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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 ...
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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 ...
Posted in Internet, Microsoft Office, Software, Windows | 1 Comment »
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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