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Is Skype + Video + Linux Always a Hassle?

Lee hodson — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:35:18 +0000

Every time I upgrade my favorite Linux distro. I end up without Skype video support. Every time!!! It’s unbelievable. Why can’t Skype make an app that provides out-of-the-box video support for Kubuntu. Anyway, because I keep forgetting how to get my webcam to work with Skype on Linux, I thought I’d write about it here [...]

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Linux: How to Move Flash Movies From Your Browser Cache

Lee hodson — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:18:59 +0000

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 [...]

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How to Let a Bash Script User State the Number of Question Fields

Lee hodson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:55:52 +0000

Now that’s some title for a post. I Couldn’t think how to shorten it but it is shorter than the original title I wanted to use. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I needed to figure out how to write a Bash script that let its users state how many fields or questions the script [...]

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BASH: Filling Web Forms with cURL and wget

Lee hodson — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:00:57 +0000

Oh gosh, another cURL and web form post! I couldn’t resist writing this one. While finding information on formfind I noticed an absence of direct help for people wishing to use it so I thought I’d fill the gap in the market. Questions this post answers: How do I fill out an online form without [...]

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HowTo: Pass Data Variables to cURL to Autofill Web Forms

Lee hodson — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:28:27 +0000

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 [...]

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