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 $ wget <strong>-c</strong> http://www.example.com/files.iso The -c(ontinuous) option allows Wget to resume a partial download. Source: Geek to Live: Mastering Wget Wget resume broken download

I need to install Tomcat 6 for a school assignment. I thought the installation process was easy as counting 123, but it turned out to be a few hours long of head scratching. Well, the first start is to setup a few environment variables as required by Tomcat: CATALINA_BASE=/home/kenno/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.13 CATALINA_HOME=/home/kenno/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.13 export CATALINA_HOME; export CATALINA_BASE# JAVA_HOME and Path to java, javac JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-sun/bin export JAVA_HOME; export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}:. It can be stored in a setEnv.sh file, and run with source setEnv.sh to load those variables. ...

How many times do you find yourself using the arrow keys to move to the beginning or end of the command line in a bash terminal? Do you use backspace to delete every single character to clear what you’ve typed? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, continue reading. I have been doing this a lot myself because I couldn’t remember the shortcut keys for these tasks. So, I decided to write them here for future reference. While you can easily find more thorough information on the web, here are some useful shortcuts. ...

If you’ve been using Gaim in the past, you probably know that it is no longer available now. The name of the program has been permanently changed to Pidgin. Even though Pidgin has been released for awhile, I’ve been still running Gaim Beta 2 until tonight. Well, not that I don’t want to install Pidgin, I just didn’t know how to do it. I tried to search for Pidgin openSUSE binary package in Google in the past for a few times without any success. ...

Defunct processes are corrupted processes that can no longer communicate between the parent and child one. Sometimes, they become “zombies” and remain in your system until you reboot your machine. You can try to apply “kill -9” command, but most of the time you’ll be out of luck. In order to kill theses defunct processes, you have two choices: Reboot your computer Continue reading… First, let’s find out if the system contains defunct process: ...