I have a process where I need to copy all the images from a web page. I used to run this process with xmllint, which will process an XML or HTML file and print out the entries you specify. But when my server host provider upgraded their systems, they didn’t include xmllint. So I had to find another way to extract a list of images from an HTML page. It turns out you can do this in Bash....
Rip DVD with DVDFab6 DVDFab will remove copy protection and rip the DVD files for free. Other components in the suite require you to purchase a license after the 30 day trial, but you’ll still be able to rip DVD’s after the trial. Install DVDFab by accepting the defaults (link below)…a system restart is required to complete the install process. The first time you run it, a welcome screen is displayed....
Install Sound Juicer Sound Juicer is not installed by default in a lot of distributions so it may need to be installed from the distribution’s software repository. Start by opening up the software manager that comes with your distribution. Note: The screenshots show mintInstall that comes with Linux Mint 9. Search for “sound-juicer” in the software manager. For some reason searching for “juicer” and “sound juicer” did not bring up any results so make sure you include the dash when searching....
You may have noticed the icon in your system tray telling you Windows Media Center is updating. To schedule the updates for a specific time, open Media Center and go to Tasks \ Settings \ General \ Automatic Download Options. Then schedule a start and stop time for downloading updates. It’s annoying having WMC downloading updates if you’re working online and have a slower connection. This will allow you to still get the updates without interfering with your online activities....
Why Are Smart Plugs Perfect for the Holidays? Over the years, I have used a lot of different solutions for holiday lighting and accessories. Mechanical timers, digital timers, dawn-to-dusk sensors, timers with dusk sensors that run lights for X number of hours and then shut off, you name it. And while all of these various timers and tools worked well enough for many tasks, they all had a variety of shortcomings....
Back in September, Microsoft confirmed in a statement to ZDNet that SwiftKey for iPad and iPhone would be pulled from the App Store on October 5. There was no explanation given for the discontinuation, but it has not received any updates for over a year, while the Android version had received many updates in the same period. Microsoft has now seemingly reversed course, as Pedram Rezaei, Microsoft Maps & Local Services Division CTO, stated on Twitter that that SwiftKey “is coming back to iOS....
Using these newer packages requires using software sources outside from the normal Ubuntu repositories. Fortunately, there are hundreds, and adding them to Ubuntu is extremely easy! These other software sources are called Personal Package Archives (PPAs). In most cases, searching for the software you want to upgrade and the word “ppa” will get you to a page that tells you the name of the PPA and some extra details. All that you really need is the name of the PPA....
Install and Upload Docs with the Cloud Drive Gadget Head to the Cloud Drive gadget download site (link below), and click Download to get started. This is a 3rd party gadget, so you’ll be asked to verify you want to download it. Click Install to go ahead and download it. Once the Gadget is downloaded, run and install it as normal. The gadget should appear on your desktop as soon as you install it and you can add it from the gadget gallery as well....
What’s now the File System Access API used to be known as the Native File System API. It’s had a long development involving several rounds of iteration to address security concerns. The feature was turned on in the stable release of Chrome 86. Overview File support on the web has historically been limited to selecting a file from your device using . It’s impossible to write directly to the user’s filesystem using previous APIs....
AWS Elastic IPs are permanently reserved IP addresses that you can associate with a running EC2 instance, and that persist across reboots and even server changes, so you won’t have to change your DNS whenever your server restarts. What Are Elastic IPs? How Much Do They Cost? AWS can’t assign a static reserved IP address to every running EC2 instance. Instead, the machine’s public IP address is, by default, temporary....
Multi-stage Docker builds let you write Dockerfiles with multiple FROM statements. This means you can create images which derive from several bases, which can help cut the size of your final build. Docker images are created by selecting a base image using the FROM statement. You then add layers to that image by adding commands to your Dockerfile. With multi-stage builds, you can split your Dockerfile into multiple sections. Each stage has its own FROM statement so you can involve more than one image in your builds....
Why Should I Care About Log Files? Every connection to your web server is logged; anytime a user requests a resource, a line in the log file is written. You can use these kinds of logs to get a very accurate view of traffic coming in to your site. They doesn’t offer any data about how the user interacts with the site, which is left to analytics tools, but they do tell you how your web server is handling each request....
Variance is a concept that can seem opaque until a concrete example is provided. Let’s consider a base type Animal with a subtype of Dog. All “Animals” can walk, but only “Dogs” can bark. Now, let’s consider what happens when this object hierarchy is used in our application. Wiring Interfaces Together Since every Animal can walk, we can create a generic interface that exercises any Animal. The AnimalController has an exercise() method that typehints the Animal interface....
Intel and Broadcom announced this week that the two companies completed the first cross-vendor Wi-Fi 7 demonstration — in other words, the first time Wi-Fi 7 hardware from two different manufacturers could communicate. That’s an important milestone for a wireless standard that needs to work across hardware from many different companies. The test reportedly reached speeds “greater than 5 gigabits per second,” using a laptop with an Intel Core processor and an unspecified wireless card, connected to a Wi-Fi 7 access point developed by Broadcom....
The issue in question seems to be related to overlays on games. If you’re playing a game and you want to check its performance, and you press Alt + R to make the GeForce Experience performance overlay show up, your game might begin stuttering badly. In games like God of War, users have reported up to an 87.5% reduction in framerates from bringing up the overlay. In some cases, just closing the overlay by pressing Alt + R again is enough to fix the issue — with framerates slowly rising to normality within a few seconds after doing so....
Spot Instances are designed around fluctuating workloads with flexible start and end times. But when used with Auto Scaling, it can make for a replacement for On-Demand instances at a fraction of the cost. Spot Instances Save Around 50-70% Spot Instances are a special kind of EC2 instance that enable AWS to sell off spare compute capacity, often at large discounts. They can be terminated at any time by AWS, with two minutes notice, but termination rates are quite low (less than 5% per month for most instances), and they’re intended to be used in an autoscaling group anyway....
Unusual Battery Drain Battery life is something you probably keep a close eye on, so it’s very noticeable when your Android phone is draining faster than usual. There are a number of things that can cause this, but it usually has to do with apps. The easiest solution for battery drain—and most problems—is rebooting your phone. Sometimes, things just get wonky, and they need to be restarted. It’s easier to reboot your phone than try to hunt down the exact culprit....
Before Here is the default setup for Firefox…not a lot of information available to indicate exactly how much of the webpage has already loaded versus what has not. For some people this is enough but what if you like more details? Extended Statusbar in Action You may be curious about the information that the Extended Statusbar extension will provide. The information includes: Percentage of the webpage loaded The number of images loaded Bytes downloaded Average download speed The load time...
Rollip The site is simple to use, just go to the home page to get started. Right now they have a total of 12 different effects you can use, and they are always accepting ideas for new ones. Next choose the type of decorations to add to the Polaroid. The simpler ones bring me back to the shoebox my mom has full of these with dates and names written on the edges with black marker....
Installation & Setup Adding the extension is simple… Once you have started the install process you will see the following confirmation message window. Click “Install” to finish adding the extension to Google Chrome. Once the installation is complete you will see a new “Toolbar Button” and the following message. To access weather forecasts for your desired location click on the “Toolbar Button” to display the following window. Notice that you can click to access the options in two places…...
