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Get subdirs from wget and getting past robot disallows

I’m going to a place where there is no net, and was thinking of reading the metro manual. A naive approach

$ wget -r https://metro.dev.java.net/guide/

gets me nowhere however, as wget stops pretty fast and leaves a file that states

User-agent: CEE
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

I can do ‘-e robots=off’ mixed with some stuff from  Voelkers excellent wget examples:

wget -P [...]

hiding fullscreen citrix in linux

I remote to various workplaces over citrix. I’d prefer other technologies, but that’s another story. I work in fullscreen. But, I often need to switch out of my citrix environment and back to the linux host to do other things. This does the trick;

ctrl-f2, tells citrix that the next keystroke is to be passed through
alt-f9, [...]

Wow and wine on ubuntu 9.04 64 bit

I find you quite frequently need to have a fresh development version of Wine to play world of warcraft on linux. So, these are the steps I followed:

GitWine – sets you up with Wine’s latest development snapshot. Only section 2 applies for those of us who do not contribute.
Building 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit (x86-64) [...]

secure copy which continues where you left off if interrupted

If I’m at liberty, I’ll in 10/10 cases be ssh based when communicating between hosts. Secure, easy, terminal with graphics (ssh -X), copy (scp) , remote filesystem (sshfs) and only one port to keep track of. Large copy operations are a bit annoying over a normal scp however, since if the copy is interrupted for [...]

Accessing ext3 drive from windows 7 64 bit

My main laptop is a dual boot Windows 7 64 bit Enterprise and an Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit. I want to access my ext3 drives from windows. Before I always used ext2ifs, but that doesn’t work with this os setup.

EXT2FSD does the trick however. It installs in the 64 bit Program files directory and it [...]