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I think most of us have used the wget command once or twice.
What i will do now is explain a few tips and tricks on using this useful command.
1. Download many files at the same time
2. Download and resume
3. Limit your download to a specific speed
4. Split your download for faster results
5. Log your download
6. Download in the background and keep using the terminal

Common use of wget:

1. Download many files at the same time
There is more then one way to do this, my favourite one is to create a .txt file using the vi command and write in it the URLs of the files you want to download

write in it

Then run wget using the -i argument

2. Download and resume
You can force wget to resume any broken download like this

3. Limit your download to a specific speed
You can use this when downloading a big file and you don’t want the connection to choke

4. Split your download for faster results
Just like free download manager or download accelerator on windows
To do this we will have to use awget instead of wget

Note that i could not find aget in the repos. However you can download a .deb package from http://www.enderunix.org/aget/

5. Log your download
Log all your downloads into a file

6. Download in the background and keep using the terminal

Note that doing the above will automatically create a log file for the download process
To specify your own log file location do the following

Hope this helps
// Jo

Here you are, doing a photo gallery and in that photo gallery you have many thumbnails that on click will display the larger picture.
If you are using the simple “document.getElementById(‘someid’).innerHTML=’‘” or many other javascript method to load your images then you have a problem.
When the user click he will have to wait for the image to load and sometimes will see parts of the images opening bit by bit.
This javascript preloader will load all your desired images in the background and so when you call them they are ready to be displayed

This will come handy also a lot when doing a javascript slide show… but this will be my next post here

Demo: http://joeabiraad.com/demos/preloader/
Files: http://joeabiraad.com/demos/preloader/preloader.rar

Hope it helps
//Jo

The last CSS tutorial i wrote was about making a two level menu using CSS/JS, well this one is about fixed footers…



You know how it is ! you just wanna keep this footer still while navigating through the page.

Peace of cake

The main thing is to fix that position to bottom: 0px and the rest will follow !

Check the demo http://mazesolutions.me/demos/footer/
Download the files http://mazesolutions.me/demos/footer/footer.rar
To get the full working menu http://mazesolutions.me/website-production/how-to-do-a-menu-with-sub-items-using-css/130

Hope i helped in a way
// Jo

If your a linux user or maybe a simple linux server administrator with some servers at hand, the chances are that you use SSH to login there and manage them.

When a user logs in to SSH usually he sees a welcome message.
If you have an ubuntu machine like me then you will see the following message

In order to change this message just type in the terminal

Update:
Note: On restart your changes to /etc/motd will be reverted, the reason is that /etc/motd is a symbolic link to /var/run/motd which is rebuilt by /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh from a template, /etc/motd.tail, at each reboot. (thank you Adam Trickett).

This means that to make your changes permanent you can either:
1. change

then reboot

2. point the /etc/motd symlink to a different file such as /etc/motd.static and make your changes there. (Also thank you Adam Trickett).

Joe