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You can download more than one file using wget. If there’s only any pattern in the names of your files you can use it. Please see this example. Three archives we would like to download: Now see below syntax and see what has been changed: Because of the fact that all above files are part… read more
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Wget: How to Set Download Speed Limit?
2014-08-15 Linux
There’s a possibility to manipulate the speed of files we’re fetching using wget. All you have to add is additional parameter at the end of your request URL. For example: Take a look at:
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Complete List of All MIME Types
2014-05-10 htaccess
This table contains complete list of all MIME types to use while working with .htaccess files.
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qTranslate is quite good plugin which allows your WordPress to handle multiple languages. Unfortunately author of this plug-in implemented it in the way that particular version of qTranslate will work only with particular version of WordPress. It causes an annoying issue when new version of WordPress will be released and author of qT won’t prepare… read more
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Queryloader issue There is no doubt, that Gaya Kessler did an awesome plugin called QueryLoader. Unfortunately, while gathering all images to be preloaded with this plugin, Gaya’s script will crash on graphic elements created with CSS3. Function is crawling for all background images and img tags with src attribute. When it will reach for example… read more
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Midnight Commander is a very popular file manager for Linux operating systems. In this article I will tell you how to install MC in version 4.8.11 on Ubuntu OS. First of all check if you already have MC installed (and if yes, what is its version). If your current version is older, remove it. Open… read more
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How to Check Version of a Package Installed on Linux?
2014-03-01 Linux Will Redirect 🚩
Sometimes you will have to check which version of currently installed package you have. In various distributions of Linux you can achieve this in the same way. Ubuntu will be an example. To get this information, simply open terminal and type this command: As an example I will check which version of Midnight Commander I… read more
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Installation of Restricted Extras on Ubuntu
2014-02-27 Linux Will Redirect 🚩
Due to the Ubuntu’s policy about non free formats on default, this operating system comes with no support to media like MP3 (which can be required to deal with FFmpeg) and DVD, Flash Player or Java. Despite of that, You can still get support of this features by installing third party package. Installation Open terminal… read more
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Natively Xubuntu (as well as any other version of *ubuntu) does not support fingerprint reader. To enable this feature and use it as an alternative way of authentication, you have to install additional package. One of them is called Fingerprint GUI and it supports several fingerprint reader devices. First of all open terminal and check… read more
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phpBB3: How to display number of posts since last visit?
2014-02-20 phpBB Will Redirect 🚩
You won’t find this feature in the default phpBB3 installation. To display number of new posts since last visit you just have to edit small piece of 3 files: Open: and try to find line: After this line add: Note that line you need to look for may look a little bit different. In the… read more