The fastest way to get whole page or FTP directory contents is to use wget like this:
[code language=”shell”]
wget -r "ftp://dylon.co.cc/Shaun The Sheep (high res) – Series 1 and 2/"
[/code]
However, this may not work always, if destination is secured by password or requires login.
In this situation you may consider rsync…
Tables with multilevel lists inside are rather uncommon element of Microsoft Word documents, but sometimes this is the best solution, you can have. For example, when you need tree-like structure (multilevel list) on the left with additional columns to the right. But, in general, it is harder piece of cake to build and manage them.
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If you simultaneously hold Power and Home at the same time, your Galaxy Tab will capture the screen for you. Images will be available right in gallery. Tip is comming from androidcommunity.com.
To go into the phone’s secret EngineerMenu type this combination: *#*#3646633#*#*.
This might be obvious for many, but since I found nothing doing quick Google, I wrote it down here for my future reference.
While playing with some extra features on my newly purchased QNAP TS-210 at some point I was forced to finally write some bash script to be able to control things, that are uncontrollable via administration panel. For this reason I had to learn myself at least basics of bash, that is installed on my QNAP. I used floppix page and linuxconfig.org Wiki as a base for my learning process (and source for this article), however I had to write down my own memo-list to be able to quickly find, what I’m looking for.
Let us understand it. Windows is stupid and idiotic system. Suppose, you store (remember) your NAS’s Samba username and password, so you don’t have to provide it, each time you access your local network share. If you thenchange your user password, Windows either won’t detect the fact that password has changed or, even if it detect it, it won’t show you login/password dialog box to provide new one. Instead, it continue to provide NAS with wrong (outdated) password.
After using QNAP’s web-panel to format external disk, it suddenly turned out that formatting to any partition type ends with extremely small free disk size. For example, completely empty (as should be after format) 1,5 TB disk, formatted to any Windows type (FAT32 / NTFS) has only 1,9 GB free space. Formatting it to any Linux type (Ext3, Ext4) ends with 1,84 GB free space and formatting to HPS+ with 1,89 GB. In all attempts disk has less then 0,2% free space right after format. Here is the solution, that I came up with after a lot of digging.
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QNAP is built upon Debian, created and designed by a bunch of wise guys, constantly being improved and used around the world, sometimes in very important solutions. Thus, it is generally a safe and secured solution. On the other hand, there isn’t (there never was and there never will be) any thing, done by a human, that another human wouldn’t be able to breke, change, alter or destroy. So, there is always a good idea to improve security, whenever you’re possible to do so. This article discusses some smaller or bigger security holes in Samba on board QNAP with a possible solution or workaround.
Favicon (from “favorite icon“) is an icon displayed in certain places in web browser, when browsing any webpage supporting favicons. It can be displayed before address in URL bar, on browser tab, in favorites list, etc. This is mostly an icon (.ico file) in 16×16 or 32×32 dimensions.
The easiest way for your website to support it, is to put proper file in root folder of your domain or webpage, i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico.
If you need more fine-grained control over this, then this article should help.
Read More “Favicon”This article shows how to display multi-colum ordered and unordered lists using CSS and HTML. This is an example taken from csswizardry.com blog with my small corrections and modification.
Some disks and partition management software (like Partition Commander and Partition Magic) are not prepared to work with disks (or partitions) format introduced in Windows Vista. And it will simply broken your disk, sometimes in the way, that even Windows Recovery Tool is unable to fix it. So, there is a good idea to find a good replacement.
If you just want to look into (or extract) contents of .dmg file, a good, old and free 7-Zip will take care of this. This should also work for Apple .sparseimage files. But, beware that (just like in case of .iso files for Windows) these formats can contain bootable information and or whole disk images (Apple .hps files), rather useless under Windows. So, for example, if someone tell you that he has Windows XP image ready to be used in VirtualPC for Macintosh, keep in mind that you rather won’t be able to use in in Windows version of VirtualPC. Or you’ll have a lot, lot of work with extraction, conversion, tune-up etc.
If you’re using both Office 2007 and 2010 (for example on two different computers) for editing the same document and you have some automatic fields inside document edited in Word, you may find that they’re not properly updated.
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When you go to Options for changing Ribbon settings, in your Word 2007 or Word 2010, you can see a small button at the bottom of button list letting you to change keyboard shortcuts for most areas of you text editor. When you go to exactly the same place in your PowerPoint 2007 or 2010 you my (surprisingly?) notice, that there is no such thing. Googling around the web let’s you discover that this is… normal situation!
2023 Update: It is still a normal situation for Microsoft. Only this time you have to pay 150 USD per year (!) to gain the ability of changing keyboard shortcuts (that is: the most basic feature of every software)!
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If you already don’t know, what Lorem ipsum is, then let me tell you, that it is a non-sense text, incorrectly said to be based on Latin or Greek, used by web developers to fill-up some textual parts of webpage. Mainly to show end-user a placeholder, where a real text finally appear. Instead of for example writing some real article to fill-up example article body, they eager to use this text.
If you don’t like Lorem ipsum of would like to have some replacements for it, then this article may help.
In addition to “addClass, removeClass and hasClass without jQuery” article I wrote an example implementation of getElementsByClassName() method to catch a collection of objects, referencing them by their class name, when you can’t or don’t want to use jQuery and it’s superb class-selectors.
I’m continuing my plays with JavaScript and time functions (after this article). If you want to log-off user after some predefined time has passed, you can do this for example with below presented solution.
If you would like to present an information to your user on how much time did he or she spend on your webpage, then here is a particular example on how to do this the easiest way I found.
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I found original version of this function at breakingpar.com. I have slightly changed function to fit my own purpose and purged original article of a really huge amount of completely unnecessary blah-blah, leaving actually Javascript code itself.
There are at least three solutions, how to map drive letter or directory to a local folder, available in Windows. All are discussed in this article along with some side problems and examples on how each solution can be used.
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Class manipulation methods in jQuery are really handy, but when you need just them and nothing else out of jQuery, then using entire library seems like a little bit mistake. Using own versions of addClass, removeClass and hasClass sounds like a better idea and for this reason I have wrote following article, where you’ll find an example implementation of these methods.
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The task in this post is quite simple. Obtain ID (keyField) of a record holding data for clicked CGridView row and one or more values from it’s columns. If you can/want use jQuery, this isn’t to hard job.
Regular expression was always a nightmare for me. Even though I understand how powerful these can be and I’m trying to use them in many places of my code, they’re still a huge mystery for me.
For this reason I have wrote a simple memo-article with a links to useful blogs, pages and tools for or about regular expressions.
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