Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Copy from Firefox and paste into Excel

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

You've probably already noticed that if you try to copy a table from Firefox and paste into an Excel spreadsheet, using the classic methods the table formatting is not preserved, and the data from the table is copied into one cell from the Excel spreadsheet. The solution is to paste the ...

WGET – usage tips

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Examples: If you need only to download something from an url: wget http://cristian-radulescu.ro/image.gif With user (abc) and password (abc123): wget http://cristian-radulescu.ro/document.pdf --user=abc --password=abc123 Download from an url list (list.txt): wget -i list.txt When the connection fails you can continue: wget -c http://cristian-radulescu.ro/arhiva.zip The default number of retries is set to 20. Set the number of retries to infinity: wget -t ...