Monthly Archives: March 2010

Restarting USB Storage Modules in Ubuntu

Posted on March 30, 2010 by SoCRaT

“sudo modprobe -r usb_storage““sudo modprobe usb_storage“It’s only because I had a problem in mounting any USB storage, it happened with me onceand I had to restart my machine, and I hate having to do so 🙂Source

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Download Videos From YouTube using Ubuntu

Posted on March 28, 2010 by SoCRaT

A very nice command-line tool that allows you to download videos from Youtube: “sudo apt-get install youtube-dl” After the installation process, run: “youtube-dl video_url“

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Stop YouTube from autoplaying a video when opened

Posted on March 28, 2010 by SoCRaT

A very nice plugin for Google Chrome (or Chromium) that allows you to open as much videos as you want without them playing automatically where you must open each video and pause it yourself. The surprise is: It’s pre-buffering 🙂 … Continue reading →

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Setup an SSH/SFTP Server on Ubuntu

Posted on March 28, 2010 by SoCRaT

“sudo apt-get install openssh-server“ That’s it, you can now connect to your machine via SSH/SFTP from any other machine on the same network, it’s easy, fast and secure.

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Setup an FTP server on Ubuntu

Posted on March 28, 2010 by SoCRaT

Installing an FTP server on your machine facilitates sharing and transferring files easily and quickly. ProFTPD is an FTP server that is easy to install, use, and configure. To install ProFTPD on ubuntu:sudo apt-get install proftpd To start proftpd;sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd … Continue reading →

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