Someone asked me if a YouTube clip can be saved locally (eg. as MP3 file). Being a Linux enthusiast I already knew that "on Linux one can do anything" so I gave it a try. On Linux make sure you…
Convert YouYube to MP3
Editing files over www
Editing files over www? Yes, that's right. In fact Sir Tim Berners Lee - the WorldWideWeb's inventor - had the vision of a read/write World Wide Web (www) not read-only as we know it today. The idea behind the WWW…
System recovering after accidentally removing sysvinit
In Unix-based computer operating systems, init (i.e. initialization) is the first process started during booting of the computer system. It is just a daemon that is starting just after the kernel and which reads the /etc/inittab file in order to…
Undelete files on Linux
To continue my series of "Oops i did it again" I would like to explain few methods that allows you to undelete files on Linux. One of the fastest and easiest method I found so far is with the help…
No protocol specified
If you get the error below while you are trying to launch an application under Wine (or even while you just work on Linux without knowing what is or using the Wine): No protocol specified Application tried to create a…
XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
If it happens to get the following error message while you are compiling some program from source code: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool then you should know the real…
Remote Desktop on Linux
This article provides a brief insight of what is and what to use as Remote Desktop on Linux. I'm not trying to describe the concept itself because nowadays everyone should already be familiar with it. I would rather try to…
Suspend and hibernate Linux remotely
I know how to wake up my computer remotely via WOL magic packet. But how about to suspend or hibernate it? Well, this has something to do with the power management, doesn't it? So it would be sensible to think…
MySQL SSH connection
OK, so you are a programmer and you have a website/database hosted on a host company/cloud. You want to access your MySQL database remotely but your host company says that they cannot open the 3306 port (MySQL). My question to…
Query eBay purchase history
eBay is great except that they don't want to show you how much you have spent over a period of time. Maybe this is a strategic feature, I don't know and I don't care. I just need it! Lately I've…