rtorrent won’t seed

Just a quickie here. I installed rtorrent on my local network on a Debian machine. I would enter a torrent, it would start downloading fine but it wouldn’t upload! Port forwarding on the router is not enough. To be exact it is enough but the port protocol should...

The “Hello World” Collection!

I was crowling the net and i found this extra helpfull page. It is called “The Hello World Collection” and for those of you that are programmers it should ring a bell. It is actually the way to say “Hello World” in 366 programming languages and...

Firefox about:config

It’s been a few years since i stumbled uppon this page in Firefox. This browser is so configurable that just amazes me everyday! Well what i did is i downloaded a plugin for firefox, the vertigo plugin to be exact. What it does is that it lists all the open tabs...

Cannot delete folder… Are you annoyed?

Have you faced this realy annoying message: “Cannot delete folder. It is beeing used by another program or person”? This happens to me frequently. For example when you are writing a word document and suddenly word crushes the file you were editing remains...

JDBC: Communications link failure

This bugged me for a while. I wanted to connect to a mysql server via a java app with the jdbc connector. I kept getting this error: “com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure” and then some reflection got into my...

“File not accessible” when mounting a .bin!

Here is a quickie. I downloaded an image as a bin file. When trying to mount it with Daemon tools i got this error “Unable to mount image. File not accessible!”. This got me confused. I tried alot of stuff and then i figured out that it was that the...