Running uTorrent under wine works pretty well in Linux. For a quick overview of installation, see this HowTo Ubuntu blog post. One problem with installing under wine is that file associations are not set correctly. This means that double-clicking a .torrent file or opening a .torrent link in your browser won’t automatically start uTorrent. Here’s how to solve that.
RealPlayer on x86_64 (amd64) Debian Linux
August 1st, 2008
There are a few tricks to getting RealPlayer to work right under x86_64 Linux. Realplayer is a 32-bit application and needs a bit of coercing to run smoothly.
Making KDE Play Nice on a GNOME Desktop
July 30th, 2008
I prefer GNOME for the most part, but some KDE applications are simply better than their GNOME counterparts. That said, there are some problems getting them to work well together. I recently discovered that installing k3b cause my GNOME menus to, for lack of a better word, explode. Here’s how I went about fixing them.
Monitoring a UPS with nut on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
July 30th, 2008
There are two different ways to monitor a UPS with nut: either expose the UPS hardware to GNOME Power Manager through hal or monitor the UPS directly with upsmon and upsd. There are trade-offs with each approach. Let’s take a look at both.
