Transmission BitTorrent Client on Asus RT-N66U

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The Asus RT-N66U is the wireless router that has been serving my home Wi-Fi needs for the past 2 years or so. This router is a very powerful piece of equipment that comes with dual-band Wi-Fi, Gigabit switching, USB ports plus many more features. It also ships with ASUSWRT Download Master – a client to download files over HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, eMule and NZB networks. For downloads, I am particularly only interested in BitTorrent downloads using the Transmission BitTorrent client – the default BitTorrent client of many UNIX and Linux distributions.

Unix / Linux: How to Print Shared Library Dependencies

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Almost all programs on UNIX and/or Linux use shared libraries. Only some programs, like the root shell, /sbin/sh, on old versions of Solaris, used to be statically linked. It is no longer the case for the current Solaris releases. It was mainly due to historical reasons when disks used to be small in size (usually 128MB or less in size) and the shared libraries in /usr/lib were mounted from a second disk or NFS server. If you boot a server into single-user mode, it may not mount partitions other than the root partition, thereby breaking any dynamically linked program.

How to Export Mails from Thunderbird to Outlook

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When my corporate Outlook mail client kept crashing, I migrated all my mails to Thunderbird. There were no more crashes, but my e-mail productivity took a dive. I could not respond to mails sent using Outlook’s voting buttons as Thunderbird has no such feature. Mail replies from Thunderbird looked different than if you were to send replies in Outlook. I was spending more time tweaking Thunderbird than clearing my mails. With efficiency going down, I decided to revert back to Outlook after struggling with Thunderbird for about 6 months.

How to Extract Unencrypted Whatsapp Chat Messages

On Android, WhatsApp stores encrypted copies of the chat messages onto the SD card. These encrypted copies are denoted by the .crypt, .crypt5, .crypt6 and .crypt7 file extensions. They are generated from the master database file stored in the following location:

How to Decrypt WhatsApp crypt7 Database Messages

WhatsApp has once again changed the algorithm to encrypt all the chat history messages saved on the SD card. This new encryption method is denoted by the .crypt7 filename extension.

How to Sleep in Shell Script

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Sometimes you will need to pause execution for a specific period within a shell script. To do that, you will need to use the sleep command to delay for a specified amount of time in seconds, minutes, hours or days.

Offline Heartbleed Vulnerability Scanner Tools

Numerous online Heartbleed vulnerability scanners have popped up recently. These sites claim that they are able to identify websites that are vulnerable to the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug. So what happens if one of the Heartbleed scanning websites concludes that your site is vulnerable? It means that the owners of the scanner websites know that sensitive data can be retrieved from your site by exploiting the Heartbleed bug.

Shell Script to Get Last Character of a String

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There are a couple of ways to extract the last character of a string within a shell script. The easiest way is if you are working on bash shell – as bash will get the job done without the help of any external utilities.

Download YouTube Videos Using Open Source Software

You may have come across numerous methods of downloading videos from YouTube. From browser addons, online websites, software utilities and many others. But most often, you will just be greeted with numerous popups and advertisements even though the download job gets done.

How UnoDNS From UnoTelly Work

I have been a cable TV subscriber for more than a decade and of late I have started looking around for a cheaper alternative. Netflix has been on my radar but it is still not officially available yet in my country of residence – Singapore.