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Midnight Commander preserve saved settings

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

After installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) I have noticed that Midnight Commander, one of the most used CLI file managers available for Linux is unable to preserve settings over different sessions. The solution is quite simple: in order to save it's settings, Midnight Commander requires a ".mc" folder (notice the ...

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 ...

Internet Explorer bug – duplicate characters

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

One of Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 bugs, consists in repeating (duplicating) some characters from the end of some elements with the CSS atribute - float. What's triggering this bug: Using HTML comments inserted between the elemens with the float attribute. Hidden elements using display: none Solutions to prevent the duplication of the ...

How to activate sounds in Pidgin

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 ...

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 ...