uTorrent?

I recently installed Windows over Ubuntu, Vista to be specific and after finally getting it fully setup I dissapointingly got a BSOD, at first I thought my hardware was failing so I did a memory check and scandisk and for good measure installed a antivirus. This didn't stop the blue screens however, but I realised that every time I started my laptop I was starting uTorrent. So it turns out that while uTorrent was downloading a BSOD occured, more specificly I discovered that only while continuing a torrent I had started in Transmission caused the BSOD, other torrents downloaded fine.

I decided to try replicate this at work, which has plenty of machines to spare. So I setup Ubuntu on one computer and Vista on another, started a torrent with Transmission and copied the partial download from the Ubuntu computer to the Vista computer and added and started it with uTorrent, behold a BSOD.

Looks like I discovered a problem, probably in NTFS-3G, Windows or uTorrent.

Upon this realisation I searched Google for anyone else encountering the problem and found a thread on the official uTorrent forums http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=53839

I posted steps to reproduce the problem and stated that other Torrent applications did not cause the BSOD with the Administrators/Moderators replying that uTorrent is perfect and it is a problem with my machine or drivers after which I restated that I had tested this on multiple machines.

I gave up responing, but to finish my torrents I ended up setting up a Virtual Machine and used Transmission to download a bit more of the torrent then uploaded the changed file back to Vista using Samba..

Ubuntu Compiz

Are you suffering from video and misc applications flickering? Apparently Compiz interferes with applications drawing to the screen. To work around you need to change your video render to X. To fix you need to disable Compiz.

Thanks Ubuntu community.

Pidgin has useless plugins

dcop: not found shown in terminal while pidgin locks up? Kill your audio player process. If it still occurs open audio player, open pidgin and disable musictracker.

Thanks musictracker.