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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Desktop effects in Ubuntu 8.10 can be used without Compiz, by enabling compositing in Metacity - the Gnome's default window manager.
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There are more ways to enable compositing in Metacity, but first you need to disable Compiz if you are using it. The fastest way is to ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Here is a simple script to get the exchange rates from www.bnro.ro/nbrfxrates.xml
#!/bin/bash
# clear the screen
clear
# display an info message
echo "+------------------------------+"
echo "| BNR exchange |"
echo "+------------------------------+"
# check for parameters
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 eur ...
Posted in Linux, Programming | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
In case the sound events are not working in Pidgin you can use this solution:
From the main menu select Tools -> Preferences (or just press the keyboard shortcut CTRL+p).
From Preferences window select the Sounds tab.
At the Sound method section, for Method select the Command option.
In the Sound command field type:
aplay ...
Posted in Linux, Software | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
The files on a Linux system can have reading permissions, writing permissions, executing (running) permissions or no permissions for the user that owns that files, groups of users or the rest - users who does not own that files and they are not members of any group.
The usual file types ...
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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 ...
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