by stratosg | May 19, 2008 | Quickies
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...
by stratosg | May 15, 2008 | Tutorials
Since my early days with Java many stuff have impressed me but, among the things that impressed me the most, is the Remote Method Invocation (RMI). It makes it very easy to create applications over a network. One hard part about it was that we had to create what we...
by stratosg | May 14, 2008 | Tutorials
Now this is something i didn’t know. I always thought that the PDF files are just jibberish bytecodes. This is not absolutely wrong but most of it is not right… What actually happens is that PDF represents documents as structured data. Opening a pdf...
by stratosg | May 13, 2008 | Quickies
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...
by stratosg | May 12, 2008 | Quickies
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...
