Sunday, May 31, 2009

Free ICC World T20 (World Cup) Live Streaming

Watch world T20 (World Cup) Live Streaming Free from England.

Streaming in windows media format.



Schedule of ICC world cup T20 in England.

Date Match


Fri Jun 5

Group B - England v Netherlands
Lord's, London


Sat Jun 6

Group D - New Zealand v Scotland
Kennington Oval, London


Sat Jun 6

Group C - Australia v West Indies
Kennington Oval, London


Sat Jun 6

Group A - Bangladesh v India
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Sun Jun 7

Group D - Scotland v South Africa
Kennington Oval, London


Sun Jun 7

Group B - England v Pakistan
Kennington Oval, London


Mon Jun 8

Group A - Bangladesh v Ireland
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Mon Jun 8

Group C - Australia v Sri Lanka
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Tue Jun 9

Group B - Netherlands v Pakistan
Lord's, London


Tue Jun 9

Group D - New Zealand v South Africa
Lord's, London


Wed Jun 10

Group C - Sri Lanka v West Indies
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Wed Jun 10

Group A - India v Ireland
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Thu Jun 11

Group F - TBC v TBC (D1 v A2)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Thu Jun 11

Group E - TBC v TBC (B2 v D2)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Fri Jun 12

Group F - TBC v TBC (B1 v C2)
Lord's, London


Fri Jun 12

Group E - TBC v TBC (A1 v C1)
Lord's, London


Sat Jun 13

Group E - TBC v TBC (C1 v D2)
Kennington Oval, London


Sat Jun 13

Group F - TBC v TBC (D1 v B1)
Kennington Oval, London


Sun Jun 14

Group F - TBC v TBC (A2 v C2)
Lord's, London


Sun Jun 14

Group E - TBC v TBC (A1 v B2)
Lord's, London


Mon Jun 15

Group E - TBC v TBC (B2 v C1)
Kennington Oval, London


Mon Jun 15

Group F - TBC v TBC (B1 v A2)
Kennington Oval, London


Tue Jun 16

Group F - TBC v TBC (D1 v C2)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Tue Jun 16

Group E - TBC v TBC (D2 v A1)
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Thu Jun 18

1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Fri Jun 19

2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Kennington Oval, London


Sun Jun 21

Final - TBC v TBC
Lord's, London

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Making use of off-peak download cap

The Australian internet companies have two separate sets of caps for us poor souls: peak and off-peak. I am with TPG and their off-peak period is from 1am to 7am. If you are a person who values their sleep like me, there is no way that I would wake up at 1am to start off my torrent downloads. Fear not, there is a very simple solution. Just use uTorrent's scheduler.

uTorrent has an easy to use scheduler. It is available under Preferences->Scheduler. The "Enable scheduler" tick box has to be clicked to activate the scheduler. The scheduler has 7 rows, one for each day. Each day consists of 24 blocks, representing each hour of the day. In order to limit downloads in the off-peak time (ie between 1am and 7am) simply double click to turn the blocks green for each day between 1am and 7am (see screenshot). A single click will make the block pink, which is for seeding only. I value my cap, so I've limited the upload speed of my torrents (the speed at which others can download my torrents) to 1kB/s. This is set below the scheduler.

Windows Command Prompt (CMD) Replacement

I am sick and tired of the boring windows command prompt (cmd.exe). It hasn't changed since windows 95 (or longer). Its such an archaic piece of software that Microsoft just hasn't bother updating. My search for a suitable replacement for the windows terminal ended after discovering Console.

Console is an open source piece of software that is far superior to the Windows terminal. One of the key improvements in Console is that is allows Tabs. I hate having to open up a number of command prompt windows when I have to execute different commands from different locations. Console is fully customizable. While providing functionality to change standard things like the font, background color, mouse behavior, it also has cool features like transparency.

I love to make use of both Windows and Linux functionality. I have cygwin installed on my machine, that brings most of the commands found in the Linux world like grep, find, make etc to the Windows world. However, cygwin doesn't have a decent terminal window. Console can be configured to execute cygwin. Its easy as going to Edit->Setting->Console and setting the shell to \bin\bash.exe and setting the startup directory to the cygwin home directory.