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Intended for those using Qstat - a command line game server query application for Linux:

Had some various stability issues with a few apps in Ubuntu Edgy recently, so took the lunge and proceeded with the Fiesty update via the very easy to use 'Update Manager'.

Anyway, it all went flawlessly, except for one thing - truecrypt. Whenever I attempted to mount my encrypted disks, I was getting an error:
failed to load truecrypt kernel module

Did a few google searches, and found a few solutions regarding recompiling truecrypt, etc, none of which seemed to be a quick fix, or those that were (i.e. modprobe -f) didn't seem to work.

I was using 4.2a prior to today, and there had been two updates since then ( now 4.3a). Anyway, the easy fix was just to uninstall the old version, and then install the new version.

dpkg -r truecrypt
dpkg -i truecrypt_4.3a-0_i386.deb

Also, another bit of news, Virgin Blue (a cheap airline for flying domestic through Australia, and to the pacific) started an airfare sale yesterday, so I was able to grab $137 tickets (each way) to Melbourne (from Perth), for the next Linux Conference. The only downside is, they're at abnormal times of the day, i.e. 6am and 7am takeoff's.. normally this wouldn't be that bad a think, but the day we leave is the 27th's - which for non-Australians, this is the day after Australia Day (our version of Independence Day).. so no getting trashed that night..

Usually I use ncftp to transfer files around, as it has cool recursive put & get features. But recently, I needed a command line ftp client with some form of rate limiting. This is because, over 100mbit LAN, files can come across very fast (10MB/s), which will result in a disk getting slammed, and even in DMA mode, the CPU getting sucked away.

A quick search in google for "linux ftp client limit speed" revealed a little utility called 'axel' (A light download accelerator for Linux.).

$ axel -s 500000 <a href="http://example.com/somedisk.iso">http://example.com/somedisk.iso[/geshifilter-code]
Will download the somedisk.iso file at 500KB/s.

Axel has a few other features too, like max connections, etc.

The well know 'wget' also has a rate limiting feature "--limit-rate=RATE", but I forgot about that parameter until after I wrote this post.. and besides.. typing "-s 500000" is a lot quicker then "--limit-rate=500000".. :)

I guess this post is more of a note to myself, rather then being a informative/useful contribution to the Internet blogging world.. Oh well..

Setting up my Canon IP1000 printer in Ubuntu, was actually quicker and easier then in Windows i.e. no restarting your OS!

This guy generously worked on and packaged up various sets of drivers for Canon and Epson printers for use in Ubuntu and Debian. Check it out: http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/