Gettin’ Geek

I’m playing with my new VPS hosting & trying doing some tasks through SSH; but before being able to do this, I had to setup my SSH connection.

1. Generate SSH Certificate

a. 1st thing you need to do is to create a SSH certificate in your server, I did this in my cPanel / WHM. Just browse around to find SSH icon, then the Generate a New Key link. You will be asked to give your new key a name & password, then Key Type & Key Size (I used the default values here DSA / 1024, you may experiment with other values). Next click on Generate Key.

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I thought files with .tar.gz extension were just like compressed files with a .zip or .rar extension, but in fact they are a bit different.

.tar.gz are two extensions & not one, which means this kind of files are created using two processes (& probably two tools).

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Like me, you maybe didn’t like the new way the Taskbar works under Windows 7, big icons, no descriptions, & the annoying thing (for me at least), grouping all the windows of a program systematically, which was confusing me & forcing me to make extra mouse moves & clicks.

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The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.The Notifier is in beta. Before you download it, we encourage you to review the system requirements and privacy information.

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I have obserbed with my friends they don’t know how to download file from Rapidshare for free just with some click anyone can download files from Rapidshare for free. Here is step by step guide first copy paste link in Address bar and then Rapidshare site will get open. (more…)

Personas for Firefox is a Mozilla Labs prototype that adds lightweight dynamic theming to your browser. It’s an experiment in personalizing.

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Hello, this is a quick guide to easily download flash videos from a lot of video sharing sites.

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Just a quick thing about an article I read yesterday on Download.com Blog called Windows Starter Kit listing a lot of very useful freewares in various fields, I had already some installed & I have alternatives for others or just don’t need them. So from the list I only downloaded & installed two programs: Process Explorer & Launchy.

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I don’t know about you, but for me this shortcut is really frustrating, I never use it but I often hit it by mistake while typing something & lose everything I wrote.

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Hmmm, a lot of ideas but rare time to post here … anyways, back to to topic, RapidShare.com has an upload limit of 100 mb but often the uploaded files are much bigger, packing them in split archive files allows that .. the problem is when you want to download a file of a few gigabytes (split to 10s of files) & all the links are just textual which means you can’t just click on them to start your download, but you have to copy then paste them on your browser’s address bar one by one.

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I’ve just got new PC & using all my time setting it up & installing all the applications I had in the old computer, restoring my profiles etc. I noticed that the version of XP I have in this one is different from the old, except on Safari browser,there is no anti-aliasing in rendering fonts, if you don’t know what anti-alias is, there’s a page about it in Wikipedia: (more…)

W00t! Finally found out why!

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I thought the word “Turing” was an adjective, but when I looked in the dictionary, I didn’t find it, this was some time ago but I didn’t care till today.

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I had a movie in MPEG format (extension .mpg) of 1H 20min length & 1.6gb size, usually DivX files with similar length take less than 700mb, so I went googling & looking for a way to convert the film, I first tried VirtualDub & VirtualDubMod but for some reason I got a big file & worse a black screen .. I went searching again to find a link to “Dr. DivX”, one problem is that the doctor was away! Damn him!

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I’ve uploaded zip files before using Firefox & even to iStockphoto, but don’t know what happened to the browser & how settings changed … Two days ago I couldn’t upload & was getting an error message saying the zip file was invalid, I first thought the problem was coming from the file & the way I packed my vectors in it, but then I browsed the forums & found out this answer: (more…)