Aria is good. Was able to download 653MB in 2hours 28 minutes.
I have used only one option which specifies the number of threads to be used.
Now should try exploring other options as well.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Aria2 Project- Lightweight multi-protocol download utility
There are many download accelerators available out there for windows (Free Download Manager, Download Accelerator) that help in managing bulky downloads.
Wget, no doubt is one of the most widely used utility. Given the volume of the file for my task, wget is not suitable.
Recently have come across aria2 project. Features:
Hmmm.....That's a decent list of features to atleast motivate me for trying it out.
Lemme(aka Let me( expanded for the crawlers :P)) see how useful this turns out to be.
BTW: Previously, I was using aget, a multi-threaded accelerator that supports HTTP downloads. And yippie that helped me in filling my HD with many useful lectures and files but this was limited to only HTTP. :(
Adding to this the server guys have blocked usage of aget. :(
PS: Here is a small list of available informal contractions.
If you are more interested in the linguistic aspects of contractions and their limitations in usage please read this. I love this article by Browning.
Here is another by Radford.
OK, Thats too much a deviation from the topic and lemme stop here. ;)
Wget, no doubt is one of the most widely used utility. Given the volume of the file for my task, wget is not suitable.
Recently have come across aria2 project. Features:
- light-weight
- multi-protocol
- multi-source
- can be operated in command-line
- HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent( :) ) and Metalink.
- built-in XML-RPC interface. Can be manipulated aria2 via XML-RPC interface.
- Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows.
Lemme(aka Let me( expanded for the crawlers :P)) see how useful this turns out to be.
BTW: Previously, I was using aget, a multi-threaded accelerator that supports HTTP downloads. And yippie that helped me in filling my HD with many useful lectures and files but this was limited to only HTTP. :(
Adding to this the server guys have blocked usage of aget. :(
PS: Here is a small list of available informal contractions.
If you are more interested in the linguistic aspects of contractions and their limitations in usage please read this. I love this article by Browning.
Here is another by Radford.
OK, Thats too much a deviation from the topic and lemme stop here. ;)
Thursday, October 8, 2009
How To Write A Scientific Paper
Ahh.... don't misunderstand and I am not here to teach any guidelines that fit the title of the post. ;)
The article is from Improbable Research, research that makes people laugh and then think.
This is the link for the article.
Hmmm... yeah the article had stuff that left me thinking :)
A nice read.
The article is from Improbable Research, research that makes people laugh and then think.
This is the link for the article.
Hmmm... yeah the article had stuff that left me thinking :)
A nice read.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Linux renew ip address - Force DHCP
We were struggling to bring the network up on Ubuntu machine (using DHCP).
We tried using the commands ifdown and ifup but they were unable to bring network up.
The whole problem was with the IP. The client was not releasing the current IP.
The solution is to release the current IP and renew a new one.
Steps:
1. Release the current IP.
2. Obtain a new IP.
3. Restart the network.
Open the terminal and type the following commands
1. Release the current IP
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo dhclient -r
2. Obtain a new IP
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo dhclient
3. Restart the network
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo ifdown eth0
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo ifdown eth0
OR
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo ifdown eth0
OR
[praneeth@inferno]$ /etc/init.d/networking restart
That's it , the network should be up and running :)
We tried using the commands ifdown and ifup but they were unable to bring network up.
The whole problem was with the IP. The client was not releasing the current IP.
The solution is to release the current IP and renew a new one.
Steps:
1. Release the current IP.
2. Obtain a new IP.
3. Restart the network.
Open the terminal and type the following commands
1. Release the current IP
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo dhclient -r
2. Obtain a new IP
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo dhclient
3. Restart the network
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo ifdown eth0
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo ifdown eth0
OR
[praneeth@inferno]$ sudo ifdown eth0
OR
[praneeth@inferno]$ /etc/init.d/networking restart
That's it , the network should be up and running :)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Evolve 24
Company Name: Evolve 24
Headquarters: St.Louis
Other offices: Chicago, Illinois.
Areas: NLP, IE/IR, social networks
Website: http://www.evolve24.com
Though I didn't get much time to go through this company's profile but from the JD(for scientist) they have posted on linguist list(JD link here), it seems evolve24 is involved in many wide areas like NLP, IE/IR, ML, Social Network analysis etc.
A quick overview of the site gave an impression that the company is involved in estimating risk, identifying information posted on web and analyzing them.
It would be interesting to see how close their work matches with one of my ideas posted here.
In case you get a chance to know about the work at Evolve24 please let me know.
Headquarters: St.Louis
Other offices: Chicago, Illinois.
Areas: NLP, IE/IR, social networks
Website: http://www.evolve24.com
Though I didn't get much time to go through this company's profile but from the JD(for scientist) they have posted on linguist list(JD link here), it seems evolve24 is involved in many wide areas like NLP, IE/IR, ML, Social Network analysis etc.
A quick overview of the site gave an impression that the company is involved in estimating risk, identifying information posted on web and analyzing them.
It would be interesting to see how close their work matches with one of my ideas posted here.
In case you get a chance to know about the work at Evolve24 please let me know.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Textual Analytics
Location: Bangalore
Core Areas: Information Extraction
Website: www.textualanalytics.com
The Bangalore based company is more into IE from webpages and text.
One of their solutions, IntelliExtract, claims to extract named entities, ideas, concepts, associations and relationships with high precision i.e converting the unstructured text into structured data. They also claim to be able to do this for various file types.
Removing of unwanted text (advertisements, banners etc) is one variant and the other is named entity identification.
InfoProfiler, another solution from the company, is centered around extracting important information and presenting it in way that is easy to understand.
Some of the features of InfoProfiler match with that of IntelliExtract.
More information can be found at the company website.
Core Areas: Information Extraction
Website: www.textualanalytics.com
The Bangalore based company is more into IE from webpages and text.
One of their solutions, IntelliExtract, claims to extract named entities, ideas, concepts, associations and relationships with high precision i.e converting the unstructured text into structured data. They also claim to be able to do this for various file types.
Removing of unwanted text (advertisements, banners etc) is one variant and the other is named entity identification.
InfoProfiler, another solution from the company, is centered around extracting important information and presenting it in way that is easy to understand.
Some of the features of InfoProfiler match with that of IntelliExtract.
More information can be found at the company website.
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