February 28, 2007 · General · 13 comments

Vulture's is an isometric graphics interface to NetHack and SlashEM.Vulture's is a fork of the now dead "Falcon's Eye" project.An isometric graphics interface to NetHack. The interface was called "Falcon's Eye", because the viewpoint resembles a "bird's eye view".This fork of the original "Falcon's Eye" is called "Vulture's Eye". "Vulture's Claw" is the same interface, but for Slash'EM.

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February 27, 2007 · General · 2 comments

rtorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library. The client and library is written in C++ with emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to those found in GUI based clients in an ncurses client.

LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus on high performance and good code. The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transfering directly from file pages to the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections it is able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client.

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February 26, 2007 · General · 7 comments

By default, ubuntu is totally locked and will not allow any incoming connections. To fix this use the following command

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February 25, 2007 · General · 5 comments

The vrms program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian GNU/Linux system, and report all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed.

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February 24, 2007 · Networking · 10 comments

PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD client for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP. Allows connection to a PPTP based Virtual Private Network (VPN) as used by employers and some cable and ADSL internet service providers.

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