Main Page
From nikosapi.org
Welcome to nikosapi.org
This site is a place for me (nikosapi) to put up stuff I find interesting.
Quick Links:
nikosapi's ramblings
- Bypass Bell?s BitTorrent Throttling With rTorrent
- This assumes you have tor and privoxy installed (and privoxy is accepting connections on port 8118). rtorrent \ -i `curl whatismyip.org 2>/dev/null` \ -O encryption=require,require_RC4 \ -O http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8118 It's that easy
- (Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:53:53 -0400)
- Site Updates
- Today I finally got around to moving this website to a proper webserver with a ton of bandwidth If you find any dead links/broken pages please contact me, I'll make sure they get fixed ASAP.
- (Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:02:33 -0400)
- foo2svi
- A couple weeks ago my brother purchased a Samsung YP-P2, it's an mp3 player with video and bluetooth capabilities. It's a decent player but for some odd reason it ships with MTP mode enabled by default. This is rather annoying because it requires use of an application to transfer media files to the device. On [...]
- (Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:47:51 -0400)
- LIRC + Ubuntu 8.04 + Xbox DVD Playback Kit
- After upgrading to ubuntu 8.04 my favorite IR receiver stopped working The only clue was a mysterious error in my dmesg: lirc_atiusb[8]: inbound endpoint not found After a bunch of poking around it turns out that if the xpad module is loaded before lirc_atiusb then the latter module fails to access the device. As [...]
- (Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:24:58 -0400)
- Stop Swapping!
- At an MLUG meeting a few months ago someone mentioned a cool trick that can alleviate the pains of swapping. If you use a big app that forces you to run out of ram Linux will move some of the less used ram contents to your swap space (normally on your hard disk) to prevent [...]
- (Tue, 13 May 2008 14:50:44 -0400)
