Use wget or curl to download from RapidShare Premium
This article describes how to use the command line download managers wget and curl in order to download files from your Rapidshare Premium account.
Category Archives: Desktop
Send a text file as SMS with a Sony-Ericsson mobile
I thought that sending a text file as a text message through the GSM network’s short message service would be a trivial task either it was performed from within the phone’s operating system or from a computer that runs a flavour of Linux. Once again, I have been badly misled. In 2007, this task still…
How to create a Windows bootable CD with mkisofs
Generally, the only reason for which you may need to create a bootable Windows CD is when you have updated the operating system installation files with the latest Service Pack (slipstream). Even in this case, chances are that most users will rather use standard windows software to create the bootable CDs than mkisofs under Linux,…
TV Grabbing On A Pentium 3
Lately, I have been revising a script I use for video grabbing from a bt878-based TV tuner card. What such a task requires is real CPU horsepower, but my desktop PC can only offer an old Pentium III 700MHz running at 933MHz. I decided to squeeze all the performance out of this overclocked processor in…
GNOME 2.14, Rawhide, SUSE and more…
Apparently, Fedora Core 5 will ship with GNOME 2.14. Checking the release dates on both projects, it seems that the 15th of March 2006 (according to the published schedules) will be a hot day for Fedora users and GNOME fans.