Muthiah Muralitharan bagged his 700th victim and still looking for many...

Yesterday (14-Jul-2007), Muralitharan bagged his 700th Wicket, that of Syed Rasel (of Bangladesh) and became the second cricketer in history to reach the milestone. Shane Warne is leading in front with 708 wickets.

What's great about these 2 players is that, both are spin bowlers, who made the art of spin bowling to such higher levels. Earlier days of cricket, bowler means fast bowler. Spinners are only meant for bowling the slog overs. Now the scenario changed a lot. Even in one-day international matchesspinners are holding a key role to win the match.

One is a classic leg spinner while the other one is a wily off spinner. Both are hard workers and always experiment new variations. Both are masters of googly, flipper, staright balls, quicker ones. Its very difficult to predict their ball until the ball reaches the hands of the wicke keeper or it takes the bail or it will land in the hands of a fielder or abtsman's leg to be LBWed. Each single ball they bowl is a treat to watch. Even the most dangerous batsmen in the world will be watchfull against these bowlers.

But, both these players are the companions of controvery always. Shane Warne for his personal life and Muralitharan for his bowling action.

Muralitharan's bowling action had been a hot issue in cricketing arena. Umpires notified him of a chukker. The infamous Sri Lanka - Australia test match in 1995, where umpire Darryl Hair judged his bowling as no ball. But, the whole Sri Lankan team and their cricketing body stood behind him. And the ICC conducted lots of bio-medical tests on him. Finally it was revealed as, he is having some disablity in his right hand and he is not a chukker.

Also, the law of ICC regarding the chukking is changed as stating a bowler can bnd his arm upto 15 degrees. By that, Muralitharan came inside that limit and automatically his bowling action also became legal.

As Murali is taking more and more wickets, ICC will be under pressure.

Whatever may be the case, the fact is that, Murali is a great bowler and a true sports man and a good human being. He is cool guy, always smiling.

Increase the speed of torrent file download with utorrent... by optimizing the settings..

Pls visit my previous post for basic idea about the bittorrent file sharing @ http://new-kerala.blogspot.com/2007/07/basic-knowledge-about-torrent-file.html

Note: The settings are based on 256kbps broadband internet connection and uTorrent 1.7 version (which I'm using.. :). Pls make proportionate changes according to your internet speed.

First go to Options>Preferences>Downloads

Under Other Settings,

1. Append .!ut to incomplete files: UNCHECKED

2. Pre-allocate all files: CHECKED

3. Prevent standby if there are active torrents: CHECKED (if unchecked, system will go standby mode before completing the download).

Go to Options>Preferences>Connection

1. Under ‘Port used for incomming connections‘ enter any port number. It is best to use a port number above 10000. I use 54322.

2. Randomize port each time µtorrent starts: UNCHECKED. I leave this unchecked because I have a router. If you do not have a router or a firewall, and want extra security,check this option.

3. Enable UPnP port mapping (Windows Xp or later only): UNCHECKED. I leave this unchecked because I have experienced it slowing down speeds. It is not needed if you manually port forward.

4. Enable NAT_PMP port mapping:CHECKED

5. Add µtorrent to Windows Firewall exceptions (Windows XP SP2 or later only): UNCHECKED (do this only if you have windows firewall disabled)

Under Global Bandwidth Limiting/ Upload,

6. Maximum Upload rate : 9 (for 256 connection)

Note: If you use your Maximum upload speed there’s not enough space left for the files you are downloading. So you have to cap your upload speed.
You can calculate the optimal upload speed…by actual upload speed * 80%

7. Alternate upload rate when not downloading : UNCHECKED

Go to Options>Preferences>BitTorrent

1. Global Maximum Number of Connections: 90 (for 256k connection)This number should not be set too low or the number of connections made to your torrents will be limited. Setting it too high may cause too much bandwidth to be used and can cause slowdowns.

2. Maximum Number of connected peers per torrent: 60 (for 256k connection)If you see that the peers connected to a specific torrent are exactly this number, or very close, increase this number to improve speeds.

Optimize this setting by, calculating upload speed * 1.3

3. Number of upload slots per torrent: 3 (for 256k connection)This depends on how much you want to upload to other users. Do not set too low or it may affect download speeds.

4. Use additional upload slots if upload speed <90%: CHECKED

5. Enable DHT Network: CHECKED. This is recommended to be checked to improve speeds. More people will be available for sharing if this is checked.

6. Enable DHT for new torrents: CHECKED

7. Enable Local Peer discovery: CHACKED

8. Enable Peer Exchange: CHECKED

9. Ask Tracker for scrape information: CHECKED

Go to Options>Preferences>Queueing

Under Queue settings,

1. Maximum number of active torrents(upload or download) : 1 (for 256k connection)

2. Maximum number of active downloads : 1 (for 256k connection)

Go to Options>Preferences>Advanced

Set the value of net.max_halfopen: 50

Maximum download speed
Setting your maximum download speed to unlimited will hurt your connection. So use this to calculate your optimal setting.
download speed * 90%

Basic knowledge about torrent file sharing.. uploading and downloading..

Now a days its common knowledge that, if you have a broad-band internet connection at home, you can download full length movies and videos. And its free. You can enjoy watching rare videos, some of your old favourites, the movies which is very difficult to get from even a video library(I am not recommending anybody to download the pirated movies or videos or softwares or anything from internet and I myself is not doing the same..So, make sure that the file you are downloading is an authorized one, otherwise you may get into some serious problems).

I am just passing some tips on how to increase your torrent file download. Before that, I will just explain you about, whats this torrent files and why this is very popular.

Previously, we were using http file transfer technique to download and upload files from one system to another. We used to download some songs and videos which are in the size range of 5-10 MBs or at the most 20 MBs.. If you are trying to download bigger sized files, say a movie, which will have a size of 1-1.5 GB, you know the difficulty..rt..??? It will take lot of time, sometimes, if the connection is lost in between the download, you have to start all over again. Its painful..rt..??

So, there comes how torrent file sharing is dominating the normal file sharing.

In traditional http file sharing, the file will be transferred as a single unit. But torrent is relying on the devide and rule policy.here in torrent technology, the file, say of 2GB size, will be devided into smaller ones, say of the size of 512KB each (with a larger no of files of about 2000...). So, there should be some tool to manage downloading all these individual pieces and then join it together to make the original file.

There are lots of such torrent file downloader tools available from internet, like, bitcomet, bittorrent, azureus, bittornado, utorrent etc. I feels utorrent is better among all the clients available.

Unlike the normal way of downloading, here, each downloader has to do the uploading also. The client which you are using for downloading will take care of uploading also. The torrent tracking sites will insist for a download/upload ratio of a minimum of 1. By such a mechanism , what will happen is that, its not from a single machine that you are downloading. You may be downloading from another 20 machines. The downladd client will show you even the IP address of each of the peers from where you are downloading and to which you are uploading.

For a 256kbps speed broadband connection, you can get a maximum of 30kb/sec download speed. You can reach upto this speed if you can fine tune the settings of your torrent file downloader client.

Some of the most popular torrent file downloading web sites are, http://www.torrentportal.com , http://thepiratebay.org/, www.bittorrent.com/, http://www.demonoid.com/ etc..

In the next article I will give you tips on how to increase your download speed by optimizing the settings of your utorrent file.