricing model.
Now in beta (one of those awful recurrent Web […]