Thanks Bernd Ott for pointing me at PDFreaders.org – Get a Free Software PDF reader!.
–jeroen
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27
Thanks Bernd Ott for pointing me at PDFreaders.org – Get a Free Software PDF reader!.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27
Lately I moved more and more away from wget, mainly because out of the box, wget (and also aria2, which I like for the bittorrent support) handle https downloads so badly: you need to manually setup your CA store on each and every installed system.
Not so with cURL, especially not on Windows any more, as “recently” (that is: since the last time I examined it, which is over a year ago now), there is a new kid in town: cURL for Windows: a Windows Installer for the Web Transfer Tool.
You don’t even need to download the installer. Grabbing the stuff from the bin directory in the zip download is enough: it contains a prepackaged CA certificate set that works splendid.
So now downloading https://dl.google.com/update2/installers/ChromeStandaloneSetup.exe to the current directory is as simple as Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27
Interesting, that the former Hitachi drives (now owned by Toshiba) seem to perform best: Backblaze Blog » What Hard Drive Should I Buy?.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27
A few links so I won’t forget them; I own the first since 2010, the others look interesting too.
–jeroen
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