Linux

Remotely Control your Torrents on Linux

You have a spare PC lying around or you travel a lot and want to monitor your Bitorrent downloads. Well then what you could do is make yourself a mini seedbox, essentially what a seedbox is a spare computer that you use for torrent downloads now I am going to show you how to create one so that it may be easy for you to monitor your Bittorrent downloads on the go.

First thing’s first we need a torrent client in this case we will be using a modified version of Torrent Flux ( which is a php torrent client) called Torrentflux-b4rt. I choose the modified version because it has more features and also the option to use different back ends. you must be wondering why not just use the uTorrent with its webUI, let me tell you that utorrent webUI has very limited set of features as opposed to TorrentFlux and utorrent webUI cant be accessed from your cellphone if you decide to control it on the go and last but not the least torrentflux is very customizable as you can install plugins and theme to either change the look or to add more features.

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How to Enable extra compiz fusion effects in Mandriva Linux One Spring 2008

I have always used windows infact ever since I started using computer and honestly I have never been a fan of Linux but Mandriva Linux One has changed my opinion about Linux, it has been called “almost perfect Linux distro” by many and rightly so. It is the easiest to use Linux distro i have ever came across and I have started recommending it to every person that wants to switch to Linux from windows.

Now back to compiz fusion, well enabling compiz fusion effects in Mandriva Linux One was a no brainer and easiest to do compared to other Linux distros like ubuntu, when you are done installing Mandriva Linux one it asks you whether you want to use Metisse (that is the 3d desktop effect manager that comes with Mandriva which doesn’t have all the features that compiz has) , Compiz Fusion or no 3d effect at all, just select compiz fusion or if you missed that you can manually select compiz fusion by clicking on the Configure Your Computer icon in the panel (near the show desktop icon) and goto hardware tab and click on Configure 3D desktop effects under the Configure graphics heading. When Mandriva loads up for the first time you will immediately start seeing compiz fusion effects if you chose it. Mandriva installs CompizConfig by default so that you can configure compiz fusion easily, to access compiz config goto menu–>Tools–>CompizConfig Settings Manager.

Now there is a problem Mandriva by default doesn’t have some cool extra compiz fusion plugins like “3D windows” plugin which presents open windows in 3D way by elevating them from the desktop, “Paint Fire on the screen” plugin allow you to write on your screen with fire text which looks uber cool, “Snow” plugin which shows snow on your desktop and few more.

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Dragon Multimedia Player For Linux

There are many Multimedia applications available for various linux distro each one of them provide very exciting and unique features. But what sets VLC( which is the most used media player) apart from the rest is that it has built in codec support which is why most people use it, even though its feature set is not as comprehensive as the other media players. To try and compete with VLC media player dragon player was created. It like VLC is a simple media player that comes with support for many different codecs.

When you first launch dragon player its the simplicity that hits most people

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Control Another Computer Over A Network In Linux

Ever wanted to get help from your friends or wanted to help some friend in doing some specific task, and you wished you could do that using a remote desktop connection but you don’t know how to remotely control a PC, doing so is very easy in Linux I will show you how to do that in this tutorial

We will use two programs for this purpose the first is called KRFB which allows you to create a VNC server so that others can control your computer remotely and the other one is called KRDC which is a VNC client which allows you to control someone’s computer remotely. Both KRFB and KRDC are easily found in the repositories of almost all Linux distro’s so installing them isn’t too much of a hassle

Now if you want someone to control your computer remotely start up krfb and you will get a windows similar to this:

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Visual Walkthrough Of KDE 4.1

The KDE 4 desktop environment was released to much criticism many of which said that it was severely limited, to face those criticisms the KDE organisation worked on KDE 4.1 to battle many of the problems,  I will take you through the new features in KDE 4.1

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1)Upon first boot up of KDE 4.1 the first most prominent feature is the inclusion of a new desktop management widget

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