Monthly Archives: August 2008

Reusing SSH connection

Posted on August 25, 2008 by spsneo

Very often, while working on a network node via SSH, we need multiple connections to the same node. For example, say you are connected to a node A, and then you need to transfer a file to the same node … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, SSH | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Download Files Larger Than The Download Limit

Posted on August 18, 2008 by spsneo

Yesterday I had to download a file of size 232 MB. As I connect to the Internet via proxy and the authorities have restricted the file size download limit to 150 MB, I had to find some alternative. Similar scenarios … Continue reading →

Posted in curl, Linux, proxy | Tagged , , , | 20 Comments

Random Wallpapers in Gnome

Posted on August 9, 2008 by spsneo

There are many softwares in Windows(TM) which changes the wallpaper randomly from a given set of images. I was thinking of this for my Linux machine. I came up with a shell script. Though there can be many other ways. … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, Linux | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

VLC: Command Line Interface

Posted on August 5, 2008 by spsneo

This post is for those who love to work out everything from the terminal. Ever wondered how to play media files (audio or video) from the terminal ?? Check out !! First a screenshot : In this post I assume … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, vlc | Tagged , | 7 Comments

A nice hidden feature of Firefox 3.0

Posted on August 4, 2008 by spsneo

Firefox search bar is of great help. But the problem comes when one has to search in different search engines. say you have to search for IIT Guwahati in wikipedia. Now what you can do is search for IIT Guwahati … Continue reading →

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