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Apple has updated its free Shell Scripting Premier Guide, which is freely downloadable from Mac OS X Developer Library website.
Chapters included in the freely downloadable Shell Scripting Premier:
Available in PDF format together with zip files containing sample scripts as discussed in the book
GNOME should stop trying to mimic other desktop environment and should concentrate building its own identity, because it has been driving people away…
John Goerzen: Please. Stop. Removing. Features.
Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME For Xfce
After two weeks of using GNOME 3, I officially hate it
lowendbox.com is a website that lists bare minimum VPS or Dedicated Server offerings with the lowest price.
For VPS, the category is divided by the virtualization technology and the operating system, as well as the geographical location of the data centers.
Additionally lowendbox.com provides discussion forum for optimizing web server and databases for the bare minimum servers!
OggConvert.com enables users to convert audio files to and from popular audio formats (MP3, OGG Vorbis, Flac, WMA, M4A, Wav) on-the-fly. The website feature a simple interface to accept input file and to provide feedback once the file has been converted.
Best of all, it does not require registration!
Httrack is a tool for copying and saving an entire website in Debian and Ubuntu. Httrack can crawl an online website save each of the pages (including graphic and other downloadable files).
Among httrack features are:
Using ‘httrack‘ is easy, as it has built-in wizard that can guide you through the process of mirroring web sites. The user will be asked a series of question about the URL to be mirrored, the location where the files will be saved, proxy server and the user-agent to be used.
p/s: httrack perhaps is the only open-source website copier/downloader tool available for GNU/Linux operating system. It is efficient and easy to use. The only gripe that I’ve when using ‘httrack‘ is that it does not provide progress feedback (unlike its counterpart in Microsoft Windows) like ‘wget‘
Wow, I never know that strace can be used as a poor man’s ssh keylogger – Poor Man’s SSH Keylogger