Easy download torrent files from command line(Linux Terminal)

Posted by tawfekov on 25/10/2009 No comments

This can be achieved by using the ultra-lightweight text-based BitTorrent client “rTorrent”.
If you are using Ubuntu, you can install rTorrent via Synaptic Package Manager, or with this command:

sudo apt-get install rtorrent

You can also get  rTorrent HERE.

Now, we will start using rTorrent. But first, download a ‘.torrent’ file. You can download it through this command:

rtorrent  filename.torrent

20 Linux System Monitering Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know

Posted by tawfekov on 23/10/2009 No comments

Need to monitor Linux server performance? Try these built-in command and a few add-on tools. Most Linux distributions are equipped with tons of monitoring. These tools provide metrics which can be used to get information about systemlinux-logoactivities. You can use these tools to find the possible causes of a performance problem. The commands discussed below are some of the most basic commands when it comes to system analysis and debugging server issues such as:

  1. Finding out bottlenecks.
  2. Disk (storage) bottlenecks.
  3. CPU and memory bottlenecks.
  4. Network bottlenecks.

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Improving the speed of Firefox 3

Posted by tawfekov on 19/10/2009 No comments

How to Improve the speed of Firefox 3 :

We all know Firefox is a memory hog. To speed things up greatly, do the following:

  • Open Firefox and in the address bar type about:config.
  • Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise
  • Use the search bar above to look for network.http.pipelining and double click on it to set it’s value to True.
  • Create a new boolean value named network.http.pipelining.firstrequest and set that to True, as well.
  • Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, double click on it, and change its value to 8
  • Look for network.http.proxy.pipelining and set it to True.
  • Create two new integers named nglayout.initialpaint.delay and content.notify.interval, set them to 0.
  • Restart your browser.

All done. You should feel the browser is 5x more responsive than before while navigating websites.