It was brought to my attention by a message in our forums that the download methods described in the “Use wget or curl to download from RapidShare Premium” article are no longer valid. Rapidshare has introduced a new API for account and file management. After a quick read of the Rapidshare API documentation, it was [...]

In the past, having used the “Connect to server” feature in GNOME, you could easily access the remote server’s filesystem from within Nautilus, but it was impossible to access it from the command line (please correct me if I miss something here). Now GNOME uses gvfs. As soon as GNOME connects to the remote server, [...]

This small HOWTO describes how to configure vsftpd for an anonymous FTP site in order to make files available across your local network or the internet. The scenario this guide is based on is to quickly make a linux distribution’s installation tree available across the local network in order to be used for a network [...]