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How To Encrypt BitTorrent Traffic

More and more ISP’s are limiting throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question.The list of ISP’s that limit BitTorrent traffic, or plan to do so is growing every day, and according to the BBC, the ‘bandwidth war’ has begun.

Are you not sure if your traffic is being throttled Check the list of bad ISP’s.

But there is a solution. Encrypting your torrents will prevent throttling ISP’s from shaping your traffic. I will explain how to enable encryption in Azureus, µtorrent, and Bitcomet, the three most popular torrent clients.

Click here to read the entire article

(Taken from http://torrentfreak.com)

April 17, 2006 Posted by synapse | Tips and Tricks | | 3 Comments

Installing Sun JRE on Debian

Debian follows the complete free software policy and has a strict adherence to the GPL. When we talk about the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) it cannot be released under the GPL hence Debian won't include the Sun JRE along with it's distribution. It instead has a variety of alternatives like Kaffe virtual machine, Sable and others which are no match to the JRE when it comes to performance and features. If you intend to run programs like Azureus and FreeMind you just cannot do without installing the JRE. This guide explains how you can install the JRE correctly on Debian and the same time set it up correctly.

April 17, 2006 Posted by synapse | Linux, Tips and Tricks | | 2 Comments

Google launches new services

For those of you who didn't know Google has recently launched 2 new services – Google Pages for creating your own ad free web sites and Google Calendar – for organizing all those important events in your life and more. Go ahead, and check them out -

http://pages.google.com

http://calendar.google.com

Also check out the following links -

Click here to view a sample Google Pages site
Click here to view a screenshot of Google Calendar

April 14, 2006 Posted by synapse | Uncategorized | | 2 Comments

Virus that attacks Windows (yawn) as well as Linux!!!

Kaspersky Labs has reported a new proof-of-concept virus that can infect both Windows and Linux systems. It’s called Virus.Linux.Bi.a/Virus.Win32.Bi.a and affects ELF binaries and .exe’s from windows.

For more information goto -
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/virus/story/0,10801,110330,00.html

April 8, 2006 Posted by synapse | Linux, Windows | | No Comments Yet

TuxMag #12 out!

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