Anil Gulecha's Musings

Debtorrent on Nexenta

Find your packages downloading slow on Nexenta? Debtorrent is a technology that brings bittorrent to apt packaging system. We’ve added support for debtorrent on nexenta.org, so you can now seed packages you download for others.. this makes download faster for users living near you.

Setting up

To setup debtorrent, simply run

apt-get install debtorrent

Now tha you have debtorrent running (by default on port 9988, add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.lst

deb debtorrent://localhost:9988/apt.nexenta.org hardy-unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src debtorrent://localhost:9988/apt.nexenta.org hardy-unstable main contrib non-free

Debtorrent is intelligent enough to fallback to normal http mode if debtorrent doesnt work (or there is no one seeding the required package)

Advanced configuration

Debtorrent works great in a LAN environment. So one PC would use the above configuration, and the rest would connect to this single one.

Instructions

Full instructions for setting up can be found on our debtorrent page.

To learn more about debtorrent, visit its homepage.

So I’ve been learning to play the guitar for around 3 months now.

It’s coming along well

I figured I’d plug Tuxguitar and a few sites/apps I’ve been using.

Windows users might know of Guitar Pro which is a software that allows creation of tabs and plays them back.

However what most users dont know is that a free (gratis) and open source equivalent called tuxguitar exists.

This will be very helpful when viewing the *.gp3, *.gp4 and other files that are available on various guitar tab sites.

(Or view those rumoured hundreds of thousands of tabs I’d heard are available on some peer2peer technologies )

It is written in Java and is thus available on Windows, Linux, Solaris or any architecture with a JVM. Tuxguitar in the Ubuntu 8.04 repository has known sound issues on AMD64.. so you better get the latest version directly from the site.

Also very useful to practice your strumming is GTick (On ubuntu simple apt-get install gtick). One good page to learn strumming is here.

Happy guitaring.