131Linux
Extract bookmarks or favorites from your Firefox browser
Getting the URLs in your favorites or bookmarks as a plain list.
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132Linux
Script to download youtube videos as mp3
In order to use this script, you need to do certain things in advance -
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Tigrigna – Eritrean Ethiopian Internet Radio
A link for Internet Radio - mainly Eritrean and Ethiopian Tigrigna music. Some Amharic too.
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134Linux
Modifying user-agent in curl or wget
Recently I was trying to download numerous files from a certain website using a shell script I wrote. With in the script, first I used wget to retrieve the files, bu
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135Linux
Prevent accidental termination of a virtual machine in AWS
Amazon provides extensive tools to manage virtual machines hosted on Amazon web services(AWS). It is very easy to launch VMs, and a lot easier to destroy or terminat
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136Linux
Extract MP3 from Youtube
Got your favorite youtube video and yet you don't have it in an audio format such as mp3 to play it offline? With open source tools, you can grab that video and conv
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Privacy – Carrier IQ fallout
According to its website, Carrier IQ claims that its software is deployed in more than 141 millions handsets. Many of the major carriers and handset makers preinstal
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138Linux
Setup your own Internet music radio station using Shoutcast in Linux
Besides a website, the server running this blog also hosts an Internet Music broadcasting radio. Do you see the "Listen Music" Link on the home page, top right corne
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A must watch – “The Empire in Africa”
The Empire in Africa - A reminder that there are lots of things going on around the World, which we never hear about. This documentary on the "civil war" in Sierra L
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140Linux
Prevent script execution in specific web directories
Most web based attacks tend to occur by uploading malicious scripts into world writable directories such as cache, and then letting the web server execute those scri
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