Category Archives: Software

Midnight Commander preserve saved settings

December 3, 2009 | No comments

Midnight Commander, one of the most used CLI file managers available for Linux is unable to preserve settings over different sessionsContinue reading →

Copy from Firefox and paste into Excel

December 3, 2008 | 2 Comments

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.Continue reading →

Internet Explorer bug – duplicate characters

March 2, 2008 | No comments

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.Continue reading →

How to activate sounds in Pidgin

January 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

In case the sound events are not working in Pidgin you can use this solution.Continue reading →

WGET – usage tips

November 17, 2007 | No comments

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.txtContinue reading →