So you've just watched a movie, you like it and want a backup copy of it. You've looked in your browser's cache directory and you've looked in your computer's tmp directory but you just can't find the flash file for the video; and you won't find it because Flash deletes the file then reads and writes the deleted file using it's file descriptor. Whatever you do, do not close the browser tab that your video is playing in. The following instructions apply to Linux. The example below shows how to copy a Flash (flv) file that's been played in Google's Chrome browser. Details for doing this … [Read more...]
HowTo: Pass Data Variables to cURL to Autofill Web Forms
August 18, 2011 By 3 Comments
Getting cozy with cURL This isn't a top 10 magical things to do with cURL post. There are plenty of them around the Net and you will find a few links at the bottom of here to prove that. No, this post is about one thing, using a variable to send data to cURL without it getting jumbled up in the process. cURL is a command-line utility for fetching and sending data to servers. It's a little like wget. You might think you can simply create a variable and use that variable in your cURL command and expect cURL to know what to do with it but that doesn't quite work, as anyone who's tried … [Read more...]
Install FUSE into Ubuntu the Easy Way - Use a Script
July 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Manic Miner on Fuse Making friendly suggestions on a forum is not always a good idea: you never know where it's going to lead. When I saw a request for feature ideas for upcoming versions of FUSE, the Spectrum emulator, posted on the World of Spectrum website little did I know that one simple comment asking for FUSE to be made easier to install into Ubuntu would lead me to write an installer script. When someone on the forum wrote "hint, hint, hint: man bash. you really can contribute that bash one-liner to FUSE then. %-)" in reply to my writing "[as] much as I'd like to give FUSE more … [Read more...]
