Archive for August, 2008

How to download under Terminal or ssh, using wget

That's amazing everything you can do under linux, you don't even need to open your internet browser to download a file. Well, when you are connected to your dedicated or private server through ssh, you don't have any desktop.

wget will provide you functions to do almost any kind of HTTP/FTP downloads.
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How to redirect a URL without www to a normal URL

This tutorial will show you several ways on how to redirect an URL without any www at the beginning.
For example, you go to:

mywebsite.com

You'll be redirected to:

www.mywebsite.com

I'll show you how to do this using .htaccess file, and then using conf files.
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Funny Things to do under Linux Terminal

Getting bored under Linux? How's that even possible? You can do almost anything under Linux. But if you need to have some fun, try these things!
In this tip, I'll show you: cowsay, cowthink, star wars using Telnet, the fun man pages, cmatrix, bb, aafire, pacman4console.
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Learn how to find files using Terminal, Find and Grep

This tutorial will help you learn how to find files, or find files containing a given text using the terminal. We will use commonly "built-in" commands, such as : find and grep.
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