Linux SemiHidden Tips

[ninjapirate89]

Command line tool for downloading youtube videos

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

consult

man youtube-dl

to learn how to use it

This is not necessary. If you are at say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAdXowU1cBI simply type the word "pwn" in front of youtube as shown http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=AAdXowU1cBI and it will open to another page with the option to download the video. Only a web browser is needed.

[Sealbhach]

Repeat this process whenever you want to update. For Alien Arena, SVN hosts the developers' codebase, so you get new features as soon as they're written.

Cool, thanks. It's a bit like wget?

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[unutbu]

How come no one has done a GUI for that yet?

Here is a GUI for configuring your machine to automatically wake at a certain time.

Requirements for the script to work:

• Your linux kernel version must be >= 2.6.22 (Gutsy and above)
• Your BIOS must have support to wake. See http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup
• You must have ACPI enabled. (You can not be booting with the kernel option acpi=off, for example).

Save the attached script at /usr/local/bin/set_wake.py

Make it executable:

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/set_wake.py

Run:

gksu set_wake.py

So as not to drag this thread off topic, if you run into any problems, please start a new thread, and PM me with the link.

[MaxIBoy]

Cool, thanks. It's a bit like wget?

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Subversion is a version control system. If you have a complex project you're working on, you use a VCS. When you modify something, you "commit" a new version. All versions throughout the history of the project are stored. When you want to retrieve a version, you "check out" that version (think "check out a book from the library," not "check out that wierd tree.") It's like hitting "save as" every time you make a change, only:

1. You don't have thousands of files to sift through.
2. It keeps track of a whole project, not just one file at a time.
3. It takes up much less space, because the archive is heavily compressed.

Version control systems include CVS, Subversion (SVN,) Mercurial (Hg,) Bazaar (Bzr,) and Git.

The "svn co" command "checks out" a revision from a subversion archive which is set up to allow downloading over the Internet. Unless otherwise specified, it will pick the most recent revision.

[billgoldberg]

Generally, if you use scrollwheel, you scroll on whatever window the cursor is over, not necessarily the active window

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This is one of my favorite features.

[t0p]

Want to download video from youtube? Easy! Watch the video you want to download. Next, and before you leave that web page, go look in the /tmp directory. There should be a flash video file with a name like "FlashfQ5a1h". That's the file you want. So copy it to your desktop. Job done!