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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 [...]
Apt-p2p gives you the ability to download Debian packages via a peer-to-peer protocol. Apt-p2p will try to get the packages from peers before it resorts to pulling them from the repository. This saves bandwidth for the repository servers, can speed up your download speed, and ads to the sense of community which Debian is so [...]
A few months ago I moved to an other part of the country. Shortly after getting my office set up I realized that my download speeds from the mirrors I had been using previously were incredibly slow. To fix this I did what any logical person would do and I found the closest mirror to [...]
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