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HowTo: Pass Data Variables to cURL to Autofill Web Forms

Getting cozy with cURL

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 doing … [Read more...]

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Kubuntu 11.10 – A Very Early Review

A very early review of Kubuntu 11.10

Is Ocelot ready to pounce? Or is it all oneiric? In the twilight hours of this morning, I thought I'd take a look at the new Kubuntu 11.10, codenamed "Oneiric Ocelot". Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time, in my half-awake non-caffeinated state. Knowing how much you all dislike Ubuntu Unity and how many of you might be considering a change to Kubuntu, I thought you might like a non-technical peek review of Oneiric. I downloaded the 32bit iso from Ubuntu, created a virtual machine in VirtualBox, loaded the iso and booted the machine. Within a couple of seconds I was looking at … [Read more...]

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Faster, Safer, Ad Free Browsing with a Little Domain Blocking

Protecting your computer's wire tentacles from getting tangled up with the Internet's less savory sites can be as simple as pasting a few lines of code into a file. Want to stop your teenage son or daughter downloading games to your computer? Want to stop your husband from watching porn? (we all know the computer forced him to watch it, right?) Or do you want to block all the ads that slow down your Internet browsing? All the above is easily done. You can even kill access to online casinos. In fact, you can block access to any site, even Google, Bing or Facebook, if you want to. All … [Read more...]

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