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Improve ‘apt-get install’ And ‘upgrade’ Speed [How-to] ~ Web Upd8.
Axel is a command line application which accelerates HTTP/FTP downloads by using multiple sources for one file. For example, some FTP sites limit the speed of each connection, therefore opening more than one connection at a time multiplies the allowable bandwidth.
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I started out with FreeBSD. I love FreeBSD, and all the BSDs, however in the workplace, Linux is much more common as a server platform. No, I am not including Mac OS X as a BSD.  I do not hold Apple in a very high regard, that is just my opinion, you must draw your [...]

I’ve been playing around with Twitter lately, so naturally I took a look at the Twitter api. Several of the examples are done with curl. For those of you who haven’t looked into the Twitter api, it’s just simple HTTP commands.
To do a status update on Twitter,  you do an HTTP post with your username [...]

The version of Pidgin that is in the Lenny repositories has some problems. It’s an older version and does not work with Yahoo messenger, usually you can’t get the proper certifcate from Yahoo in Pidgin. I attempted to install it myself using the version of Pidgin for Sid by downloading the files from Debian. I [...]

DebianTutorials.net just posted an article that explains how to automate backup of your files to an FTP server using Rsync and curlftpfs
Go to Debian Tutorials and check it out.
Automated backups to FTP server using rsync and curlftpfs | Debian Tutorials.